The Plant-PATH Center hosted an informal get-together in Aarhus to celebrate the center’s official opening date, bringing together colleagues from our two groups at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, as well as visiting researcher Assia Khalild from our satellite group at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Pedersen lab's international collaborator, Prof. David Stokes, from NYU.

Over coffee and a custom-made cake featuring the Plant-PATH logo (as delicious as it was beautiful!) we celebrated not only the center’s upcoming launch but also the collaborative spirit that drives our research forward.

Moments like these, whether shared across continents through visits between our Aarhus and Brussels groups, or simply enjoyed over brunch with colleagues just down the corridor, are essential. They create space for conversations, strengthen trust, and help build the personal connections that form the foundation for successful, long-term partnerships.

With the center’s official opening ceremony coming up soon, we look forward to many more opportunities to bring people together, and to advancing our shared mission of understanding how hormone transport shapes plant growth and development.