Alex Costa
@lab_costa
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Editorial Board @PlantCellEnvir and @Facultyopinions #Calcium #signaling #Arabidopsis #organelles #PCS2022
Via Celoria, 26 20133 Milano
Joined December 2016
Many congratulations to Giorgia and Fabio on their successful Master’s thesis defense in Plant Science! 🥳🌱 🎉🎉🎉"
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Heat Stress Phenotyping: A Key for Plant Selection in a Warming Climate. 🌱🔥 Check out this new review exploring how plants respond to rising temperatures, and how phenotyping can help us select resilient varieties. @FraResentini @mendeslab and more!.
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Coordinated control of calcium signaling by CPK3 and CaM2 via CNGCs in.
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RT @dikshabishtt: It was extremely informative and insightful to attend a wonderful COST Action microscopy training school at University of….
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RT @sci_plant: The CATION CALCIUM EXCHANGER 4 (CCX4) regulates LRX1-related root hair development through Ca2+ homeostasis . .
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The CATION CALCIUM EXCHANGER 4 (CCX4) regulates LRX1-related root hair development through Ca2+ homeostasis
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Calcium, as a cellular second messenger, is essential for plant growth. A tip-focused Ca2+ gradient in polarized cells is considered to drive cell expansion. The cell wall polysaccharide pectin is a...
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Many thanks to Madeleine Seale (@ScienceMagazine) for highlighting our recent collaborative work with @SimonStael in Current Biology @CurrentBiology .
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The Ca2+ Channel CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL13 (CNGC13) regulates systemic wound signalling. - #ScholarAlerts.
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Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses | Science
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) function as key signals in plant adaptation to environmental stresses, such as drought. Roots respond to transient water unavailability by temporarily ceasing branching...
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Thrilled to share that Stefano Buratti has been awarded the Fratelli Confalonieri Postdoctoral Fellowship! He'll be joining my lab @LaStatale to develop innovative tools for exploring plant–environment interactions. Congratulations, Stefano!
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Evolutionarily conserved BON1 regulates the basal cytosolic Ca2+ level by calmodulin-independent activation of Ca2+ pumps in Arabidopsis | PNAS
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Plasma membrane-localized autoinhibited Ca2+ pumps are essential for maintaining basal cytosolic Ca2+ levels for regulating growth processes and en...
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I am happy to see that I can contribute to supporting the scientific community, not only through my research but also by using the expertise that I have gained to help improve other works @Nature @NaturePlants @NatureComms
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RT @stephenmarek2: Dictyostelium on the cover!.Pattern formation along signaling gradients driven by active droplet behavior of cell swarms….
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Cellular calcium homeostasis and regulation of its dynamic perturbation | Quantitative Plant Biology | Cambridge Core -
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Cellular calcium homeostasis and regulation of its dynamic perturbation - Volume 6
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The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma!. New paper out in @CurrentBiology, a great collaboration with @SimonStael and other great collaborators.
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RT @SimonStael: What started as a 'funky' observation back in 2017 while visiting the lab of @lab_costa and after skilfull execution of @Do….
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RT @FraResentini: Very happy to have had the chance to talk about calcium signaling in mitochondria at the 2nd RECROP Annual Meeting. 🪴 @Re….
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Interested in plant Ca2+ imaging? If you have (or are about to earn) a PhD, consider joining our @lab_costa at @LaStatale as a Postdoc. A great opportunity to grow your expertise in a vibrant research environment!.Feel free to contact me to discuss applications to the MSCA
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Rain gone, smiles remain. A photo that reflects my gratitude for a lab that grows with passion. ☔☔🌈🌈🌈
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