Apparently the "boring billion" was actually exciting! We provide molecular evidence of complex Mesoproterozoic eukaryotic communities. So happy to see this out 🥳 Thanks to @phoebefossil.bsky.social , Hélène Morlon & @fburki.bsky.social for a lovely collab! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Proud to present our work, published today in @science.org! My deepest gratitude to @isabelesain.bsky.social, @evandeturk.bsky.social, Jennifer and our collaborators in the Doudna, Cate, Banfield, and Jacobsen labs, and the @innovativegenomics.bsky.social! I hope you enjoy reading it! ✨

W2 tenure track or W3 Biochemisty of Plants professorship open. www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...

Proud of @filbinci.bsky.social and @gguarneri.bsky.social: A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus academic.oup.com/plphys/artic.... Great collaboration with @lorellanavazio.bsky.social

Excited for the American and Canadian Plant Biology Society meeting in Ottawa-Canada! #PlantBio2026

Jana is an incredible scientist and mentor. I’m excited to see her lab’s work in the coming years, and it has been an absolute privilege to work with her. I highly encourage you to check out her lab!

Happy and excited to grow wheat again 😍🌾

IMHO Not useful in talks- “I hope I was able to convince you today”

Jana combines evolutionary genomics, quantitative cell biology and experimental evolution with exceptional creativity to tackle big questions in cellular evolution. It has been a privilege & a joy to have her in the lab these years - I can’t wait to see what she does next in her wonderful new home

We're recruiting a fungal biologist to our friendly department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel. For details contact our chair. Talented non-Israli applicants are welcome to apply. See below.

Sounds uber cool! Congrats and looking forward to hearing more about Helsen lab discoveries soon.

The greatness of any idea—grant, project, or paper—is capped by the imagination, expertise, and biases of the panel evaluating it. So don’t destroy yourself when it is rejected. And don’t become too arrogant when it succeeds. 🧵 (Too much coffee, forgive the GIFfiness..)

I am starting my lab at the University of Geneva next January! Incredibly excited to soon be joining the MOCEL department as an Asst. Professor. The lab will use evolutionary cell biology to study chromosomes, centromeres & speciation 🧬🔬🌱 Intrigued, want to join or collaborate? 🔗 helsenlab.org

With a bit of delay, but my latest work on engineering a sensor for plant proteolysis was published online in The Plant Cell (1/5).

Is it coming home???

Structural basis of biofilm formation mediated by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa fibrillar adhesin CdrA led by @olivia--smith.bsky.social Collaboration with @alexbateman1.bsky.social , Andres Floto and @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social labs

I'm excited to share that Corgi is out in @natcomms.nature.com! We refine context-aware sequence-to-function models by using FiLM to condition the model on trans-regulator expression levels. This way Corgi can generalize to unseen cell types. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Thread 1/n

Very proud to see this paper out. This is an incredible collaboration with the labs of Wes Sundquist and Adam Frost. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heidelberger Wissenschaftlerinnen im Senat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft: Biologin Karin Schumacher in zentrales wissenschaftliches Gremium der DFG gewählt – Sinologin Barbara Mittler im Amt bestätigt www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universitat #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #DFG #senat

Team science preprint, exploring the capabilities and limitations of Alphafold3 across different application areas, including protein-RNA, protein-lipid, ubiquitination,TCR and antibody recognition with @ninjani.bsky.social @labvanni.bsky.social @dgfeller.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our single-cell atlas paper made the cover 🎉 image by @lbmountain.bsky.social, showing the mature Brachy epidermis in all its beauty. #GoBrachy: yellow is lignin, and blue is cell wall autofluorescence.

Just watched the 1st episode of #Evolution with my daughter. It’s so beautiful! An absolute #MustWatch www.bbcearth.com/shows/evolut...

