Here’s the press release by @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for our newest publication 🧬✨ “Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection” How pathogens rewire host translation via condensates 🔄🌱 #plantscience #proteostasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our first Kalanchoë laxiflora story found its perfect home @Science Advances with a beautiful cover image of Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaves. I am grateful that I can continue working with this incredible new model to learn more about succulent development 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New method paper from Alberto Caregnato and former PhD student @hohmannulrich.bsky.social. A tailored crystallisation screen for plant receptor kinase ectodomains, with examples from our lab and from @cellsensing.bsky.social. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hope to see all of you (again) at our international #BT2026 organized by #MBP2026 @molplantsci.bsky.social co-host Christopher Grefen 📍 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de in Bochum, Germany. 📆 6 – 10 September 2026 bsky.app/profile/plan...

And here are this year’s winners of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Poster are: - Gali Araguirang - University Hamburg - Sophie Farkas - University Freiburg - Nazanin Mahouram Mashhadi - University Berlin #MBP2026

Our First preprint 🌱 about a new Component of the Autophagic Network identified in Pi-deprived root tips is online ❣️ All I wished for Valentine's day 😀 #proudPI#autophagy#rootPiSensing#plantproteolysis

The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇 Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

Another paper of @elkebarbez.bsky.social team, out this month. Check it out

Cool new preprint on cell wall charge and iron by @elkebarbez.bsky.social . Congrats to all involved.

🌿 GreenLabShare Freiburg New platform for sustainable lab practices at the University of Freiburg: 🔁 Laboratory exchange platform ♻️ Recycling and disposal infos ✅ Tips for everyday lab work 💬 Exchange & community 👉connect, recycle & grow! 🗓️ 24 March 2026 at 10:30 greenlabshare.uni-freiburg.de

New Article! Quantitative imaging of apoplastic pH in plant roots via confocal microscopy

On our way to setup the #MBP2026 meeting hosted by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social. Super excited to meet all the wonderful peeps & 🤓 about #plantscience for a few days. See you all soon.

#Ligand-binding site predictor 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬 How can lasers help identify immune cells? How do we know if there are changes in DNA? And how can we track proteins inside cells? Recently, 21 motivated students visited CIBSS to explore these questions and experience signalling research hands-on. 🧪🔬 🔗 kurzlinks.de/1rab

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

Two papers on apoplastic pH visualisation coming out together – a nice double pack from @aroessling.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

How does iron availability reshape the root cell wall? @paulinarm.bsky.social (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social lab) showed how iron levels influence pectin chemistry and how the receptor THESEUS1 may link cell wall status to iron responses in Arabbidopsis roots. 📅 Feb 27 #PlantScience

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @newphyt.bsky.social study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics doi.org/10.1111/nph....

The Cell Wall as a Biophysical Gatekeeper of Iron Homeostasis in Plant Roots Yesterday, Chenlu Liu (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social group) revealed how dynamic cell wall charge regulates iron uptake in plant roots, acting as a reversible ion filter that shapes nutrient balance. #PlantScience

Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social! You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here: doi.org/10.1093/plph... But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

‘It was an honor to meet Minister Olschowski and share how the vision of CIBSS to decode decision-making in living systems holds great promise for sustainable agriculture and human health.’ - Prof. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, who together with Prof. Sonja Albers presented our Cluster’s research. 1/5

Gestern tauschte sich Ministerin Petra Olschowski mit der Uni-Leitung zur strategischen Weiterentwicklung der #unifreiburg aus – und würdigte sie als Leuchtturm der baden-württembergischen #Wissenschaftslandschaft. @mwk-bw.bsky.social ufr.link/besuch-petra-olschowski

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dr. Jessica Werthmann und Dr. Fritz Renner (Institut für #Psychologie) erhalten einen von zehn Ig-Nobelpreisen. Ausgezeichnet werden sie für ihre Studie „Dutch Courage“, in der sie untersuchen, ob eine geringe Menge Alkohol das Sprechen in einer Fremdsprache verbessern kann. ufr.link/ig-nobelpreis

Starting our first @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience seminar series of the academic year with a thank you by @elkebarbez.bsky.social for postdoc appreciation day, chocolates and a talk by @beritebert.bsky.social on cell walls and glycans!

The discovery of genes underlying interesting traits for #PlantBreeding is one of the most important & difficult tasks here @kwsgroup.bsky.social. We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist to help us with this! #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

Das Konsortium #DataPLANT @nfdi4plants.bsky.social unter Leitung der #Unifreiburg entwickelt seit 2020 Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne #Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die @dfg.de die Förderung bis 2028 verlängert. ➡️ ufr.link/dataplant-foerderung @fz-juelich.de

It was fun to have Katharina, Grace, and Jonathan around in the @elkebarbez.bsky.social and @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social labs! 🌱 It was great to discuss and explore the world of plant signalling together! #Jugendforscht #PlantScience #CIBSS

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Hormonal regulation of root growth under moderately elevated temperatures’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Tilman Jacob and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/7) 👉 doi.org/ps8z @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social #AoBpapers #PlantScience #Roots #Botany