Check out this exciting online and FREE mini symposium on roots, featuring not one but two Freiburg-based @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social talks by @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social and @kevindaniel.bsky.social 🌱

@fxrico.bsky.social deleted the single BSU1 gene in Marchantia, resulting in a mass of undifferentiated cells & strong patterning defects. Cell cycle markers are highly active in the thallus. Our data point to a function for Kelch phosphatases in the cell cycle not in BR signaling (6/6).

Our new year starts of course with new preprint on brassinosteroid signaling tinyurl.com/nhzcfkxd. We re-analyzed the function of Kelch phosphatases, which were previously characterized as protein tyrosine phosphatases that dephosphorylate the critical pTyr200 in the GSK3 kinase BIN2. (1/6)

Evolution of protein domains and protein domain combinations provides insights into the origin and diversification of land plants www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

The plant circadian clock exerts stronger control over the diel proteome than the transcriptome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695194v1

We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Plant Pathology seeks candidates for the Ethel and O.N. Allen Chair of Phytobacteriology at all levels. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m excited to share a new preprint from Carella group #CarellaCapybaras! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In this study, we show molecular co-evolution of two popular nonhost resistance genes in plants, RAR1 and SGT1, in ferns. For a quick read before Christmas, here’s the thread:

Transcriptomic prey-capture responses in convergently evolved carnivorous pitcher plants Wakatake and Fukushima nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

Congratulations to Mingming Fang on successfully defending his PhD! Completed at @mpipz.bsky.social in the lab of Miltos Tsiantis — all the best for what’s next! 🎉👏 #PhDone #NewDoctor #PlantScience

We are looking far and wide for this position! So if you are motivated, interested in academia, and want to explore the world of plant-virus interaction, we are ALSO happy to host you for a PhD! More detail below🔽☘️🦠

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Excited to share our work at @natcomms.nature.com We used single cell proteomics to define the functional heterogeneity of human neutrophils in glioblastoma, finding pro and anti-tumorigenic effector states invisible to scRNAseq. SCP will revolutionise immunology, this is just the start

We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

A SABATH family enzyme regulates development via the gibberellin-related pathway in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693594v1

Very inspiring keynote talk by Stefan Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social at today’s UK NonSeed Plant Meeting. It was an inspiring day, and I am so glad I could be part of it! Thanks again for the invitation @philcarella.bsky.social 💚

A photo from Marchantia meeting 12 years ago

New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity: the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs #MPMI #ZMBP

Non-seed science is accelerating forwards at a truly impressive rate. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for an awesome #nonseedUK25 meeting, and to @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for agreeing to organise #nonseedUK26 in Edinburgh - looking forward to it 👍

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-univ...

Safe from harm...🥽 PSI photoinhibition can occur under various environmental (light and temperature) conditions. Sonoike reviews the different types of PSI photoinhibition documented to date, & the counter mechanisms of protection #PlantScience 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Junior Professorship Plastid Homöostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany. #plantscijob #PlantSciJobs www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...

Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants. Bonn, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Unser Biologe Jan de Vries erhält einen #ERC Consolidator Grant für das Projekt StreptoProgram. Sein Team untersucht, wie die Evolution alte Gene zu Netzwerken kombiniert hat, die frühen Pflanzen das Leben an Land ermöglichten. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!

🌱⚖️ RESEARCH ⚖️🌱 In Marchantia, amyloplasts function as statoliths in parenchymatous storage cells and play an important role in gravitropism; but gravitropism is not entirely abolished in the absence of starch granules - Hashimoto-Sugimoto et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...

Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience

Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692956v1

Last one of the year: CRK2 controls the localisation of other RLKs to plasmodesmata. Great collaboration with @grandpahiro.bsky.social @rople.bsky.social and Ivan Kulich - thank you for the help and great collaboration!

Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha #Marchantia #EvoMPMI academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

Coordinated action of CRK2 and QSK1 regulate osmotic stress response in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692923v1

MarpolBase #Marchantia academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint from my group on the roles of CRK2 in controlling symplastic transport @zeineradam.bsky.social

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

Happy to share that our new study is now published online in @newphyt.bsky.social We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

I really enjoyed the opportunity to hear Mark Estelle, Maarten Koornneef & @plantevolution.bsky.social speak about their careers at the recent @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social #PlantScience Awards. As always on such occasions, I found myself looking up the old papers mentioned. I compiled them here 🧵👇

Aspiring PhD candidates: do not miss this opportunity to join a great mentor and awesome project!!! Bonus: it is in Amsterdam

We are hiring! There is a PhD-position available in my group on environmental signal integration in plants. @swammerdamuva.bsky.social More information: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...