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Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune http://thelabofregeneration.in/Kalika_Prasad/index.html

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our new paper is out!
1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry!

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Wound repair in plants guided by cell geometry

Mathew et al. show that growth conflicts reshape cells after injury, forming rhomboidal geometries that trigger diagonal divisions. This reorients cell files to restore tapered morphology. A two-step ...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 7d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 11d

Webinar on Quantitative Approaches to Cellular Aspects of Plant Ion Homeostasis on Thursday October 16th: 3-4pm BST
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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David L. Stern @gallseeker.bsky.social · 12d

It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!

Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS🎉 We’re excited to announce @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Investigator David Stern will join the Institute from Janelia Research Campus. His lab studies how aphids transform plants at the genetic level, uncovering secrets of #evolution & new strategies for pest control. @hhmi.org bit.ly/4np96Fb

Stowers Institute recruits renowned developmental and evolutionary…

David Stern, Ph.D., brings groundbreaking research on insect–plant interactions for next-generation pest control to the Institute.

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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · 12d

How do plants regenerate after wounding? Our new work shows that HSFA1 transcription factors are among the earliest wound-activated regulators of cellular reprogramming in plants!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 12d

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679115v1

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 14d

I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.

The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · 14d

Humbled to be a part of Indian Science Academies, @ IAScBng, @nasi_academy, and Now @insa_academy
Such moments remind me how fortunate I am to work with talented lab members (past and present), collaborators, colleagues and mentors all along. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏

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Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 20d

I'm looking forward to chairing this webinar. Congrats to the Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge awardees!

North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 20d

RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@bar-plantbio.bsky.social
@natanellae.bsky.social

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Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to the Arabidopsis Lifetime Achievement Awardees!

North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 20d

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 23d

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya

📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 24d

If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts

a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look "

ALT: a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look "

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 27d

Career Feature @nature.com : ‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully

Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 27d

Today's the last day to apply for the Plant Cell Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program, usually postdocs or senior PhD students! It's a fantastic opportunity, a great learning experience & a lot of fun too.
If you aren't quite ready, in June 2026 Plant Physiology will open its own call for AFEs 👍

The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · Jun 2

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱

👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

#plantscience

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 26d

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28d

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · Sep 12

Very interesting work, Congratulations

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · Sep 12

🌱 What happens when lateral root primordia (LRPs) fail to emerge?
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
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Hormonal regulation of cell fate plasticity of xylem-pole-pericycle lineage in Arabidopsis roots

In Arabidopsis roots, xylem-pole-pericycle (XPP) cells exhibit dual cell fates by contributing to both lateral root (LR) and cambium formation. Despit…

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · Sep 10

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How plant roots rebuild their tips after injury

Geometry-driven cell divisions help restore shape.

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Sep 7

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Recently, both our team and the Richardson/Estelle/Strader teams showed that ARF transcription factors are actively degraded. In this new preprint, Martijn de Roij explores the requirements and relevance of ARF degradation (1/7)

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Sep 5

Diversification of functional requirements for proteolysis of Auxin Response Factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.03.673984v1

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Plants Rebuild Roots Using Geometry, Not Just Genes: Study

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Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cool!
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Self-assembling magnetic microparticles mimic biological error correction | Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration developed microscale magnetic particles that can mimic the ability of biomolecules to self-assemble into complex structures, while also reducing the parasitic waste that wo...

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you’re planting yourself somewhere cozy this weekend, consider picking up When the Earth Was Green. 🌱

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Sep 1

😺 to see this one out @jcellsci.bsky.social & have a 🌲 planted for it): journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... am sure more creative people will make better use of this resource 1/2

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔎 DARWIN REVIEW 🔎

Mody et al. review the study of the cellular basis of plant morphogenesis with 3D digital organs 🔬🌱

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @kschneitz.bsky.social

Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Pipeline to generate 3D digital organs demonstrated using a stage 3-V Cardamine hirsuta ovule. (A) The generation of a 3D digital organ starts with 3D imaging of the organ of interest stained with a cell wall stain such as SR2200. The 3D rendering of a confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) z-stack of ovule with SR2200-stained cell walls is shown. The bounding box shows the xyz imaging directions of the ovule in the 3D view (top panel).

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Yuli Ding @yuliding.bsky.social · Aug 29

@cp-devcell.bsky.social spotlight on an exciting paper published recently at @cp-cell.bsky.social about a unified cell atlas of vascular plants with an automated cell-type annotation tool: “Decoding plant cell types across species: A blueprint for gene discovery” shorturl.at/wzK5p

Decoding plant cell types across species: A blueprint for gene discovery

Uncovering plant cell types and regulatory genes across species has long been a challenge. Writing in Cell, Xue et al. present single-cell atlases for…

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