@article{975,
  abstract     = {Recent numerical work by Bardarson, Pollmann, and Moore revealed a slow, logarithmic in time, growth of the entanglement entropy for initial product states in a putative many-body localized phase. We show that this surprising phenomenon results from the dephasing due to exponentially small interaction-induced corrections to the eigenenergies of different states. For weak interactions, we find that the entanglement entropy grows as ξln (Vt/), where V is the interaction strength, and ξ is the single-particle localization length. The saturated value of the entanglement entropy at long times is determined by the participation ratios of the initial state over the eigenstates of the subsystem. Our work shows that the logarithmic entanglement growth is a universal phenomenon characteristic of the many-body localized phase in any number of spatial dimensions, and reveals a broad hierarchy of dephasing time scales present in such a phase.},
  author       = {Maksym Serbyn and Papić, Zlatko and Abanin, Dmitry A},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
  number       = {26},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Universal slow growth of entanglement in interacting strongly disordered systems}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.260601},
  volume       = {110},
  year         = {2013},
}

@misc{9751,
  abstract     = {High relatedness among interacting individuals has generally been considered a precondition for the evolution of altruism. However, kin-selection theory also predicts the evolution of altruism when relatedness is low, as long as the cost of the altruistic act is minor compared to its benefit. Here, we demonstrate evidence for a low-cost altruistic act in bacteria. We investigated Escherichia coli responding to the attack of an obligately lytic phage by committing suicide in order to prevent parasite transmission to nearby relatives. We found that bacterial suicide provides large benefits to survivors at marginal costs to committers. The cost of suicide was low because infected cells are moribund, rapidly dying upon phage infection, such that no more opportunity for reproduction remains. As a consequence of its marginal cost, host suicide was selectively favoured even when relatedness between committers and survivors approached zero. Altogether, our findings demonstrate that low-cost suicide can evolve with ease, represents an effective host-defence strategy, and seems to be widespread among microbes. Moreover, low-cost suicide might also occur in higher organisms as exemplified by infected social insect workers leaving the colony to die in isolation.},
  author       = {Refardt, Dominik and Bergmiller, Tobias and Kümmerli, Rolf},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{Data from: Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection}},
  doi          = {10.5061/dryad.b1q2n},
  year         = {2013},
}

@misc{9754,
  abstract     = {Short-read sequencing technologies have in principle made it feasible to draw detailed inferences about the recent history of any organism. In practice, however, this remains challenging due to the difficulty of genome assembly in most organisms and the lack of statistical methods powerful enough to discriminate among recent, non-equilibrium histories. We address both the assembly and inference challenges. We develop a bioinformatic pipeline for generating outgroup-rooted alignments of orthologous sequence blocks from de novo low-coverage short-read data for a small number of genomes, and show how such sequence blocks can be used to fit explicit models of population divergence and admixture in a likelihood framework. To illustrate our approach, we reconstruct the Pleistocene history of an oak-feeding insect (the oak gallwasp Biorhiza pallida) which, in common with many other taxa, was restricted during Pleistocene ice ages to a longitudinal series of southern refugia spanning theWestern Palaearctic. Our analysis of sequence blocks sampled from a single genome from each of three major glacial refugia reveals support for an unexpected history dominated by recent admixture. Despite the fact that 80% of the genome is affected by admixture during the last glacial cycle, we are able to infer the deeper divergence history of these populations. These inferences are robust to variation in block length, mutation model, and the sampling location of individual genomes within refugia. This combination of de novo assembly and numerical likelihood calculation provides a powerful framework for estimating recent population history that can be applied to any organism without the need for prior genetic resources.},
