Adrien Heymans
Postdoc @UCLouvain - ELI on plant anatomy.
Lab website : pepa.science
Personal webiste : heymansadrien.github.io
- New preprint from PEPA lab: www.pepa.science ! 🍅🌱 GRANAR-dicot anatomical reconstructions + 💧 MECHA hydraulic modeling show how lignin cap acts on root water transport. 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701735 Great work @marcodago.bsky.social et al. #plantsci
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🌾 New preprint! “Root anatomical gradients and cultivar differences underlie variation in root hydraulic properties in German winter wheat.”
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬 Read more in this interview👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
- 🌱 New from www.pepa.science -@ UCLouvain: a curated list of field-ready indicators for assessing ecosystem services in cropping systems. Authors: @lolaleveau.bsky.social et al. 🔗 oneecosystem.pensoft.net/articles.php... #SustainableAgriculture
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬 @srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin. Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansPlease find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans📢 New publication 'Substantial capacitance found in the roots of 2 contrasting conifer species' by Christopher McCarthy, Ibrahim Bourbia and Timothy Brodribb in Plant Physiology 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/plph...
- 🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪 Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl.... #PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
- 🧪🔓 New article from @mutezahmed.bsky.social and @hannahschneider.bsky.social Lab: "𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬" Tina Koehler et al. show that drought responses in maize root anatomy vary by nodal origin. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #Maize #RootBiology #PlantScience 🌱
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🍀🔬 Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab! The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales? I am thrilled to say that we have 4 open positions (2 #PhD, 2 #postdocs) @UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT. More: drooght.github.io
- 🧫Does anyone know of database for 2D plant anatomical data? I’m especially thinking of datasets from: CellSeT, Icy (.xml) or .zip ImageJ ROIs (e.g., via Celer, PaCeQuant, Cellpose, etc.) Something like what’s being done with ggPlantMap would be amazing! #PlantScience #OpenScience
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansThe 2nd edition of 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥-𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 will be held at UCLouvain, BE, 8-12 Sept 2025. The course will focus on water flow in the soil-rhizosphere-plant system, plant physiology and rhizosphere hydraulics. www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social Authors examined the bark of Euphorbia tirucalli across developmental stages and discovered a unique mode of bark dilatation, allowing prolonged stem photosynthesis. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/pf42 #PlantScience
- New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab! 🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬 #PlantSci #CellBiology
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansAnd continuing with conference news—postdoc Bastien Dauphin just gave a great talk at the UK Plant Biomechanics Conference 2025 🎤🌿 He’s using chemo-optogenetics to trigger local changes in the plant cell wall. New tools, new insights! #PlantBiomechanics #CellWallDynamics #Optogenetics
- 2nd Summer School on Advanced Soil Physics: Soil-Plant-Water Flow 🧪🌱💧 @agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social @UCLouvain - ELI Designed for master’s and PhD students, as well as early-career scientists in fields such as soil physics, plant physiology, water management, and environmental science #ISMC
- 📣 Summer School: #Modeling Water Fluxes in the #Soil Plant System UCLouvain, Belgium | 8 -12 September 2025 soil-modeling.org/activities/s... #PlantScience
- 🧪🌱Preprint: "Regulation of vacuole fusion, a pivotal mechanism mitigating salt-induced inhibition of root cell growth" It shows that low-salt stress inhibits vacuole fusion, but may serve as a protective mechanism! 📜Betz et al., 2025 dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #PlantSciences
- 🌟 In bonus, there is some FEM with #BVPy of Single cells with fragmented or fused vacuole. Thanks @srobertgroup.bsky.social for introducing me to this strange world 🔬 Check out the Jupyter Notebook 🖥️ and try it for yourself: github.com/SRobertGroup...
- REVIEW: "Root system ideotypes: what is the potential for breeding drought-tolerant grapevine rootstocks?" 🍇 They summarized nicely the #FSPM challenges of mixing different scales of time and space. 📜 Bernardo et al., 2025 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantSciences 🧪
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansREVIEW - Is growth asymmetry just a response to external and internal signals or also a driving force in plant morphogenesis? 🌾🧪 Kristoffer Jonsson et al discuss this in their recent Tansley insight in @newphyt.bsky.social. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #plantscience
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansDelighted that our review on modeling of #endothelial and #epithelial #cell monolayer #biomechanics is now published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...! Thanks to all contributors and to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for the support!
