RDP lab
News and updates from the Plant Development and Reproduction (RDP) Lab at ENS de Lyon, FRANCE.
We explore the molecular, physical, and evolutionary foundations of plant morphogenesis.
🔗 ens-lyon.fr/RDP/
🧑🔬 curated by @thomaswidiez.bsky.social
- 🎉 Huge congratulations to Clara Igisch on a brilliant PhD defense and outstanding work throughout her PhD! 🎓👏 Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬
- Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium: @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social Great science, great stories!
- Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium: @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social Great science, great stories!
- Reposted by RDP labSave 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...
- 🌟 Great seminar this week at RDP lab with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱
- 🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄 Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
- Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇) This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels. 🌱Congratulations!🥂
- 🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱 👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... 👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
- 👇 New preprint from the lab on cell layer identity in petunia flower 🌸 ▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer 👇👇
- Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Celebrating a successful PhD defense from our lab @rdplab.bsky.social 🎉 Huge congrats to Hugo CAUMON for his hard work on temporal integration of auxin information🌱 Supervised by @tevavernoux.bsky.social & C. GALVAN-AMPUDIA (SIGNAL team ▶️ www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis... ) @ensdelyon.bsky.social
- Reposted by RDP labCongrats to Dr Elsa Gascon who defended her PhD today at @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social 🫶
- New publication from RDPlab by Christophe Godin's team ➡️ Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function 📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reinforcing the 🇫🇷France–Japan🇯🇵 collaboration in plant biology🌱 Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
- Congrats to Andrea Calhau from @rdplab.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at "Seed 2025", the 10ᵉ edition of the French Seed Network Conference! 🌱 This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
- Reposted by RDP labArticle #FocusSciences🎯| Gwyneth Ingram, biologiste végétale au @rdplab.bsky.social, tente de percer les mystères de la communication entre plante-mère, albumen et embryon 🌱
- Reposted by RDP lab#ResultatScientifique 🔎 Chez la mousse Physcomitrium patens, une simple diffusion d’hormone suffit à sculpter sa forme ! Une découverte qui éclaire l’évolution des plantes et la diversité de leurs architectures🌱 ✍️Yoan Coudert et Christophe Godin 📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/5MI0rYV
- Reposted by RDP lab🌽 Maize vs. Fusarium 🌽 Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection. Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab. ▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
- Reposted by RDP lab#ResultatScientifique🔎| Une mousse européenne, arrivée à La Réunion dans les années 60, grimpe maintenant aux arbres et menace la végétation locale 🌴 ✍️ Yoan Coudert et Claudine Ah-Peng 📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/IyTlzTC
- Avec les Visites insolites du @cnrs.fr, plongez dans les coulisses de la recherche ! 🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel 9/10 visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch... 10/10 visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch...
- Post-doctoral position in Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in @rdplab.bsky.social The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert. For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
- 🌱 3 plant biology institutes, 2 great days! 🌿 PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne! 👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥
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- Reposted by RDP labThrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by RDP labTake a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬
- Reposted by RDP labAmazing programme including 4(!) speakers from @rdplab.bsky.social : @tevavernoux.bsky.social @coudertlab.bsky.social @zoenv.bsky.social @camilagoldy.bsky.social
- Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo
- Reposted by RDP labPlant Science Research Weekly -- Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm (Plant Cell) @moritznowack.bsky.social @thomaswidiez.bsky.social @laurenspauwels.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/A3RVH6Q #PlantaePSRW
- Reposted by RDP lab🌽 Le suicide utile de l’albumen : des cellules se détruisent pour laisser grandir l’embryon Publié dans The Plant Cell, découverte signée N. Doll & @thomaswidiez.bsky.social (UMR RDP), un mécanisme clé pour la croissance et la nutrition des graines ⤵️ urlr.me/QvBTSV Des pistes pour l’#agriculture 🚜
- Reposted by RDP labSuch a pleasure to meet and discuss with ancient colleagues and friends from RDP- Lyon and IPSIM-Montpellier. Plant membrane meeting June 2025. Thanks for the organization @alexmartiniere.bsky.social🙌🏼 @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social
- Reposted by RDP lab🌽 A dream maize seed phenotype—finally real❗ Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth! @theplantcell.bsky.social Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝 📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
- Reposted by RDP labOur latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
- Reposted by RDP lab🌱 Latest research from A. Lanubile Lab ▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽 Glad that our team from @rdplab.bsky.social contributed to this work! 🤝 🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616 📖 publisher's link doi.org/10.1007/s002...
- Reposted by RDP labOur very own Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social @embo.org now on stage shading light on the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell division orientation against geometry #ICAR2025 😍😍 #womeninSTEM #proudPI
- Reposted by RDP labNext up is Gwyneth Ingram from ENS Lyon @rdplab.bsky.social on communication between embryo and endosperm to coordinate seed growth and development.
- 🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱 👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... 👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
- 🌸 How do pollen tubes find their way within the pistil? 📢 Check out the article in PLOS Computational Biology L.Riglet, K.John, I.Fobis-Loisy, et al. ▶️Geometric and mechanical guidance: Role of stigmatic epidermis in early pollen tube pathfinding in Arabidopsis 📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by RDP lab#Vidéo🎞️| D'où viennent les fleurs ? Des scientifiques du @rdplab.bsky.social et du #LBBE cherchent à identifier l'ancêtre commun des plantes à fleurs 🏵️. Découvrez leurs réflexions dans la dernière vidéo publiée en partenariat avec @lemonde.fr 👇
- Reposted by RDP lab🚨 Time to register ! The European Plant Cytoskeletal Club is an informal meeting, focusing on research on plant cytoskeleton 🍀🧪🧬🔬 Where: ENS de Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social, hosted by the RDP laboratory @rdplab.bsky.social When: the 4th and 5th of September 2025. 👇 epcc2025.sciencesconf.org
- Our lab took part in the Pop’Sciences Festival this year! We were excited to contribute to making science more accessible and engaging for everyone. 📍 popsciences.universite-lyon.fr/le_festival/ Thanks to @yvonjaillais.bsky.social, C. Igisch, G. Brunoud, J. Abitbol-Spangaro, C. Godin and more...
- Reposted by RDP lab🌱 What a fantastic seminar from @michaelraissig.bsky.social for our @rdplab.bsky.social external seminar. Full of energy, with some seriously cool cell biology 🔬💚 Exciting research on stomata and Brachypodium! #PlantScience #CellBiology #Stomata #Brachypodium
- Reposted by RDP lab🚨Our paper is out! If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...