  author       = {Hearn, Jack and Stone, Graham and Barton, Nicholas H and Lohse, Konrad and Bunnefeld, Lynsey},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{Data from: Likelihood-based inference of population history from low coverage de novo genome assemblies}},
  doi          = {10.5061/dryad.r3r60},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{976,
  abstract     = {Motivated by a search for experimental probes to access the physics of fractionalized excitations called spinons in spin liquids, we study the interaction of spinons with lattice vibrations. We consider the case of algebraic spin liquid, when spinons have fermionic statistics and a Dirac-like dispersion. We establish the general procedure for deriving spinon-phonon interactions, which is based on symmetry considerations. The procedure is illustrated for four different algebraic spin liquids: π-flux and staggered-flux phases on a square lattice, π-flux phase on a kagome lattice, and zero-flux phase on a honeycomb lattice. Although the low-energy description is similar for all these phases, different underlying symmetry groups lead to a distinct form of spinon-phonon interaction Hamiltonian. The explicit form of the spinon-phonon interaction is used to estimate the attenuation of ultrasound in an algebraic spin liquid. The prospects of the sound attenuation as a probe of spinons are discussed.},
  author       = {Maksym Serbyn and Lee, Patrick},
  journal      = {Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
  number       = {17},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Spinon-phonon interaction in algebraic spin liquids}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevB.87.174424},
  volume       = {87},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{342,
  abstract     = {Morphology is a key parameter in the design of novel nanocrystals and nanomaterials with controlled functional properties. Here, we demonstrate the potential of foreign metal ions to tune the morphology of colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles. We illustrate the underlying mechanism by preparing copper selenide nanocubes in the presence of Al ions. We further characterize the plasmonic properties of the obtained nanocrystals and demonstrate their potential as a platform to produce cubic nanoparticles with different composition by cation exchange. © 2013 American Chemical Society.},
  author       = {Li, Wenhua and Zamani, Reza and Ibáñez, Maria and Cadavid, Doris and Shavel, Alexey and Morante, Joan and Arbiol, Jordi and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {4664 -- 4667},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Metal ions to control the morphology of semiconductor nanoparticles: Copper selenide nanocubes}},
  doi          = {10.1021/ja400472m},
  volume       = {135},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{343,
  abstract     = {The bottom-up assembly of nanocrystals provides access to a three-dimensional composition control at the nanoscale not attainable by any other technology. In particular, colloidal nanoheterostructures, with intrinsic multiphase organization, are especially appealing building blocks for the bottom-up production of nanocomposites. In the present work, we use PbTe-PbS as the model material system and thermoelectricity as the paradigmatic application to investigate the potential of the bottom-up assembly of core-shell nanoparticles to produce functional nanocomposites. With this goal in mind, a rapid, high-yield and scalable colloidal synthetic route to prepare grams of PbTe@PbS core-shell nanoparticles with unprecedented narrow size distributions and exceptional composition control is detailed. PbTe@PbS nanoparticles were used as building blocks for the bottom-up production of PbTe-PbS nanocomposites with tuned composition. In such PbTe-PbS nanocomposites, synergistic nanocrystal doping effects result in up to 10-fold higher electrical conductivities than in pure PbTe and PbS nanomaterials. At the same time, the acoustic impedance mismatch between PbTe and PbS phases and a partial phase alloying provide PbTe-PbS nanocomposites with strongly reduced thermal conductivities. As a result, record thermoelectric figures of merit (ZT) of ∼1.1 were obtained from undoped PbTe and PbS phases at 710 K. These high ZT values prove the potential of the proposed processes to produce efficient functional nanomaterials with programmable properties. © 2013 American Chemical Society.},
  author       = {Ibáñez, Maria and Zamani, Reza and Gorsse, Stéphane and Fan, Jiandong and Ortega, Silvia and Cadavid, Doris and Morante, Joan and Arbiol, Jordi and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {ACS Nano},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {2573 -- 2586},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Core shell nanoparticles as building blocks for the bottom-up production of functional nanocomposites: PbTe PbS thermoelectric properties}},
