Heike Lindner
Plant Developmental Biologist @unibern, interested in leaf development, Kalanchoë, CAM
Feminist, Mami, Synesthete, she/her
- Reposted by Heike LindnerHere we go again! Join us in Vienna, May 21–22, for two days of plant science—talks, discussions, and celebration of what makes plants both beautiful and essential 💚Full program + registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve... Come be part of it — each of you counts!
- Reposted by Heike LindnerPhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!
- Join the Plant Development PhD school in Germany this Spring! I went there 16 years ago and met amazing people who are now my friends, colleagues, and role models. 🌱
- Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
- Reposted by Heike Lindner🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs
- Reposted by Heike LindnerDear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy

- Reposted by Heike LindnerHave we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to those who already shared the link!
- Reposted by Heike Lindner🚨JOB ALERT! We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms. tinygu.de/TknxZ If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
- Reposted by Heike LindnerCheck out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Heike LindnerCongratulations! Nine young researchers from #unibern receive @snf-fns.ch Starting Grants. Projects from a variety of disciplines will be funded with over 15 million Swiss francs. Find out more: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas... #Research #Innovation #SNSF
- Reposted by Heike LindnerLooking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ? Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring ! 📅 Apply by 10 January 2026 More info: 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs
- Reposted by Heike LindnerVery excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
- Reposted by Heike Lindner"Plant single cell RNAseq workshop: From current technologies to data analyses" Saclay Plant Sciences Summer School, June 28 - July 3, 2026 – Versailles (France)
- Reposted by Heike Lindnerwarwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^. Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know! #Plantscience
- Reposted by Heike LindnerA great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply! Please share!
- Reposted by Heike LindnerThe University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested! tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
- Join us at the Salt and Water Stress GRC 2026 in beautiful Switzerland! The conference setting provides numerous opportunities for interactions with peers and high-profile researchers from diverse research fields. Registration: www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩
- Additionally, there is an amazing 2-day seminar to connect early-career researchers prior to this conference. Register here: www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...
- Look at this remarkable preprint by @lbmountain.bsky.social, presenting a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing Brachypodium distachyon leaf. What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾
- 1/ Preprint alert: 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
- Reposted by Heike LindnerFormer COS scientist @heikelindner.bsky.social secures an SNSF starting grant to study the role of succulent anatomy in CAM photosynthesis. Congratulations!
- I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
- Reposted by Heike Lindner🌵 So proud of my fav scientist in the world 🌵 Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis! Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!
- I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
- I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
- ✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀 ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
- Thank you @snsf.ch for funding my project, but also for supporting so many other amazing female scientists in this funding round 💪 Thank you also to my SNSF panel!
- Thank you also @unibe.ch and the Institute of Plant Sciences for hosting me and for your support! It means a lot! A special shoutout also to our amazing research gardeners, Jasmin, Sarah, and Christopher, who continuously take up new challenges.
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View full threadI am really excited for this new adventure. My Halloween costume for this year is: freaked out new PI 🤪🎃
- Reposted by Heike Lindner🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
- @lbmountain.bsky.social is on a roll! Beautiful review about stomatal development and patterning in the grass leaf 🤩🌾
- Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.pb... 🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾 Congrats to @lbmountain.bsky.social on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
- Reposted by Heike LindnerOur paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
- Reposted by Heike LindnerCall for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
- Reposted by Heike LindnerOn Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself! We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
- Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben! Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵 👉 unibe.ch/ndf #ndfunibern