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…

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

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.…

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

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

🚨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!

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 🐛

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 🖥️

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

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

Let's fly into flower heads, and enjoy the hidden beauty of vasculature structures within it. Excited to share our work is now published New Phytologist! A result from multi-year collaboration Paula Elomaa 🇫🇮🇺🇦 Przemek Prusinkiewicz Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry CanadianLightSource
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

3-day growth timelapse of a liverwort gemma. Gemmae of Marchantia are cute asexual propagules that are shed to produce new clonal plants. New cell division occurs in the two notches where meristematic cells develop into different tissues. (Scale ~1mm)

The surface of many plant leaves displays an intricate jigsaw puzzle-like cell pattern. Does this confer an evolutionary advantage?

Amir J Bidhendi hypothesized that geometry protects against injury. How?

We used engineering to find out!
nature.com/articles/s4146…

PlantBiomechanics

Join our new UK Plant Biomech community & come along to our first get-to-know-you day on 18 April 2024 in Cambridge!
⏰7 days to submit an abstract! Students & ECRs encouraged to come share your research!
➡️slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-biome…
#UKPlantBiomech

I'll be there if you want to find me on the other side: leoserra.bsky.social

I have some 🟦☁️ invite codes if any (plant) scientists would like them. Send reply and send me a message. 😀.

TreeJ has just been published! New ImageJ plugin for reconstructing and annotating cell lineages from 2D/3D images! Congratulations and many thanks to Elise Laruelle and our collaborators! doi.org/10.1186/s13007…
Plugin imagej.net/plugins/treej
Source code github.com/L-EL/TreeJ

🤫 #chatGPT integration will be coming to Fiji's Script Editor #SneakPreview 🥳
Thanks for the support 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜 𝚁𝚞𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚗 (@[email protected]) ! 🙌
github.com/scijava/script…

Gibberellin and miRNA156-targeted SlSBP genes synergistically regulate tomato floral meristem determinacy and ovary patterning

Read this Research Article from Leticia Ferigolo, Mateus Vicente, Joao Correa, Fabio Nogueira Fabio Tebaldi and colleagues:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…