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Marija Smokvarska
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Congrats to Matheus Montrazi who brillantly defended his PhD on Friday 🤩🍾🥂 on sphingolipids mediated interleaflet coupling in ROP6-auxin signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to Juliette Jouhet, @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , Soazig Guyomarch', @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, Derek McCusker.
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates Rho-GTPase recruitment to nanodomains for signal activation in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686946v1
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Super happy to take part in this congress surrounded by brilliant minds and inspiring science! A fantastic opportunity to learn, share, and connect. #EMBOMembraneContactSites2025 in Monopoli, Bari🇮🇹 @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social.
October 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Take a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility

Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.
July 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Happy to see Kevin Robe’s work on ZIP transporters published. We found evidences that ZIP2 and ZIP8 are involved in Cu and Fe acquisition respectively and confirmed the role of ZIP3 and ZIP5 in Zn acquisition. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
July 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Summer clean-up goes hand in hand with a summer drink at the LBM!
The labs are glittering!
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Such a pleasure to meet and discuss with ancient colleagues and friends from RDP- Lyon and IPSIM-Montpellier. Plant membrane meeting June 2025. Thanks for the organization @alexmartiniere.bsky.social🙌🏼

@lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Congrats to these brilliant minds @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social, @hortensem.bsky.social & Patrick Li for their great contributions in biology recognized by the Académie de sciences 🏅🌿
@lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We are recruiting!
A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
June 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As a microscopist MIFOBIO is a must at least once. The most thrilling, intense and rewarding microscopy gathering 🔬🌱✨
🔥 We've already received over a third of pre-registrations!

#Mifobio2025 is already shaping up to be a highly attractive event...

Don't delay in pre-registering!
👉 imabio-cnrs.fr

@cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsingenierie.bsky.social @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#RésultatScientifique🔎 Plasmodesmes : les autoroutes cachées des plantes 🌱

@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social @yvonjaillais.bsky.social et leurs collaborateurs dévoilent comment protéines et lipides régulent le flux moléculaire. Une percée dans la communication cellulaire des plantes !
La communication intercellulaire chez les végétaux : un changement de paradigme
Les plasmodesmes, des canaux membranaires essentiels chez les plantes, jouent un rôle primordial dans la communication intercellulaire.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication plantae.org?p=140096
Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication | Plantae
Membrane contact sites (MCSs) serve a critical role in intracellular communication, particularly between organelle membranes, enabling direct molecular transfer. Less clear is the role MCSs play in…
plantae.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Specific ROPGEFs drive pollen germination in Arabidopsis

The first paper from my group @TUM is finally out in @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/5n69jyuy

#PlantScience #Polarity #Pollen #ROPGEF #microscopy #Fertilization

Improved & with new results compared to the bioRxiv version
tinyurl.com/4hejrrp9
Polarized subcellular activation of Rho proteins by specific ROPGEFs drives pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana
RHO OF PLANTS (ROPs) signaling and their activating factors ROPGEFs are essential for initiating polar growth, but which ones activate pollen germination is unknown. These authors show polarization of...
dx.plos.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Check out our new preprint where we explore natural variation, leading to the identification of SUBER GENE1, a novel regulator of suberization. Excited to share the first manuscript from a project I conceptualized 10 years ago!
Delighted to share one piece of my postdoc work in preprint: Through forward genetic screening for suberin deposition in root endodermis, we identified SUBER GENE 1 (SBG1) by GWAS as a novel regulator for suberization by interacting with Type One Protein Phosphatase. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Applications are open for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology in Helsingør, Denmark, 18 – 22 August 2025.
Registration deadline: 1 June
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June
meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla...
#EMBOplantMembraneBio 🧪
Plant Membrane Biology
For the 20th time, participants of the Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology (WPMB) conference can learn about the latest findings in the crucial field of Plant Membrane Biology. Biological membranes ar…
meetings.embo.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🚨Our paper is out!

If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conserved mechanical hallmark guides four-way junction avoidance during plant cytokinesis
When building an organ, adjacent cells coordinate to form topologically stable junctions by integrating mechanosensitive signaling pathways. Positioni…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🌿🔬 Une révolution dans l’imagerie des cellules végétales !

Des scientifiques ont développé une méthode innovante pour observer les cellules végétales en 3D, avec une précision jamais atteinte. De quoi ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives en biologie végétale 🌱
Une révolution dans l’imagerie des cellules végétales
En 2015, une nouvelle technique de microscopie, appelée microscopie d’expansion, a bouleversé l’imagerie biologique en dépassant les limites de résolution des
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April 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Plasmodesmata: a new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication (Cell) @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social @yvonjaillais.bsky.social (Summary by Stephanie Temnyk) buff.ly/aSoKPZ1

#PlantaePSRW
Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication | Plantae
Membrane contact sites (MCSs) serve a critical role in intracellular communication, particularly between organelle membranes, enabling direct molecular transfer. Less clear is the role MCSs play in…
buff.ly
March 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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the results are the following:
Paloma DURAN, Liam ELLIOTT co-first
Marija SMOKVARSKA - 3
Hyun-Kyung LEE - 4
Pierre GAUTRAT - 5
Andrew HELMSTETTER - 6
Alan LE MOAN - 7
Laura ELVIRA GONZALEZ - 8
Liudmila KOZLOVA - 9
March 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM