Robertas Ursache
Group leader at CRAG in Barcelona. Interested in cell wall remodeling, cutin and suberin dynamics, optimizing gene editing and histological techniques
- Reposted by Robertas Ursachejobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Postdoc position available in my lab, please spread the news!
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheA long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheOnly 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 Robertas UrsacheUsing precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3WgNajk
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheFun review of Arabidopsis anti-pathogen metabolism with @somssich.bsky.social and @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social. Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache#TansleyReview: Mechanisms driving functional divergence of #TranscriptionFactor paralogs Isabella J. Higgins, Sarah G. Choudury & Aman Y. Husbands 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheFirst Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheHow plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱🧬 Tremblay & Qüesta discuss how examining the seed-to-seedling transition can reveal how non-coding RNAs and epigenetic changes regulate transcription during developmental transitions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jiquesta.bsky.social
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheCheck out our latest work, featuring beautiful, first-of-their-kind cryo-tomograms of crucial plant cell wall modifications, Casparian strips, suberin lamellae, lignified xylem walls and more! From our Electron Microscopy Facility led by @chgenoud.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheWe have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🌱 Join us tomorrow at 12:00h for a seminar by Rochus Benni Franke from the University of Bonn in Germany (@unibonn.bsky.social)✨ 📍 CRAG Auditorium 💡 Free entry 👉 cragenomica.es/events/crosstalk-an…
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheOur work on MYBs and WRKY regulating suberin in tomato exodermis is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🍅 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 👩🔬 @leonardojo.bsky.social @riannekluck.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social Sara Buti, Alex Cantó-Pastor @bradylabs.bsky.social 🌱 #PlantScience
- 🧨Pre-print alert!🧨 We investigated the role of three TFs in tomato 🍅 exodermis suberin, and we found some MYB/WRKY antagonism! doi.org/10.1101/2024... (1/5)
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheWe have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheExcellent resource for plant biologists. I hope the plasmids are in @addgene.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache📜 Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging 🧑🔬 Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, François St-Pierre, et al. 📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #Microscopy #Imaging #BiologicalImaging #BioImaging #Fluorophores #FluorescentProteins #YFP
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheFinally! 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 Robertas UrsacheWe are excited to update you on two distinct auxin oscillations (local & systemic), revealing how root architecture adapts to fluctuating conditions! @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Coming back from an amazing trip to Toulouse. Many thanks for inviting and organizing @stevenmoussu.bsky.social! Exciting discussions with @583original.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social and everyone else.
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheWe are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🎊 We can finally show the program for the ACYR 2025! Come to @cragenomica and be part of this edition. Special thanks to our sponsors and collaborators: @agrisera.bsky.social #SemillasFitó @novogene-europe.bsky.social #NZYTech #Sarstedt #VidraFoc #Werfen #CosmoCaixa
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheGreat collaboration with @yvonjaillais.bsky.social 🌱 Plants use membrane contact sites (MCS) for cell-to-cell signaling! ➡️ MCTP tethers & PI4P regulate ER-PM contacts in plasmodesmata, impacting trafficking. ➡️ MCS roles span intra- and intercellular communication. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheHappy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…
- Reposted by Robertas UrsachePlease spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheVery proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots 🧑🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheControl of wax deposition and heat tolerance in rice www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheCeratopteris richardii U6 promoters and plants expressing Cas9 endonuclease as tools for efficient genome editing in a fern biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheHave you ever wondered how pectin acetylation affects cell adhesion? Together with @breeannau.bsky.social we have the answer! Check our our joint preprint! @treebiocoe.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheHappy to share our last paper published in Developmental Cell. Amazing work by Anna Sole-Gil. Great co-supervision with Miguel Blázquez and equally great collaboration with the labs of @liamdolanlab.bsky.social, Barbara Ambrose and Kimitsune Ishizaki. www.cell.com/developmenta...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🌵Preprint alert 🌵 5y in the works & extremely proud of this one. Xin Cheng & @heikelindner.bsky.social established the eudicot leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model. Like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... BSKY-tutorial 👇
- This 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...
