Daan Weits

What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yeah! Go @vinayshukla.bsky.social !

We introduce a new transducer of oxygen sensing: Cys2-HYT1 @isamanrique.bsky.social @charlene-kunaka.bsky.social Susanna Ubeda Tomas & @gunjansharma88.bsky.social ma88.bsky.social lead work defining HYT1 contribution to root hypoxia tolerance. @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2 years postdoc position open in Liam Elliott's team @liamelliottplants.bsky.social at @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social Nice people, good place, excellent science ! #interface2026 meeting @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

Very cool!

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

Had a great time at an art–science–design–food technology evening on oxygen @Droog. Was really fun to share our #UUplants research on oxygen sensing to such a diverse audience. Thanks to @yevkravt.bsky.social. I'd love do more events like this! #ScienceCommunication #ArtAndScience

The N-degron pathways move from basic to applied science. This pathway will prove to be of key importance for agricultural improvement. Very happy to have been a part of this work led by Chen Lin and colleagues. #plantscience #nendrule #hypoxia nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tiny shoot apical meristems demand precision and patience. During my PhD, I measured oxygen directly by inserting a 3 or 10 µm microsensor into the meristem. Very happy that this work is now published in Molecular Plant. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Multifaceted roles of MTL/NLD/PLA1 in plant reproduction: In addition of inducing haploid embryos, loss of OsMTL function in rice 🌾 could lead to triploid embryo formation !! @newphyt.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Annual experimental plant sciences meeting in the Netherlands. Here we go!

Today it’s @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social Annual Meeting. I am happy to present one of my favorite projects developed together with @panicuccigabriele.bsky.social, @jannehageman.bsky.social, and @daanweits.bsky.social, which has resulted in a tool for studying oxygen distribution in plant tissues.

Thanks for your hospitality @thomaswidiez.bsky.social Chatting with the excellent scientists at @rdplab.bsky.social was like a breath of fresh air!

Great to see this out: Plants respond very fast (within 5-10 minutes 😱) to hypoxia and the N-degron pathway can be sufficient for this rapid induction. Congrats @mikellavi.bsky.social and team!

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Great opportunity!

Awesome group, supportive supervisor and a really interesting project. What's not to like? Check out this open PhD position in @dorotakawa.bsky.social team!

New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw

Rainfall patterns during barley seed development underlie genomic variation for germination after flooding (Eva Maria Gómez-Álvarez , Margherita Marazzini , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested! tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

Finishing the symposium with our second keynote @apmahonen.bsky.social - so many cool and impactful stories rolled into his talk!

EPS Theme 1 (plant development) symposium today in Utrecht! Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱 @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @violawillemsen.bsky.social @renskevroomans.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social

New lab / new life 🌱 The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹 We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️ Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab. #PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB

How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊 New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoked to share our review advocating a whole plant perspective on resource balancing strategies with Joe Earle, Lucila Salvatore, Bas van den Herik and Kirsten ten Tusscher How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.pb... 🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾 Congrats to @lbmountain.bsky.social on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!

#ThrowbackThursday to last week Thursday at #ISPLORE2025JP where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the #ISPLORE2025JP hashtag for some of the best moments 🌱🌊

How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants? In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk “ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia” www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.

Join us at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to start your research group! Fantastic scientific environment, strong support, and nice colleagues :) Apply and please share broadly in your network.

Great to see the hard work of Dani Amat, Janne Hageman and @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social is appreciated by the #ISPLORE2025JP community!

Incredible location ✅ Excellent science ✅ Amazing community ✅ Perfectly organised ✅ What more could we ask for!? Safe travels to everyone! #ISPLORE2025JP

Very grateful that my team was represented by three talks at #isplore2025jp and two posters 🇯🇵🌱🫚

Cool talks!

Excellent initiative!

5 ECR #ISPLORE2025JP talks starting with Muhammad Ateeq talking about tolerance mechanisms in Peach 🍑 academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

The #ISPLORE2025JP poster session is in full swing 🌱🌊

We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with talks by PhD students Stephanie Frings, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and Gabriele Panicucci. 🌱🌊☔ Check out their recent review and preprint: doi.org/10.1093/plph... doi.org/10.1101/2025...

1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources. In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...