Jorge Hernández-García

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

TIRIS Postdoc fellowship call will soon be open in Toulouse! If you're interested in plant microbiota, or plant-plant interactions or experimental evolution, the ECOGEN team at the @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social would be happy to support and help with your application!

Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
sesbe2026.es

🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
@uv.es @ucciuv.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es @sibecol.bsky.social @raciencias.bsky.social

Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development - Nature Plants A positional and developmentally regulated cell cycle duration gradient exists in the root meristem whereby the G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLET...

Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Cool work, cooler FISHes, sad no bryophytes involved...

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recently, both our team and the Richardson/Estelle/Strader teams showed that ARF transcription factors are actively degraded. In this new preprint, Martijn de Roij explores the requirements and relevance of ARF degradation (1/7)

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

#SciCom opportunity!

I partly agree. The historical problem (not only in plants) is taking a single species as paradigm. We now have an unrealistic view of what TFs/regulators do. IMO we can keep being regulator-centric if the research question is properly established and accept there are species-specific 'situations'.

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout:
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html
Apply here:
obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

Oh wow, can you DM? Trying to make a few slides for a lecture on AI!

ARF degradation fine-tunes auxin response in land plants Nature Plants - Two recent studies in phylogenetically distant plants integrate a new layer of control into the canonical auxin pathway. A deeply conserved degron that affects the stability of...

There is a nice News & Views article by @suruchiroy.bsky.social and others regarding our recent Nature Plants paper (@mestelle.bsky.social, @drannisr.bsky.social, and @luciastrader.bsky.social labs) and another from @dolfweijers.bsky.social 's lab. #PlantScience #Auxin rdcu.be/eAEnz

Auxin does everything, but how? The story just got more complicated by the discovery of a B class ARF degron providing a means of protein (in)stability regulation. @mjprigge.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th!
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo

Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱

#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization

Home Our group is focused on understanding the molecular basis of specific eukaryotic transcription factors function and evolution. Transcription factors are the elements of signalling pathways that direct...

Just to be sure, this is to work at @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social under my supervision, for now. And the link to the group website is on my profile and here bit.ly/455IlPh

Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.

🆕‼️ #NewCBGPpaper

🌊➡️🌿The GBCP researcher @jorgehg.bsky.social co-authors a roadmap published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ‬calling on scientists to unite in tracing the land plants antecesors

📜The publication charts a shared path forward for algae-based plant research

🔗 shorturl.at/0l24W

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

miR825‐5p‐regulated TNLs govern Arabidopsis resistance to Tetranychus urticae and Pieris brassicae MicroRNAs are essential regulators in plant resistance to biotic stresses, but their specific roles in the plant–herbivore context require deeper investigation. Here, we studied how the Arabidopsis .....

And now for something completely different!

Very proud to have contributed to this work on molecular plant-pest interaction led by Isabel Diaz Rodriguez at CBGP

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

@cbgpmadrid.bsky.social
@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social
#PlantScience

Y si este era tu primer proyecto (track A), debes saber que este año fue más difícil que el anterior: tasa de éxito del 30%, frente al 37% del PID2023.

the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground ALT: the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground

Join Andy on the road to unravel seed evolution using a cute fern (a seedless plant)! Deadline is tomorrow, hurry!

Nice round figures is all this is about, data is just a byproduct, right?
Hahaha, poor student! We both know more is not necessarily better, and less is many times enough...can be a tough realization. That piece felt a bit like patchwork of two different chapters that were regarded as 'not enough'.

Sounds like the best workshop ever, I'd love to witness it! Enjoy!

On the wrong use of ancient or early diverging for extant plants: are we still in 2010? what would @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social think?

We (a large community of groups using Streptophyte algae) hope to unite and inspire others to join forces and learn from this amazing group of organisms!!!

Thanks Tamara! 😁

A roadmap to developing unified streptophyte algal model systems Carrillo-Carrasco and colleagues highlight the importance of the establishment of streptophyte algal model systems and the community efforts towards this goal.

We've tried to gather and unite the streptophyte algae community all around the world to join forces and develop tools and methods for these critters. Learn more about it on @currentbiology.bsky.social!
With @jandevries.bsky.social, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and (many) others!

tinyurl.com/29n4zwen

AUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th.

Prize is free registration worth €500+

Auxin2026: auxin2026.info

Send submissions to geraint@aab.org.uk

@larsostergaard.bsky.social @luciastrader.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social