Plant Developmental Biologist @unibern, Mindful Parenting Advocate, Feminist, Mami, Synesthete, she/her
Bern, Switzerland
Joined June 2017
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Heike Lindner retweeted
🌵Preprint alert 🌵
5y in the works & very proud of this one. @XinCheng0521 & @heikelindner established the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model
Strikingly like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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This story was only possible through true team effort with @XinCheng0521 at the forefront. @hartwell_james , the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Heike Lindner retweeted
Our institute of #ecology and #evolution @unibern has a new page expressing our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in the institute and our science. And we mean it! Here it is: iee.unibe.ch/about_us/dei/in…
Heike Lindner retweeted
We are hiring two tenure-track assistant professors at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern in conservation biology and mathematical and computational ecology
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Best plant developmental conference 🥳
‼️ New Date for the 2025 FASEB SRC "Mechanisms of Plant Development".
📅August 24th - 29th 2025
📍Southbridge (MA) 🇺🇸
New! Contribute the image of the conference poster 😎🌿🌱
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Heike Lindner retweeted
So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.
Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨
This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.
#NobelPrize
Heike Lindner retweeted
Dual role of BdMUTE during stomatal development in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
Read this #OpenAccess #DevSIDiversity Research Article by @roxy_spi, @lbmountain, @MichaelRaissig and colleagues @unibern @OeschgerCentre:
journals.biologists.com/dev/…
ALT Figure 1: (A) Schematic displaying stomatal development in wild type (WT). Open questions regarding the roles and mechanisms of BdMUTE are indicated. (B) In bdmute mutants, no subsidiary mother cell (SMC) is established, and no subsidiary cell (SC) division occurs. Guard mother cells (GMCs) mostly divide normally and the guard cell (GC) pair forms a pore and matures into functional complexes (upper GCs, dark green). However, ∼25% of the GMCs show aborted complexes with oblique divisions (lower GCs, gray). (C) Different stomatal morphologies found in WT (2 SCs), and in sid (1 SC, 0 SC and arrested phenotype). The images depicting the 1 SC and 0 SC phenotype stem from the weak rescue line M3GM. Midplane confocal images of fixed, cleared and Direct Red 23-stained mature stomata. Scale bars: 10 μm.
Heike Lindner retweeted
There is still time to apply - we only start reviewing applications next Monday, Sep 16!
Join us in beautiful Bern!
🌾Job Alert🌾
Interested in grass stomatal diversity and climate change resilience?
@roulinlab @SteniBocker and we are looking for a postdoc (2 + 1 years) - GWAS & modelling
Details: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v…
Related papers here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0… and doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.3…
Can‘t wait to see this project developing! I wanted to do this from the very beginning when we started the lab. Come join our lab and work together with the amazing @roulinlab and @SteniBocker on this interdisciplinary project.
🌾Job Alert🌾
Interested in grass stomatal diversity and climate change resilience?
@roulinlab @SteniBocker and we are looking for a postdoc (2 + 1 years) - GWAS & modelling
Details: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v…
Related papers here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0… and doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.3…
Come work with us!!
🌾Job Alert🌾
Interested in grass leaves and cell polarity?
Looking for a protein biochemistry postdoc (2 years) to employ Co-IP and proximity labelling to identify interactors of polarity proteins.
Details here raissiglab.org/wp-content/up…
Related paper here elifesciences.org/articles/7…
Heike Lindner retweeted
I filmed the microscopic explosions that allow sperm release and fertilization in flowering plants at the highest resolution to date and in 3D 💥(biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…)
Don’t have time to read? Just watch the movies in this thread 🧵
Congratulations on such an inspiring PhD defense! I learned a lot from you, scientifically and way beyond 💪
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I recently attended @NickDesnoyer ‘s PhD defense and was absolutely mind blown.Incredible imaging and answering “THE” key questions that we all discussed during my PhD time:how does the pollen tube enter the synergid cell and what is the role of the filiform apparatus? Just wow!
The Pollen Tube Penetrates the Synergid Cell by Formation of a Peritubular Membrane biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
Heike Lindner retweeted
🌾SAVE THE DATE🌾
International Brachypodium Research Conference 2025
July 6 - 10, 2025
Monte Verità, Switzerland
more details on brachypodium2025.org
@vermeer_lab @roulinlab and I are most excited to welcome many Brachy and grass enthusiasts to Switzerland in 2025
#Brachy2025
Heike Lindner retweeted
Unpopular opinion🚨
Half of the PlantBio folks flew to Hawaii for #PlantBio2024 @ASPB and the other half flew to Australia for @ipmb2024. Some fly from Hawaii to AUS to make both meetings.
International in-person meetings are important but can we coordinate them geographically?
If I were a predoc, I would absolutely apply for this position. State-of-the-art institute, a group conducting outstanding science and a PI that is irreplaceable for the plant science community. You will learn from the best 🌱
🚨 Exciting Opportunity! 🚨 Our lab, in collaboration with @Karl_Mechtler, is seeking a passionate #predoc to join our research on #SingleCellProteomics and #Autophagy in #plants 🌱. Please RT to spread the word‼️ oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/Institu…
This story was full of surprises. BdMUTE lab meetings were the most interactive with lots of discussions and ideas. A fun project spanning 3 generations of incredibly talented PhD students! @roxy_spi @lbmountain @TiagoDGNunes I am so proud of you!
Excited to share our new #preprint on BdMUTE and its dual role in recruiting subsidiary cells (SCs) and orienting guard cell (GC) division in #Brachypodium: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We set out to answer questions about how BdMUTE influences grass stomatal development: (1/8)
ALT Schematic displaying stomatal development in wild type (WT). Stomatal development starts with guard mother cell (GMC; blue) formation. BdMUTE is expressed in the GMC (light blue nucleus) and moves into the lateral cells (light yellow nucleus) to establish subsidiary mother cells (SMCs). SMCs then polarize (yellow gradient) and divide asymmetrically to form lateral SCs (yellow). Finally, the GMC divides symmetrically to generate two GCs (light green), which form a pore and mature into the characteristic dumbbell shape (dark green). Open questions regarding BdMUTE’s roles and mechanisms are indicated.
Heike Lindner retweeted
The University of Bern (CH) invites applications for a Professorship in Laser Physics - open-rank. Committed to equity and the promotion of diversity, women and members of underrepresented groups from all world regions are strongly encouraged to apply.
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