  doi          = {10.1021/nn305971v},
  volume       = {7},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{344,
  abstract     = {Copper-based selenides are attracting increasing interest due to their outstanding optoelectronic and thermoelectric properties. Herein a novel colloidal synthetic route to prepare Cu2SnSe3 nanocrystals with controlled size, shape and composition is presented. The high yield of the developed procedure allowed its up-scaling to the production of grams of colloidal Cu2SnSe3 nanocrystals. These nanocrystals were used as building blocks for the production of Cu2SnSe3 bulk nanostructured materials by spark plasma sintering. The thermoelectric properties of the prepared nanocrystalline Cu2SnSe3 pellets were characterized in the temperature range from 300 to 720 K. The obtained results show the bottom-up production of nanocrystalline materials from solution-processed nanocrystals to be a potentially advantageous alternative to conventional methods of production of efficient thermoelectric materials.},
  author       = {Ibáñez, Maria and Cadavid, Doris and Anselmi Tamburini, Umberto and Zamani, Reza and Gorsse, Stéphane and Li, Wenhua and López, Antonio and Morante, Joan and Arbiol, Jordi and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of Materials Chemistry A},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {1421 -- 1426},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Colloidal synthesis and thermoelectric properties of Cu 2SnSe3 nanocrystals}},
  doi          = {10.1039/C2TA00419D},
  volume       = {1},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{351,
  abstract     = {A multistrategy approach to overcome the main challenges of nanoparticle-based solution-processed Cu2ZnSnSe4 thin film solar cells is presented. We developed an efficient ligand exchange strategy, using an antimony salt, to displace organic ligands from the surface of Cu 2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles. An automated pulsed spray-deposition system was used to deposit the nanoparticles into homogeneous and crack-free films with controlled thickness. After annealing the film in a Se-rich atmosphere, carbon-free and crystalline Cu2ZnSnSe4 absorber layers were obtained. Not only was crystallization promoted by the complete removal of organics, but also Sb itself played a critical role. The Sb-assisted crystal growth is associated with the formation of a Sb-based compound at the grain boundaries, which locally reduces the melting point, thus promoting the film diffusion-limited crystallization. },
  author       = {Carrete, Alex and Shavel, Alexey and Fontané, Xavier and Montserrat, Joana and Fan, Jiandong and Ibáñez, Maria and Saucedo, Edgardo and Pérez Rodríguez, Alejandro and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {43},
  pages        = {15982 -- 15985},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Antimony-based ligand exchange to promote crystallization in spray-deposited Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells}},
  doi          = {10.1021/ja4068639},
  volume       = {135},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{352,
  abstract     = {The presence of organic ligands on the surface of colloidal nanoparticles strongly limits their performance in technological applications where charge carrier transfer/transport plays an important role. We use metal salts, matched with the nanoparticle composition, to eliminate the surface organic ligands without introducing extrinsic impurities in the final nanomaterial. The potential of the simple, general and scalable processes presented here is demonstrated by characterizing the thermoelectric properties of nanostructured Ag2Te produced by the bottom up assembly of Ag2Te nanocrystals. A 6-fold increase of the thermoelectric figure of merit of Ag2Te was obtained when organic ligands were displaced by AgNO3. The same procedure can enhance the performance of nanocrystals and nanocrystal-based devices in a broad range of applications, from photovoltaics and thermoelectrics to catalysis.},
  author       = {Cadavid, Doris and Ibáñez, Maria and Shavel, Alexey and Durá, Oscar and López De La Torre, Marco and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of Materials Chemistry A},
  number       = {15},
  pages        = {4864 -- 4870},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Organic ligand displacement by metal salts to enhance nanoparticle functionality: Thermoelectric properties of Ag inf 2 inf Te}},
  doi          = {10.1039/C3TA01455J},
  volume       = {1},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{353,
