Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!
Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥
@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de
Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇
our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).
Our preprint on the first genome-scale resource for the tuber crop T. tuberosum is now online. Thanks to my co-authors and everyone involved. @cosheidelberg.bsky.social | @greenrobust.de | @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de | @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.
Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis!
Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form
📅 22–24 Sept 2026
In-person + livestream
Limited fee waivers
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls
#plantsi
Cool story from @meristemania.bsky.social lab on growth-defense tradeoff at the shoot apical meristem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Two days of stimulating discussions with colleagues from @rdplab.bsky.social and @igflyon.bsky.social about science and life. Thanks for all the hospitality and engagement!
Today is the kick start of our @igflyon.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social common 2-day retreat in Lyon, @ensdelyon.bsky.social ! Very diverse and exciting talks going from plants, algae to animals!
Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word!
www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...
The 4th congress on strigolactone research will take place 5-8 October this year in beautiful Paris! Early bird registration will be until March 16. So, just go for it!
ics2026.sciencesconf.org
It's that time of the month again for our featured #preprint list for December ⬇️
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.
thenode.biologists.com/december-in-...
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...
Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu
Hilarious!
Stimulating visit of students from Seoul National University (SNU) at COS, IMSEAM and central research facilities this week in the context of their Global Leadership Program. Exciting case of international student exchange @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!
Thanks, AP! No, they are vascular cambium cells. This is based on their immediate vicinity to vessel elements. Xiomin also tried finding dividing cork cambium cells but this is even harder to do due to their more fuzzy position.
Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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The GfE Meeting 2026 is coming to Potsdam 🇩🇪🌱
✨ Four outstanding keynote speakers
(Hans Clevers, Isabel Fariñas, Thomas Bosch, Frank Bradke) ✨
🏅 Celebration of the Klaus Sander, Hilde Mangold, and José Campos-Ortega Awards 🏅
👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...
A very nice and skillful work by Agata Burian and colleagues characterizing the development of vascular strands around the Arabidopsis shoot apex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!
Thanks, @hildenelissen.bsky.social. Was great to have you at COS. A day of good discussions and a stimulating seminar.
Congrats! Beautiful as usual.
A light-induced apical auxin signalling minimum marks the site of organogenesis and de novo meristem formation in Marchantia sporelings (now peer-reviewed): authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDc83QW8S...
New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations and chapeau! This is so good to see.
