Associate professor at Utrecht University, loves plant cell types & regulatory networks and their evolution.
Kaisa Kajala
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On the modelling side, Steven Oud and Maciek Zurowski did an amazing job developing this model and analysing the data to identify the boundary cells. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do now that we're including petal growth...
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Today, the European Parliament voted in favour of new regulations for NGT-derived plants! 🌱💚🧬 This is a huge success, since these technologies can help accelerate plant breeding for increased stress resistance and contribute to more sustainable agriculture.
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes
Closing date: 1 September 2026
Salary: competitive
Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience
Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Here is some weekend reading for you
👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our special green issue, chokeful of reviews and short-format introductory pieces on plant #evolution!
🌱🌿🌵🍃 #Plants
Excited to share our new @ThePlantCell Perspective on training plant scientists in the era of #GenAI 🌱🤖 A practical framework for research, teaching & mentorship across career stages. Open access + actionable ideas—please share!
"Read the article" (academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...)
📢Exciting news! Our new book chapter on bioengineering photosynthesis is now published. Mouesanao K. Kandjoze & @thepallavisingh.bsky.social discuss carbon-concentrating mechanisms, Kranz anatomy and synthetic biology to drive crop improvement for global food security🌾
Link below👇
New review out in Current Biology with colleagues in the Plant Cell Atlas (@plantcellatlas.bsky.social)! We discuss how single-cell genomics is reshaping our understanding of plant cell-type identity and evolution across the Green Lineage.
bit.ly/4eAip2Q
Updated @theplantjournal.bsky.social guidelines: avoid the use of terms such as “basal”, “early diverging lineage”, “primitive”, “ancestral plant”, “lower and higher plants” [..] recommends the use of specific terms such as “bryophytes”, “vascular plants” [..]
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
John Innes Centre
Nicholas Provart
Renske Vroomans
The Pallavi Singh Lab
Coleen Murphy
Svenja Augustin
Matt Stata
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