  abstract     = {We report a procedure to prepare highly monodisperse copper telluride nanocubes, nanoplates, and nanorods. The procedure is based on the reaction of a copper salt with trioctylphosphine telluride in the presence of lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide and oleylamine. CuTe nanocrystals display a strong near-infrared optical absorption associated with localized surface plasmon resonances. We exploit this plasmon resonance for the design of surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensors for unconventional optical probes. Furthermore, we also report here our preliminary analysis of the use of CuTe nanocrystals as cytotoxic and photothermal agents.},
  author       = {Li, Wenhua and Zamani, Reza and Rivera Gil, Pilar and Pelaz, Beatriz and Ibáñez, Maria and Cadavid, Doris and Shavel, Alexey and Alvarez Puebla, Ramon and Parak, Wolfgang and Arbiol, Jordi and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {19},
  pages        = {7098 -- 7101},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{CuTe nanocrystals: Shape and size control, plasmonic properties, and use as SERS probes and photothermal agents}},
  doi          = {10.1021/ja401428e},
  volume       = {135},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{376,
  abstract     = {The compositional versatility of I2–II–IV–VI4 tetrahedrally-coordinated compounds allows for accommodating their functional properties to numerous technological applications. Among them, Cu2ZnSnSe4 is an emerging photovoltaic material and Cu2CdSnSe4 displays excellent thermoelectric properties. The third compound of this family, Cu2HgSnSe4, remains relatively unexplored. Herein, a synthetic route to produce Cu2HgSnSe4 nanoparticles with narrow size distribution and controlled composition is presented. Cu2HgSnSe4 nanoparticles were subsequently used as building blocks to produce bulk nanocrystalline materials, whose thermoelectric properties were analyzed. A very preliminary adjustment of the material composition yielded Seebeck coefficients up to 160 μV K−1, electrical conductivities close to 104 S m−1 and thermal conductivities down to 0.5 W m−1 K−1.},
  author       = {Li, Wenhua and Ibáñez, Maria and Zamani, Reza and García Castelló, Nuria and Stéphane, Grosse and Cadavid, Doris and Prades, Joan and Arbiol, Jordi and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {CrystEngComm},
  pages        = {8966 -- 8971},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Cu2HgSnSe4 nanoparticles: synthesis and thermoelectric properties}},
  doi          = {10.1039/C3CE41583J},
  volume       = {44},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{378,
  abstract     = {Until recently, to prepare nanocrystals of a new material, scientists searched their shelves for the appropriate molecular precursors, surfactants, and solvents. They then optimized the reaction conditions for the atoms to self-assemble into monodisperse nanocrystals (1). This approach is being replaced by a simpler strategy, in which preformed nanocrystals serve as templates to produce nanoparticles with a different composition through chemical transformation. On page 964 of this issue, Oh et al. (2) report a powerful mechanism that allows the composition of oxide nanoparticles to be transformed in solution and at low temperatures.},
  author       = {Ibáñez, Maria and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Science},
  number       = {6135},
  pages        = {935 -- 936},
  publisher    = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
  title        = {{All change for nanocrystals}},
  doi          = {10.1126/science.1239221},
  volume       = {340},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{450,
  abstract     = {Understanding the relative importance of heterosis and outbreeding depression over multiple generations is a key question in evolutionary biology and is essential for identifying appropriate genetic sources for population and ecosystem restoration. Here we use 2455 experimental crosses between 12 population pairs of the rare perennial plant Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides (Asteraceae) to investigate the multi-generational (F1, F2, F3) fitness outcomes of inter-population hybridization. We detected no evidence of outbreeding depression, with inter-population hybrids and backcrosses showing either similar fitness or significant heterosis for fitness components across the three generations. Variation in heterosis among population pairs was best explained by characteristics of the foreign source or home population, and was greatest when the source population was large, with high genetic diversity and low inbreeding, and the home population was small and inbred. Our results indicate that the primary consideration for maximizing progeny fitness following population augmentation or restoration is the use of seed from large, genetically diverse populations.},
