🥳 We managed! #teamwork

Our excursion to Syngenta Crop Protection Research Stein offered insights into seed care, chemistry, and product development. From designing active compounds to creating practical crop protection solutions, one key message stood out: innovation starts with “thinking like a farmer.”

Super proud of the team organizing this year's @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience symposium 🌱 We had a blast!

“We still don’t know what’s going on, but we’re having fun on the way.” - @likeyoda1.bsky.social (from @unituebingen.bsky.social)

Margot’s keynote explored how cell identity is regulated during plant embryogenesis, from the heart to torpedo stage, through precisely timed asymmetric cell divisions.

Anup Kumar (from @uni-freiburg.de) introduced how artificial intelligence and machine learning are shaping modern biological research. The workshop highlighted how computational approaches can support data analysis, pattern detection, and biological discovery in increasingly complex datasets.

#CIBSS is happy to support our local #PlantScience community and to facilitate scientific exchange and networking.

Have a fantastic meeting full of meaningful interactions, exciting science and of course lots of fun together!

We had such a great time at Syngenta Stein! 🌱 Science, smiles, and great company🍀. —4th DOMPS symposium excursion

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

@urbandesire.bsky.social

Super cool Workshop from @marcus Everyone was actively engaged in the discussion! Took away a lot of valuable insights!

We started our 4th departmental symposium with a short introduction from our PhD representatives. We are very grateful for their work! If you would like to join a wonderful group of people and help drive change at the university level, reach out to them. 🙌🏻

DOMPS Symposium 2026 - Freiburg Symposium taking place in Freiburg from 25.03-27.02. With this symposium, we aspire to strengthen the connection between members of the Department of Molecular Plant Sciences (DOMPS). We especially…

We are pleased to support the DOMPS Symposium taking place in Freiburg this week: dompssymposium.wixsite.com/domps

The New Phytologist Foundation supports events that further innovation and advancement in plant-focused research around the world: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

Free feel to stop by and explore our posters!🥳 the 4th DOMPS symposium is running!!!

Opening of this year's @dompsfr.bsky.social Symposium by @kevindaniel.bsky.social and @advaitagashe.bsky.social 🌱 Look forward to an exciting 3 days for our @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience community 👍🏻

Poster session in progress

Happening from tomorrow onwards and organized by our @dompsfr.bsky.social PhD students @hengqi.bsky.social @kevindaniel.bsky.social, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social , @advaitagashe.bsky.social and @carlos-rc.bsky.social. Exciting!

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem.

But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱
Check out our preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

Symposium preparation in progress ✂️
Name badges, last-minute logistics.
Getting everything ready for the 2026 DOMPS Symposium in Freiburg!
@kevindaniel.bsky.social
@advaitagashe.bsky.social
@rimchaudhury15.bsky.social
@Carlos

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.

Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki
#plantscience #plantdev

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

An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...

It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#PlantSciences

ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.

1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...

Great article in Cell:
Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration
It's about #Arabidopsis and #auxin.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!

Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And now it is the turn of @hengqi.bsky.social representing the team!

Warming up to #ICAR2025 🌱with two days of cool vascular science at our Vascular Development satellite meeting at @psb-vib.bsky.social.

Such a fun listen! The ideas were flying everywhere, super engaging!!!!