Lab survived its first months thanks to these people. LEGO microscopes were a small Christmas token of appreciation 🎉

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”. More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

New lab / new life 🌱 The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹 We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️ Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab. #PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

Very excited to see our review on metacaspases finally out in Cell Death & Differentiation! Grateful for the opportunity to summarise the current state of the field, thanks to everyone involved 🌱🤓

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

🆕 Review by @josejulian.bsky.social on one of my favourite organelles: #vacuole (signaling & biogenesis & quality control) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There's so much exciting stuff waiting to be discovered on these mammoth organelles!

📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls 🧑‍🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al. 📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods

Juan Carlos De la Concepción, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI, is one of the recipients of this year’s Early Career Research Awards, awarded by the Biochemical Society.

The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5 Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw

Congrats to @josejulian.bsky.social from the lab of @plantophagy.bsky.social and all co-authors on this great work uncovering a novel quality control mechanism that protects the vacuole’s integrity upon cell wall damage. Out now @natureplants.bsky.social: 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📜 ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage 🧑‍🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @natureplants.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls

Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…

New Article: "ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage" rdcu.be/d8Y3S ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert! The Dagdas group @plantophagy.bsky.social discovered that the molecule ATG8 protects the vacuole when the cell wall is damaged. This mechanism ensures that the highly pressured vacuole, essential to the plant cell, remains intact. Read more: bit.ly/4aLCZK9

Exciting news! 🌱 With march I will join the BOKU University in Vienna as a tenure-track assistant! My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy. www.thegrosslab.com @bokuvienna.bsky.social #plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky

Congrats on the amazing work! Just what the field was needing right now.

I'm very happy to receive this prize! Thanks to Professor Byung-Ho and the #plantproteolysis2025 committee for awarding my poster at #GRC.

Congratulations @josejulian.bsky.social for winning the Poster Prize #plantproteolysis2025

Just starting the Autophagy session at Plant Proteolysis meeting with an introduction into the field by @plantophagy.bsky.social #GRC

Getting close to Luca (Toscana) for the GRC in Plant Proteolysis!

As we go through various steps of the peer-review process, @gmivienna.bsky.social comms team put together a nice summary of our recent #preprints : www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n... Thx @philippdexheimer.bsky.social for the illustration

Awesome work by my colleagues Alessia and Nenad from Yasin's Lab! Huge congratulations on the cool preprint and achieving a nonuple ATG8 mutant—impressive science! 🎉👏