Joint group meeting with Anja Geitmann and Anne-Lise Routier labs at IRBV
18 September 2025
Every 2 years, we meet together to present and discuss our research.
Photo by Anja Geitmann
New paper in Nature Plants
26 March 2025
Anther paper is published in Nature Plants!
Silveira, Collet et al.,
“Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis“
New doctor in the lab!
5 March 2025
Wenye defended her Ph.D. thesis with distinction! Well deserved.
Welcome to two new Ph.D. students
6 January 2025
Ayanava will work on gynoecium initiation and symmetry changes in collaboration with Laila Moubayidin at the University of Parma in Italy.
Jun’s research will focus on the rapid elongation of stamen filaments in Arabidopsis, in collaboration with Jason Reed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
We made a cover again at Plant Physiology
1 October 2024
Constance’s paper is highlighted on the cover of Plant Physiology!
Le Gloanec et al., “Modulation of cell differentiation and growth underlies the shift from bud protection to light capture in cauline leaves“
Lab retreat in Tadoussac
5-8 September 2024
We went for a joint lab retreat with Routier’s lab to Tadoussac, enjoying whale watching, hiking and climbing!
Lab meeting with the Kierzkowski Lab
22 Mai 2024
Our lab was highlighted by “The Node” in their blog series “Lab Meetings”.
Meet our lab.
Paper on gynoecium development published in Nature Communications
1 April 2024
Our paper was published in Nature Communications
Gomez Felipe et al., 2024: “Two orthogonal differentiation gradients locally coordinate fruit morphogenesis“.
Good job Andrea and others!!!
Welcome Rachelle and Alexis
1 May 2024
Rachelle Fontaine and Alexis De Carufel joined us for their internships. Rachelle will work on growth dynamics in the shoot apical meristem in the frame of her Mater 2 internship. Alexis will spend his summer exploring leaf development. Bienvenue a vous deux !!!
Amelie joins the lab
5 January 2024
Amelie Bauer joined our lab a s postdoctoral fellow to work on valve margin development. Welcome Amelie !!!
Lab presenting at CSPB meeting
1 December 2023
We attended the Canadian Society of Plant Biology, Easter Regional Meeting at Concordia. Wenye, Vishwadeep, and Constance gave talks and Sylvia chaired a session.
Constance defended her Ph.D. thesis
27 October 2023
Constance successful defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Le Gloanec, and good luck in Singapore!!!
New lab picture with Routier’s lab
10 October 2023
Vishwadeep joins the lab
5 September 2023
Vishwadeep Mane from the Utpal Nath lab at the Indian Institute of Science joins our team as a visiting Ph.D. student. He works on understanding leaf and cotyledon development using TCP transcription factors. Welcome Vishwadeep!
Welcome Benjamin
5 September 2023
Benjamin Lapointe starts his Ph.D. He will work on leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Welcome Ben!
Wenye presenting her work at ACPB meeting in Prague
28 June 2023
Wenye’s abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the “Auxin and Cytokinin in Plant Development” meeting in Prague.
Constance get an excellence bursary from the UdeM
20 September 2022
Constance Le Gloanec was one of the three students from our department to get the excellence bursary for Ph.D. students. Congratulations Constance!!!
Our work was presented at the Plant Organ Growth and Form in Heidelberg
15 September 2022
Sylvia and Daniel presented our work on flowers at Plant Organ Growth and Form Conference in Heidelberg, Germany
Paper on cell growth variability in plants published in Development
26 July 2022
Our paper was published in Development.
Le Gloanec et al., 2022: “Cell type-specific dynamics underlie cellular growth variability in plants”.
A special congratulation to Constance for her first research paper!!!
We have the first cover!
4 February 2022
First cover from the lab. Congratulations Sylvia and others!!! “Live-imaging provides an atlas of cellular growth dynamics in the stamen”
Stamen’s development paper was published in Plant Physiology
2 August 2021
The first research paper from the lab is now published. Congratulations Sylvia and others!!! “Live-imaging provides an atlas of cellular growth dynamics in the stamen”
Sylvia’s work on stamen development presented at conferences
June-July 2021
Three oral presentations about our work on stamen development: two talks selected from abstracts by Sylvia Silveira at the Canadian Society of Plant Biology Conference 2021 and Botany 2021; plenary lecture by Daniel Kierzkowski at FASEB 2021 Mechanisms in Plant Development.
Andrea and Binghan join the team
01 January 2021
Andrea Gomez Felipe starts her postdoc and Binghan Wang her Ph.D. in our lab. Both will work on organ diversity in Brasicaceae.
Emilie is now Master of Science. Congratulation!!!!
15 November 2020
Emilie Echevin from Anne-Lise Routier Lab, co-supervised by Daniel Kierzkowski is the fist student graduating from the lab. She has obtained her Master’s degree in Biology. Congratulations, Emilie 🙂
Elvis joins the lab
01 July 2020
Elvis Branchini, graduate student from University of Montreal joins us for his summer internship financed by NSERC. Elvis will be working together with Sylvia on filament elongation, at the moment remotly from home…
Stefan de Folter visit
21 February 2020
It was a pleasure to host Stefan de Folter from CINVESTAV in Mexico. Great scientific discussions and exciting collaborations to come!
First group picture
13 February 2020
Our first group picture together with Anne-Lise Routier lab. A perfect occasion to say welcome to Wenye and Andrea! (photo: Dave Smith)
Bienvenido Andrea
15 January 2020
Andrea comes from Stefan de Folter’s lab at LANGEGIO, Irapuato, Mexico. She is studying the AGAMOUS and cytokinin relationship in early floral development.
Bem-vindo Sylvia!
