✨ Excited to share our new In Brief article in The Plant Cell! Co-authored with Fabian and Bruno, our piece highlights work by Almeida-Silva and Van de Peer that uses spatial transcriptomics to uncover how gene and genome duplications shape plant evolution.

Great day at the London Single Cell & Spatial Discovery Symposium! 🌟
So many inspiring talks and success stories in spatial & single-cell biology — and wonderful discussions with the community. Huge thanks to the 10x team for organizing such a great event! 🙌

🌟 Excited to be speaking at the London Single Cell & Spatial Discovery Symposium this Thursday.
🧬 Looking forward to connecting with the single cell and spatial biology community and learning from the amazing 10x-perts.

Weekend Reading Recommendation #1 📚
✨ Write No Matter What by Joli Jensen
Key takeaway: Writing can be frequent, low-stress, and even enjoyable—a daily practice, not just a deadline scramble.
👉 I’d love to hear: What’s a book that’s shaped how you work, learn, or create?

🌱 Excited to share my new personal academic website! 👉 minyaojhu.com
Inspired by the Nature Index article "Build-your-own website for scientists", I wanted to create a hub to present my research & foster collaborations.

Excited to share our latest In Brief in The Plant Cell! 🌱✨
With Dr. Chai Hao Chiu, we highlight Horta Araújo et al.’s discovery of AeRLCK2, a Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinase that drives Nod-independent nodule formation in Aeschynomene evenia. doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Excited to be speaking at #PlantBio2025! 🌱
🧬 Session: Transcription to Beyond!
📅 Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5:10 PM | 📍Room 203CD
🎙️ High-Resolution Time-Resolved Spatial Transcriptomes and Gene Regulatory Atlas of Medicago Lateral Root and Nodule Organogenesis

We highlight how nodules & lateral roots share regulatory pathways but evolved distinct organ identities. 🌿We also showcase emerging tools — single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and advanced imaging — that are providing fresh insights into the regulation of nodulation. 🧬

New review out in Current Opinion in Plant Biology!
“From roots to nodules: regulation of organogenesis in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis”
Many thanks to Dr. Katharina Schiessl for inviting me to work on this! 🌟

We explore how plants adapt their developmental programs to form specialized organs — nodules, galls, haustoria — enabling mutualistic or parasitic symbioses.
Despite their differences, these organs share gene regulatory pathways, demonstrating the remarkable plasticity of plant development.

🚀 Excited to share our new review published in Trends in Plant Science, coauthored with Dr. Victor Hugo Moura de Souza & Dr. Katharina Schiessl!

🌱 From hosts to parasites: Hormones driving symbiosis-induced de novo organogenesis

👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🚀 I’m excited to share our latest In Brief article, co-authored with Dr. Raphael Ledermann, now published in The Plant Cell!
Division of Labour in the Nodule: Plant GluTRs Fuel Heme Biosynthesis for Symbiosis
doi.org/10.1093/plce...

🌿 Honoured to speak at the Paris Single Cell & Spatial Core Excellence Summit, sharing our work using Xenium in situ on plant tissues! 🌱
Grateful for the fantastic feedback from the vibrant single cell & spatial genomics community. Huge thanks to the team at 10x Genomics.🌟