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Bas Bargmann

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Assistant Professor Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences

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Plant Tissue Culture and Genome Engineering - 2026 (2026) Sun 10 May - Wed 13 [EDT]: We are excited to announce that the International Conference on Plant Tissue Culture & Genome Engineering (PTCGE 2026) will take place from May 10–13, 2026, in Santa…

πŸ“…New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant Tissue Culture and Genome Engineering - 2026

πŸ‘‰https://buff.ly/rhPimQh

#PlantScience

25.09.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social

22.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - MontrΓ©al, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie vΓ©gΓ©tale (IRBV) | 12844852 A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, UniversitΓ© de MontrΓ©al.

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

16.09.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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...

17.09.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Please repost and spread the word! πŸ™‚

15.09.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This should be fun! πŸ€“ Join us May 10-13 in Barcelona!!

www.ptcge2026.com

14.09.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Really looking forward to this panel discussion on Tuesday - getting to discuss in depth why it is important to define plant cell types and states!

#PlantScience 🌱

12.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n
@natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.08.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, and the abstract for the event.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, and the abstract for the event.

We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: 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

@radinbio.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

15.08.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!!

We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!

13.08.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Now in the latest issue! Lowkey, I love that you get to post about your stuff when it’s bioRxiv, Early View, AND latest issue 😊

08.08.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open PhD position in plant regeneration 🌱
www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

29.06.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Career Opportunities: Postdoc or PhD student position in Plant Physiology (22260)

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...

29.05.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Join the 5/29 NAASC panel (register by 5/28): with Rachel Shahan (UCLA), Kevin Cox (WUSTL & Danforth Center) & Monika Fischer (Univ. British Columbia).
Early Career Scholar Hosts: Catherine Freed, Mingyuan Zhu, Vincent Cerbantez.
Panel will be recorded for later viewing
@rachelmshahan.bsky.social

22.05.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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PhD candidate Plant Light Signalling

Please share: Two PhD positions in Plant Photobiology in our lab @w-u-r.bsky.social in Wageningen University, the Netherlands:

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

12.05.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Taylor for successfully defending his dissertation, β€œDecoding the Transcriptional Specificity of Auxin Signaling: A Synthetic Biology Approach" earlier today!

08.05.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A pleasure to host Dave Jackson for a wonderful SPES seminar today!

06.05.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...

New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! πŸ… 🧬 βœ‚οΈ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.05.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm excited to share this NAASC early career professional development seminar aimed at plant biology scientists considering faculty jobs!
🌱Lab Launchpad: The New PIs Guide to Starting Your Own Lab🌱
Register www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/register-car...

02.05.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
A Comparative Analysis of Transfected and Integrated Auxin Reporter Systems Reveals Sensitivity Advantages in Protoplast Transient Expression Assays | microPublication

He also recently published this micropub with help from 3 undergrad research assistants: James, Eric, and Jaime! And with @rclaywright.bsky.social

doi.org/10.17912/mic...

30.04.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transcriptional Tuning: How Auxin Strikes Unique Chords in Gene Regulation Auxin is a central regulator of plant growth, development, and responses to environmental cues. How a single phytohormone mediates such a diverse array of developmental responses has remained a longs...

doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
Very proud of soon-to-be Dr. Taylor's review on auxin signaling specificity. (Joseph is defending his dissertation next week!! πŸ€“)

30.04.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a white cat is standing on its hind legs and giving a fist . ALT: a white cat is standing on its hind legs and giving a fist .

Congrats!!!

24.04.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

19.04.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Promotional Image for the March 11th Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, highlighting the two speakers, Dr. Keiko Torii and Dr. Justin Walley.

Promotional Image for the March 11th Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, highlighting the two speakers, Dr. Keiko Torii and Dr. Justin Walley.

The Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series continues next week, March 11!

Don't forget to register! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

07.03.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Plant Cell Identity Webinar schedule:

Dennis Stevenson Topic: Cell identity across species New York Botanical Gardens November 12, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Rachel Shahan & Geoff Schiebinger Topic: Aquisition of cell identities University of California Los Angeles & University of British Columbia December 10, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Ken Birnbaum & Kaisa Kajala Topic: Evolution/comparative cell identity New York University & Utrecht University February 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT

Keiko Torii & Justin Walley Topic: Cell states during cell development, proteomic approaches to defining cell types and states University of Texas & Iowa State University March 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Jazz Dickenson & Nemanja Vukasinovic Topic: The chemistry of cell types and states: live imaging reveals new cell states in root meristems University of California San Diego & Ghent University April 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Elliot Meyerowitz & Alex Marand Topic: 1 cell, many functions - Single-cell organisms (algae), Epigenomics Caltech & University of Michigan May 5, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Marina Oliva & Alex CantΓ³-Pastor Topic: Environmentally responsive cell states University of Western Australia & Yale University June 10, 2025 - 4pm PST/7pm EST/7am WA

Open Panel Discussion The Plant Cell Atlas Community July 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT

Register for the series today! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

Plant Cell Identity Webinar schedule: Dennis Stevenson Topic: Cell identity across species New York Botanical Gardens November 12, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Rachel Shahan & Geoff Schiebinger Topic: Aquisition of cell identities University of California Los Angeles & University of British Columbia December 10, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Ken Birnbaum & Kaisa Kajala Topic: Evolution/comparative cell identity New York University & Utrecht University February 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Keiko Torii & Justin Walley Topic: Cell states during cell development, proteomic approaches to defining cell types and states University of Texas & Iowa State University March 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Jazz Dickenson & Nemanja Vukasinovic Topic: The chemistry of cell types and states: live imaging reveals new cell states in root meristems University of California San Diego & Ghent University April 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Elliot Meyerowitz & Alex Marand Topic: 1 cell, many functions - Single-cell organisms (algae), Epigenomics Caltech & University of Michigan May 5, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Marina Oliva & Alex CantΓ³-Pastor Topic: Environmentally responsive cell states University of Western Australia & Yale University June 10, 2025 - 4pm PST/7pm EST/7am WA Open Panel Discussion The Plant Cell Atlas Community July 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT Register for the series today! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

And the next Plant Cell Identity webinar by @keikoutorii.bsky.social and @justinwwalley.bsky.social is already next week!

Register here to see it live: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

03.03.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jobs - Laboratory of cell and molecular biology Join Our Team – Open Positions at the LBMC, Vermeer Lab. Β  We are excited to announce two open positions, please get in touch with Prof. Dr. Joop Vermeer: josephus.vermeer@unine.ch ApplicationsΒ open f...

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025).
www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

26.02.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Our lab is looking for a enthusiastic researcher with the master degree (Computational Biology, Computer Science, Game development) to develop next-gen computer games to model organ development in 4D. If you are interested drop me an email: k.wabnik@upm.es

03.02.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#ParasiticPlants have made the cover of New Phytologist! Beautiful and colorful work by the group of So-Yon Park.

26.01.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
People at a conference. A quotation from a New Phytologist next generation scientists delegate reads '#npnextgen really is an excellent way to meet inspiring people and broaden your outlook on science.'

People at a conference. A quotation from a New Phytologist next generation scientists delegate reads '#npnextgen really is an excellent way to meet inspiring people and broaden your outlook on science.'

Don't miss your opportunity to attend New Phytologist next generation scientists, the FREE meeting for early career researchers in plant science. #npnextgen

4–7 July 2025
Birmingham, UK

Apply to attend by 27 January!
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

22.01.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

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