Developmental and Cell Biology of Plants @ISTAustria

Joined December 2022
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12 Nov 2025
🚨 New preprint by @Cate_Giannini🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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12 Nov 2025
In auxin maxima, autophagy lights up — and in autophagy-deficient mutants, differentiation slows down. Auxin doesn’t just tell cells who to become — it helps them clear the decks to become something new.
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12 Nov 2025
Our study reveals a dual role for auxin: coordinating gene expression and cytoplasmic remodeling via autophagy — ensuring fast, efficient developmental reprogramming. Auxin doesn’t just permit change. It enables it. 💫
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6 Oct 2025
Now online: A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… (PIN2, Friml lab) and cell.com/developmental-cell/… (PIN1, Xu lab)
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31 Mar 2025
Big celebrations for our new Doctor Huihuang Chen! Congratulations and cheers to your bright future!
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We look forward to seeing you in Palermo!!
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21 Mar 2025
Pflanzen üben auf den Biologen & Wittgenstein-Preisträger Jiří Friml eine besondere Faszination aus. Er hat die Funktion des Hormons #Auxin als Vermittler zw. Umgebung und Zellkommunikation in #Pflanzen entdeckt. @ISTAustria🌿 Video-Porträt Jiří Friml ▶️ scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/pfl…
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FREE to Join | MPlant Virtual Seminar | Shifting Paradigms in Auxin Signalling | March 27, 2025 9:00-10:00 (UTC 1, Austria) | March 27, 2025 16:00-17:00 (China) | Zoom Meeting ID: 856 4424 9945 Passcode: 123789 | Welcome to join! us06web.zoom.us/j/8564424994…
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Replying to @kat_kurtovic
@kat_kurtovic in our New Phytol: auxin has effect on regeneration in Chara braunii, at least one its PIN is PM localized with auxin-transporting activity and distribution correlated to acid bands in Chara cells. IAA application induces MAPKs within minutes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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6 Mar 2025
Congratulations on your brilliant defense Aline! All the best for your future endeavours! Thanks to all the committee! Check out Aline's work on TMK1 interactors @biorxiv_plants doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.28.6…
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6 Mar 2025
New edge to canonical auxin signalling – cAMP acts as second messenger - now on @nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

New paper by the @FrimlLab, Huihuang Chen @ISTAustria and more out in @Nature revise our knowledge about the auxin signaling mechanism in plants.
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🚅Advance Access: How polarized tissue repair is achieved upon excision? Using a bryophyte Physcomitrium patens, Han Tang et al. revealed that the proper polarization of PIN-FORMED #auxin exporter is a key process🔑 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf008 #cellreprogramming #plantsci
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BREAKTHROUGH REPORT: Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots (Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Caroline Kreuzinger, et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf0… @ASPB #PlantSci
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9 Jan 2025
Another day, another preprint from our lab! Congrats to @kulich_ivan and colleagues: here is the news on ROS burst regulation. Now on @biorxiv_plants biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
ROS bursts after auxin, RALF, eATP or mechanical bending? We monitored them all. What triggers them and what are they good for? Many surprises! Read our new preprint, a second one in a row. Thanks ISTA and Biology Centre CAS for amazing environment. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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8 Jan 2025
New year, new preprint from @kulich_ivan : AROs as key plant-specific players in plant CNGC function and Ca2 signaling biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Armadillo Repeat Only proteins enable function of multiple, if not all CNGC channels. These are essential for plethoha of calcium signals triggered by stresses, hormones and pathogens. Read our new perprint. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

ALT Calcium sensor GCaMP3.0 in WT and aro2/3/4 mutants in the microfluidic setup. Blue dye represents liquid with 10nm auxin IAA

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Time is ticking! ⏰ The call for our PhD program ends in a few days! Apply now to join us at ISTA next fall! 🔗 bit.ly/3T9xCeo
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