Sebastián R. Moreno

Adapted from Fig. 1 from Kadiyala et al 2025.

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This should remind us of a very important thing in sci publishing: please take your time with the decision letter.

What at first may seem terrible or unfair, may turn out not to be like that once you think about it for a bit.

Also, don't impulse-reply to the editor. Again, please take your time 😊

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 ...

5 dynamical systems concepts every developmental biologist needs to know! This came out of the 2023 Morphogenesis Program. @pauformosa.bsky.social ‪@perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬
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1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.

Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.

#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Graphic with seedlings undergoing a heat stress and illustrating how plants with thermotolerence have a higher survival rate. Gene circuits will be tested for their ability to enhance traits like thermotolerance and drought resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Graphic by Chris Micklem.

🌱 Flipping the script on plant engineering!
New ‪‪@aria-research.bsky.social‬ grant for James Locke & Chris Micklem to pioneer stochastic synthetic biology using gene expression noise as a tool to design more resilient, climate-adaptive plants.
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/aria-gr...
#synbio #plantsci

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists.
1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa...
2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15.
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Only 2 months away!

Excited about the 4th edition of the premier meeting in Latin America on gene regulation: @molbiosystems.bsky.social

Looking forward to being around friends and colleagues, and learning about the latest advances in the field #mbiosys25

Its out!! 🫶🍇 PME10 Is a Pectin Methylesterase Driving PME Activity and Immunity Against Botrytis cinerea in Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) - Lagrèze - Plant Biotechnology Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Image credit: @gloglita.bsky.social‬ @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social‬ captured DynaTag in action: a pA-Tn5 probe (multicoloured) binds an antibody (white), which binds p53 DNA-binding domain (green) on DNA (blue) within 2 nucleosomes

🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town.
Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag.
🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)

I'm off to ASPB #PlantBio2025 tomorrow, with a poster and talk on using X-ray imaging in Plant Biology. New soybean imaging to share, like this fly-through animation of the meristematic region from an XRM scan. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

I really enjoyed your paper! Deleuze has so much to say about current scientific endeavors, thanks for sharing it :)

Home - RESYDE: Re-engineering symmetry breaking in development and evolution. A consortia of plant scientists from Europe and Australia has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the ERC, which will ...

Come and work with us!
We are hiring a research assistant/associate @slcuplants.bsky.social to work on the RESYDE project (www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/)
using ML for multi-scale data and modelling to understand and engineer flower development!

Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52116/

AP1 floral induction system and experimental strategy used. (A) The AP1 floral induction system (pAP1::AP1-GR ap1 cal) was used in Arabidopsis. On the left, an SEM image of overproliferation inflorescence meristems of the ap1 cal mutant and on the right, an SEM image of many synchronized floral buds 5 d after dexamethasone (DEX) treatment are shown. (B) Overview of the workflow and sampling scheme. The extraction buffer Trizol was used, so from the same tissue sample, RNA and protein could be extracted. Subsequently, RNA-seq and LC-MS/MS were performed, followed by data analyses. SEM images provided by José Luis Riechmann.

🌸🧬🔬 INSIGHT 🌸🧬🔬

Almost lost in translation: integrated transcriptome and proteome analyses for early Arabidopsis flower development - Stefan de Folter

📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

This is one of the most exciting emerging fields in plant biology today and a great, welcoming, and collaborative community. Deadline for application and registration is next Monday! Apply here: lnkd.in/gvkMxuKR

YouTube video by Institute for Integrative Systems Biology I2SysBio Interview of Tomás Matus, PI of the Transcriptional Orchestration of plant metabolism group

El #I2SysBio (@csic.es - @uv.es) ha lanzado una serie de vídeos sobre los diferentes grupos de investigación en este centro. El nuevo video es sobre el grupo Orquestación transcripcional del metabolismo vegetal de Tomas Matús @jtmatus.bsky.social
🎥🌐 youtu.be/43V4MOtAf4k?...
🧪🧬🖥️ 🌾🌱🍇 #plantscience

If you want to learn more about single cell approaches for plant biolgy, join us in Portland, Maine August 10-15. The application deadline has been extended to July 21st. We've got a great roster of speakers and topics! www.grc.org/single-cell-...

Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664710v1

AUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th.

Prize is free registration worth €500+

Auxin2026: auxin2026.info

Send submissions to geraint@aab.org.uk

@larsostergaard.bsky.social @luciastrader.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social

Springer Nature to retract machine learning book following Retraction Watch coverage A screenshot from June 26 shows the book had been accessed 3,782 times. Springer Nature is retracting a book on machine learning that had multiple references to works that do not exist, Retraction …

Retraction of A BOOK because of fake references. This is impacting everything, for the worse.

{long sigh} what a time...

retractionwatch.com/2025/07/16/s...

Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!

Fig.3 Micropatterns on the petal surface are created by variation in epidermal cell pigment, shape and cuticle textures.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
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Getting a little salt tolerance Plants in a saline environment have no other choice than to adapt. Spanish and French researchers show one of those adaptions in the newly published research “Parallel evolution of salinity toleran…

Like I mentioned last week I like it when plants find a way against all odds. It is not just the perseverance and adaption. But also, that we can learn something from how those pioneering plants manage to survive against all odds. 🧵1/3
🧪 #PlantScience

I think i never told him (and most probably he will never read this as he keeps away from social media) but Ally is the main reason I stayed in science.
While doing my PhD I was about to resign. I had a 3 months stay in his lab and realize I wanted to work with him.

Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Looking forward to having a new colleague!

www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...

Congratulations Felix!! 🤩🤩🤩

Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands Plants from the Cape Verde Islands evolved parallel mutations to protect from high salinity.

Our story about salinity tolerance in the Cape Verde islands is out in Science Advances! @science.org. Two independent mutations in the same gene conferred salt resistance to Arabidopsis plants!

Check it out here!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Postdoc position: AI in plant regulatory genomics (ERC funded) - VIB About VIB Center for Plant System Biology The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB) is a world-leading plant science institute located at the heart of a renowned plant biotechnology campus...

POSTDOC POSITION @vandepoelelab.bsky.social
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