Adrienne Roeder Lab

How does a growing leaf stay flat? 🍃 Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that maintaining leaf flatness requires growth-rate coordination across the width of the leaf blade—not just between the top and bottom surfaces. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We're hiring! My department at the University of Oregon is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Full Professor in Genetics/Genomics (broadly defined) It's an endowed chair position Fantastic chance to join a collaborative community of biologists careers.pageuppeople.com/726/cw/en-us...

My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Synthetic Biology (broadly defined). Great community here at UIC and Chicago in general. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Cool new work from @thanvisrikant.bsky.social & @kbomblies.bsky.social: Chromosomes in #Arabidopsis thaliana neo-polyploids break preferentially at fragile sites that correspond to ancient genome rearrangements #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

The Cornell Chronicle highlighted our recent Current Biology paper, showing how cell growth and tissue mechanics work together to shape developing sepals—and how these principles could help engineer living materials. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Thanks @plosbiology.org for highlighting our paper on the front of the website! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

We have a new assistant professor position in the @kellyweill.bsky.social on Biomedical and Translational Sciences. Come join us! apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

The growth of #plant leaves is highly dynamic and should be coordinated, but how is #leaf flatness preserved? @roederlab.bsky.social &co show that global coordination of growth across the leaf blade is required to maintain flatness in #Arabidopsis @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/QUMxOcF

This was a particularly special #morpho26 course with this amazing group of scientists (aka team M&Ms)! Thanks to course organizers @roederlab.bsky.social + @streichan.bsky.social, as well as @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for providing a fun + creative environment to tackle quantitative bio questions 💭

🚨HIRING NEWS🚨 Come be my colleague! The Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Merced is hiring for two positions in Biochemistry! One is at the assistant professor level and the other is open rank... if you have questions, let me know! Link: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02218

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

Katherine Kline is the final student I've had the pleasure of mentoring at @weillinstitute.bsky.social, before starting my journey at @umassamherst.bsky.social. As a BTI-REU intern at @roederlab.bsky.social, Katherine did very impressive work studying miRNA activity in growing organs. Proud mentor!

We’re looking for a new team member (Remote, Half Time, Biological Data Curation Scientist)! If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass on this information. phoenix-bioinformatics.hirehive.com/biological-d... #plantscijobs #arabidopsis #biocuration

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@weillinstitute.bsky.social Trainee Spotlight: @havingfern.bsky.social, PhD candidate in @roederlab.bsky.social. Michelle's research investigates the sophisticated communication networks that allow plants to sense and adapt to their surroundings. wicmb.cornell.edu/learning-to-...

Thrilled to see Michelle Heeney (@havingfern.bsky.social) featured in this story about her research journey and her quest to understand the hidden language of plants. 🌱 Excited to see where her curiosity and discoveries lead next! wicmb.cornell.edu/learning-to-... #PlantBiology #Cornell

One of our recent papers describing techniques to identify root barriers to parasitic plant infection. Plus we show that lignin in the cortex can block branched broomrape infection of tomato.

NAASC is happy to announce the 2026 recipients of the Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards! Read more about their diverse and important contributions to the community. RSVP to attend the fall webinar with these awardees! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/rsvp-awards-sessions

Our foray into single cell and spatial transcriptomics led by Byron Rusnak in GenomeBiology. We found that DRMY1 is required for proper brassinosteroid-mediated coordination of sepal elongation, ensuring balanced growth between inner and outer sepals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NAASC is thrilled to announce the 20206 recipients of the Arabidopsis Community Impact Awards! All three are well-deserving of this honor. We thank the community for submitting the nominations. RSVP to attend the fall webinar with these awardees! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/rsvp-awards-sessions

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

Great opportunity to for cutting-edge research in an exciting new lab!

NAASC is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2026 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awards! Read more about them: Mary Lou Guerinot, USA Julian Schroeder, USA Caroline Dean, UK Nominate by 31 Oct 2026 for the 2027 cycle! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

🌱 The CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course has just kicked off! 14 students, 24 international lecturers, 3 weeks of intensive plant biology at Cold Spring Harbor. Thrilled to co-instruct alongside Aman Husbands & Sharon Kessler! 🌿 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-PLAN

NAASC member Tomo Kawashima announces ICAR2027-Madison and the Keynote Speakers: @roederlab.bsky.social Adrienne Roeder, Keith Slotkin, Cyril Zipfel, and Doris Wagner. 🌱🌱🌱🌱 Sign up for updates here www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar2027

I am having a great time at #ICAR2026 in Singapore! It's already the penultimate day of the meeting and @roederlab.bsky.social opened the @dev-journal.bsky.social-sponsored session on vegetative development. I am here until tomorrow - feel free to come by for a quick chat about #DevSIPlantAlgae.

If life builds order from heterogeneity while never completely eliminating it, is heterogeneity merely a byproduct or could it be part of the means by which biological order is generated? Check out Lanxi Hu's review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to see the groundbreaking research that will come from Avilash's new lab!

Thanks to coauthor Adrienne Roeder for making/sending this cool poster of the Arabidopsis timeline we made for our Plant Cell publication! ❤️🌱 @aribidopsis.bsky.social @roederlab.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Celebrating Elliot Meyerowitz‘ 75th birthday! @caltech.edu

"Senior Staff Scientist in Bioinformatics at Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden" Read more here: https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/senior-staff-scientist-in-bioinformatics_926815/ #PlantSciJobs

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Camelot: affordable precision tool for plant biomechanics👨‍🔧🗜️ doi.org/10.1186/s129... @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social @richardsmithlab.bsky.social

Happy to see this out! Big congratulations to @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social and all involved! doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Thank you for highlighting our paper and explaining the significance so clearly!

Interested in #Mechanobiology? Join us for the Mechanobiology Symposium, hosted by the new Cornell Mechanobiology Hub @weillinstitute.bsky.social in Ithaca, NY, this summer. More information at mechanobiology.wicmb.cornell.edu/events-progr... Deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2026

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations