Marija Smokvarska

✨ December 2025 #ImageOfTheMonth ✨
Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚
Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC).

#Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux

Proud to announce you my graduation as Doctor in Cell Biology after my thesis defense. By revisiting the early secretory pathway in plant cells: identification of a dynamic tubulo-vesiculated ERGIC that mature in Golgi. Thanks to my supervisor @yohannboutte.bsky.social @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social

Congrats to Matheus Montrazi who brillantly defended his PhD on Friday 🤩🍾🥂 on sphingolipids mediated interleaflet coupling in ROP6-auxin signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to Juliette Jouhet, @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , Soazig Guyomarch', @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, Derek McCusker.

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Super happy to take part in this congress surrounded by brilliant minds and inspiring science! A fantastic opportunity to learn, share, and connect. #EMBOMembraneContactSites2025 in Monopoli, Bari🇮🇹 @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social.

Take a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬

We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility

Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.

Happy to see Kevin Robe’s work on ZIP transporters published. We found evidences that ZIP2 and ZIP8 are involved in Cu and Fe acquisition respectively and confirmed the role of ZIP3 and ZIP5 in Zn acquisition. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Summer clean-up goes hand in hand with a summer drink at the LBM!
The labs are glittering!

Such a pleasure to meet and discuss with ancient colleagues and friends from RDP- Lyon and IPSIM-Montpellier. Plant membrane meeting June 2025. Thanks for the organization @alexmartiniere.bsky.social🙌🏼

@lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

Congrats to these brilliant minds @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social, @hortensem.bsky.social & Patrick Li for their great contributions in biology recognized by the Académie de sciences 🏅🌿
@lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

We are recruiting!
A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

As a microscopist MIFOBIO is a must at least once. The most thrilling, intense and rewarding microscopy gathering 🔬🌱✨

La communication intercellulaire chez les végétaux : un changement de paradigme Les plasmodesmes, des canaux membranaires essentiels chez les plantes, jouent un rôle primordial dans la communication intercellulaire.

#RésultatScientifique🔎 Plasmodesmes : les autoroutes cachées des plantes 🌱

@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social @yvonjaillais.bsky.social et leurs collaborateurs dévoilent comment protéines et lipides régulent le flux moléculaire. Une percée dans la communication cellulaire des plantes !

Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication | Plantae Membrane contact sites (MCSs) serve a critical role in intracellular communication, particularly between organelle membranes, enabling direct molecular transfer. Less clear is the role MCSs play in…

Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication plantae.org?p=140096

Polarized subcellular activation of Rho proteins by specific ROPGEFs drives pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana RHO OF PLANTS (ROPs) signaling and their activating factors ROPGEFs are essential for initiating polar growth, but which ones activate pollen germination is unknown. These authors show polarization of...

Specific ROPGEFs drive pollen germination in Arabidopsis

The first paper from my group @TUM is finally out in @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/5n69jyuy

#PlantScience #Polarity #Pollen #ROPGEF #microscopy #Fertilization

Improved & with new results compared to the bioRxiv version
tinyurl.com/4hejrrp9

Check out our new preprint where we explore natural variation, leading to the identification of SUBER GENE1, a novel regulator of suberization. Excited to share the first manuscript from a project I conceptualized 10 years ago!

Plant Membrane Biology For the 20th time, participants of the Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology (WPMB) conference can learn about the latest findings in the crucial field of Plant Membrane Biology. Biological membranes ar…

Applications are open for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology in Helsingør, Denmark, 18 – 22 August 2025.
Registration deadline: 1 June
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June
meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla...
#EMBOplantMembraneBio 🧪

Conserved mechanical hallmark guides four-way junction avoidance during plant cytokinesis When building an organ, adjacent cells coordinate to form topologically stable junctions by integrating mechanosensitive signaling pathways. Positioni…

🚨Our paper is out!

If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Root expansion microscopy: A robust method for super resolution imaging in Arabidopsis Root expansion microscopy (ROOT-ExM) achieves super-resolution expansion microscopy in plants.

Whaouhouh! @yohannboutte.bsky.social @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social Magalie Grison!!!

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Thank you Monica. We will be seeing each other around for a while it seems ☺️

Plasmodesmata: A new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication | Plantae Membrane contact sites (MCSs) serve a critical role in intracellular communication, particularly between organelle membranes, enabling direct molecular transfer. Less clear is the role MCSs play in…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Plasmodesmata: a new frontier for membrane contact site intercellular communication (Cell) @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social @yvonjaillais.bsky.social (Summary by Stephanie Temnyk) buff.ly/aSoKPZ1

#PlantaePSRW

the results are the following:
Paloma DURAN, Liam ELLIOTT co-first
Marija SMOKVARSKA - 3
Hyun-Kyung LEE - 4
Pierre GAUTRAT - 5
Andrew HELMSTETTER - 6
Alan LE MOAN - 7
Laura ELVIRA GONZALEZ - 8
Liudmila KOZLOVA - 9