Cecilia Lara Mondragón
@cecilialaram.bsky.social
Postdoc @ ZMBP. Interested in plant development 🌿
Very happy to see this work out as a preprint! 🌽🌱
How are shoot stem cells specified in the maize embryo? We uncover a small RNA-driven morphogenic circuit linking positional information with auxin, cell wall mechanics & cell division patterning.
Check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How are shoot stem cells specified in the maize embryo? We uncover a small RNA-driven morphogenic circuit linking positional information with auxin, cell wall mechanics & cell division patterning.
Check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Specification of embryonic shoot stem cells via a small RNA-driven morphogenic circuit
The specification of embryonic stem cells capable of self-renewing and differentiation into virtually any cell type, is one of the most consequential events in the development of a multicellular organ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Come join us for a pretty exciting project! 🌱🌽
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📣 Job alert!
PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social
The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium.
The position is available from October 1st
Apply now or share it!
#PlantSciJob
PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social
The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium.
The position is available from October 1st
Apply now or share it!
#PlantSciJob
August 22, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Come join us for a pretty exciting project! 🌱🌽
Please share 🫶
Please share 🫶
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Hurrah, it’s now official: the RU CSCS is moving into its second funding phase! 🥂 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this success.🎉
Förderentscheidungen zu #Forschungsgruppen durch den DFG-Hauptausschuss im Rahmen der Jahresversammlung: 5 Neueinrichtungen, 5 Verlängerungen. Die neuen Forschungsgruppen erhalten insges. rund 27 Mio. € für die erste Förderperiode. Mehr zu den Themen und Institutionen:
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
July 7, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Hurrah, it’s now official: the RU CSCS is moving into its second funding phase! 🥂 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this success.🎉
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation.
@lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬
paper doi.org/10.1093/plce...
expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch
@lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬
paper doi.org/10.1093/plce...
expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch
July 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation.
@lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬
paper doi.org/10.1093/plce...
expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch
@lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬
paper doi.org/10.1093/plce...
expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch
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Finally, here it is: after 12 years, and driven by the incredible hard work and innovation of two Ph.D. students, Bingyan Hu and Maria Prusicki, with biomathematical support from Katarina Stahlmann (UKE) — "A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis".
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis
Live-cell imaging reveals characteristic cytological stages of female meiosis in Arabidopsis and allows an assessment of their durations.
academic.oup.com
May 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Finally, here it is: after 12 years, and driven by the incredible hard work and innovation of two Ph.D. students, Bingyan Hu and Maria Prusicki, with biomathematical support from Katarina Stahlmann (UKE) — "A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis".
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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Congratulations to Sibo and Ousmane for winning the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Research Excellence Award! Well done! Post below
We are finally pleased to announce this year's Research Excellence Award winners: Sibongile Zimba (University of Bristol) and Ousmane Dao (University of York).
Both of our winners have exhibited impressive contributions to plant science and you can learn more about them here: buff.ly/qo1WJqw
Both of our winners have exhibited impressive contributions to plant science and you can learn more about them here: buff.ly/qo1WJqw
April 6, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Congratulations to Sibo and Ousmane for winning the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Research Excellence Award! Well done! Post below
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🚨JOB ALERT!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🚨JOB ALERT!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
Only one day left for early registration for the 2026 Maize Genetics Meeting in Cologne, Germany (Feb 26-Mar 1, 2026).
www.mgcmeeting.com
www.mgcmeeting.com
Maize Genetics Cooperation, Inc Meeting
www.mgcmeeting.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Only one day left for early registration for the 2026 Maize Genetics Meeting in Cologne, Germany (Feb 26-Mar 1, 2026).
www.mgcmeeting.com
www.mgcmeeting.com
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¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - University of California Alianza MX
Submitting an Application Current Fellows 2025 Cohort Additional Information Humberger Toggle Menu Interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship? Eligibility The program seeks applican...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
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1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.