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansMicroscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansThis 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...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansStill open!! Please spread the word.
- Please spread the word, 2-year-postdoc position in my group to understand fate determination. www.upsc.se/jobs/6548-po...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansMore details on our recent pre-print: Alignments of stomata have been described in many species, here are 2 examples: Thym from my kitchen, and Leucadendron from a 1935 paper (Smith 1935 on the orientation of stomata) What is directing these alignments is unknown 1/12 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansPlease spread the word, 2-year-postdoc position in my group to understand fate determination. www.upsc.se/jobs/6548-po...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansHey educators, tidyplots.org is great for teaching students data visualization because it is 🕊️ Free and open-source 🚀 Easy, intuitive and fast 💾 Loaded with demo datasets 🏆 Embracing best practices 🌈 Beautiful #rstats #phd #dataviz #education
- 🧪 Nice paper! 📜 In their article, Wankmüller et al. 2024, clarifies how ecosystem sensitivity to VPD versus soil moisture is shaped by soil texture and impacts how plants and ecosystems respond to climate change. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SoilScience
- Yeterday, our paper on the role of soil texture on ecosystem transpiration limitation was published in the last issue of Nature. Interested by a short summary? That's here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansEndodermis - exodermis, less related than their names suggest…great story from the Brady lab! Congratulations to all involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansDifferential growth is an emergent property of mechanochemical feedback mechanisms in curved plant organs @ Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...
- 🌱 Nice #stomata paper with kinetics data 🧪 📜 Shouguang Huang et al. 2024 explore how tailored Ca²⁺ signals control stomatal movement 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #PlantBiology
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansOn March 26 and 27, 2025, we will arrange the next UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium. For young researchers to present their research at UPSC and explore potential collaborative projects with UPSC group leaders. www.upsc.se/early-career...
- 🌱 New preprint from the Verger Lab @stephanevrg.bsky.social ! 🧪 📜 Imran Baba et al., 2024: doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🔬 Discover how RG-II crosslinking in the plant cell wall, regulated by Boron, is crucial for cell adhesion during growth. ✨ Bonus: RRQuant tool! (Details in thread 👇) #PlantBiology
- 🧵 RRQuant: Quantifying Ruthenium Red Staining in Arabidopsis Hypocotyls 🌟 What is #shiny RRQuant? An image proc. workflow designed to analyze ruthenium red-stained Arabidopsis dark-grown hypocotyls, enabling insights into staining intensity and morphometric data. 🔗 github.com/VergerLab/RR...
- New preprint from the Barberon lab! Seen @PPLplantarum 🧪 Léa Jacquier et al. 2024 Directional Cell-to-cell Transport in Plant Roots 💡Plasmodesmata enable unidirectional nutrient flow in differentiated roots, overcoming apo-barriers like Casparian strips! 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024... #PlantBiology
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- Reposted by Adrien Heymans📜 Plant plasmodesmata bridges form through ER-dependent incomplete cytokinesis 🧑🔬 Ziqiang P. Li, Hortense Moreau, Emmanuelle M. Bayer, et al. 📔 Science 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Plasmodesmata
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansNew #preprint alert from the lab : Juan Baca Cabrera, together with a colleagues from Bonn and Montpellier, analysed the evolution of root system architecture through breeding for 6 German #wheat cultivars, 100 years old -> now. dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans📜 Effects of water stress on apoplastic barrier formation in soil grown roots differ from hydroponically grown roots: Histochemical, biochemical and molecular evidence 🧑🔬 Kiran Suresh, Lukas Schreiber, et al. 📔 Plant, Cell & Environment 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansWater fluxes pattern growth and identity in shoot meristems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🌱Annals of Botany announces a new special issue entitled "Stress Physiology of Root Systems", edited by Hannah Schneider and Doris Vetterlein. This call for papers is in conjunction with the International Society of Root Research Conference to be held in Leipzig during June 2024. 🧵(1/4)
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansPlease RT: We are looking for a new group member to study cell fate determination in Arabidopsis @UmeaPlantSci @_SLU ! Dead line August 10th 2024! I will be @ipmb2024 in Cairns in a few days and @PADiBa2024 if you would like to meet! Check our group: srobertgroup.com
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansSeedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience
- 🔍 Nice Research Story about soil hydraulics and drought response. - In 2021, a paper presented the theory that soil rather than xylem vulnerability controls stomatal response to drought. Then now: - new preprint observed the onset of stomatal closure at the same belowground hydraulic conductance
- 🔗 2021 Carminati & Javaux: doi.org/10.1016/j.tp... 🔗 2024 Delval et al. preprint: doi.org/10.21203/rs....