  author       = {Pickup, Melinda and Field, David and Rowell, David and Young, Andrew},
  journal      = {Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences},
  number       = {1750},
  publisher    = {Royal Society, The},
  title        = {{Source population characteristics affect heterosis following genetic rescue of fragmented plant populations}},
  doi          = {10.1098/rspb.2012.2058},
  volume       = {280},
  year         = {2013},
}

@article{2438,
  abstract     = {The colored Tverberg theorem asserts that for eve;ry d and r there exists t=t(d,r) such that for every set C ⊂ ℝ d of cardinality (d + 1)t, partitioned into t-point subsets C 1, C 2,...,C d+1 (which we think of as color classes; e. g., the points of C 1 are red, the points of C 2 blue, etc.), there exist r disjoint sets R 1, R 2,...,R r⊆C that are rainbow, meaning that {pipe}R i∩C j{pipe}≤1 for every i,j, and whose convex hulls all have a common point. All known proofs of this theorem are topological. We present a geometric version of a recent beautiful proof by Blagojević, Matschke, and Ziegler, avoiding a direct use of topological methods. The purpose of this de-topologization is to make the proof more concrete and intuitive, and accessible to a wider audience.},
  author       = {Matoušek, Jiří and Martin Tancer and Uli Wagner},
  journal      = {Discrete & Computational Geometry},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {245 -- 265},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{A geometric proof of the colored Tverberg theorem}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00454-011-9368-2},
  volume       = {47},
  year         = {2012},
}

@article{2439,
  abstract     = {A Monte Carlo approximation algorithm for the Tukey depth problem in high dimensions is introduced. The algorithm is a generalization of an algorithm presented by Rousseeuw and Struyf (1998) . The performance of this algorithm is studied both analytically and experimentally.},
  author       = {Chen, Dan and Morin, Pat and Uli Wagner},
  journal      = {Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications},
  number       = {5},
  pages        = {566 -- 573},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Absolute approximation of Tukey depth: Theory and experiments}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.comgeo.2012.03.001},
  volume       = {46},
  year         = {2012},
}

@article{244,
  abstract     = {We investigate the solubility of the congruence xy ≡ 1 (mod p), where p is a prime and x, y are restricted to lie in suitable short intervals. Our work relies on a mean value theorem for incomplete Kloosterman sums.},
  author       = {Timothy Browning and Haynes, Alan K},
  journal      = {International Journal of Number Theory},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {481 -- 486},
  publisher    = {World Scientific Publishing},
  title        = {{Incomplete kloosterman sums and multiplicative inverses in short intervals}},
  doi          = { https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793042112501448},
  volume       = {9},
  year         = {2012},
}

@inproceedings{2440,
  abstract     = {We present an algorithm for computing [X, Y], i.e., all homotopy classes of continuous maps X → Y, where X, Y are topological spaces given as finite simplicial complexes, Y is (d - 1)-connected for some d ≥ 2 (for example, Y can be the d-dimensional sphere S d), and dim X ≤ 2d - 2. These conditions on X, Y guarantee that [X, Y] has a natural structure of a finitely generated Abelian group, and the algorithm finds generators and relations for it. We combine several tools and ideas from homotopy theory (such as Postnikov systems, simplicial sets, and obstruction theory) with algorithmic tools from effective algebraic topology (objects with effective homology). We hope that a further extension of the methods developed here will yield an algorithm for computing, in some cases of interest, the ℤ 2-index, which is a quantity playing a prominent role in Borsuk-Ulam style applications of topology in combinatorics and geometry, e.g., in topological lower bounds for the chromatic number of a graph. In a certain range of dimensions, deciding the embeddability of a simplicial complex into ℝ d also amounts to a ℤ 2-index computation. This is the main motivation of our work. We believe that investigating the computational complexity of questions in homotopy theory and similar areas presents a fascinating research area, and we hope that our work may help bridge the cultural gap between algebraic topology and theoretical computer science.},
  author       = {Čadek, Martin and Marek Krcál and Matoušek, Jiří and Sergeraert, Francis and Vokřínek, Lukáš and Uli Wagner},
  pages        = {1 -- 10},
  publisher    = {SIAM},