Now online, our new preprint about asymmetric cell division regulation in the grass leaf: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big congratulations to all co-authors, especially @ncyberwitch.bsky.social, whose thorough analysis pushed this work, including beautiful time-lapse imaging 🌾💪

Evolution with Chris Packham premieres tomorrow on BBC Two and iPlayer! We have been working on this programme for nearly two years, and I am so excited for people to watch it. I am so proud of this project and of our team – here’s a short thread ahead of release! (1/14)

Come on #Zverev ‼️ #WimbledonFinal

#Heidelberg is ready for the 🎆🎇🎆! Not sure how she feels about it? #caturday

I recently did this interview with NEB covering a lot of the work I've been involved with lately (e.g. @dudinlab.bsky.social) Hopefully there's something interesting in there and nothing too egregious! Some of the work fits #protistsonsky. Enjoy? www.neb.com/en-us/podcas...

Job alert 🚨 Two (!!) postdoc positions in plant-virus interactions at University of Amsterdam! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I finally got around to making a lab poster! 🌱 It highlights what @theustunlab.bsky.social is all about: uncovering how #microbes hijack plant #proteostasis & how we can reprogram proteostasis to mitigate stress-induced proteotoxicity. Excited to see where this research takes us! ♻️🔬 #theustunlab

Took me a while, but we finally have a new lab website: ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/ I will do my best to keep this one up to date.

Please check out our new preprint! We find an unexpected role for #CASM in regulating p62 mediated activation of the KEAP1/NRF2 pathway to initiate a cytoprotective antioxidant transcriptional response. More functions for #CASM in responding to lysosome stress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

Not everyday a friend is able to define a new organelle!!! If you like membrane compartimentalization and are interested in how cells responde to stress in membrane tension, check this out!👇👇 Congrats to Elda and co!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share that our Metis story is now published in Science! 🎉 Bacteria can sense phage-induced degradation of their genome and activate immunity. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this work. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More details in my earlier thread 🧵⬇️

Attending @sebiology.bsky.social conference was such a blast! I was thrilled to contribute with a talk and grateful to the organizers of the session, Miriam Gifford, Gabriel Krouk, and Rodrigo Gutierrez, for giving me this opportunity, and I’m honored to have received a talk prize! #SEBconference

Hello world, an award for the whole @blackinplantsci.bsky.social community. Sharing this with trailblazer and researchers I admire since my PhD about 20+ years ago is an honour. Thanks to those that nominate me as rep from the whole team.

We are excited to announce that @berasymbionts.bsky.social's group is fully operational at TSL, with their beetles now happy in the insectary! Aileen's research program focuses on the three-way molecular dialogue between fungi, insects and plants 🍄‍🟫🪲🌱 Full video here: buff.ly/PEk4PAJ

"The dream of every cell is to become two cells." - François Jacob, paraphrasing Jacques Monod.

See the In brief article by Jan Hübbers about our recent publication @theplantcell.bsky.social "Baiting blast fungi: An engineered NLR domain improves effector recognition" academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

Interested in how plant stem cells can strive in the harshest environments? Read @thomasgreb.bsky.social and my review of plant stem cell robustness: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share that we secured our first #NWO grant www.nwo.nl/en/news/56-g...

The ever amazing Steve Henikoff! @fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org

Proud to present the lab's latest work. The full structure of the sodium translocating methyltransferase (Mtr) bound to a small oxygen-responsive small protein MtrI. Work by Tristan and together with @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social . www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.657420v1

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 🌱👩‍🎓👩‍🔬👩‍💻

Our group is moving from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to the maritime city of Kiel! ⛵️🩵 I will lead the Department of Marine Plant Development and Physiology @uni-kiel.de 🌱🪸🌊 Look out for opportunities to join us in this exciting & growing hub for Plant, Marine & Evolutionary Biology in North Germany 🇩🇪

I'm so thankful to @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social for the Community Impact award, shared with @yoselin.bsky.social & Sterling Field. www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/.... It's especially sweet as I'll retire from ASPB Dec 31, 2026. I'm leaving my job so I'll have more time for my work 😉

Congratulations & all the very bests with setting up the department!!!

Our new paper with lead and corresponding author Luis Yañez-Guerra on placozoan monoamine GPCRs and the "Prebilaterian origin of monoaminergic signaling" […] [Original post on biologists.social]

We are excited to invite all current and former members of the Kamoun Lab, together with their lab members and our collaborators to the Kamoun Lab Alumni Meeting on Monday, 7 September 2026 ahead of the ECPP and BSPP at the Assembly House, Norwich.