Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

Congratulations!!!

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

Plant Com Sep 2025 issue online🎉Cover story: Coumarin-facilitated iron transport: An IRT1-independent strategy for iron acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana (Robe et al., 2025). Images by Kevin robe. cell.com/plant-commun...

Congratulations Tina!!

Congratulations Vinay!!

Today’s Department seminar by @luciastrader.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social on auxin transcription factors.

Plant biologist Lucia Strader joins Salk faculty to study plant growth signaling - Salk Institute for Biological Studies LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute will welcome plant biologist Lucia Strader as a new professor and holder of the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology in October 2025. Strader is an interna...

The lab is moving to the Salk Institute! We are thrilled to join an inspiring community where we will continue to explore plant growth and development.

Deep gratitude for the years of support and collaboration at Duke/NCSU/UNC.

www.salk.edu/news-release...

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide?

Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations.
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis

@camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

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#plantscience

🌱 come join our lab 😀
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
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Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers!
Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social .
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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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...

RACK1A positively regulates opening of the apical hook in Arabidopsis thaliana via suppression of its auxin response gradient | PNAS Apical hook development is an ideal model for studying differential growth in plants and is controlled by complex phytohormonal crosstalk, with aux...

Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Huge thanks to all co-authors, especially Léa Jacquier, who led this work during her PhD, and Celeste Fiorenza, who helped finalizing it in recent months. Grateful to the community for the valuable feedback and support throughout this long journey.

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course!
Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬
📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg
Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social

💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens:

🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Having a great time at PVB2025 in Osaka. Perfect meeting if you want to learn more about phloem, xylem and of course about Plasmodesmata!

Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins Short summary paragraph : The versatile ALFA tag/ALFA Nanobody system enables a wide range of imaging and biochemical approaches for studying proteins in plants, including localization, protein:protei...

New paper out showcasing the ALFA tag/ALFA nanobody technology for plant protein tagging. www.cell.com/plant-commun...
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates - Nature Plants This study reveals that water availability at the wound determines plant regeneration outcomes. High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formati...

How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

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!

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🌱Congratulations to Ines Hadj Bachir for receiving an @embo.org postdoctoral fellowship! 🎉 Her project on suberin regulation will be hosted in our lab at the University of Geneva. We’re excited to support her in this next chapter!

A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots Apoplastic pH is a key regulator of plant development and environmental responses, influencing processes such as cell expansion, nutrient uptake, and intercellular signaling. Accurate tools for measur...

📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots

🧑‍🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment

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...

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...