Thanks to all the speakers and participants in the "Plant Robustness from molecules to ecosystems" session at the #SEB2026 conference! Exciting science and great discussions sponsored by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and our Excellence Cluster @greenrobust.de 🌱 with @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social

Had a lovely time participating in this @sebiology.bsky.social session on plant robustness excellently organized by @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social Thanks for inviting me! @greenrobust.de @uuplants.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

Are you attending the #SEBconference in person? Come join @katherinedenby.bsky.social, @thepallavisingh.bsky.social and myself for @theplantjournal.bsky.social fellows session. We will discuss about career development, postdoc-to-PI transition and publishing! Today at 13:00 in the Onice room 🌱👩‍🎓👩‍🔬👩‍💻

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Marchantia clearly knows where the good spots are! 😊 Thanks a lot for a fantastic week in the field. Doing and discussing science with you and the incredibly skilled students from @terra-cluster.org is a true pleasure

Happy to share some of the auxin Marchantia research we've been working on for a while with @fromani.bsky.social and @jimhaseloff.bsky.social. We confirm long standing suspicions that stem cells in Marchantia exist in an auxin concentration/signalling minimum, and potentially a cytokinin maximum.

Today marks a major milestone for my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We got our first member! I am really excited to welcome @d-moser.bsky.social. She will bring her expertise in cryo-ET data processing to solve the mechanisms of plant invasion by fungal pathogens 🧊🔬🌾🍄 Follow her and stay tuned!

Wonderful fieldwork week for our #TERRA project on Greenhouse gas emissions in Alpine #Peatlands in 🇦🇹 with @sciencesigrid.bsky.social et al. Big thanks to @mhanusch.bsky.social for helping us with the bryophytes identification! And guess what? #Marchantia loves it up here 🥰

My PhD thesis has been submitted and reviewed, and my PhD defence is on the horizon! But today I start my next chapter as a postdoc in the Molecular Plant Immunity lab led by @clemmar.bsky.social at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! Here I will continue to dive into the form & function of plant NLRs 🌱

🎙️ TERRAnauts Kira Rehfeld & Andreas Schweiger join „Exzellent erklärt" to talk soils, plants and climate — and the one-of-a-kind field experiment „Diversitorium". 🎧 exzellent-erklaert.podigee.io (German Language) | terra-cluster.org #exzellenterklaert #TeamTERRA #podcast

1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen

Do you have a discovery ready to bloom? Great ideas deserve room to grow, and #PlantResearch26 is where they can take root. The clock is ticking: your research could be the seed that sparks one of our selected talks. Submit your abstract by midnight: vibbio.tech/4obX8Qi #VIBConf

Our latest work on immune receptor engineering for enhanced pathogen recognition is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... #NLRs #Effectors #Exo70

Don’t forget to submit your abstract by June 25! ⚠️That is two days away ⚠️4/4 🧵 More information at vibbio.tech/PlantResearc... @psb-vib.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @vibtrainconf.bsky.social

Thrilled and grateful to receive an ERC Adv Grant! 🎉 We will explore how the endoplasmic reticulum contributes to plant ☘️ cell-to-cell communication 📞. 🤝 Thanks to my team, collaborators, and @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social. More details 👇 www.aquitaine.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Looking for an efficient way to clone and purify your proteins? Check out our new Vector-Set with lots of different tags, especially useful for GreenGate users. Including a low-cost DIY HRV3C-protease (PreScission) purification strategy. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Thanks to the organizers @cristicris.bsky.social and Miguel Blázquez for a truly inspiring conference bringing together plant #evolution and plant #biotechnology 😍 Looking forward to the next🌱 Severo Ochoa Conference @sebbm.bsky.social

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

What an amazing #IS3DV conference (isdv2026.com) in Ilhéus, Brazil! A big thanks to Murilo Zerbini&team for the fantastic organization — we’re looking forward to IS3DV 2029 in Málaga! (ssDNA virus enthusiasts, stay tuned!) @lauramepul.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

It worked! Our Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social community supports the approval of NGTs (see the small bottom image from 2 years ago) 🌱

The first fatty acid-binding structure in a “G-type lectin domain” among plant PRRs has been verified! A new LORE paper is out from Ranf lab at TUM in Germany and University of Fribourg in Switzerland and @antonelladipizio.bsky.social at TUM : doi.org/10.64898/202... Here are some cool highlights:

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology 📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social Start: 1 April 2027 Application deadline: 10 July 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Marchantia has two RBOHs. Double mutant = disorganized cell mass. Conditional mutant analyses show they are required to sustain morphogenesis via cuticle-cell-wall integrity. Clever study. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Randall loves the Devonian Mystery Tower too

As seen on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: our story on how the dreaded late blight pathogen hijacks a helper NLR pathway is now out in its final form! 🎉 Meet AVRcap1b: the two-faced effector 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here is our contribution to this lovely special issue. Together with talented PhD students Gabriel and Mung Hsia, we discussed when and how pattern-triggered immunity had been established in plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @watertoland.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social

Cool special issue on plant evolution just dropped at @currentbiology.bsky.social our 2 cents: Fruits of tons of fun discussions with the one and only Susana Coelho: www.cell.com/current-biol... Reflections on evolution of auxin response with @jorgehg.bsky.social : www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5

So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵 and link to the original preprint thread on X👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share that I will start my lab this summer as an ECL Unit Leader at RIKEN CSRS! We will study perception by cell-surface receptors across diverse plant species. I’ll be recruiting soon, so please reach out if you’re interested!

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC

🌿🧬 Large duplications create overlapping expression. Small duplications create asymmetric divergence. Dosage sensitive genes stay conserved #plantscience @theplantcell.bsky.social @almeidasilvaf.bsky.social @yvdp.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Our latest review on the evolution of molecular networks involved in the development of plant conducting tissues is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

thought-provoking talk on soil persistence by @mrillig.bsky.social at the New Phytologist workshop “From deep time to living networks: the evolution of plant–microorganism interactions”

Happy to announce that I have started my own research group at the MPIPZ and that I am looking for a postdoc who would like to investigate Marchantia prothallus development with me! Please spread the word and/or apply if interested :)

Berlin: Verleihung der Humboldt-Professur in Strukturbiologie an Sebastian Deindl 👏 durch Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär (links) und Robert Schlögl, Präsident der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… @humboldt-foundation.de

@khongsamchia.bsky.social Extremely excited to share the first pre-print from my PhD project in the Carella lab, co-first authored with @khongsamchia.bsky.social 🎉 (Thread below ⬇️) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to all co-authors and the #CarellaCapybaras for all the support 😊

Preprint Alert 🚨 @philcarella.bsky.social lab stepping into TIR-ritory!! Project started by me but finished by talented PhD student @ebkennedy.bsky.social (Please follow her), with contribution from Zhao He and @jonathandgjones.bsky.social We investigated EDS1-dependency of TIR domain. See thread👇

geneML: Gene annotation across diverse fungal species using deep learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725946v1

Team effort from @fxrico.bsky.social, Oded, Pierre, Andrea, @hmchen93.bsky.social, Larissa now out in @pnas.org The Kelch phosphatase BSU1 is a PP1-like serine/threonine phosphatase involved in cell cycle regulation, not a tyrosine phosphatase in brassinosteroid signaling 👍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...