…et quid amabo nisi quod vita enigma est?
…and it’s a feedforward loop! Qian’s discovery of a nontranscriptional incoherent feedforward loop in a receptor kinase signaling pathway has now been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy …
Something’s incoherent here Read More
Who? Root cells. At least that’s what an apoplastic pH sensor told us. Nicholay’s conclusion from mapping the correlations between apoplastic pH, cell elongation and cell differentiation: cell wall pH …
They’re so acidic Read More
Congratulations to our “Covid generation” of Ph.D. students, Hang and Nicholay, for succesfully passing their Ph.D. exams! Excellent Ph.D. theses, excellent grades, and one proud and happy supervisor. With special …
Two Ph.D. titles awarded in as many weeks Read More
Paradoxes lingering around our lab ever since we started working on CLE peptide signaling finally resolved, at least genetically. Is CLE signaling always detrimental to phloem formation and differentiation? Or …
It’s a balancing act Read More
Years of scientific detective work finally revealed the basis for the non-cell-autonomous effects of brassinosteroid signaling previously suspected by us and others. Our verdict: most likely they don’t exist. Rather, …
Secrets of a gene body – now published after peer review Read More
The final chapter of Cecilia’s Ph.D. work has now been published in The Plant Cell, describing how ectopic expression of an auxin transport regulatory module triggers a shift in the …
Xylem shift – our work on manipulating developmental trajectories out now Read More
…on the topic of how vascular connections are established between emerging lateral organs and their parent organ. Now out Open Access in Current Opinion in Plant Biology!
Our Current Opinion… Read More
…we hope. This attempt to summarize the essence of some 150 papers in the field and integrate their findings has now appeared in the Tansley Review series of The New …
Phloem Development – a comprehensive review Read More
Congratulations to our newly minted Ph.D. in the Life Sciences, Dr. Ana Cecilia Aliaga Fandino! After the ‘private exam’ with the outside expert Prof. Remko Offringa from Leiden University, she …
Celebrating Cecilia Read More
Our latest nearly-back-to-back outputs in Current Biology and Nature Communications: for years we have known that autocrine CLE45 peptide signaling via its receptor BAM3 suppresses protophloem sieve element differentiation. What …
Double trouble CLE peptide signaling Read More