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Shoutout to yesterday’s guest @eswallner.bsky.social, who visited us from @gmivienna.bsky.social for her talk “Lessons from sporeling development: How to form plant organs and meristems de novo?” - fascinating perspective on plant development!🌱 Thanks as well to @thevirusmc.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic

📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-... We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Reviews by @zakisaati.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Recruitment of SERK co-receptors determines signaling specificity within the systemin peptide family https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705698v1

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.

Interesting. Very similar barley eLRRP proteins had been identified as susceptiblility factors and discussed as structural mimics of AtBAK1 or rice OsSEK2. doi.org/10.1111/mpp....

On the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience at the ZMBP we interviewed Trang Phan and Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social Check how they became plant biologists and their advice to ECRs! 🌱 (and follows us on 👇) www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...

Dihydroxyhexanoic acid biosynthesis controls turgor in pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Cool story from @meristemania.bsky.social lab on growth-defense tradeoff at the shoot apical meristem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Multi-omics analyses of mutants for Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA and MARIS reveal a link between cell wall integrity and abscisic acid responses url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

CPK28 was already present in the first land plant, and presents a paradox: the Marchantia version can perfectly replace the Arabidopsis version for immunity, but does not seem to participate to immunity in Marchantia ... A lot more molecular data here => www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New OA Resource: "Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity" rdcu.be/e29Ro ...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

Introducing The Structural History of Eukarya (SHE): The first proteome-scale phylogeny constructed entirely from 3D structure. We computed 300 trillion alignments across 1,542 species to map the tree of life. 🧵👇 (1/5)

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word! www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

⚙️🦠 REVIEW 🦠⚙️ Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner

Fantastic opportunity to join this exciting new group led by @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social . Cryo-ET of infection-related development in pathogenic fungi - including rice blast - an exciting, game-changing prospect. Apply below 👇

Take a look at @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social's thread🔽 Congrats to @karimaelm.bsky.social, @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social and all coauthors of this work, which is the 1st GWAS in a non vascular plant, highlighting the ability of liverworts to use fungal genes to defend themselves ... against fungi !

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

In just two months, we’ll host our 4th yearly departmental symposium! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Malcolm Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and Margot Smit (from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social), alongside hands-on workshops, poster speed dating, and group talks. 👥🌱👥Can’t wait! 🎉

Multi-omics analyses of mutants for Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA and MARIS reveal a link between cell wall integrity and abscisic acid responses url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

📢 Job alert! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, junior group leader at #ZMBP, has 2 open positions (PhD and postdoc) to investigate appressoria formation in plant pathogenic #fungi using #cryoEM and #cryoET #EmmyNoether #MPMI #plantscijob More info 👇

🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥 Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬 interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688

And who is this root endophyte? #Trichoderma 💚🍄‍🟫

A new blog is out on our website! 📄 Go check it out! Diego Sanchez Ganfornina from @sandyheth.bsky.social's lab talks about the field work he just completed in Scotland. He is trying to generate a lycophyte living collection – likely UK’s largest! 🌿 biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...

ECRs in plant–microbe interactions: Join us in Norwich for an intensive, interactive 1.5-week Summer Conference at TSL (20–31 July). Lots of opportunities for networking and deep discussions. (We also plan to offer hands-on practical sessions using our technologies 🔬🧬)

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

NEW H. H. Flor Distinguished Review: "The Extended Plant Immune System," by Corné M. J. Pieterse. Read the open access review in MPMI: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-10-25-0144-HH

Proximity labeling users: check out this study by @zhixingchen2.bsky.social and Peng Zou, which establishes how much contact-dependence vs. diffusion is responsible for biotinylation — tl;dr TurboID has a much smaller effective radius! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2

📣 Our lab is seeking a postdoc to study mutation mechanisms in fungi using cutting-edge sequencing + computational biology. No active posting/grant right now, but we’re excited to host postdoc fellowship applicants in our comparative immunology team. Interested? Reach out DM email. krasilevalab.org

The first hybrid meeting of “the Fellowship of MUMEI (木霉)” took place in Göttingen ❄️ We discussed the terminology of #Trichoderma (木霉)-plant interactions, shared ideas and established new collaborations. Thanks Irina Druzhinina @rbgkew.bsky.social for leading and Annette Pfordt for hosting 🍄‍🟫💚🌱

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.

My mom, Silvia, is my hero. Living abroad while everything is on fire is difficult, but at least I know she is there taking care of the forest. www.vertices.com.ar/contenido.ph...

🧵1/3 I created this free 37-hour course, distributed across 10 lectures, to introduce AI-based protein design. For more information about the course and its specific topics, please visit the official course page:

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Xu et al.

Got my PhD yesterday! Had a great discussion during my viva and I'm truly grateful for the support from my supervisors + examiners + friends and peers at TSL. Where I am today has been shaped by all of you — and exciting journeys ahead! 🎓✨

Congratulations, Dr @hsuanpai.bsky.social! Well done! 🥳🥳🥳 Thanks for the invitation, @kamounlab.bsky.social. It is always nice to discuss science with friends and colleagues @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social

With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, Karima El Mahboubi and Facundo Romani highlight the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution. doi.org/10.1242/bio.... #MeetingReview #NonSeedPlants #EvoDevo

This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience

🌱🌱🌱 Laurier Biology ( @laurierbiology.bsky.social ) is excited to host Dr. Tom DeFalco ( @westernu.ca ) on Friday (Jan 23rd). He will be delivering his seminar on plant receptor kinases at 2:30 PM EST. Please DM for the Zoom registration link! Hope to see you there.