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The B-class auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for meristem organization in free-living plant gametophytes Land plants (embryophytes) are multicellular eukaryotes with a remarkable capacity to grow continuously during their life span. They achieve this by m…

Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Oh Wow!

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Overview of Integrated Robotic Imaging and Sequencing, IRIS

We just released IRIS (7+yrs project), a tech we believe will transform cell biology by pairing high-resolution cell images with matched #scRNAseq, letting us interpret cellular form by its molecular ground truth.
Huge tx to @JohannesBues, @JoernPezoldt, @CamilleLambert et al.
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I warned you about trying to be 2/3rds Santa Claus!

Me thinking about tomorrow’s game

🥧 Celebrate both! 🥧

Congratulations!!!🥳🥳🥳

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“*Turkey is our business, gentlemen….”

Our editors write:

- Organ patterning: Phyllotaxis by emerging apical vasculature rdcu.be/eR3Hm

A highlight of this paper in @cp-devcell.bsky.social : "Self-organization of vascular strands drives their patterning in the Arabidopsis shoot apex"
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📣 I hereby make my Bluesky debut to announce that our work linking DNA binding affinities and kinetics 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 and 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 for the human transcription factor KLF1 just got published in Cell! @cp-cell.bsky.social

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Key findings in a thread (1/6):

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Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction - Nature Soil compaction traps ethylene around roots, which causes transcriptional upregulation of Auxin Response Factor1, resulting in decreased root cortical cell wall thickness and thereby promoting root ra...

Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction

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🪱 Selfish genes are everywhere and drive some of biology’s biggest innovations (CRISPR, antibody recombination, epigenetics). Yet almost no one asks the obvious question: how does a selfish gene begin? Our new manuscript uncovers how selfishness can emerge directly from the host genome.

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

As a Liverpool fan, I am currently in the same hell.

Football 🤝 Football

Because we’ve decided not to win anymore 😞

Beautiful work by Julie aka

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵

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So more like NSF? Not sure about this… NIH and NSF having different styles of award decisions seems good to me

Elevated CO2 drives epigenetic reprogramming andchromatin dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689512v1

An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...

It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

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#PlantSciences

MicroRNA166-HD-ZIP III module impacts tuber shape, color and productivity in potato https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.685984v1

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues

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Postdoctoral Scientist- Kim and Abdus-Saboor Lab Primary Work Address: Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton, NJ, 08544 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Kim Lab at Princeton University and Abdus-Saboor Lab at ...

Come do a joint postdoc with me and @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social, splitting your time between Princeton and Columbia. Come design new activity-dependent labeling enzymes and transcriptional reporters optimized for application in the peripheral nervous system.
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