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The Bomblies lab went on a fun and informative annual retreat. We had a writing and "science story" workshop, and lots of good discussion and recreation too! I can very much recommend retreats 😁

This was such an amazing event - so great to celebrate an awesome scientist and mentor and see so many old friends!

The fantastic @Francois_Parcy who taught me what it means to have a high bar in science! Many happy memories from 20 years ago #WeigelFest in 1996 He was a postdoc, I was Detlef’s new technician….

Excited to become a new member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Council. It is an exciting and demanding role and I am looking forward to it :-) Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) snf.ch/en/3SIwuIP6l7B…

My latest review, on the molecular basis of adaptation to polyploid meiosis. This will be my last review for a while. I swear :-) Thank you raphael mercier for the invite - it was fun to write and I learned a lot. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This makes me extremely happy - What a wonderful compliment to get from the students!! Thank you VSETH and thank you Biology students VeBiS! This was a truly wonderful honor🙂

Art tweet! The wonderful plant biologist / poet Anne Osbourne Anne Osbourn wrote some really cool poems for my alliterative animal alphabet drawings. Just published online at Ekphrastic - Here is the link (scroll down to see them). ekphrastic.net/?fbclid=IwAR3G…

I newly have a book contract with OUP (on molecular basis of plant development/plasticity)! Today I made my 1st figure, for the leaf chapter. I drew this on my iPad, using a software called ProCreate - so fun! And this also serves as a pre-pre-advertisement for the book ;-)

"And talk to me (not the slide) " journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

This came up as a memory today - 12 years ago one of my star PhD students, Brian Arnold, passed his quals at Harvard, and this is the cake my lab got him. Very pragmatic people. 😂

To celebrate 10 (actually 11, but who's counting?) years of studying adaptation to polyploidy. I celebrated by making an illustration of my favourite model Arabidopsis arenosa.

We have a new paper out from Adrián Gonzalo showing that we can partially diploidize polyploid meiosis by crossover reduction! It doesn't rescue neo-4X fertility (yet), but what does, is following soon... :-) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Mark your calendars, dear meiosis community! We have our location: #EMBOmeiosis 2025 will be in Engelberg, Switzerland, June 22-26. Organizers: Joao Matos, Mathilde Grelon, Takashi Akera Takashi Akera, John Weir @weir_science, Marinela Dukic and me (Image from Wikipedia).

Thrilled to announce - our latest on polyploid arenosa just got published in Science :-) Thanks to the amazing team that made it happen including @Thsrikant and Adrián Gonzalo!! And thanks reviewers for enthusiasm, especially reviewer 1, whoever you are! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes have advantages over their relatives with a double set. But they often start out infertile. Why? Biologists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a new reason. brnw.ch/21wIQPz D-BIOL @ ETH Zurich Kirsten Bomblies #polyploids

My first ETH PhD student, Amrita Möhl-Raj, graduated & did a great job! At the Apero, a reunion of some ex-Weigel folk (@PlantEvolution) - former technician (me), former postdoc Francois Parcy (@Francois_Parcy) and former PhD student, now Postdoc here, Thanvi Srikant (Thanvi Srikant)

FIRST PLANT MEIOTIC MEETING! You simply can’t miss it!!! Fantastic Keynote speakers: Kirsten Bomblies Kirsten Bomblies, Mathilde Grelon, Raphael Mercier raphael mercier, Wojtek Pawlowski, Holger Puchta and Arp Schnittger @LabSchnittger See you in Poznań! Visit pmm.web.amu.edu.pl

Please RT - I want to hire a talented postdoc with experience in microscopy/cytology, to study adaptation to temperature of #meiosis in plants. Interested? Contact me directly (email, not here). Image is of a temperature stressed meiocyte, by Chris Morgan Chris Morgan

SO so proud of my student Vera Vera Sham who defended her PhD successfully today!! She did so well and we will miss her - a LOT! It's a lucky part of our jobs as professors that we get to work with such bright young scientists! The lab made her a really cool hat :-)

So proud of Thanvi Thanvi Srikant and Adrian Adrián Gonzalo for a huge effort and a really nice set of results! We are slowly returning for a bit to the genome world - Thanvi has more to report soon - stay tuned! ;-)