Kierzkowski Lab

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below:

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The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social

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Big thanks to Daniel Cosgrove & Enrico Coen
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
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Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social

An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation
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It is real!!! 3 years after Joris Sprakel and I conceived the first ideas, the GreenTE Gravitation project has really started. We could not be happier after seeing all the ambition, joy and excitement among our ECR’s and PI’s. Plant Mechanobiology for the win!!! More info: www.green-te.nl

Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems Repeated shifts in ecological strategies often lead to consistent speciation patterns across phylogenies. One example is the transition from outcrossi…

Very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work, with main drivers Marion Orsucci and Adrien Sicard:
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.

We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

ARF degradation defines a deeply conserved step in auxin response Nature Plants - De Roij et al. map a minimal region for auxin response factor (ARF) degradation in Marchantia and reveal that ARF instability predates the emergence of the auxin response. This...

Final version of our preprint on ARF degradation now online @natplants.nature.com. Great job by PhD student Martijn de Roij in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social with @jorgehg.bsky.social and JW Borst. Great to see this appear along @mjprigge.bsky.social paper!!!
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Promotional poster with microscopy and computational images of arabidopsis floral meristem. 9th Annual Computational Biology Workshop 8-12 September, 2025 Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge

Join us in Cambridge this September for the 9th annual Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop.
Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes:
1. #Mechanics
2. Pattern processes
3. #AI
4. Computer graphics
5. Concepts
🧳3 travel grants available
REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...

A space for time. Exploring temporal regulation of plant development across spatial scales Developmental timing in plants is tightly regulated at the whole-organism scale, from germination to flowering. Less is known about when and how local transitions are temporally regulated. Not every ...

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱

We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?

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Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with University of Montreal (UdeM) | 12838461 Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)

If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details.
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Hidden forces shape plants from the inside out UdeM scientists use a combination of experimental data and modelling to reveal how physical forces help plants to generate their complex 3D shapes.

#BIOPHYSICS For the first time, scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ – in this case, a flower's anther. @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social @routierlab.bsky.social @natureplants.bsky.social
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Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae Fruit represents one of the key morphological innovations associated with explosive radiation of angiosperms. Fruits are also the source of vitamins a…

Learn more about the genetics of fruit diversification in Brassicaceae from a new review led by @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
🥦🌼🧬🔬

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Research Briefing by @routierlab.bsky.social and @sysilveira.bsky.social about our recent paper @natureplants.bsky.social

So happy to share our most recently published work.

Indeed. I guess our papers will be published in the same issue.

Thanks, Lars!

Thank you very much!

Thank you Makoto :-)

Congratulations. Very nice work!

proud to present our collaborative work, brilliantly led by Sylvia Silveira @sysilveira.bsky.social and Loann Collet.

Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...

🧪 New Paper Alert

New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱

Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3

@fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca

Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...

Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3

Thanks for hosting me at IB-CAS @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social

I had a wonderful time in Japan at the NAIST and #JSPP2025 meeting.
Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!

At #JSPP2025 in Kanazawa, I organized an interdisciplinary symposium on plant development with Dr. Makoto Shirakawa. Huge thanks to all the invited speakers for giving wonderful talks and the audience for active participation! 😊@kierzkowskilab.bsky.social

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025).
www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! The Week The Bike Network Vanished

The Week The Bike Network Vanished: youtu.be/DqKqK0y7VYU

Thank you @routierlab.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social and Emily Larson for your time and feedback!