Pau Formosa-Jordan
Biophysicist, Group Leader at MPIPZ. Studying the multicellular dynamics in plants, combining theory and experiments. Also, fascinated by music and dance.
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanJob alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated! jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
- New preprint on ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts! A story led by @josepmercadal.bsky.social together with Susan Tremblay, @leoniekraska.bsky.social, Martin Hutten. Check the thread below! @mpipz.bsky.social Link: doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanHappy to see this out! We describe a patterning mechanism underlying rhizoid specification in Marchantia. Contrary to classic patterning mechanisms (e.g., Turing), rhizoid specification depends on both randomness and lateral inhibition, involves subcritical bifurcations, and occurs at criticality!
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanAre you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu
- Interested in doing a PhD on Plant Sciences? Check the program run by @ceplas.bsky.social !
- ‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
- Wondering about the dynamics during a developmental transition? Check out our preprint “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis”, a very exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab @mpipz.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Press release on our new work about inferring Spatial Ploidy (iSPy), a collaboration with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox Lab, with @nickrussell31.bsky.social being the first author @mpipz.bsky.social @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social www.mpipz.mpg.de/5771290/pr-f...
- Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanOnly a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanPlease share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar! Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @plantevolution.bsky.social
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanThe BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!
- Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Associated Python code is also provided, have a play with it!
- Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!
- 🌱 Join us for the "Plant developmental dynamics: from cellular patterning to developmental transitions" seminar by @pauformosa.bsky.social from the @mpipz.bsky.social 💡 Free entry 👉 f.mtr.cool/unxcsfnomw
- So glad that the new suberin work from @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 's lab is out now 🙂 Thanks Tonni for giving us the chance to work on it too! Congrats to all co-authors and especially @leoniekraska.bsky.social and Tonni. See below Tonni's post!
- Time for another paper from our lab! This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Very excited to participate tomorrow Friday the 23rd May at the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social webinar on 'AI in Plant Biological Sciences Research', looking forward to it!
- 📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on May 23 at 10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/aA7HlDF #plantscience
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanTwo fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanFinally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-Jordan⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩. It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m! Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.
- Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Congrats to all authors, and very especially to @nickrussell31.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanI am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanNice to see the MPIPZ Community here on Bluesky growing, but we still need a lot more people from the Institute to join. More importantly, it's time the actual MPIPZ moves its account here. go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn @maxplanck.de #PlantScienceat://did:plc:c4ovrfqv6g2kwzgdkiibwrj3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbi3kb2dsf2m
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-Jordan📢 Deadline approaching Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February! 👉 newphytologist.org/news/view/353 #PlantScience
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanA couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
- Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root, in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, at the MPIPZ in Cologne? Just a few weeks left to apply!
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanPlease consider registering & submitting an abstract for the first ever Plant Chronobiology meeting happening in Leuven next summer! Thanks to support from the FWO, we can offer accommodation coverage for international early career presenters! #plantscience plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanWe have moved to this new location as we prepare to launch a new edition of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintya-2025. This course began more than 25 years ago, and we are excited to bring together an excellent lineup of faculty and students for this latest edition
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanStill plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!
- The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Pau Formosa-JordanI am happy to share the link to video and pdf of 2nd lecture at College de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity and specificity. tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v
- Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story at Nature Communications. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at MPIPZ with the Coupland group! @ceplas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Congrats Enric Bertran, Martina Cerise, Gabriel Rodríguez-Maroto, Pau Casanova-Ferrer, George Coupland and co-authors!
- 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 the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors! @ceplas.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