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans#PlantScience Research Weekly, May 31 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: Strategies to improve photosynthesis; Gln ⬆️disease resistance & stress responses; REF1 promotes tissue regeneration; Coordinated wound responses in animal-algal holobiont; Nagoya Protocol & nitrogen-fixing maize; & more
- Excited to share this work on maize root domestication & adaptation to global water availability! 🌱💧🧪 🌍 Thanks to Peng Yu and all collaborators 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01761-3 In addition, there are some cool root water models in use 😉 #CPlantBox #GRANAR-MECHA #MARSHAL
- 🌐 Sharing resources: 'Data to Viz' www.data-to-viz.com by Yan Holtz & Conor Healy! 📊 Explore a decision tree guiding you through the most common dataset formats, each backed by real-life R examples. #DatatoViz #RStats 🧪
- 📊 Check out this Git repo! 🚀 Friends don't let friends make bad graphs. An opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization by @chenxinli2.bsky.social 🧪 #DataViz #GitRepo github.com/cxli233/Frie... 🌟
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans🧪🌾 #paperalert Check our latest paper in Plant Direct, by Juan Baca Cabrera. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Juan collected root hydraulic data from the literature & compiled it into a shared database (roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database).
- Exciting new review out! They explore climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in agroecosystems. Really like the link to Picasso question: 'when does bull become a bull?' 🔗https://rdcu.be/dDONU #soilresearch #soilrootmodeling 🧪🌱🌍
- Here is a checklist for sharing codes using the #FAIR-principles: 1⃣ Use a publicly accessible repo with version control. 2⃣ Add a license. 3⃣ Register your code in a community registry. 4⃣ Enable citation. 5⃣ Use a software quality checklist. Credit to @Scilifelab for the resources! #OpenScience
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansPlease pass around: opportunity to join our group and @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social groups for a 2-year postdoc fellowship within the KBC environment Follow the link below: umu.se/en/work-with... Project #2; before April 9th 2024
- 🌽Check out the fascinating role of root anatomical variation in maize adaptation to diverse climates and soils. 🌾 Congrats to Chloee: chloeemclaughlin.wordpress.com and the other co-authors. A nice paper just before the defense of her PhD 🔓 doi.org/10.1111/eva.... #RootAnatomy #GxE 🌱🔬🧪
- Reposted by Adrien HeymansNew OA Article: "A self-regulatory cell-wall-sensing module at cell edges controls plant growth" rdcu.be/dAAog With a News & Views: "On the edge — how plant cells monitor growth" rdcu.be/dAAtQ Cell edges sense mechanical stresses from neighbouring cells. #PlantScience
- Reposted by Adrien Heymans📜 Growth and tension in explosive fruit 🧑🔬 Gabriella Mosca, Ryan C. Eng, Milad Adibi, Angela Hay, et al. 📔 @currentbiology.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantMechanobiology #PlantCellWalls
- 🌱🧪 New review alert! Nice summary of the fascinating world of plant cell adhesion and growth regulation. Imran and Stephane explores the intricate balance between tissue integrity and development. doi.org/10.3389/fphg... #CellAdhesion #PlantScience #UPSC
