ClimbDevo Group
@sousabaenalab.bsky.social
Research group focused on Evo-Devo of climbing plants 🌿
We are part of the Department of Botany at UFRGS.
We are part of the Department of Botany at UFRGS.
Pinned
We’ve landed on Bluesky! Now, where’s the coffee?" ☕️
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Join us for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.
Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.
Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Join us for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.
Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.
Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V
Our historesin blocks are ready, and we're sectioning shoot apices with tiny leaf primordia in both longitudinal and transversal planes! How adorable are those baby leaf tendrils with their tiny coiled tips?! 🥹made by @GiacomazziBruna #ClimbingPlants #PlantAnatomy #Microscopy
April 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our historesin blocks are ready, and we're sectioning shoot apices with tiny leaf primordia in both longitudinal and transversal planes! How adorable are those baby leaf tendrils with their tiny coiled tips?! 🥹made by @GiacomazziBruna #ClimbingPlants #PlantAnatomy #Microscopy
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The kinesin motor POS3 and the microtubule polymerase MOR1 coordinate chromosome congression during mitosis in Arabidopsis (Yu Chen, Haofeng Liu, Yuanfeng Li, Xiao Shen, Shuting Li, Lan Yang, Xue An, et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications
Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...
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April 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Tree that kills its 'enemies' with lightning discovered
Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors.
www.livescience.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Nature’s viny vampire..🧛
Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants:
Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Read the original article here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants:
Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Read the original article here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Nature’s viny vampire: Discovering what drives parasitic Cuscuta campestris
Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts.
www.eurekalert.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Nature’s viny vampire..🧛
Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants:
Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Read the original article here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants:
Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Read the original article here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
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Nice to see our work by @metalichen.bsky.social highlighted
in this week's Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
in this week's Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
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April 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nice to see our work by @metalichen.bsky.social highlighted
in this week's Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
in this week's Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
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More? You want more stipules? I got you covered, starting with the superb stipules of Delonix regia (#Fabaceae). The leaves are bipinnately compound, and the tiny stipules are also pinnately divided. That’s not too surprising: stipules are a part of the leaf. #stipule #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More? You want more stipules? I got you covered, starting with the superb stipules of Delonix regia (#Fabaceae). The leaves are bipinnately compound, and the tiny stipules are also pinnately divided. That’s not too surprising: stipules are a part of the leaf. #stipule #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber | PNAS
Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed
dispersal. A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in pl...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
February 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
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New Article: "Developmental innovation of inferior ovaries and flower sex orchestrated by KNOX1 in cucurbits" rdcu.be/ef78H
Role of a KNOX1 TF in stalling receptacle growth in cucumber, leading to bisexual flowers with superior ovaries like those in tomatoes.
Role of a KNOX1 TF in stalling receptacle growth in cucumber, leading to bisexual flowers with superior ovaries like those in tomatoes.
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New Article: "Developmental innovation of inferior ovaries and flower sex orchestrated by KNOX1 in cucurbits" rdcu.be/ef78H
Role of a KNOX1 TF in stalling receptacle growth in cucumber, leading to bisexual flowers with superior ovaries like those in tomatoes.
Role of a KNOX1 TF in stalling receptacle growth in cucumber, leading to bisexual flowers with superior ovaries like those in tomatoes.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a graduate student attending the University of Minnesota earlier this week, the school said Friday in a statement that called the situation “deeply concerning.” #highered #USA #academia #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents
University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a graduate student attending the University of Minnesota earlier this week, the school said Friday in a statement that called the situation “deeply concerning.” #highered #USA #academia #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Lichen on a Twig... On my walk today, I picked up some twigs blown on the ground by the wind and found them covered by Star Rosette Lichen (Physcia stellaris) with abundant apothecia and picnidia! What a beautiful thing on the ground! #Lichen #beauty #NaturePhotography
March 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Lichen on a Twig... On my walk today, I picked up some twigs blown on the ground by the wind and found them covered by Star Rosette Lichen (Physcia stellaris) with abundant apothecia and picnidia! What a beautiful thing on the ground! #Lichen #beauty #NaturePhotography
More than 1,600 readers answered the poll.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
More than 1,600 readers answered the poll.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“It’s work that’s not going to get done, it’s bills that aren’t going to get paid, it’s students that aren’t going to get trained.” scim.ag/4256P8v
Confusion and worry as DOGE cuts hit NASA
Terminated grants include efforts to get students and underrepresented groups involved in science
scim.ag
March 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“It’s work that’s not going to get done, it’s bills that aren’t going to get paid, it’s students that aren’t going to get trained.” scim.ag/4256P8v
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Petal of a flower? A leaf?
No... the vascular network of the retina! A roadmap of super-highways and local roads to bring your vision vital resources. Data: Fei Shang SchallekLab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday
No... the vascular network of the retina! A roadmap of super-highways and local roads to bring your vision vital resources. Data: Fei Shang SchallekLab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Petal of a flower? A leaf?
No... the vascular network of the retina! A roadmap of super-highways and local roads to bring your vision vital resources. Data: Fei Shang SchallekLab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday
No... the vascular network of the retina! A roadmap of super-highways and local roads to bring your vision vital resources. Data: Fei Shang SchallekLab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday
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Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.
March 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.
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If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10).
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
March 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10).
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany
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Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
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Science Under Threat in the United States
A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social
Five articles published so far
elifesciences.org/collections/...
More articles coming tomorrow
#standupforscience
A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social
Five articles published so far
elifesciences.org/collections/...
More articles coming tomorrow
#standupforscience
Science Under Threat in the US
The new administration in the US is conducting an assault on science and scientists – how should the scientific community respond?
elifesciences.org
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Science Under Threat in the United States
A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social
Five articles published so far
elifesciences.org/collections/...
More articles coming tomorrow
#standupforscience
A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social
Five articles published so far
elifesciences.org/collections/...
More articles coming tomorrow
#standupforscience
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You're watching the "chaotic dance" of cellulose fibers as these plant cells build their cell walls. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
March 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You're watching the "chaotic dance" of cellulose fibers as these plant cells build their cell walls. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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Polypropylene. Autoclavable. Reusable. Fairly clear. One more polystyrene lab consumable eliminated? Let's find out!
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a.co/d/667XVjL
March 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Polypropylene. Autoclavable. Reusable. Fairly clear. One more polystyrene lab consumable eliminated? Let's find out!
a.co/d/667XVjL
a.co/d/667XVjL