News

Multiple connections between heat, auxin and peptide signaling in shoots. Read about it here!

Final version of CLAVATA/immunity receptor module paper from Biorxiv out  in Nature Plants with new data!

New shared mechanism for immune and CLE peptide receptor regulation up in Biorxiv, great collaboration with Zipfel and Hardtke labs! Read more here.

New lab paper out in PNAS on peptide mediated control of root cell division! Read here.

New paper from lab in Current Biology on interplay between peptide signaling, environment, and auxin mediated flowering! Read about it here.

Cool story out from Jaillias lab and friends, on receptors and auxin responses  in gravitropism. 

Beeckman led project on MAPKs and Golven peptides - check it out here.

CLE peptide networks in vascular development, cool story with Etchell and Brady labs out now!

New work from NSF Plant Genomes project collaboration. Plants back up their circuits for stem cells, but in different ways - read about it here.

Peptides and hormones in epidermal patterning...read more in September 6 Developmental Cell!

New insight into evolution of plant stem cell receptors with Roeder and Harrison labs out in Current Biology now!

Check out our new review on Genome Editing with Cas9 in plants!
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Excellent new tool for analyzing CRISPR mutants with Kieber lab's Charlie Hodgens!
indCAPS

Peptides and CRISPR with the Ingram lab! Read more here.

Interested in imaging shoots on an inverted confocal? Check out our new publication:
Live Imaging of Shoot Meristems

Our PLOS Genetics paper was selected as a recommended new finding article by the Faculty of 1000.   https://f1000.com/prime/727455039

Zack was a panelist at the 4th UNC Clean Tech Summit held March 2nd – 3rd at the UNC Friday Center on the “How the Revolution in Genomics is Improving our Food Security” panel.

Welcome to t​he Nimchuk Lab


​Our lab studies plant development and the signaling pathways that regulate stem cell function in plants. All plant development originates from stem cells located in discrete locations throughout the plant. Like in animals, plant stem cells exist in an undifferentiated state. Stem cells divide and give rise to new stem cells but also to cells that differentiate to form the myriad of different cell types that comprise the plant. Our lab is interested in understanding how stem cell populations are specified, maintained and how they balance proliferation and differentiation.  Our lab uses the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and other plants to study stem cell regulation. We use genetics, biochemistry, live imaging, cell biology and genome editing to uncover the function of genes and proteins in these signaling pathways.​