Moritz K. Nowack
@moritznowack.bsky.social
Curious about life and death; professor @UGent and group leader @VIBLifeSciences
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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
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
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...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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
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
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A question of death ☠️ and life 🧬
Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.
Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A question of death ☠️ and life 🧬
Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.
Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.
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A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p
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I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
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Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
September 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
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We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
July 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
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Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme
During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...
www.biorxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑💻 #PDevSRC
August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑💻 #PDevSRC
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Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1
August 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!
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Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
Head of Service Unit Proteomics
jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de
August 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
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Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
August 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
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@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153
#evobio #molbio #PlantSky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153
#evobio #molbio #PlantSky
Multiple Autopolyploid Arabidopsis lyrata Populations Stabilized by Long-Range Adaptive Introgression Across Eurasia
Abstract. Abundance of established polyploid lineages varies across lineages, evolutionary time, and geography, suggesting both genetics and environment pl
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153
#evobio #molbio #PlantSky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153
#evobio #molbio #PlantSky
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We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠
Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.
Take a look at these four open positions 👇
Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.
Take a look at these four open positions 👇
August 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠
Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.
Take a look at these four open positions 👇
Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.
Take a look at these four open positions 👇
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Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and Diversity
The successful applicant will be expected to build an independent research group to study plant development and/or its natural variation.
www.mpipz.mpg.de
August 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
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Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
July 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
www.vandepoelelab.be
July 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
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VACANCY
Optical Microscopy Specialist
Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
Optical Microscopy Specialist
Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...
Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...
Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
Optical Microscopy Support Specialist | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join the Bioimaging Platform at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
July 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
VACANCY
Optical Microscopy Specialist
Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
Optical Microscopy Specialist
Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
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Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
July 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚
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We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
July 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
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How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates - Nature Plants
This study reveals that water availability at the wound determines plant regeneration outcomes. High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formati...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌱 #NZT - Die Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz begrüssen das Ziel einer differenzierten und risikobasierten Regulierung von #Pflanzen aus neuen #Züchtungstechnologien, sehen den Gesetzesentwurf aber kritisch. Zur Stellungnahme ➡️ scnat.ch/de/id/pDqQq
July 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🌱 #NZT - Die Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz begrüssen das Ziel einer differenzierten und risikobasierten Regulierung von #Pflanzen aus neuen #Züchtungstechnologien, sehen den Gesetzesentwurf aber kritisch. Zur Stellungnahme ➡️ scnat.ch/de/id/pDqQq
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🌱 #NTS - Les Académies suisses des sciences saluent l'idée d'une réglementation différenciée et basée sur les risques des #plantes issues des nouvelles #technologies de sélection, mais sont toutefois critiques à l'égard de ce projet de loi. Vers la prise de position ➡️ scnat.ch/fr/id/pDqQq
July 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🌱 #NTS - Les Académies suisses des sciences saluent l'idée d'une réglementation différenciée et basée sur les risques des #plantes issues des nouvelles #technologies de sélection, mais sont toutefois critiques à l'égard de ce projet de loi. Vers la prise de position ➡️ scnat.ch/fr/id/pDqQq
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🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
July 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...