Stéphanie Robert

Congrats to all!

🧪🌾 NEWS: Funding for research on photosynthesis and plant-based materials! 🎉 Johannes Messinger, @elenist.bsky.social & @stephanevrg.bsky.social are involved in two projects funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social - exploring Rubisco and materials grown from plant cells. www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

We have a Postdoc fellowship available on Characterization and visualization of root cell anatomy in tree roots. The postdoc will work with me and @srobertgroup.bsky.social #SwedishUniversityofAgriculturalSciences @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Please share!

Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types? In our new study, out now in @nature.com, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seems cool!

Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Also candidates in any field within the biological and environmental sciences are encouraged to apply!

EMBO brought its communities together at the annual EMBO Fellows’ and Members’ Meeting from 26–30 September and 30 September–2 October, respectively. More here: https://www.embo.org/features/two-meetings-one-community-how-embo-celebrates-life-sciences/ 🧪 #LifeSciences #community #networking

Our preprint now peer-reviewed and published 🌾🔬🧬 Grasses have a signature short-long leaf epidermal pattern: small stomata & hair cells spaced by long pavement cells, but how is it built? Premitotic BdPL1 sets cell-size asymmetry; postmitotic BdBRX-solo/BdYDA1 enforces fate. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

STARMORPH website has launched! www.starmorph.eu

#auxin2026 was a blast, top science, amazing location and the full STARMORPH crowd! We had a catch up meeting including brainstorming at the pool and fun at the beach! @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @xanderjones.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @aabiologists.bsky.social

One STARMORPH member @dobrogojski.bsky.social from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social among the winners! Congrats to all!

🌱 "The Many Faces of Auxin: From Molecular Mechanisms to Morphogenesis" is now open! 🌱 This special issue is linked to #Auxin2026 and edited by Dior Kelley, Lars Østergaard & Andrea Gallavotti 📝 📅 Deadline 30 Nov 2026 Got a manuscript? Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #PlantScience 🧪

The last day of #auxin2026 featured more of the STARMORPH crowd. @nowako76.bsky.social referred to one of our mentors Karin Ljung @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and Sophie Zoe Farkas from the @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

🌾🧪What determines the puzzle-like shape of cells on an aspen leaf?🔬 In this short video, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social explains how researchers investigate this question and search for genes controlling cell shape. 🌿 The latest results from this research are now published in @newphyt.bsky.social 👇

Day two of the #auxin2026 was a blast with more STARMORPH members on stage! @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

What a fantastic meeting and amazing oppotunity to meet the @starmorph-syg.bsky.social crowd!

STARMORPH groups are all at the #auxin2026 meeting in Portugal! First day @srobertgroup.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social were giving invited lectures and Markéta Budérova gave her first (ever) flash talk!

The best reasons to work on auxin are the auxin meetings!

As the EMBO Fellows' and Members' Meeting #EMBOFMM26 comes to an end, Tanmay Bharat is handed over the EMBO Gold Medal. 🧪

Hydrophylic loop of PIN2 undergoes homotypic interaction via a conserved β-sheet motif to directly modulate clustering and dynamics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nice work from my colleagues! 🪵🌳#Plantsci Nitrate transiently rewires transcription in developing xylem of Populus wood to promote cell expansion via CRF4 academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🧪🌾NEWS: Aspen leaf cells change shape during drought Cells on an aspen leaf surface look like a jigsaw puzzle under the microscope.🔬 @srobertgroup.bsky.social identified a gene controlling this shape and found that drought affects both its activity and cell shape. 🔗 www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Off we go! First day of @embo.org fellows and members meeting!

A huge thank you to everyone who attended #SLS26 & our concluding keynote speaker @apmahonen.bsky.social for a fascinating talk and exciting new insights into how stem cell fate decisions are regulated in the vascular cambium. Read more about his team's work: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

There is room for everyone in the forest! Alla människor får plats i skogen! 🌳🏳️‍🌈🌲🏳️‍⚧️🌳Photo: Annika Mossing #umepride @mycopat.bsky.social

And that's a wrap for our Flash Talk speakers and poster presenters for Day 2. A huge diversity of really interesting research showcasing the importance of combining molecular genetics, biochemistry, genomics, live imaging & computational modelling

And if this looks like fun research that you would like to be involved in, @mc-caillaud.bsky.social has 2 postdoc positions. Applications close: 1 November 2026

New OA Article: "REAP1/AtSWAP70 integrates RAB5 and ROP signalling during sexual reproduction" rdcu.be/kyZ4R2qBg9Da With News & Views: "ROP meets RAB at crossroads" rdcu.be/bqKfMzXQ26fa #PlantScience

"How SCREW finds its NUT" rdcu.be/k8vBj18vix9a A News & Views on 3 complementary structural studies published together about SCREW/CTNIP–NUT/HSL3 signalling: rdcu.be/AY11kgcFgTia rdcu.be/S6g7YM6WPjTa rdcu.be/16bsh4fYzpna

CRISPR can change plants—but will it change agriculture? 🌱🧬 In a new Nature Plants Correspondence, #CIBSS researchers discuss how regulation, access, commercialisation and public trust shape the real-world impact of genome editing 🚜. 🔗Read more: rdcu.be/xuiHDM7EB5Ka

🧪🌾 Researcher portrait: Meet Yanjun Zan 🧬 Why can the same environmental change benefit one plant but stress another? Our new group leader at UPSC & @icelabumu.bsky.social wants to understand and predict how genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment. www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

New STARMORPH paper by @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

and another one from the STARMORPH team doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis (Duncan Coleman , Akira Iwase , Ayako Kawamura , Arika Takebayashi , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @duncan-coleman @deveylderlab

PADiBa2026 was a blast! 🌱 A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a fantastic meeting, with exciting science, great discussions and such a friendly community. Already looking to seeing many of you at PADiBa2028 in Utrecht!

(🧵1/2) On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana root showing suberin deposition, a dynamic barrier that contributes to root adaptation under changing nutrient conditions.

One more group member continuing his journey in academia! So proud of @sandeep18887.bsky.social Well deserved! Alumni @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

#auxin #roots We found our selective adventitious root inducer HYSPARIN is a special proauxin. It is hydrolysed in rhe shoot only, independently of ILR1/ILL hydrolases Very proud to share this fruit of many years hard work and frustration of several PhDs Kudos!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest preprint! A deep learning framework that maps suberin, lignin and aerenchyma in both monocots and dicots! We present a collection of 1,695 fluorescent images. One surprise-the model works best when trained on both monocots + dicots! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Theme of the day :-) with @rootsofthenorth.bsky.social

One more week to apply!

Super cool exploration of stomatal bHLH gene evolution in ferns and gymnosperms. A decade ago Anne Vatén @stomagenesis.bsky.social already knew these plants were critical missing links -- now her group has functional studies in spruce! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution (Lea S Berg , Paola Ruiz Duarte , Inés Hidalgo Prados , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Fitting with these heat waves, we published in Planta on the impact of warm temperatures during reproduction in Arabidopsis. We show that the HSP101 #hot1-3 mutant is tetraploid!! rdcu.be/fxEdZ Thanks to @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @ceitec.eu @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social Funding by #TANGENC and #GACR

Happy to share our combined views on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology; collaborative work now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social : track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social the improved version of our paper! I am very proud of this work with @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social, Annamaria Kiss, @moritznowack.bsky.social and others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...