Pau Formosa-Jordan
@pauformosa.bsky.social
Biophysicist, Group Leader at MPIPZ. Studying the multicellular dynamics in plants, combining theory and experiments. Also, fascinated by music and dance.
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A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a nonrandom pattern of giant cells
Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells have a wide range of sizes and ploidies, but the mechanisms patterning their size and spatial distribution remain unclear. This study shows that the pathway controllin...
journals.plos.org
Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a nonrandom pattern of giant cells
Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells have a wide range of sizes and ploidies, but the mechanisms patterning their size and spatial distribution remain unclear. This study shows that the pathway controllin...
journals.plos.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
www.cam.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
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Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social
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The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
August 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!
🌱 Join us for the "Plant developmental dynamics: from cellular patterning to developmental transitions" seminar by @pauformosa.bsky.social from the @mpipz.bsky.social
💡 Free entry
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/unxcsfnomw
💡 Free entry
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/unxcsfnomw
July 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!
So glad that the new suberin work from @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 's lab is out now 🙂 Thanks Tonni for giving us the chance to work on it too! Congrats to all co-authors and especially @leoniekraska.bsky.social and Tonni. See below Tonni's post!
Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning
In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization,
linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis.
The research uncove...
www.cell.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So glad that the new suberin work from @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 's lab is out now 🙂 Thanks Tonni for giving us the chance to work on it too! Congrats to all co-authors and especially @leoniekraska.bsky.social and Tonni. See below Tonni's post!
Very excited to participate tomorrow Friday the 23rd May at the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social webinar on 'AI in Plant Biological Sciences Research', looking forward to it!
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on May 23 at 10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/aA7HlDF
#plantscience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/aA7HlDF
#plantscience
May 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very excited to participate tomorrow Friday the 23rd May at the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social webinar on 'AI in Plant Biological Sciences Research', looking forward to it!
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Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city.
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
Senior Group Leader Position
www.oeaw.ac.at
March 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city.
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
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Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus
Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.
Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology.
Application deadline: 25th Feb.
tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
Application deadline: 25th Feb.
tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
February 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology.
Application deadline: 25th Feb.
tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
Application deadline: 25th Feb.
tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
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Nice to see the MPIPZ Community here on Bluesky growing, but we still need a lot more people from the Institute to join. More importantly, it's time the actual MPIPZ moves its account here.
go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn
@maxplanck.de #PlantScience
go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn
@maxplanck.de #PlantScience
January 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nice to see the MPIPZ Community here on Bluesky growing, but we still need a lot more people from the Institute to join. More importantly, it's time the actual MPIPZ moves its account here.
go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn
@maxplanck.de #PlantScience
go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn
@maxplanck.de #PlantScience
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📢 Deadline approaching
Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353
#PlantScience
Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353
#PlantScience
Call for papers: New Phytologist Special Collection on Stomata
Call for paper: New Phytologist Special Collection on Stomata
www.newphytologist.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📢 Deadline approaching
Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353
#PlantScience
Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353
#PlantScience
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A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme
Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market
Deadline: January 31
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market
Deadline: January 31
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Development is excited to announce our second call for our Pathway to I...
journals.biologists.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme
Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market
Deadline: January 31
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market
Deadline: January 31
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root, in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, at the MPIPZ in Cologne? Just a few weeks left to apply!
December 17, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root, in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, at the MPIPZ in Cologne? Just a few weeks left to apply!
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Please consider registering & submitting an abstract for the first ever Plant Chronobiology meeting happening in Leuven next summer! Thanks to support from the FWO, we can offer accommodation coverage for international early career presenters! #plantscience
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Please consider registering & submitting an abstract for the first ever Plant Chronobiology meeting happening in Leuven next summer! Thanks to support from the FWO, we can offer accommodation coverage for international early career presenters! #plantscience
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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We have moved to this new location as we prepare to launch a new edition of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintya-2025. This course began more than 25 years ago, and we are excited to bring together an excellent lineup of faculty and students for this latest edition
December 11, 2024 at 4:47 PM
We have moved to this new location as we prepare to launch a new edition of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintya-2025. This course began more than 25 years ago, and we are excited to bring together an excellent lineup of faculty and students for this latest edition
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Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!
The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 5, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!
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I am happy to share the link to video and pdf of 2nd lecture at College de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity and specificity.
tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v
tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v
November 22, 2024 at 9:59 AM
I am happy to share the link to video and pdf of 2nd lecture at College de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity and specificity.
tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v
tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v
Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story at Nature Communications. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at MPIPZ with the Coupland group! @ceplas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coordination of shoot apical meristem shape and identity by APETALA2 during floral transition in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Bertran Garcia de Olalla, Cerise and colleagues discovered that the transcription factor APETALA2 has a dual role at the shoot tip of Arabidopsis, where it both mediates changes in the timing of flowe...
www.nature.com
August 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story at Nature Communications. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at MPIPZ with the Coupland group! @ceplas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors! @ceplas.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 2, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors! @ceplas.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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There is the "go-nuclear" GitHub repository accompanying our just submitted paper on robust and widely applicable 3D nuclear segmentation. Lot's of background and methodology.
github.com/kreshuklab/g...
bit.ly/3uG2Brd
#PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo
github.com/kreshuklab/g...
bit.ly/3uG2Brd
#PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo
February 21, 2024 at 1:46 PM
There is the "go-nuclear" GitHub repository accompanying our just submitted paper on robust and widely applicable 3D nuclear segmentation. Lot's of background and methodology.
github.com/kreshuklab/g...
bit.ly/3uG2Brd
#PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo
github.com/kreshuklab/g...
bit.ly/3uG2Brd
#PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo
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Very important opportunity, please share.
How do we make a more equitable scientific community? What values and practices should we embrace?
Your voice is needed, please join us Feb 21.
Info: rootandshoot.org/listening-se...
Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How do we make a more equitable scientific community? What values and practices should we embrace?
Your voice is needed, please join us Feb 21.
Info: rootandshoot.org/listening-se...
Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 13, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Very important opportunity, please share.
How do we make a more equitable scientific community? What values and practices should we embrace?
Your voice is needed, please join us Feb 21.
Info: rootandshoot.org/listening-se...
Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How do we make a more equitable scientific community? What values and practices should we embrace?
Your voice is needed, please join us Feb 21.
Info: rootandshoot.org/listening-se...
Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...