Stéphane Verger

🧪Are you looking for a postdoc in a multidisciplinary environment?

Don't miss this opportunity to join @icelabumu.bsky.social and apply for 1 out of 3 available fellowships!

Project D will be in collaboration with our group leader @stephanevrg.bsky.social.

Take a look on the link below and apply!

NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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🧪🌾Are you familiar with protoplasts and why they are used as simplified models to investigate complex mechanisms such as how cells stick together?🔬

If not, take a look on this short popular science video created last year by Léa Bogdziewiez & Sonhita Chakraborty for the Fascination of #PlantDay👇:

Really happy to see this work published! Last year, when we started working with protoplasts, Stéphane connected us with Léa, who was incredibly helpful. She did a fantastic job teaching the students in our group protocols and tricks, and I’m really grateful. This pipeline will be useful for many!👇

@stephanevrg.bsky.social lab is changing the way we question cell wall developmental role! Thanks Léa for this great pipeline! In use for our @kawresearch.bsky.social project!

🧪🌾PAPER - Would like to use protoplasts to study cell walls but struggle with cell wall recovery?🦾

Check out the Q-Warg Pipeline: a robust and versatile workflow established by Bogdziewiez et al from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group!

Find it in @plantdirectj.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1002/pld3...

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

Looking forward to having a new colleague!

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

Whitish mature spruce somatic embryos growing on a cell callus partly coloured in red in front of a blue background

🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you expert in plant embryo development and planning your next career step?

Join the excellence initiative "SLU Future" at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and become group leader @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!

Read more here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

#PlantSciJobs

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Looking for a new PhD student to join the lab! Please share!

A women is standing on a green field with young aspen trees.

After a long and very successful career our plant cell wall expert Professor Ewa Mellerowicz is retiring.

Ewa mentored & inspired many young scientists and her contributions to wood biology research are invaluable.

Thank you for everything, Ewa, and all the best for the next chapter in your life!👏

FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall (SOEW). CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646819; this version posted April 6, 2025.

New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab!

🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella.

📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬

#PlantSci #CellBiology

Hello Bluesky! Here’s my first post:

My lab in NUS (Singapore) has one postdoc (research fellow) position open. Candidate will conduct mechanobiology study on duckweed (Wolffia sp.), in close association with Prakash Kumar’s lab.

More info and application link: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

Microscopic image of wood tissue with fibres and tracheids labeled in pink and some compartments within the cells in green. Photo: Stephan Verger

🌾🧪VACANCY - Are you expert in wood biology and would like to set up your research group in a great environment for this type of research? 🧬🖥️⚖️

Join us a @umeaplantscicentre.bsky.social!

Read more here👇 and apply latest on Feb 28:
slu.se/en/about-slu...

#PlantSciJob #sciencejobs #hiring

Plant Biomechanics friends and colleagues - I created a starter pack for our community. Feel free to let me know if you want to be removed from or added to the list!

go.bsky.app/D9oZmVH

Calling all early-career plant scientists (-6 months to +2 years from PhD defence)! 🌱 Share your research at the Umeå Plant Science Centre Symposium on 26–27 March 2025. Network, collaborate, and join exciting workshops! Apply by 7 January 2025. Details: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n... #PlantScience

We are looking for a new colleague :)

Please spread the word!

🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 I'm thrilled to announce my new project, Watchers on the Wall, exploring how plant cells sense and respond to stress through their walls. 🌱 A 5-year fully funded PhD position is open—please share with potential candidates! 👇 (1/7)

On March 26 and 27, 2025, we will arrange the next UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium.
For young researchers to present their research at UPSC and explore potential collaborative projects with UPSC group leaders.
www.upsc.se/early-career...

Figure 2: Homogalacturonan deficiency and rhamnogalacturonan-II dimerization defects affect adhesion through largely separate pathways. (A-G) Representative max intensity Z-projections of confocal stacks from 4-days-old darkgrown hypocotyl stained with propidium iodide from Col-0 (A), mur1-2 (B), qua2-1 (C), mur1-2 qua2-1 (D), esmd1-1 (E), mur1-2 esmd1-1 (F) and qua2-1 esmd1-1 (G). (H) Schematic representation of Boron-Rhamnogalacturonan-II (RG-II) dimers and Calcium-Homogalacturonan (HG) “egg-box” crosslinking domains along the HG backbone. (I) Quantification of the relative ruthenium red staining intensity (see representative images and length quantification in figure S3). Boxplots summarize three biological replicates, as represented by dots of different colors, and letters describe the statistically significant differences between populations determined by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD test (P < 0.05).[Scale bars, 30µm in images (A-G).] See related content in figure S2 and S3.

🌱 New preprint from the Verger Lab @stephanevrg.bsky.social ! 🧪

📜 Imran Baba et al., 2024: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

🔬 Discover how RG-II crosslinking in the plant cell wall, regulated by Boron, is crucial for cell adhesion during growth.

✨ Bonus: RRQuant tool! (Details in thread 👇)

#PlantBiology

Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana Robust regulation of cell division is central to the formation of complex multi-cellular organisms and is a hallmark of stem cell activity. In plants,…

Did you ever wonder how mechanics may influence the behavior of cambium stem cells? We did. Driven by modelling done in the group of Karen Alim, we checked whether mechanical stress can explain the regularity of cell divisions during radial plant growth:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development!
Join the ERC Synergy project RESYDE exploring symmetry breaking in flowers to uncover the evolution of floral architectures.
We're seeking talented postdocs to reshape plant development! Please get in touch if interested.