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heikelindner.bsky.social
Plant Developmental Biologist @unibern, interested in leaf development, Kalanchoë, CAM Mindful Parenting Advocate, Feminist, Mami, Synesthete, she/her
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We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Registration is open for the International Brachypodium Research Conference 2025 (IBRC2025) #Brachy2025 July 6 - 10, 2025 in Monte Verità, Switzerland www.brachypodium2025.org/registration Registration deadline is May 5 🌾 Join us if you love grass biology 🌾

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, Geneva, Switzerland - Applications are invited for a postdoc position to study UV-B perception and signalling in plants. Please apply, forward to suitable candidates, and/or repost; many thanks! Deadline February 24, 2025. See www.ulm-lab.ch for more information.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Friday, Utopians! Take a gander at our neat paper just published in PCE! 🌱🐛💨 Herbivory on larger leaves = higher plant-level volatile emissions. Generalist herbivores preferentially feed on larger leaves. Interesting implications for environmental signalling! doi.org/10.1111/pce....

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

Great paper revealing how Glutathion is important for root regeneration #rootdevelopment www.cell.com/developmenta...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

This story was only possible through true team effort. Team Kalanchoë with Xin at the forefront. @jameshartwell.bsky.social, the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Very happy to see this work out on bioRxiv: We applied a synthetic GRF-GIF chimera for tomato plant transformation and found that it reliably enhances regeneration, increases the number of transgenics and shortens the time for genome editing experiments in tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Apply for this position! Lena is an inspiring scientist and an amazing role model for women im science 💪

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Plant root hairs for #FluorescenceFriday. Red signal from #Microtubules that are deposited right under the #PlantCellWalls, so stain the cell outline. I briefly added green cell wall fragments, which were incorporated at the base of hairs. But then the hairs continued to grow, so the tips are red.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Come join us in beautiful Ticino, Switzerland for the Brachypodium conference 2025! Amazing speakers, a beautiful location and an incredibly friendly science community 🌾

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Finally made it to the bluer side on the first snowy day of the year ❄️

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments