8th Vascular Development meeting in the lovely Corsendonk coming to an end. Thank you to EMBO YIP and University of Alberta for generous financial support! Thanks to all the participants for sharing exciting unpublished results and generating excellent presentations!

We are delighted to welcome Lauren Saunders (Lauren Saunders) as a new professor focusing on developmental plasticity at COS. We wish you a good start, Lauren, and are looking forward to your exciting science and to a new colleague!

We, at COS are proud to be home to one of the few international master's programs in plant sciences in Germany. Curious about it? Check out their brand-new video: youtube.com/watch?v=rGvHFt… 🌱💚 More info: tinyurl.com/yk88kstw

[Please RT] Don't miss this exciting EMBO Events EMBL Events Symposium "Diversity of plants: from genomes to metabolism" April 9-12, 2024, in Heidelberg. Registration closes soon! embl.org/about/info/cou…

Massive collaborative effort to provide the field with best practices for the execution, analysis, and data storage of plant single-cell/nucleus transcriptomics. Thanks all co- and endorsing authors and Caro Grones for taking the lead! academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Grüne Schule: Führungen, Exkursionen und Workshops – Botanischer Garten bietet ein abwechslungsreiches Programm für Jung und Alt uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/gr…

Join us! The Saunders lab is looking for postdocs, PhD students, and technicians to join our new lab at #COSHeidelberg 🐟🧬🔬🇪🇺 We’re studying neural crest lineage plasticity in fish with developmental genetics and single-cell genomics. For postdoc apps: tinyurl.com/2ymnhyez

Our review on vascular tissue development in Annual Reviews of Plant Biology is now online. Broad coverage of a highly dynamic field and with Pascal Hunziker as first author. doi.org/10.1146/annure…

Our latest work from Dr. Qingtian Li Qingtian We find that degradation-resistant SMXL proteins attenuate strigolactone signaling by interfering with targeting of other members of the SMXL family by D14-MAX2. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The #CRC1101 symposium is about to start with some welcoming words by Klaus Harter from ZMBP Looking forward to some exciting days full of #plantscience

Some plant seeds perceive a fire smoke to trigger germination via KAI2 receptor. Yet, the endogenous ligands of KAI2 remained unknown. Now, new report finds that KAI2 mediate volatile communication and plant fitness! Exciting🥰 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Dear early stage researchers, interested in plant biotic interactions? Register for our workshop on Plant Macro- and Microbiomes including Sophien Kamoun, GeminiTeamLab, Tom Bennett and Saskia Hogenhout. Deadline: April 8. embl.org/events/cos-emb…

Online now: Mechanical forces in plant tissue matrix orient cell divisions via microtubule stabilization dlvr.it/T58q9j

Last call for our COS-EMBL workshop on Plant Macro- and Microbiomes! Registration deadline has been extended until Friday this week (13.04). Take the chance! embl.org/events/cos-emb…

First organ-wide simulation of mechanical forces in radially growing plant organs. Nice collaboration with the group of Karen Alim. Model by Mathias Höfler and plant data by Xiaomin Liu. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are looking for a new colleague at the director level. Spread the word in the (plant) world. Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research - Director mpipz.mpg.de/director

Max Planck Max Planck Postdocnet strongly opposes proposed #WissZeitVG amendment. Political pressure driven by social scientists who claim to speak for all postdocs but who ignore the needs of natural scientists. #ichbinhanna @amreibahr @drkeichhorn postdocnet.mpg.de/joint-statemen…

We are thrilled to see that the COS PIs Ingrid Lohmann (Ingrid Lohmann) and Jochen Wittbrodt (WittbrodtLab) have been elected as new EMBO members. Congratulations! embo.org/press-releases…