Simon Michaeli

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My country is hijacked by extremists. Polls indicate the overwhelming majority wishes the war to end and release of all hostages. Yet no one up there gives a damn!

Read this manuscript, which describes the in-vivo production of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) against ToBRFV, a devastating #virus threatening #tomato #crops worldwide. 🍅 👉 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata.

Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores.

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪🧵1/n
#teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

Martinez-Gomez Lab Plant Evo-Devo

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

It's proteolysis!
#PlantScience

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

The first high-resolution, predictive biodiversity map of Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal communities shows over 90% of underground mycorrhizal fungal ecosystems are unprotected, threatening carbon drawdown and ecosystem resilience to climate extremes.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

I don't remember myself so pessimistic and fearing the future as I was in recent weeks. We are led by a cynical and radical group of people.They must be replaced, soon!

Yes, everything as usual now...

I would like to thank all the nice Czech people I met during the week+ of being a refugee, and especially Viktor, Martin Potocky, and Roman Pleskot of the Institute of Experimental Botany. Thank you guys! 🙏 And what a great place to get stranded at!

So I got stranded in Prague after the incredible #TCTeAC Woodstock Bio due to the F war. But as the old saying goes, if you have lemons make a Mojito🍹. So I contacted Viktor Zarsky, who immediately organized a seminar @charlesuni.cuni.cz which yilded a collaboration!

I am humbled and honored to receive the Arabidopsis dissemination award. Thank you @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social for this recognition and I wish I could be there with you all! #ICAR2025
Thank you @joeecker.bsky.social for welcoming me into the Arabidopsis world!
🙏🏻🌱📖📕

@odedrechavi.bsky.social says he wants to change science for the better.

How? I’m still not quite sure. But 1.5 days into #TCTeAC, the plan seems to involve, among other things, walk-up songs, jumping, dancing, and a hefty serving of joy.

Bet on Pavel #tcteac

#TCTeAC .... where is everyone? This must be tje most boring conference ever!

Yeah, another normal day outside the office... Never imagined I would present in such a venue
#TCTeAC

If you’re not in the Woodstock of Biology… what the hell are you doing? #tcteac Alexei Aravin opening the Woods part

When they said they rented a train to take us to the woods, they weren't fooling around!
#TCTeAC

The plant scientists at #TCTeAC rock!! 🌿🌴🌼🤘🏿

At the Woodstock Bio+Night Science you don't have to choose, you can be both a scientist AND a rock star!
#TCTeAC

All standing and singing for the #photosynthesis anthem (part 1)
#TCTeAC

Anais Bailles acts out her model organism (hydra) at the Woodstock Night Science conference #TCTEAC

Amazing talk @ #TCTeAC — Arabidopsis flower design with synthetic gene circuits 🌸

Biologist supporting each other...
#Theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTEAC
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
@barakrotblat.bsky.social

#theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC madness

Just another normal day at the office... begins...
#theconferencetoendallconferences
#TCTeAC

#TheConferenceToEndAllConferences

Even now, in these troubling times, Israel is still the only country in the Middle-East that marks and celebrates #PRIDEmonth. Wishing Queer Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Atheists and all others in Israel, the M-E and beyond the best, and better days ahead. Remember, we're not our government!