Excited for the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics day tomorrow! Can't wait to spend time with such a lovely community, and dive into cool science 🔬🌱🎉 #UKPlantBioMech

Now the flash talks! A challenge to all PIs: Can you present your group in 2 minutes and 2 slides?

The second invited speaker for the day is Finn Box, poking plants just as he is poking our interest! How many babies can you stack on a waterlily pad before it sinks? Listen to Finn's talk for the answer!

Now a short talk session, with LeoSerra studying stomatal development and mechanical forces🔬, Jessica C. Huss presenting how cactus spines catch fog 🌵, and Amir Porat modelling root tropisms 🖥️

Last short talk session with Malivert Alice on cell mechanical integrity 🫧, Bart Dequeker on the mechanics of fruit firmness 🍎, and Ritabrata Chowdhury on caterpillar adaptations to trichomes 🐛

🚨The Kalmbach Lab opens at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭in September! A big thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation for funding our work with a Starting Grant and the Université Neuchâtel for welcoming the lab!

I have two PhD positions available to join the lab in Neuchâtel! Details here 👉ek96.short.gy/jPKLCA Thanks for sharing!

HD-ZIP IV genes are essential for embryo initial cell polarization in the radial axis initiation in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Xyloglucan deficiency leads to a reduction in turgor pressure and changes in cell wall properties, affecting early seedling establishment Current Biology In movie, seedling growth in the dark, Col-0 (green) and cslc-Δ5 (magenta). doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

We asked moms in our community why they declined attending conferences after having kids. Do these results surprise you? Join us May 7 @ 10AM ET to share your views & brainstorm solutions to help #AcademicMamas attend conferences. Register: shorturl.at/rAKTW Academic Mom, PhD

Please RT! We're hiring at the Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London. Four new academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) are now open. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Save the date! The FASEB SRC "Mechanisms of Plant Development" is returning in 2025. 📅August 10th - 14th 2025 📍Southbridge (MA) 🇺🇸 New! contribute the image of the conference poster! 😎 🌿🌱 ❓Details and signup ➡️ mailchi.mp/1f0412e00ebe/v… Plz retweet! 🙏

📢 Post-doc modelling of cell 3D growth in Lyon, France. shorturl.at/KGGLc GDR ImaBio GDR AQV the Node SFBD-BioDev #biomechanics #modeling #3DGrowth SFBV_fr

CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

The next session of the Third Plant Cell Atlas Symposium is on imaging! Register now for this free & virtual event that will bring together experts in #plantscience fields like imaging: bit.ly/PCASymp3Reg

Excited to share our improved paper now in Nature Communications! We found that growth-induced water potentials shape the pattern of water fluxes in shoot meristems, aiding boundary formation. rdcu.be/dQPWq Our curiosity-driven journey began with a different question 🧵1/10

Semantic is important while writing manuscript. This Nature Plants review article is a good resource for lab journal club. Guidelines for naming and studying plasma membrane domains in plants nature.com/articles/s4147…

If you’re choosing a research group to join, pay just as much - if not more - attention to the culture and mentoring style in the group than the research. You can succeed in lots of research areas or projects, but it’s tough to succeed in an unsupportive environment.

I am happy to announce that I'll be starting my research group at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) this November! If you are enthusiastic about plant development and hormones in shaping form, please apply for the post-doc position advertised here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48137/

🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development🚨 Join Neha Bhatia's new Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) research group. Starting November 2024, this position will investigate the mechanistic roles of cytokinin in development Closes 30 Sept jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48137/ slcu.cam.ac.uk/bhatia-group #PlantSciJobs