Dominique Bergmann

Thanks Marc!

How plant roots rebuild their tips after injury Geometry-driven cell divisions help restore shape.

www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Stand up for our country & against this authoritarian regime. Big SF protest saying hell no to Trump.

17X17 Protest (17K people and 17 miles long) in Redwood City - here are our two 90+ y.o. protestors out there for all two hours!

Congrats Gozde and team!! A plethora of new preprints from the Demirer lab @caltech.edu 📚

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of my absolute favorite meetings! Attendees--please do ask me about CoB and the journal Development. Our community has strong advocates there.

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💊It’s Day 12 of #31Days Of Action! Attend our weekly Webinar to learn about our mission and how YOU can get involved!

Join #StandUpForScience and Special Guest Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH & NIGMS, for our Tues Action Hour TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT!

Sign up here👉 zurl.co/OmG1N

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Excited for the @faseborg.bsky.social's upcoming #PlantDevelopment conference in Massachusetts? #PDevSRC

To complement the meeting, we've curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic:
journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning

Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Wow, what a spectacular workshop! People, place and prospect of deep conversations that could guide the next decade of inquiry.

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱
It will be an exciting meeting!
FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

Patterning of cell identities in the posterior E8.5 mouse embryo. Co-expression of mesoderm marker TBXT (blue) and neural marker SOX2 (green) identifies cells in the neuromesodermal (NMP) progenitor region at the intersection of their respective gene expression gradients. TBX6 (red) marks paraxial mesoderm and also marks sporadic mesoderm-committed cells emerging within the NMP region. LAMINB1 (white) marks the nuclear envelope of all cells. Credit: Matthew French.

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

Congrats to the 3 poster prize winners at ICAR2025 ! But a particular highlight about Alexis Lebecq, alumini of the SICe group at RDP lyon @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social
Which is now postdoc in the lab of @stanfordstomata.bsky.social 🤓🧪🌱🧬

👏👏👏 amazing project 😍

Images taken during the Woods Hole Embryology Course that have been promoted by Development and the Node.

The Company of Biologists and the Woods Hole Embryology Course

We explore the association of Development and @biologists.bsky.social‬ with the Woods Hole Embryology Course @mblscience.bsky.social‬ and hear from former students about the impact the course has had on them:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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 🌱😄

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As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you!

Please spare 5min to take our survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

Meet the 2025 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows

Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Redwood City CA. May day has at least 3k people here.
RESIST!!

San Francisco today

So sorry that you are sick and that you are also missing the bio100 conference 🤕. Wishing you a speedy recovery

March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots - North Carolina Botanical Garden By Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium As we enter the Bracket Season, a.k.a. March Madness, I have been contemplating sports team names, colors,... Rea...

In honor of March Madness, enjoy this piece from last year about Botanical Team Mascots, from my spouse in UNC' Herbarium and the NC Botanical Garden. How can you resist the Fighting Okra or the UNC School of the Arts Fighting Pickles! 🧪
ncbg.unc.edu/2024/03/05/m...

Professor Joyce Onyenedum Welcome! This channel is dedicated to sharing my love of plants with anyone who will listen. My name is Dr. Joyce G. Onyenedum, and I am a Botany Professor at New York University in New York City. ...

BSA Member & 2024 Emerging Leader Award winner Joyce Onyenedum launches "Build a Plant", a free video series on plant anatomy!

A great resource for students, instructors, & scientists. Watch here: www.youtube.com/@joyceonyene...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Less than one week to go until #biologists100! 😱We’re putting the final touches to the programme, picking up t-shirts, and polishing our best conference trainers! Looking forward to some fantastic science and catching up with the community. Oh, and celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social! 🎉

Introducing openRxiv: a new independent home for preprint sharing in the life sciences - openRxiv We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openRxiv ensures that r...

🎉 bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review.
ℹ️ openrxiv.org/introducing-...

Vote for your favourite image in the Node–FocalPlane image competition - the Node Browse through the gallery of the 15 shortlisted images and vote for your favourite image by Wednesday 26 March.

Together with @focalplane.bsky.social, we're having an image competition to accompany the #Biologists100 conference.

Thank you everyone who submitted their images. Shortlisting only 15 was tough!

Browse through the gallery and vote for your favourite image:
thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.