Margot Smit

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda

Visited Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social in Tübingen. Such a nice reunion after 6 years! Impressed by the beautiful city and the bryophyte-friendly botanical garden.

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

👀 Early Career Researchers in #PlantSci:

There are only 4 days left ... if you want to join

Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef, Germany

Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025

www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Thank you for having me! It was great to visit the VIB and get inspired 🧬

Review. How plant cells decide their fate: Balancing growth and specialization | Plantae Every plant begins its life as a single cell, which divides, differentiates, and gradually gives rise to the intricate tissues and organs we see. Initially, plant cells are highly versatile…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- How plant cells decide their fate: balancing growth and specialization (Journal of Experimental Botany) @likeyoda1.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/RjCQNKq

#PlantaePSRW

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋

Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand.

Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

#Nectar, the original cocktail: an introduction to a #VirtualIssue

Check out this #Editorial from Gong, et al. introducing the Virtual Issue 'Nectar and nectaries'

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

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?

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852 A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

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...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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!

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to weigel@tue.mpg.de. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.

Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation!

How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation

Positions to be announced soon!

Congrats!! 🎉🎉

JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium SESSION 3: MATURITY Flowering, reproduction and coping with stress Chairs: Madelaine Bartlett & Cristobal Uauy 19 September | 9 AM | Edinburgh INVITED SPEAKERS Dr Madelaine Bartlett Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge Developmental mechanisms underpinning the evolution of floral form in the grasses Dr Teva Vernoux ENS Lyon From dynamical auxin fields to the emergence of phyllotaxis Prof Cristóbal Uauy John Innes Centre Early inflorescence development shapes yield in the field

🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

📅 Sept 19 – our third session:

🌾🌡️ MATURITY - flowering, reproduction and coping with stress 🌸💧

🎤 Invited speakers include Madelaine Bartlett, Teva Vernoux & Cristóbal Uauy

⏳ Don’t miss it! Register by Sunday, Aug 31 🗓️

#PlantScience 🧪

An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning Non-cell autonomous signalling is a mechanism by which stem cells are maintained across the tree of life. In plants, many stem cell populations are regulated by peptide ligands related to CLAVATA3, w...

Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⏰The 2026 Plantae Fellows program application closes this Sunday, August 31! We need your help to nurture and grow Plantae, the online home for the global plant science community that is powered by @aspbofficial.bsky.social.🌱

👉Learn more and apply now! plantae.org/2026fellowsapp.

#PlantScience

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 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: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

making figures might just be one of my happiest places #PILife

*nudges line to the left*

*assesses whether it's lined up with points on graph*

*nudges line to the right*

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First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

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.

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

Join us this September in Wageningen/Ede to discuss and learn about Plant Development 🌱💚

🌱 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...

Niels, Chia-Nan, Pin-Jou, Yujing, Isa, Farid, Raphael and Jessica arriving in Cologne Messe by train

And another @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social delegation just arrived in Cologne for the #2025MPMI

Niels (P-041), @chia-nan.bsky.social (P-011), Pin-Jou (P-438), Yujing (P-027), Farid (P-063), @raphaelschaal.bsky.social (P-094) and @ericksonlab.bsky.social (P-169)