ENPER 2026 – European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research
European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research
We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission for ENPER 2026 are now open!
The 25th meeting of the ENPER community will be held in Sofia over three days. Please visit the conference website for more details: enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
09.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to its imaging development service and close collaboration with @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social, the LBM is overcoming technological barriers and making cutting-edge imaging accessible in the field of plant biology.
© Magali Grison
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social
www.biomemb.cnrs.fr/service-micr...
09.02.2026 09:36 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting imaging ahead #Zeiss #microscopy @erc.europa.eu @starmorph-syg.bsky.social
06.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⏰Final call – 6 days left!🧪🌾
We’re recruiting 3 PhD students at UPSC & SLU in the frame of the #WIFORCE programme:
🧬 RNA biology of trees
💻 Climate adaptation & modelling
🌿 Nitrogen use efficiency & wood formation
🗓 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
05.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
@lorindaloi.bsky.social
04.02.2026 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@absolutemaverick.bsky.social @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @adrienheymans.bsky.social
04.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
04.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥
Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬
interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688
03.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
Enjoying winter in Umeå. Our new Friday cold ritual (Team Robertopsis and friends)! We even had to make the hole again, this is dedication. @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social
30.01.2026 13:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Figure 1. Quantification of tomato root anatomy features and hydrophobic barriers. Tomato roots
(middle) were used to characterize and model anatomy (top) and hydrophobic barriers (bottom). The observed
anatomy (top) was monitored and quantified to update and train a secondary growth model of the structural model
GRANAR. The observed maturation (bottom) in terms of lignin and/or suberin formations in endodermis and
exodermis served to build a map of the maturation timings.
New preprint from PEPA lab: www.pepa.science !
🍅🌱 GRANAR-dicot anatomical reconstructions + 💧 MECHA hydraulic modeling show how lignin cap acts on root water transport.
📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701735
Great work @marcodago.bsky.social et al.
#plantsci
30.01.2026 08:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Agreed!! Beautiful.
29.01.2026 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fluorescent proteins (mTurquoise2, mEGFP, mCitrine, mScarlet-I) move between cells via plasmodesmata in the epidermis of Nicotiana benthamiana. (Image credit: Rory Greenhalgh, Jacob O. Brunkard.)
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 🌱
🔬 Plasmodesmata (PD) are membrane-lined channels in cell walls 🔬
In this editorial, Brunkard & Burch-Smith shift focus from "which molecules move through PD?" to "which molecules are *prevented* from moving through PD?" 🔎
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
29.01.2026 08:00 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Ancient oomycete honors Sophien Kamoun
PUBLISHED: 26.01.26 : LAURA TURCHI & MIA CERFONTEYN
Just published: Ancient oomycete honors Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun, group leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, has been celebrated in the most enduring way possible: a newly discovered fossil species has been named in his honour.
medium.com/p/ancient-oo...
27.01.2026 15:55 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Wood anatomy microscopy class! My favorite part! With @absolutemaverick.bsky.social and Markéta Buderová as amazing teaching assistants! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
27.01.2026 09:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Happy to share this preprint, we describe how the membrane could shape the ROS nanoenvironment in plant responses to osmotic signals. Led by @arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing colleagues @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , @jbfiche.bsky.social , A Meyer, and J Ugalde.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
23.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Fig. 1 Different light responses of adaxial and abaxial stomata in a dicot leaf.