- A set of new Polymerase III promoters to try out for CRISPR www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- A study on the labeling radii of TurboID and APEX2 through in vitro assays www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- An interesting approach to boost the transcriptional activities - academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheVery happy to see this work out on bioRxiv: We applied a synthetic GRF-GIF chimera for tomato plant transformation and found that it reliably enhances regeneration, increases the number of transgenics and shortens the time for genome editing experiments in tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache🌱 early-career scientists: don't miss Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science at CSHL, June 26–July 17, 2025. 🗓 Apply by March 15, 2025 This immersive course covers cutting-edge topics & methods in plant biology. 🌾 Hands-on labs + expert talks await! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Very cool PhD project, don’t hesitate and apply!
- 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 Robertas Ursache🎉 Good news! The 5th Annual Congress of Young Researchers (ACYR) will be held by CRAG on 10-11th March 🔬 Key event for researchers and students, with sessions on: Plant stress responses, Genomics, Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering... 🔍 More info: acyr.cragenomica.es
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache#PlantScience @cragenomica.bsky.social welcomes scientists interested in becoming Junior PIs through the Ramon y Cajal program (shorturl.at/UxXQb), If interested, get in touch first with our director Maria Lois , help us spread the word, please!
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache#PlantScience Come join us!, The MoRE Lab (shorturl.at/CUwM4) is open to support PhD candidates for these programs (shorturl.at/FQBaI and shorturl.at/FmwiF), early postdocs (shorturl.at/KVyVv) and senior (shorturl.at/zkk7l), check eligibility and get in touch!, help us spread the word, please!
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheInterested 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 Robertas UrsacheEndodermis - exodermis, less related than their names suggest…great story from the Brady lab! Congratulations to all involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheGreat opportunity for postdocs including 🌱! Join Salk’s Rising Stars Symposium, May 13–14. Present your research, engage with leading scientists & explore pathways at Salk. Apply by January 10, 2025! salk.edu/about/our-co... #PlantBiology #RisingStars #SalkInstitute
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache👋 Hi there! We're already on Bluesky, if you want to know about our research on plants and animals, follow us 🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fefm...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheFinally out! We identified the stem cell factors (CAILs) of the vascular cambium, and a mechanism involving a ligand sequestration to position the stem cells. This work is a result of fruitful collaboration with @peteretchells.bsky.social and Tusscher labs. 🧵 1/x www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheHoengenaert et al. (2022) meddled with plants' cell walls, makng the 🪴 plant 🌿 -> ⛽️ fuel ⛽️ conversion more efficient. Great paper on what the future of biofuels might look like! I don't know how I missed it at the time 😅 Plant gene editing feed: #plantgene www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheI have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7at://did:plc:c4ovrfqv6g2kwzgdkiibwrj3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3kzm5jfq2oc2t
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheThrilled to share our study @NatureComm, in collaboration with Denis Kuntjak, on the conservation of the molecular interface between plant and viruses!, we contribute the first comparative study including the non-vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheNew Article: "A novel in vivo genome editing doubled haploid system for Zea mays" rdcu.be/dVjrM A novel genetic haploid genome doubling method with parthenogenesis and gene editing to produce edited, maternally derived di-haploid progeny. #PlantScience
- Reposted by Robertas Ursache[Please repost] We propose a PhD project addressing the role of #ABA in #plant #adaptation to land via #cuticle plasticity control: vu.fr/OehUy The project is open for competition in the frame of the Strasbourg ED414 graduate school: ed.vie-sante.unistra.fr/en/
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheWant to do a PhD in Epigenetics? Join me or any of my wonderful colleagues and apply for the IMPRS PhD program now! Please share 🙏
- We offer an excellent graduate program in an international research environment at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg. Use your chance and apply by 21 June 2024: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheJob alert ‼️ We are searching for a #postdoc to study the "Manipulation of protein translation by bacteria". If you're interested in #proteostasis, processing bodies, TOR, condensates & pathogens etc. apply 🌱♻️🦠 Please share 📣 More info in the ad and here theustunlab.com/positions/
- Reposted by Robertas UrsacheI am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... and the press release is here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/soil-mi... This was an epic effort led by the incredible Dorota Kawa, +B. Thiombiano, H. Bouwmeester, J. Raiijmakers...
- Reposted by Robertas UrsachePlease 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
