Kang Wang
kangwang08.bsky.social
Kang Wang
@kangwang08.bsky.social
Plant scientist in the Coupland lab at MPIPZ 🌱 | Flowering, inflorescence development & vernalization in Arabidopsis and Arabis alpina | Annual–perennial life-history evolution
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📣📣Paper Alert! New paper @nature.com from the Marques group @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues on Rhynchospora tenuis - 🌿a plant that reproduces sexually but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA🧬 Congratulations! 👏 🥳 Read more👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-marques-2...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis - Nature
Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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On Thursday we announced the award of 421 Starting Grants to outstanding early-career researchers across Europe.

To illustrate the variety of supported research, we selected three projects proposed by researchers based in Poland, Germany & Spain.

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September 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Inheritance rules can be outdated and inflexible - not reflecting modern realities - leading to family conflict, uncertainty, & injustice.

Dorota Miler will examine creative solutions offered by rules in Central Europe.

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🇪🇺 #ERCStG University of Gdańsk
September 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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📣 Please share!
We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5
September 7, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Navigating shoot apical meristem plasticity for plant adaptation

#TansleyReview by Zhu et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience
September 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Sharing an opportunity for young researchers in Europe 🌱

Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) will host the South Lake Forum for International Young Scholars at IPS2, Paris-Saclay on 15 September 2026.

📩 CV: [email protected]
🚆 Travel support is available for invited scholars.
September 2, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Our article “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis” is now published in @natcomms.nature.com. Link: rdcu.be/fBZ3S.
What an exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab! @mpipz.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social #PlantDevelopment #criticality
August 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM