Our preprint now peer-reviewed and published 🌾🔬🧬
Grasses have a signature short-long leaf epidermal pattern: small stomata & hair cells spaced by long pavement cells, but how is it built? Premitotic BdPL1 sets cell-size asymmetry; postmitotic BdBRX-solo/BdYDA1 enforces fate. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n
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Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach

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Great to see this new work from Chin-Min (Kimmy) Ho's lab on HDL as a chromatin-associated factor that changes chromocenter architecture and modulates developmental plasticity in plants rdcu.be/4Qk2bkawwiba

We are very much looking forward to listen to the latest #plantsci results presented next week in the following 8 plenary sessions, at our #BT2026:

Dominique Bergmann, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social (Stanford University, USA):
Flipping the script: Generating stomatal form in Arabidopsis leaves

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