@fibbio.bsky.social

PhD student in Multiscale Integrative Biology (UniMi) at Molecular Imaging of Plants Lab

🌱🌿Plants entusiast and science addicted🥼🔬

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Article: "Directional water transport system resolves fertilization–dispersal conflicts in Marchantia" https://t.co/iPdZSoGpnO

In Marchantia, the female reproductive structure evolved a directional water transport system to ensure fertilization success on land.

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

How does a predatory fungus build a trap to capture a nematode? New work by @fungi_worms lab reveals how prey signals reorganize conserved polarity and cytoskeletal machinery to redirect hyphal growth, form a trap, & then switch gears to penetrate the prey https://t.co/GncIA9NDq5

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Too much water can be a challenge for plants, too! 🌱💧 Our new Spotlight in Molecular Plant explores how COSR channels link hypoosmotic stress to Ca²⁺ signaling.

Happy to share this piece with Matteo Grenzi and Yang Zhao!

https://t.co/unXxZwmmu4

[Nikon Microscope Solutions @NikonInst]

🌱✨ One of the fascinating examples featured in our recent webinar by Professor Alex Costa showed how a wound to a single leaf can trigger a calcium signal that spreads throughout the entire Arabidopsis plant.

🎥Watch the full recording on our website: https://t.co/cWBPUjxnJ6

[The Plant Cell @ThePlantCell]

Papaver S-determinants trigger mitochondrially derived ROS production and disrupt energy metabolism in incompatible pollen tubes (Ludi Wang , An-Shan Hsiao , José Carli , et al) https://t.co/35BBowsufT @ASPB #PlantSci

[Società Italiana di Biologia Vegetale @sibv_it]

Workshop on Plant Bioloy 2026!

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Registration is now OPEN for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Calcium Signaling 2026!

Dive into cutting-edge research on Ca²⁺ signaling in plants 🌿

📍 Primosten, Croatia | 🗓️ 20–24 September 2026

https://t.co/xz41A0i5Jz

@charpentier_lab

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Out now in @ScienceAdvances our new work @lab_costa @AndreaBassi78: MAcro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Science Advances https://t.co/4DHOXTKSeC

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from @lab_costa! 🎄✨ Thanks to all our collaborators, colleagues, and friends for a great year together.

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @NewPhyt study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics
@SimonStael
https://t.co/U6ynNMGeCW

[nature @Nature]

Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection

https://t.co/4BX9Tm3HAY

[Amey Redkar @RedkarAmey]

What if we could watch pathogenesis in real time? Our collab with @tapomoy89, jointly led by Syona @syonaphyceae and Sree @padmanabh97, shows how soil-like 3D regimes reshape our understanding of plant-fungal interactions!
https://t.co/O0CiqUR7QX @NCBS_Bangalore

[Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama_ryo]

A cytosolic glyoxylate shunt complements the canonical photorespiratory pathway in Arabidopsis https://t.co/wFslmveBJp @NatureComms

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from @lab_costa! Wishing you joy, success, and good luck for an amazing 2025!

[Wei Zhang @MoranSCU]

One of my major postdoc work paper out: Machine learning-based identification of general transcriptional predictors for plant disease
https://t.co/4KukB0SVWI

[Plant Physiology @PlantPhys]

MID1-COMPLEMENTING ACTIVITY regulates cell proliferation and development via Ca2+ signaling in Marchantia polymorpha (Megumi Iwano, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Ryuichi Nishihama, Sakiko Ishida, Tomoaki Horie, Alex Costa, et al.) https://t.co/jFfMf4xSxB @lab_costa @ASPB #PlantSci

[dr. kelsey wood @klsywd]

Making my way downtown https://t.co/97RvBaQUkP

[Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama_ryo]

MurA-catalyzed synthesis of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate confers glyphosate tolerance in bryophytes | PNAS https://t.co/ZYRoIObuvx @PNASNews

[Apostolos Pekas @ApostolosPekas]

Phytoseiulus persimilis the most important spider mite predator
A female can eat 20 spider mite eggs/day
Lays up to 5 eggs/day
She´s blind; detects prey via plant volatiles released under spider mite attack
P. persimilis only controls spider mites mainly those producing dense web

[Razvan Borza @rborza_]

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