Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
"Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation at Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden
*Application Deadline: 2/27/2026"
Read more here: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-and-vacancies/postdoktor3/
#PlantSciJobs
‼️If you are finishing (or have just finished) your PhD and are exploring postdoc options, this is a great chance to meet people, share ideas, and build links. Come to northern Sweden ❄️🇸🇪 and connect with the community
Message me if you have any questions 📩
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🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
#plantscijobs
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Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
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🧪🌾INTERVIEW: New tools to study how plant cells hold together🔬
Léa Bogdziewiez from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group developed innovative tools to study cell adhesion at a whole new level. She just defended her PhD thesis – congrats, Léa!
Learn more in this interview: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
Congrats!!!
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🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge
PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬
Read more in this interview👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
A graph showing violin plots. On the y axis is the perceived morality of people from 0 to 8. On the x axis the time points 40 years before my birth, 20 years before my birth, at my birth, 20 years past my birth, today. The morality value is constant until birth, and then declines.
People: "Things used to be better."
Scientist: "When did it start getting worse?"
People: "When I was born."
From "The illusion of moral decline" by Adam Mastroianni.
shorturl.at/FFEDV
🧪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...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
🧪🌾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...
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🧪🌾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...
