Professor Elliot Meyerowitz

  • Distinguished Associate
  • Laboratory's Inaugural Director (Jan 2011-Dec 2012)
Professor Elliot Meyerowitz

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I was the Inaugural Director of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University from its start in 2011 until the end of 2012. Since then, I have been a Distinguished Associate, acting as co-supervisor of graduate students and postdocs with SLCU group leaders, and a member of the Laboratory Management Board.

Research

Research interests

  • Arabidopsis
  • Stem cells
  • Shoot meristem
  • Biomechanics
  • Computational morphodynamics

The Meyerowitz laboratory studies the development of Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used plant model system that his laboratory (and others) popularised beginning in the early 1980s. Current studies concentrate on the interrelated roles of mechanical and chemical signaling in plant morphogenesis, and on single-cell and spatial transcriptomic approaches to shoot meristem function.

Publications

Selected publications

Plasticity and invariance of Arabidopsis inflorescence and floral shoot apical meristems in response to mineral nutrients Journal article 31 January 2025 bioRxiv Benoit Landrein, Katie Abley, Pau Formosa-Jordan, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Henrik Jönsson, James C. W. Locke Single-nucleus transcriptomics resolves differentiation dynamics between shoot stem cells and primary stem Journal article 8 August 2024 bioRxiv Sebastián R. Moreno, Martin O. Lenz, Elliot M Meyerowitz, James CW Locke, Henrik Jönsson Evolutionary transcriptomics unveils rapid changes of gene expression patterns in flowering plants Journal article 22 January 2026 Cell Christoph Schuster, Alexander Gabe, Hajk-Georg Drost, Ivo Grosse, Ottoline Leyser, Elliot M. Meyerowitz Differential growth is an emergent property of mechanochemical feedback mechanisms in curved plant organs Journal article 16 December 2024 Developmental Cell Ankit Walia, Ross Carter, Raymond Wightman, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Henrik Jönsson, Alexander M. Jones Xyloglucan deficiency leads to a reduction in turgor pressure and changes in cell wall properties, affecting early seedling establishment Journal article 20 May 2024 Current Biology Firas Bou Daher, Leo Serra, Ross Carter, Henrik Jönsson, Sarah Robinson, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, William M. Gray Tethering of cellulose synthase to microtubules dampens mechano-induced cytoskeletal organization in Arabidopsis pavement cells Journal article 18 August 2022 Nature Plants René Schneider, David W. Ehrhardt, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Arun Sampathkumar Cellulose synthase complexes–microtubules interaction hinders mechano-response Journal article 26 August 2022 Nature Plants Arun Sampathkumar and Elliot M. Meyerowitz Molecular mechanism of cytokinin-activated cell division in Arabidopsis Journal article 25 February 2021 Science Weibing Yang, Sandra Cortijo, Niklas Korsbo, Pawel Roszak, Katharina Schiessl, Aram Gurzadyan, Raymond Wightman, Henrik Jönsson, Elliot Meyerowitz A multiscale analysis of early flower development in Arabidopsis provides an integrated view of molecular regulation and growth control Developmental Cell Yassin Refahi, Argyris Zardilis, Gaël Michelin, Raymond Wightman, Bruno Leggio, Jonathan Legrand, Emmanuel Faure, Laetitia Vachez, Alessia Armezzani, Anne-Evodie Risson, Feng Zhao, Pradeep Das, Nathanaël Prunet, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Christophe Godin, Gré Cytoskeletal organization in isolated plant cells under geometry control Journal article 8 July 2020 PNAS Pauline Durand-Smet, Tamsin A. Spelman, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Henrik Jönsson
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