  title        = {{Computing all maps into a sphere}},
  year         = {2012},
}

@inproceedings{2441,
  abstract     = {Eigenvalues associated to graphs are a well-studied subject. In particular the spectra of the adjacency matrix and of the Laplacian of random graphs G(n, p) are known quite precisely. We consider generalizations of these matrices to simplicial complexes of higher dimensions and study their eigenvalues for the Linial-Meshulam model X k(n, p) of random k-dimensional simplicial complexes on n vertices. We show that for p = Ω(log n/n), the eigenvalues of both, the higher-dimensional adjacency matrix and the Laplacian, are a.a.s. sharply concentrated around two values. In a second part of the paper, we discuss a possible higherdimensional analogue of the Discrete Cheeger Inequality. This fundamental inequality expresses a close relationship between the eigenvalues of a graph and its combinatorial expansion properties; in particular, spectral expansion (a large eigenvalue gap) implies edge expansion. Recently, a higher-dimensional analogue of edge expansion for simplicial complexes was introduced by Gromov, and independently by Linial, Meshulam and Wallach and by Newman and Rabinovich. It is natural to ask whether there is a higher-dimensional version of Cheeger's inequality. We show that the most straightforward version of a higher-dimensional Cheeger inequality fails: for every k > 1, there is an infinite family of k-dimensional complexes that are spectrally expanding (there is a large eigenvalue gap for the Laplacian) but not combinatorially expanding.},
  author       = {Gundert, Anna and Uli Wagner},
  pages        = {151 -- 160},
  publisher    = {ACM},
  title        = {{On Laplacians of random complexes}},
  doi          = {10.1145/2261250.2261272},
  year         = {2012},
}

@article{2453,
  abstract     = {Constitutive endocytic recycling is a crucial mechanism allowing regulation of the activity of proteins at the plasma membrane and for rapid changes in their localization, as demonstrated in plants for PIN-FORMED (PIN) proteins, the auxin transporters. To identify novel molecular components of endocytic recycling, mainly exocytosis, we designed a PIN1-green fluorescent protein fluorescence imaging-based forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis thaliana mutants that showed increased intracellular accumulation of cargos in response to the trafficking inhibitor brefeldin A (BFA). We identified bex5 (for BFA-visualized exocytic trafficking defective), a novel dominant mutant carrying a missense mutation that disrupts a conserved sequence motif of the small GTPase, RAS GENES FROM RAT BRAINA1b. bex5 displays defects such as enhanced protein accumulation in abnormal BFA compartments, aberrant endosomes, and defective exocytosis and transcytosis. BEX5/RabA1b localizes to trans-Golgi network/early endosomes (TGN/EE) and acts on distinct trafficking processes like those regulated by GTP exchange factors on ADP-ribosylation factors GNOM-LIKE1 and HOPM INTERACTOR7/BFA-VISUALIZED ENDOCYTIC TRAFFICKING DEFECTIVE1, which regulate trafficking at the Golgi apparatus and TGN/EE, respectively. All together, this study identifies Arabidopsis BEX5/RabA1b as a novel regulator of protein trafficking from a TGN/EE compartment to the plasma membrane.},
  author       = {Feraru, Elena and Feraru, Mugurel Ioan and Asaoka, Rin and Paciorek, Tomasz and De Rycke, Riet M and Tanaka, Hirokazu and Nakano, Akihiko and Jirí Friml},
  journal      = {Plant Cell},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {3074 -- 3086},
  publisher    = {American Society of Plant Biologists},
  title        = {{BEX5/RabA1b regulates trans-Golgi network-to-plasma membrane protein trafficking in Arabidopsis}},
  doi          = {10.1105/tpc.112.098152},
  volume       = {24},
  year         = {2012},
}

@article{2456,
  abstract     = {The third EMBO Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, which focused on ‘Plant development and environmental interactions’,was held in May 2012 in Matera, Italy. Here, we review some of the topics and themes that emerged from the   various contributions; namely, steering technologies, transcriptional networks and hormonal regulation, small RNAs, cell and tissue polarity, environmental control and natural variation. We intend to provide the reader who might have missed this remarkable event with a glimpse of the recent progress made in this blossoming research field.},
  author       = {Beeckman, Tom and Friml, Jirí},
  journal      = {Development},
  number       = {20},
  pages        = {3677 -- 3682},
  publisher    = {Company of Biologists},
  title        = {{Plant developmental biologists meet on stairways in Matera}},
  doi          = {10.1242/dev.080861},
  volume       = {139},
  year         = {2012},
}