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Stem cell niches are great, studying the #cambium in @thomas_greb's lab was amazing: Following up on SMXLs in #phloem formation (Wallner et al. 2017), this small story dissects distinct roles of SMXLs in radial stem growth and #secondary_phloem fate: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

Recent insights into polarity proteins in plant development briefly summarized during #quarantine. I hope I captured the essence of each finding and highly recommend going through the original literature featured here: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Our work on the evolutionary history of BASL polarity in the stomatal lineage is finally out! Check it out at Current Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… It was a great journey with many thanks to people along the way, especially Dominique Bergmann and Gabriel Amador.

Over the moon to share Dan Zhang et al’s #preprint “Opposite polarity programs regulate asymmetric subsidiary cell divisions in grasses” - we identified a novel, distal polarity domain formed by the POLAR homolog in #Brachypodium bioRxiv Plant Bio biorxiv.org/content/10.110…🧵/1

Excited to attend my first in-person conference after a long break. Looking forward to great discussions and learning about new insights into plant biology. #ICAR2022 in #Belfast🌱

It has been a real pleasure to participate and present my work at #BT2022DBG. Thanks for organizing great talks, posters and social events! 🌿

How do you measure success in academic life? Love this!!! An absolute #mustwatch (on a regular basis)

Glad to see the 3rd and final part of my PhD project (SMXLs interact with OBE3 in phloem development) published in a journal. With great support from Nina Tonn (SMXLs vs. other phloem regulators), Laura (ATAC-seq) and many others. Thank you for collaborating!

Such great talks, a friendly atmosphere and fruitful discussions at this year's #Mendel_ECR_23. Big thanks to the organisers (GMI Vienna gmivienna.bsky.social Yasin Dagdas), the @DolanLab and all the people who got excited about Marchantia sporeling development at my poster!

I hope this contributes to the quest of understanding the meristems evo-devo and work as a useful community resource for markers. This is complementary to other approaches such as the recently published scRNA-seq.

Happy to present the first part of my postdoc with Dominique Bergmann: the stomatal lineage uses oppositely oriented polarity domains to regulate cell division and fate. In collaboration with @DolanLab (including some exciting Marchantia data). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Transcription regulation in plants vs. animals - same-same or different? We show in a new preprint that in plants, regulatory sequences next to the TSS are position-dependent - as opposed to animal enhancers which are position-independent (1/6) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see our recently published bipolar stomatal lineage domains featured on the current Developmental Cell cover 🍃

Part 2 of my postdoc project with Dominique Bergmann is online now: we identify proteomes of stomatal lineage polarity domains, predict protein interfaces with the identified scaffolding proteins and show how SOK3, DLC1 and OPL2 co-localize at the phragmoplast.

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…

My second paper on the OPL2 polarity complex in stomatal development is now peer-reviewed: proximity labeling + Alphafold-multimer and novel AI tools predict an OPL2 scaffolding complex and interaction partners that co-localize at phragmoplasts during epidermal cell divisions.

Happy to share our new preprint on de novo meristem formation from a single-celled Marchantia spore with @DolanLab. We discovered that a set sequence of cell division patterns develop the first flat and dorsoventralised plant body (flabellum) on which the meristem forms de novo.

Amazing 3D studies of the Marchantia meristem during its maturation from gemma by Vicky Spencer at @DolanLab