Simon Stael

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 meetings.embo.org/event/26-calci… @charpentier_lab

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 doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

Registration for the 7th International Plant Protease Conference is now open! #pp2026 #plantprotease #plantproteolysis Check out the website for more info and registration: plantprotease.org

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thank you for the mention, Maddy Seale @ScienceMagazine. Here are additional images of light focused by water droplets, captured by Jenny Svennås-Gillner @_SLU. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Many thanks to Madeleine Seale (@ScienceMagazine) for highlighting our recent collaborative work with @SimonStael in Current Biology @CurrentBiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here, we dissect the processing and release mechanism of the maize phytocytokine Zip1. Our results reveal a two-step mechanism of phytocytokine processing, translocation, activation and clearance. Ty @gun_doe @SimonStael @JohanaMisas and everyone involded biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We found that high light can trigger calcium responses in the chloroplast stroma, cytosol and ER, dependent on photoinhibition, ROS formation, and temperature, revealing an unexpected connection between ER and stromal calcium pools!

What started as a 'funky' observation back in 2017 while visiting the lab of @lab_costa and after skilfull execution of @DominicKwong11, @RomandShanna, and many more, now found a home in Current Biology. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@KamounLab @_SLU Thank you for coming over and delivering such an inspirational lecture on our 'How to choose a scientific problem' course!

Thank you Simon @SimonStael for hosting me today in Uppsala to talk to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences @_SLU students about GOHREP and how to science in general. Great discussions!

High time to do something about this! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

H+ drives ultra-fast root-to-root responses to wounding biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

@KAWstiftelsen @_SLU Thanks for the excellent support and opportunities the Wallenberg Academy Fellow offers! 🐛🐝🌱

@SimonStael researcher @_SLU wants to find out how #plants manage to survive damage to help them survive even better in the future. He also wants to create more selective pesticides #KAW100 #research #science #biology youtu.be/SrcvNhQfJEc

Join us in shaping the scientific program of #ICAR2025 in in Ghent 🇧🇪 by organizing one of the 18 Concurrent Sessions or 8 Workshops! €1000 available to support organizer costs! Apply before October 21st 2024 More info icar2025.com

Excellent work from the lab by @DominicKwong11 and @RomandShanna !

Curious about how high light affects chloroplast and ER Ca²⁺ dynamics in plants? @schwarzland_lab @DanielVanDamme1 @lab_costa @SimonStael #PlantBiology #Chloroplasts #CalciumDynamics #Arabidopsis #LightResponse #ScienceTwitter biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

First time traveling by boat to the conference :) . Looking forward to some great talks on #photosynthesis at #EMA2024