Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social

PhD Student @unibern IPS | she/her
Studying stomatal development in grasses 🌾
Human Rights | Feminism | Climate Justice |

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

It still feels surreal that this journey has come to an end💚
I'm am beyond grateful to have had the most supportive mentors @HeikeLindner and @MichaelRaissig and wonderful colleagues in the Stomata group @unibern.
I'll miss everyone dearly! 🌾🔬

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

Congratulations, Dr. Spiegelhalder! 🌾🥳🔬🎓
We are all very proud of @roxy_spi for successfully defending her thesis and sad to see her leave. We will miss Roxy dearly, both as a scientist and a colleague!
I wonder if it ever gets easier to see people leave the lab...

[Development @Dev_journal]

Dual role of BdMUTE during stomatal development in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

Read this #OpenAccess #DevSIDiversity Research Article by @roxy_spi, @lbmountain, @MichaelRaissig and colleagues @unibern @OeschgerCentre:

https://t.co/TpL9N2yit8

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

🌾Job Alert🌾
Interested in grass stomatal diversity and climate change resilience?
@roulinlab @SteniBocker and we are looking for a postdoc (2 + 1 years) - GWAS & modelling
Details: https://t.co/haxcQM7Itq
Related papers here: https://t.co/PrF4KXwkbl and https://t.co/9kieoReJOi

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

🌾Job Alert🌾
Interested in grass leaves and cell polarity?
Looking for a protein biochemistry postdoc (2 years) to employ Co-IP and proximity labelling to identify interactors of polarity proteins.
Details here https://t.co/nhyHrqj0zc
Related paper here https://t.co/FeaVI9wk3w

[Thelma Madzima, Ph.D @thelma_madzima]

“Change takes time” - they say

It’s been a 100 freakin years. Doesn’t look like they are trying to change

After almost a century of exclusion, Black plant biologists don’t have much to celebrate

[Michelle Facette @facette_lab]

Black, Indigenous and Latinx scientists are underrepresented, especially so in plant science. If anyone wants hard data, please look at Figure 1 in Drs. Madzima's & MacIntosh's paper:
https://t.co/YQ7Hex2mcW

This video simply illustrates it.

What should we, as a community, do?

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

Huge thanks to Co-first author @lbmountain and to the amazing supervisors @HeikeLindner and @MichaelRaissig (the OG BdMUTE fan!). Also big thanks to @TiagoDGNunes, Barbara and @Mela_Doerr starting this journey at @UniHeidelberg so we could continue at @unibern

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

Excited to share our new #preprint on BdMUTE and its dual role in recruiting subsidiary cells (SCs) and orienting guard cell (GC) division in #Brachypodium: https://t.co/A2W41kfDWe
We set out to answer questions about how BdMUTE influences grass stomatal development: (1/8)

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

Finally, we saw that the dose-dependent rescue of GC and SC formation in sid/bdmute-1 by 3xGFP-BdMUTE was mirrored in a gradual complementation of stomatal physiology - linking once more SC presence and GC morphology to the improved kinetics of graminoid stomata. (7/8)

[QueersInScience @QueersInScience]

It's International Non-Binary People's Day today! 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️

Thread below about non-binary identities, cisnormativity, and binaries in STEMM, with a challenge for you, day-to-day reflections, and actions in your institute, meeting and research!

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[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

Good Bye #IBC2023 - Hello #IBC2025

Very excited to announce that the International Brachypodium Conference 2025 will be in Switzerland!

Stay tuned for updates regarding dates, location and program!

#BrachyGoesSuisse

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

So thankful for the chance to share my work with,& to hear so many diverse and brilliant talks from the amazing #Brachypodium community at #IBC2023 in Hammamet, Tunisia

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

Stomata Biology group going strong in the development session at #IBC2023- @lbmountain presenting her single-cell leaf atlas, @roxy_spi showing off her beautiful guard cell morphogenesis mutant and @PaolaRuizDuart1 presenting our @HFSP project - well done lab #proudmentor

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

Stomata Biology group going strong in the development session at #IBC2023- @lbmountain presenting her single-cell leaf atlas, @roxy_spi showing off her beautiful guard cell morphogenesis mutant and @PaolaRuizDuart1 presenting our @HFSP project - well done lab #proudmentor

[Xin Cheng @XinCheng0521]

Very proud and happy to see my first paper is online now!🤩🥳 Please check our work here

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

happy to chat about science and my work on grass stomatal development at poster 58 during the poster sessions🌾
#PlantResearch23

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

Second day kick off with inspiring talks by Stephen P. Long talking about the future of crop yield and food security and exciting miRNA research by @Xuemei_RNAlab
#PlantResearch23 @CRAGENOMICA

[Roxane Spiegelhalder @roxyspi.bsky.social @roxy_spi]

followed up by exciting talk by @cristicris09 about flower termination🌼
up now: learning a lot about mechanistic of plant endocytosis from Daniel Van Damme