Dorota Kawa

Congratulations Heike! Happy for you and WOW what an exciting topic!!!!

01.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

High five Dani!!!!!!!!🎉

24.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

149 Vidi applications granted to talented researchers | NWO NWO has granted a maximum of 850.000 euros to 149 scientists from the domain Science (ENW), Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domains, as well as Health, Research and Development (ZonMw). With the help of the Vidi grant, the talented scientists can start their own line of research and further develop their talent.

Delighted to be awarded NWO VIDI grant! We will study how microbes shape root cells to enhance plant stress resilience - so exciting!!!!

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Fantastic to see several plant projects granted🌽🌱

24.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Research Technician Root Barriers Join us in investigating the role of maize root barriers in soil stresses!

We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

04.06.2025 11:04 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue - Plant and Soil Background The root cortex in Poaceae is a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable composite layer of tissue. Early in plant growth, the cortex in Poaceae roots primarily consists of parenchyma cells. Howev...

Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

03.05.2025 08:48 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and
@yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

20.03.2025 07:09 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2

What is a plant cell type? Made with Padlet

These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type.

So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here: padlet.com/nolan84/what...

12.02.2025 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Grants for 28 projects within Open Competition ENW-XS | NWO The NWO Domain Board Science has awarded 28 projects in the Open Competition Domain Science – XS round 24-4. The next ENW-XS deadline is 18 February 2025.

A little balloon came our way☺️
It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience.
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10.02.2025 17:34 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Vicia lunata, a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey.

Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.

19.01.2025 14:26 — 👍 126    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!

16.12.2024 19:59 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Orchid sitting on a window

Root section of an aerial root: tiny vascular bundle in the middle, lots of cortex, some velamen.

Highlight to exodermis and velamen cells staining with Fluorol Yellow (suberin)

Page from a plant anatomy textbook showing velamen, exodermis and other cell types.

Fun #MicroscopyMonday content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in @dorotakawa.bsky.social lab.

09.12.2024 15:27 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd

03.12.2024 10:58 — 👍 54    🔁 24    💬 6    📌 0