Functional and developmental differences between adaxial and abaxial #stomata in amphistomatous #leaves
A #ResearchReview by @hanna-horak.bsky.social
👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
22.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A drought stress-induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in leaves of European aspen (Populus tremula)
The leaf pavement cells of many plant species develop fascinating jigsaw puzzle-like shapes in which neighboring cells interdigitate with each other, providing an ideal model for the study of cell shape acquisition. We analyzed pavement cell shape complexity in a natural population of European aspen ( Populus tremula ) genotypes and then used a genome-wide association study (GWAS) approach to identify a new candidate gene in cell shape regulation, Potra2n8c18226, encoding the transcription factor MYB305a. We subsequently validated a role for MYB305a in regulating aspen leaf pavement cell shape. We then demonstrated that drought conditions strongly induced MYB305a promoter expression in these cells and provided evidence implying that MYB305a plays a role in simplification of the cell shape in response to drought stress. Finally, we demonstrated negative correlations of pavement cell shape complexity with water-use efficiency, as well as with average precipitation, latitude and longitude of the genotypes' original sampling sites in the natural European aspen population. Taken together, our results suggest that climatic variables affect the shape complexity of pavement cells in aspen leaf and provide a first step towards unravelling the molecular mechanisms controlling pavement cell shape acquisition in this species in response to environmental conditions, by implicating the involvement of the transcription factor MY305a. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Swedish Research Council, https://ror.org/03zttf063, VR-2020-03420 Kempe Foundation, https://ror.org/05cszw148, JCK-1732, JCK-1912 Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, https://ror.org/004hzzk67 VINNOVA, https://ror.org/01kd5m353 European Research Council, https://ror.org/0472cxd90, ERC-2024-SyG STARMORPH 101166880 Trees and Crops for the Future (TC4F)
The latest biorxiv of the lab and first full poplar paper :-).
Nice collaborative work with Nat Street and Kathryn Robinson @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
@siamsadoyle.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
18.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
It was such a pleasure to have Edwige Moyroud from @slcuplants.bsky.social visiting @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
She acted as external evaluator for @absolutemaverick.bsky.social Hemamshu Ratnakaram half time seminar and we could enjoyed her fascinating research overview. Thanks Edwige!
16.01.2026 09:30 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
(🧵 2/2) In this paper, Hill et al. identified cell-specific changes in gene expression occurring in roots exposed to low oxygen. They also discovered that changes in the expression of genes related to carbon & nitrogen metabolism appear to be important in tolerating the stress of low oxygen.
14.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Leaf epidermis cupcakes! Our students got creative🧁. Thanks Jule and Mélio. @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
13.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Entering 2026 with the latest group picture. @loupitgreg.bsky.social is missing.
We had two great bachelor students for a few weeks Jule Braha and Mélio Dagnaud-Adam! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social
12.01.2026 10:47 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
We’re hiring! 🌱
Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
09.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 32 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 4
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
19.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 46 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 4
📣 Registration is open for Auxin 2026!!
Join us as we delve into the latest advancements in auxin biology by the sea in the beautiful Algarve!
🦞 4 - 8th October
🌊 Albufeira, Portugal
Register now 👉 auxin2026.info
#plantscience #auxin2026
08.01.2026 13:12 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Four research groups (Robert, Novak, Kleine-Vehn and Jones) working together to understand the development of plants.
Microscopic farmer 🔬🌺
Microscopy core director @UNC Chapel Hill
Former plant developmental biologist
Team of Matyáš Fendrych at the Institute of Experimental Botany, CAS, Prague, Czechia
Fascinated by ubiquitination. Works at the RWTH Aachen University. Tweets are my own.
News, research and updates from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.🌱🔬 🌾
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/
IJPB: From knowledge to Innovation in Plant Sciences, located at INRAE Centre IdF - Versailles-Saclay
Assoc prof in plant physiology; develop't & funct'n all adventitious root types inc. crop roots, cuttings, adaptive advantages in challenging environments; teacher; mentor; supervisor. Posts are my personal opinion.
Plant Cell Biologist; interested in symbiotic plant-microbe interactions, membrane biology, signalling; scientist@ Uni Freiburg, Germany; views are my own. he/him
Microbial Genomics & UX Researcher | Freelance rock guitarist | Father of 2 boys | Love Music, Guitar, Bonsaï, Skiing, Coffee, Cheese & Bacteria. Science + Art. Posts are my own
Postdoc in plant science, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
'Plant twitter' via stomatal pores. I'm a Scientist. Views my own. she/her
Plant scientist working on root biology in tropical cereals at the French institute for sustainable development (@ird-fr.bsky.social).
Postdoc (Stéphanie Robert group) at Umeå Plant Science Centre / SLU Cell Shape I Root development I MicroRNAs
Plant cell biologist, PI @ IPSIM, Montpellier France
