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Yadhusankar Sasidharan
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PhD student at ZMBP Tübingen 🇩🇪
Plant development 🌱 | cell fate⏳ | GRNs 🧬
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hartman-plantlab.com
Stuck in the US as a postdoc due to the current political nightmare? Consider to join us in Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience
kleinevehnlab.bsky.social KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 3d
If you know postdocs in the US whose work is restricted or becoming difficult, there are new fellowship possibilities in the south of Germany. Please, forward this information to them:

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Our lab in Freiburg can also serve as a host — happy to discuss options.
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸

González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 4.Changes in meristem activity and identity across the seasons. Circular diagram illustrating the multiple developmental transitions that occur in aerial meristems of Arabidopsis during the year. The temperature profile and timing of events are based on a field trial conducted in Norwich, UK (Lu et al., 2022). The apical vegetative meristem (VM) acquires reproductive identity during late autumn and early winter, after which it initiates floral primordia and later becomes dormant. In spring, flowering-promotive conditions trigger bolting, and the VM from the primary inflorescence (PI), now fully transitioned into an inflorescence meristem (IM), resumes reproductive development in the I2 zone of the inflorescence. Although delayed in their floral transition, axillary meristems (AMs) follow a similar developmental fate in the I1 zone. Finally, IMs undergo proliferative arrest in summer.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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pauformosa.bsky.social
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/...
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
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
1/ Preprint alert:

🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
The logo of the conference symbolises a plant cell, plant leaves, plant cell's organelles, and a bug. It also offers the details of the 39th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) taking place from 16th to 19th March 2026 in Hennef, Germany
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social
My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉

We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants
The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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nature.com
Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection

go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
go.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Don't miss this online seminar by Emanuele Scacchi, from Marja Timmermans' lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, on how mobile small RNAs and Turing patterns coordinate leaf polarity!
morphospace.bsky.social Emanuele Scacchi @morphospace.bsky.social · 19d
I’ll be presenting my latest work on self-organizing gene regulatory networks and how they shape leaf morphogenesis in WG/GLIMPRINT Virtual Seminars on Multiscale Modeling.

Grateful to the IMOBio team for the kind invitation.
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#RNA #Turing #morphogenesis #leaf #plants
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg.
We are so proud of you!
#plantsci
Rosa with a big smile in front of a screen showing the GeminiTeam members at the end of her presentation in the EMBO Member's Meeting Rosa and other newly elected EMBO members are posing on a stage at the EMBO Member's Meeting 2025
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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pablidopsis.bsky.social
Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
Diagrams depicting the mitotic cell cycle and potential exits from it (left) and morphologies of different tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana: cotyledon, shoot apical meristem, leaf, sepal, inflorescence meristem, anther (right)
October 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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isabelmonte.bsky.social
Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI

Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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likeyoda1.bsky.social
Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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October 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Have you noticed someone new here? 👇
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI
isabelmonte.bsky.social Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · Oct 1
Thanks Sebastian @pfeilmeier.bsky.social for coming to the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for a #TRR356 seminar. We have all enjoyed discussing with you about #MPMI, Xanthomonas, hydathodes and more!
Three ZMBP junior PIs (Mau, Margot and Isa) and Sebastian sitting in a bar with some empty glasses
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!
Farid El Kasmi, the coordinator of the ZMBP PhD program, opening the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium Theresa, from Jessica Erickson's lab, drawing how (a smiling) Xanthomonas employs type 2 and 3 secretion systems to infect tomato during her chalk talk at the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium. The chalk talk was projected onto a large screen
September 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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moscabiomeclab.bsky.social
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!
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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kalikaprasad.bsky.social
Please join us in Wageningen, The Netherlands....we will learn more about Plant Development together this September...last date for sending your application 14th August!
likeyoda1.bsky.social Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jul 15
Join us this September in Wageningen/Ede to discuss and learn about Plant Development 🌱💚
epsgraduateschool.bsky.social EPS Graduate School @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social · Jul 7
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
July 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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likeyoda1.bsky.social
Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚
likeyoda1.bsky.social Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jun 5
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
July 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
July 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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apmahonen.bsky.social
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nikogeldner.bsky.social
We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below:

career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
Career Opportunities: Postdoc or PhD student position in Plant Physiology (22260)
career5.successfactors.eu
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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yamini-ravichan.bsky.social
Thank you for this opportunity @the-node.bsky.social to let me share the behind the story of my postdoc article from the @rouxlab.bsky.social here’s to squishing jellies!!
Squishing jellies!! - the Node
Behind the paper: “Topology changes of Hydra define actin orientation defects as organizers of morphogenesis”
thenode.biologists.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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hartman-plantlab.com
Go join Margot's lab! She's fantastic! #plantscience
likeyoda1.bsky.social Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jun 5
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
June 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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likeyoda1.bsky.social
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
June 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
yadhusankar.bsky.social
Highly recommend applying- Bestest mentor and great environment 🌞✨🌱
likeyoda1.bsky.social Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jun 5
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
June 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM