There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

🌿 Kicking off Day 2 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference 🌿 We start with Session 1: Beginnings & Roots Chaired by Diana Santelia (ETH Zürich) & Steve Penfield (John Innes Centre) 👩‍💻 If you’re joining us online, don’t forget to share your questions in the Zoom chat! #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

🌞🔬 Big step for #sustainability in science: Today the Max Planck Campus at @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social inaugurated new #SolarPower systems – including a 6,000 m² agri-PV plant. Thank you to @manjaschuele.bsky.social & @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de for making this milestone possible!

Embyophytes what’s up #iamabotanist

New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th! Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱 #algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization

Happy to share our new paper out today in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social in collaboration with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @akihisaosakabe.bsky.social about how evolution can do big things with small changes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From initially finding botany classes boring to leading cutting-edge seed development research at the Max Planck Institute. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo's journey shows how the right mentors can transform your relationship with plant science. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience

Nous proposons un sujet de stage de Master 2 à Strasbourg @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @unistra.fr pour étudier les conséquences de l’uridylation, une modification post-transcriptionnelle, sur le métabolisme des ARNm au cours de la germination des graines. www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/app/uploads/... #PlantSciences

I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction

Bringing home seeds or plants from your holiday? 🌿✈️ You might also import something smaller ! 🦠 Some viruses travel light... but cause heavy damage. Don’t plant trouble. #PlantHealth #PlantVirology

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser! Here is a thread to explain the premises 1/

last call! submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!

Of the 10 defense systems originally discovered in Doron et al 2018, Kiwa was one of the last to be studied - until now Kiwa is a membrane-embedded complex activated in phage attachments sites to degrade phage DNA A nice study by the Nobrega lab

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Final call! Registration for Plants & People 2025 closes July 31! Don’t miss the chance to hear cutting-edge plant science and share your work. 🔗 Register here: plants-and-people.mpg.de/form/registr... #PlantsandPeople #PnP25

🚨 Preprint alert!! Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brilliant new strategy to obtain broad resistance against Potyviruses, and possibly other protease-encoding viruses

A second great talk #ASV2025 by @gesahoffmann.bsky.social, presenting an exciting method to track vertical transmission of viruses

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming Georgina Hernandez Delgado from UNAM, Mexico. Her talk about unraveling novel plant regulators of the common bean was fascinating and sparked some great discussions! A big thank you to @carogutj.bsky.social for hosting and making this visit possible!

Had a great time at MPI-MP Golm - thanks a lot for having me, Marco @incavirus.bsky.social !! Now heading back to Köln to get ready for the IS-MPMI Congress…

A full room for the concurrent session on Plant-Virus Interactions at #2025ISMPMI!!! Thanks @lauramepul.bsky.social , Murilo Zerbini, and @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing - what an amazing line-up of speakers!

Hi everyone! I’m new to Bluesky. At the beginning of the year, I moved to Zurich @UZH_en to start a postdoc with #CyrilZipfel and @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, investigating protein phosphorylation in plants 🌱 If you’re nearby or working on something similar, let’s connect 😀

📢 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠! We’re offering 𝟓 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 in each of our key research areas ... namely also in 🧬 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. ℹ️ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 🔗 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/research/... 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔗 Apply via: spp.uni-potsdam.de/karriere

Fantastic opportunity. Fantastic lab. Quote from PhD student seminar last week "Leonie is THE BEST supervisor, ever." ... neatly summing up the overall sentiment from anyone in her orbit...

New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL ...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.

Thanks to @incavirus.bsky.social for talking about an argonaute protein, that restricts viral infection from parent to progeny in plant gametes.🦠 His team's findings unveil the first known antiviral mechanism of that kind! Thanks as well to @carogutj.bsky.social for hosting the #TRR356 seminar!

Excited about the future of plant epigenetics? Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF... Registration is open! #PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia

Listening to @incavirus.bsky.social 's inspiring and exciting talk. Vertical transmission of virus is regulated by AGO, while I’m curious about its impact on the fitness of the entire holobiome!

#RNA #Virology 🧪 Check out our latest paper! We discovered why inserts in RNA viruses are unstable. RNA viruses have substructures with very specific thermodynamic properties. Hairpin inserts that have the same properties are also stable. So simple yet so profound! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Training week on library preparation by Lavena and Lisa for Sri from @incavirus.bsky.social and Fran & Maaike from ILVO. #virus #planthealth #sequencing Which viruses will we harvest ?

Join the GMI as a Senior Group Leader and contribute to our mission of making fundamental discoveries that enhance our understanding of how plants and other autotrophic organisms function. More information is below.

Probing the gray zone between viruses and transposons, great work @mayavoichek.bsky.social and colleagues!

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

✨ Thank you so much @plantophagy.bsky.social (@gmivienna.bsky.social) for your inspiring talk! Your insights on decoding cellular quality control mechanisms through evolutionary cell biology were truly fascinating.🧬🔬 🙌 A big thanks as well to @thevirusmc.bsky.social & Arun Sampathkumar for hosting!

@gmivienna.bsky.social alumni! Thank you Yasin for the wonderful visit

Development of an inducible DNA barcoding system to understand lineage changes in Arabidopsis regeneration www.cell.com/developmenta...

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

The jetlag disappears when you start sampling in the field (and enjoy delicious meal). Project meeting with Vietnamese colleagues. Financed by ARES-CDD (Belgium) @universitedeliege.bsky.social #PlantHealth #banana

Big congrats to Dr. Qiuci Luo from Ralph Bock’s group at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social for successfully defending her thesis “Exploring plastid-nucleus interactions in the genus Nicotiana through horizontal transfer of plastids”! Time to celebrate—no citations required. 🍾 #PhDComplete

Are you interested in plant evolution? 🦠🌱🫛 Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social for the 4th #EMBO Workshop "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" on November 25-27 2025 Submit your abstract by August 25! #algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #plantevodevo

🌱 Meet our Central Metabolism group led by Alisdair Fernie! Their #research spans a vast field—from the #nutrients crops need to thrive to the essential nutrients plants provide us in return and everything in between💡 Through their work, they aim to combat #hiddenhunger and improve crop yields. 💚

🔬✨ Yesterday’s talk on Phasing #Viruses in #RNA Regulation by Anders Hafrén was absolutely contagious—in the best way! 🧬🔥 A huge thank you for sharing your insights with us! Shoutout to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting 👏

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...