Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to all the co-authors for this great work.
@hamannlab.bsky.social. Sprakel lab.

PhD position open with an excellent supervisor and in a very warm, fun research group! Highly recommended!

#plantscience
#suberinteresting

More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Coping with stress: Transcriptional regulators linking cell wall integrity maintenance with primary-wall metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell wall damage (CWD) and hyperosmotic stress elicit both distinct and overlapping transcriptional programs in plants. Responses to these stresses involve cell wall integrity (CWI) maintenance, which...

Latest paper from the group on transcriptional regulation of plant cell wall integrity maintenance and primary cell wall metabolism… excellent work by Tereza Ticha and colleagues in the Engelsdorf and Bacete groups! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How a humble weed became a superstar of biology Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.

A very good historical perspective why you want to work on the weed…
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Please share and if you can, support it! bsky.app/profile/bar-...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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SPPS PhD student conference on Tromsø, interesting meeting with fascinating science talks sppsphd2025.wordpress.com/about/

John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

He’ll be missed sorely! 🥲 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Looks familiar (and still stunning), been there a long time ago….

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Mechanical properties of plant cells and tissues change dynamically, influencing plant growth, development, and interactions with the environment. Despite their central roles in plant life, current kn...

Latest output from the group now available on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

food for thought in the truest sense of the words....
www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Francesco Saffioti from @ntnu presenting results from brillouin work in the @hydrosensing.bsky.social project at the international brillouin workshop in Perugia.

Jiri Friml closing a really exciting and productive ICAR2025.

Plant Imaging Expert Group: Discovering how plants sense water stress YouTube video by Euro-BioImaging Communication

Wed 28th June, Euro-BioImaging ’s Plant Imaging Expert Group featured Hydrosensing in a webinar session.

youtu.be/lj9HA2TpJvo?...

👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ @hamannlab.bsky.social, @ziegler-lab-ur.bsky.social & Malcolm Bennett (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social)

🌐 hydrosensing.eu/2025/06/plan...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

🧵👇

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

‘It’s a critical time’: European farmers struggle through driest spring in a century Extreme weather costs the EU about €28.3bn in lost crops and livestock per year, more than half the losses stem from drought

Sobering article…..

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Advanced Grant Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, ambitious project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.Who can apply? Applicants for...

This opportunity for extra funding will already apply in the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is due to open on 22 May 2025.

europa.eu/!8xnrqK

#ChooseEurope

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

Interesting seminar with the eurobioimaging network coming up….

Exciting talk by Jens Sundström from #SLU at #uit ….

Group photo of the ERC Hydrosensing team at the project meeting in Regensburg in April 2025.

Photo of the city of Regensburg showing the old town by the river, including the old church.

A poster at the ERC Hydrosensing project meeting in Regensburg showing a plant and water molecules as well as the names and flags of the team leaders Eilon Shani (Israel), Malcom Bennet (UK), Thorsten Hamann (Norway) and Christine Ziegler (Germany).

Super excited to start my new position in the Hydrosensing ERC Synergy Project😊 It was amazing to get a preview in Regensburg and meet all you nice and inspiring people!
Looking forward to two more years as part of this excellent, international team!
@hydrosensing.bsky.social @hamannlab.bsky.social

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