27 October 2019
Sylvia Silveira joint our lab as postdocs. She will aim to understand the influence of elevated temperature on growth and development of lateral organs in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Daniel presenting the leaf growth project at Cinvestav UGA – Langebio, Mexico
22 October 2019
Thanks, Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, for the invitation and great discussions!
Emilie presenting her work at the Plant Canada 2019 meeting in Guelph
9 July 2019
Our paper in Cell was highlighted by Science Magazine editor!
17 June 2019
“Studying plant leaves, Kierzkowski et al. use live imaging and computational modeling to deconstruct the growth patterns of a simple leaf compared with those of a complex dissected leaf. Both sorts of leaf use the same tools for growth.”
Hines PJ (2019) “Simple rules generate complex shapes.” Science 364, 1044-1045. Reprint
Daniel teaching at the EMBO practical course in Nagoya
10 September 2018
Our new paper about the development and diversity of leaves is now out in Cell
30 May 2019
Quantitative modulation of the common developmental program yields leaf shape diversity in Brasicaceae.
Kierzkowski D., Runions A., Vuolo F., Strauss S., Limbouridou R., Routier-Kierzkowska A-L., Wilson-Sanchez D., Jenke H, Galinha C., Mosca G., Zhang Z., Canales C., Dello Ioio R., Huiser P., Smith RS., Tsiantis M. (2019) “A Growth-Based Framework for Leaf Shape Development and Diversity.” Cell 177, 1405-1418. Reprint
Check out our new review on growth and biomechanics of lateral organs.
30 April 2019
Congratulations to Emilie and Constance for their first publication.
Echevin E., Le Gloanec C., Skowrońska N., Routier-Kierzkowska A-L., Burian A., Kierzkowski D. (2019) “Growth and biomechanics of shoot organs.” Journal of Experimental Botany 177, 1405-1418. Reprint
Emilie wins a picture competition at the IRBV. Congrats!
09 April 2019
The shoot apical meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana
Daniel together with Anne-Lise Routier (IRBV) and Frederick Gosselin (PolyMTL) wins a highly competitive New Frontiers in Science grant
1 April 2019
Title: “Towards resilient flowers in a changing environment: How plants regulate the growth of their male organs?”
A collaborative paper with George Bassel Lab is now published
9 January 2019
On the cover: Optical cross-section of the Arabidopsis thaliana shoot apical meristem (SAM) imaged using live-cell confocal microscopy. Cell outlines are visualized by a fluorescent plasma-membrane marker.
Jackson M., Duran-Nebreda S., Kierzkowski D., Strauss S., Xu H., Landerain B., Hamant O., Smith R., Johnston I., Bassel G. (2019) “Global topological order emerges through local mechanical control of cell division in the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem.” Cell Systems 8, 53-66. Reprint
Bienvenue Constance!
15 January 2019
Constance Le Gloanec has joined the lab as a first Ph.D. student. She will be working on the understanding of the development of lateral organs in Brassicaceae.
Stipule development uncovered
26 October 2018
Organ proportions in leaves depend on endoreduplication controlled by LMI1 homeodomain protein.
Vuolo F., KIerzkowski D., Runions A., Hajheidari M., Mentink R., Das Gupta M., Zhang Z., Vlad D., Wang Y., Pecinka A., Gan X., Hay A., Hujser P., Tsiantis M. (2018) “LMI1 homeodomain protein regulates organ proportions by spatial regulation of endoreduplication” Genes & Development 32, 1361-1366. Reprint
Our review with Anne-Lise is published
9 OCTOBER 2018
We discuss recent progress in our understanding of the cellular basis of growth in plants from the biomechanical perspective.
Kierzkowski D., and Routier-Kierzkowska A-L. (2019) “Cellular Basis of Growth in Plants: geometry matters.” Current Opinion in Plant Biology 47, 56-63. Reprint
Bienvenido Saul!
10 September 2018
Welcome to Saul Jimenez, a visiting Ph.D. student from the National Autonomous University of Mexico who came working with us thanks to the ELAP fellowship.
Mainak Das Gupta talk
25 MAI 2018
Mainak Das Gupta from Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (Cologne, DE) visited the lab and presented his work on gradients in leaf growth and shape.
Welcoming Zoe and Constance
16 APRIL 2018
Welcome to Zoe and Constance – two new master students in the lab.
Our picture published in Nature!
23 JANUARY 2018
Daniel’s picture of Cardamie hirsuta leaf primordium used to highlight how the advances in imaging are reviving the art of looking at plants.
Ledford H. (2018) “The lost art of looking at plants.” Nature 553, 396-398. Reprint
Sepal growth data published in Development
28 NOVEMBER 2017
Our time-lapse growth tracking used by Chun-Biu Li Lab to understand how cellular variability in growth might contribute to organ shape.
Tsugawa S. et al., (2017) “Clones of cells switch from reduction to enhancement of size variability in Arabidopsis sepals.” Development 144, 4398-4405. Reprint
Rishi Bhalerao and Kristoffer Jonsson visit
25 NOVEMBER 2017
Fantastic talks at IRBV by Rishi and Kristoffer from Umea Plant Science Center (Sweden). They have visited the lab to discuss collaborations and learn how to use the MorphoGraphX software.
A new paper in Plant Physiology
01 SEPTEMBER 2017
Our time-lapse data helped to understand how the number of the petal primordia is regulated by temperature in Cardamine hirsuta.
McKim S. et al., (2017) “Seasonal regulation of petal number.” Plant Physiology 175, 886-903. Reprint
Daniel joined the IRBV!
03 JULY 2017
After completing his postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne (Germany), Daniel has joined the Plant Biology Research Institute (IRBV) in July 2017 as a faculty member (photo: Dave Smith).
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