Biophysicist, Group Leader at MPIPZ. Studying the multicellular dynamics in plants, combining theory and experiments. Also, fascinated by music and dance.
Cologne, Germany
Joined February 2013
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Here is a nice summary from @GauthierWeissb1 about our new work on giant cells with the @RoederLab and co-authors @mpipz_cologne @ceplas_1 @Cornell
🍃 Giant cells in leaves! We show that the pathway controlling giant cell formation in sepals also controls cell size in leaves, and that a cell-autonomous and stochastic specification leads to a non-random cellular pattern! See biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/6
Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root @mpipz_cologne ? Just a few weeks left to apply!
We’re #hiring, please RT! Our #IMPRS @mpipz_cologne & @UniCologne recruits 7 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2025!
Find details at mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/imprs-app… and apply by Jan 5.
#PlantSciJobs
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Exciting news from @mpipz_cologne ! 🎓 Dr. @GauthierWeissb1 has successfully defended his PhD thesis in the lab of @PauFormosa. 🥳 A fantastic achievement, Gauthier — congratulations! Wishing you all the best as you take the next steps in your career. 🌟
#PlantScience #PhDone
Congratulations @GauthierWeissb1 on your PhD, the first one from our lab! It was great and so enriching to share this journey with you, I learned a lot - and you did a wonderful job!
This happened. The title feels insignificant compared to the experience of the journey, and the diversity of great people I met along the way. Thanks to all of them. Special thanks to my advisor @PauFormosa. @mpipz_cologne
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Look forward to this great meeting. Join us if you can!
🤔 What does it mean to understand biology?
📖 What makes theory in biology different?
🧬 What are the emerging concepts in the life sciences?
We're excited to explore these questions at the 2nd edition of #EESTCBio! 🦬 Submit your abstract by 11 Feb ➡️ s.embl.org/ees25-03
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We are #hiring ! In @hadrienoliveri project supervised @mpipz_cologne, the PhD student will explore continuum mechanical models of plant morphogenesis. 🗓️application deadline Jan 5th, 2025
mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/
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Congrats to @BurdaIsabella, @Fridtjof_Brauns, Frances Clark, and Chun-Biu Li on our paper showing spatial temporal averaging of heterogeneous growth.
Robust organ size in Arabidopsis is primarily governed by cell growth rather than cell division patterns journals.biologists.com/dev/…
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Just 2 weeks left to apply for the organization of one of the 18 Concurrent Sessions or 8 Workshops #ICAR2025 in in Ghent 🇧🇪 !
Apply before October 21st 2024 with a short 200-word summary of the proposed session.
More info: icar2025.com and with @wokingplants
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Check out our latest methods article detailing the approach for live imaging and analyzing cell growth in deeper, inaccessible layers of Arabidopsis tissues, using sepals as the reference organ @RoederLab
frontiersin.org/journals/pla…
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I am happy to announce that I'll be starting my research group at @slcuplants this November! If you are enthusiastic about plant development and hormones in shaping form, please apply for the post-doc position advertised here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48137/
Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story @NatureComms. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at @mpipz_cologne with the Coupland group! @ceplas_1 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Congrats @EnricBertran_ @mCherry81197466 Gabriel Rodríguez-Maroto @pcasanovf George Coupland and co-authors!
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For at least the last 15 years I have wanted to know whether giant cells are randomly spaced in the sepal. We finally have an answer! They start random and become nonrandom as the surrounding cells divide. Geat collaboration @PauFormosa @GauthierWeissb1
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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If you thought you didn't have to pay attention to giant cells because they are only in sepals, think again. Giant cells are found in Arabidopsis leaves too, and their development is controlled by the same genes. @PauFormosa @GauthierWeissb1
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with Clark @Weissbart Wang @Roederl and co-authors! @mpipz_cologne @ceplas_1 @Cornell biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Thank you @KoseskaL for the great retreat together and for hosting us! It was very stimulating, and also refreshing to see that in this diversity of theoretical approaches in very different systems we can find fundamental common ground! We look forward to meeting again soon!
Last week we had a one day retreat with @PauFormosa group talking about theory aspects of developmental and cellular systems. It was particularly stimulating to look across different problems and discuss diversity of theoretical approches! @MPINB_outreach
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🔵We are seeking a new director!
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an independent research institute located on the shores of the sunny beaches of Barcelona. It is part of the public @iCERCA research system of Catalonia.
We have one clear mission: to understand the complexity of life. We do this to advance knowledge for the health and wellbeing of people, as well as to advance economic prosperity.
🔗Job offer: tinyurl.com/DirectorJO
🔗Full Brochure: tinyurl.com/DirectorBR
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Please RT - I want to hire a talented postdoc with experience in microscopy/cytology, to study adaptation to temperature of #meiosis in plants. Interested? Contact me directly (email, not here). Image is of a temperature stressed meiocyte, by Chris Morgan @ChrisMorgan555
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🚨 Thrilled to announce that I will be joining @mpipz_cologne as a Group Leader this September! My team will explore mathematical & mechanical models of plant growth 🌱‼️
Interested students are welcome to contact me privately.