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We wrote this short review paper highlighting our current understanding of some biogenic retrograde signals focusing on those derived from cis-carotenoids. Deciphering #plastid #retrogradesignals and their roles in plant development
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We wrote this short review paper highlighting our current understanding of some biogenic retrograde signals focusing on those derived from cis-carotenoids. Deciphering #plastid #retrogradesignals and their roles in plant development
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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What a wonderful event! 🌱A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our CSCS symposium 2025🌽: the top-class speakers for their inspiring presentations👏, our sponsors for their generous support💰, and all participants for the relaxed, collegial atmosphere. 🙂
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What a wonderful event! 🌱A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our CSCS symposium 2025🌽: the top-class speakers for their inspiring presentations👏, our sponsors for their generous support💰, and all participants for the relaxed, collegial atmosphere. 🙂
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How meristems shape plant architecture in cereals—Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS) Consortium (Thomas Dresselhaus , Martina Balboni , Lea Berg , Anika Dolata , Frank Hochholdinger , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
doi.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How meristems shape plant architecture in cereals—Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS) Consortium (Thomas Dresselhaus , Martina Balboni , Lea Berg , Anika Dolata , Frank Hochholdinger , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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🌍 Join Us in Regensburg for an International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📢 Abstract submission deadline was extended to 31 July 2025!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28/09 to 1/10/2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
📢 Abstract submission deadline was extended to 31 July 2025!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28/09 to 1/10/2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
July 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌍 Join Us in Regensburg for an International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📢 Abstract submission deadline was extended to 31 July 2025!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28/09 to 1/10/2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
📢 Abstract submission deadline was extended to 31 July 2025!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28/09 to 1/10/2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture.
If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures!
@cerealcell.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/32a74xpd
If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures!
@cerealcell.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/32a74xpd
July 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture.
If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures!
@cerealcell.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/32a74xpd
If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures!
@cerealcell.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/32a74xpd
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📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
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🔬3D Cell segmentation of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) of maize🌽in top/side view was analyzed by Dr Cecilia Lara Mondragon from the University of Tübingen.
💡The SAM consists of pluripotent stem cells that determine the cell number and position of all lateral organs during plant shoot development.
💡The SAM consists of pluripotent stem cells that determine the cell number and position of all lateral organs during plant shoot development.
June 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🔬3D Cell segmentation of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) of maize🌽in top/side view was analyzed by Dr Cecilia Lara Mondragon from the University of Tübingen.
💡The SAM consists of pluripotent stem cells that determine the cell number and position of all lateral organs during plant shoot development.
💡The SAM consists of pluripotent stem cells that determine the cell number and position of all lateral organs during plant shoot development.
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
May 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
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Early bird registration is ending soon!
Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate at the
International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28th September - 1st October 2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate at the
International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28th September - 1st October 2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
May 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Early bird registration is ending soon!
Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate at the
International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28th September - 1st October 2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate at the
International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
📍 Where: University of Regensburg, Germany
🕒 When: 28th September - 1st October 2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A space for time. Exploring temporal regulation of plant development across spatial scales
Developmental timing in plants is tightly regulated at the whole-organism scale, from germination to flowering. Less is known about when and how local transitions are temporally regulated. Not every ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2
Senior Group Leader Position
www.oeaw.ac.at
March 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2
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🔬 Maize embryo at 8 days after pollination, prepared by Dr Guojing Jiang, University of Regensburg.
💡 Plant embryogenesis is the process by which embryos develop from the fertilized zygote, involving the establishment of apical-basal polarity, meristem initiation, and lateral organ formation.
💡 Plant embryogenesis is the process by which embryos develop from the fertilized zygote, involving the establishment of apical-basal polarity, meristem initiation, and lateral organ formation.
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🔬 Maize embryo at 8 days after pollination, prepared by Dr Guojing Jiang, University of Regensburg.
💡 Plant embryogenesis is the process by which embryos develop from the fertilized zygote, involving the establishment of apical-basal polarity, meristem initiation, and lateral organ formation.
💡 Plant embryogenesis is the process by which embryos develop from the fertilized zygote, involving the establishment of apical-basal polarity, meristem initiation, and lateral organ formation.
Reposted by Cecilia Lara Mondragón
🌍 Join Us in Regensburg for an International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
🔗 Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow! Register now and secure your spot.
#cscs2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
🔗 Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow! Register now and secure your spot.
#cscs2025
International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems
cscs2025.de
March 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🌍 Join Us in Regensburg for an International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems!
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
🔗 Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow! Register now and secure your spot.
#cscs2025
💻 Registration: cscs2025.de
🔗 Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow! Register now and secure your spot.
#cscs2025
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Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image.
➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
February 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image.
➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a