#PlantScience Res Weekly(2/2) plantae.org/plant-scienc... What’s up with stromules? Single-cell stem cell dynamics; Not all arbuscules pull the same weight; Long non-coding RNA in rice blast disease; Retrotransposons ➡️site-specific genome editing @sebamorenor.bsky.social @jenmcgaley.bsky.social

#PlantScience Research Weekly: July 10, 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Lichen super pangenome reveals interaction repertoires; Maize multi-omics predicts phenotypes; Role of Tre6P in root development; A host-viral regulatory circuit affects chloroplast stability (1/2) @bobvanburen.bsky.social

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Great discussions on the roles of lncRNAs in the regulation of plant-microbe endosymbiosis at @inrae-france.bsky.social Centre Val de Loire. Thanks @stephane-maury.bsky.social, Claire Veneault-Fourrey & @karimaelm.bsky.social for the invitation in frame of the EpiMyc project: anr.fr/Project-ANR-...

1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

We have an open position for lab technician to support our research @uni-muenster.de : stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/9... Experience in molecular biology, laboratory management, and strong communication skills are required. The position is initially offered at 50% for one year. 🌱🍅🧪

[ #VeilleESR #LPPR ] Durcissement des règles d'attribution pour l'appel à projets générique ANR. Notamment : réduction du nombre de dépôts et augmentation du délais de carence. L'argumentaire est : plus les scientifiques ont besoin de l'ANR, moins il faut que les scientifiques sollicitent l'ANR.

We are hiring! Together with @bastien-boussau.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated candidate in bioinformatic and deep-learning to develop an approach for non-coding regions prediction in eukaryotes. More information and application here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Concluding remarks on a fantastic #Epiplant 2026 by organizers Leïla Tirichine and @celineduc.bsky.social after 3 days of inspiring science! We are already looking forward to #EpiPlant 2028 to be held in Grenoble under the lead of @cristelcarles.bsky.social @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social. Stay tuned!👋

A fantastic #EpiPlant 2026 closing lecture by @plantevolution.bsky.social from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social taking us on a transposon journey! In depth analysis of somatic transposition events revealed new fascinating aspects of TE biology.

📆 Save The Date! The Plant-Bacteria Interaction Meeting (18th RPB) in Aussois, Savoie will take place from January 11 to 15th, 2027 👉 More info on the keynote speakers & sessions: plants-bacteria-2027.symposium.inrae.fr Deadline: September 25th @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

Isabel Bäurle from IBB @unipotsdam.bsky.social delivers a #EpiPlant keynote on the interplay between transcription factors and chromatin to regulate heat stress memory in plants.

Our very own @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social @inrae-toulouse.bsky.social presenting his PhD work at #EpiPlant! His work suggests an interplay between long non-coding RNAs and histone modifiers to promote transcriptional reprogramming in root nodule symbiosis. Stay tuned!

Strong start of day 3 at #EpiPlant 2026! Naïs Daviddi from @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social showing elegant demonstration of gene regulation by histone deacetylases during symbiotic nodulation in legumes.

Now #EpiPlant GDR Director @alineprobst.bsky.social from @igred.fr taking us on a chromatin journey: histone variant H2B.8 plays a major role in the reprogramming of gene expression during the seed-to-seedling transition. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#EpiPlant speaker Lionel Navarro from @ibensens.bsky.social presenting how DNA methylation and demethylation regulate plant immunity. Great data showing natural DNA methylation variation with consequences on gene expression and plant adaptation 🌱🦠

More talks on plant-microbe interactions at #Epiplant with Stéphanie Jaubert from Institut Sophia Agrobiotech @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social showing a neat case of cross-kingdom RNAi involving parasitic nematodes that hack plant AGO1 to induce host cell reprogramming.

How are hormonal responses controlled during plant development? @jiquesta.bsky.social from @cragenomica.bsky.social discussing VAL1-mediated chromatin control from germination to organogenesis. #EpiPlant

This week we are at #EpiPlant 2026 in Nantes with @yaranoureddine.bsky.social & @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social for 3 days of great plant epigenetics research 🌱🧬 Make sure to hit Yara's poster #40 to discover how TFs and lncRNAs cooperate to regulate transcription in contrasted plant-microbe interactions.

More cool research on diatoms! Petra Bulankova from @ibensens.bsky.social discusses how diatoms repurpose mitosis for DNA damage–induced nuclear selection.

Next is @mathildereignier.bsky.social, PhD student with @pierrebaduel.bsky.social @ibensens.bsky.social sharing impressive data on how mutating chromatin remodeler DDM1 in different Arabidopsis strains reveals transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of flowering time. #EpiPlant

🧬 Time for transposable elements at #EpiPlant! Clémentine Vitte presenting very elegant work on the contribution of TEs to cis-regulation in plants.

It is conference season for the team! Last week @melissa-simonnet.bsky.social gave a stellar talk on her PhD project in the frame of the Journées Francophones des Mycorhizes @inrae-toulouse.bsky.social. Melissa investigates the role of a lncRNA in the regulation of plant-microbe endosymbioses 🌱🦠🧬

Next #EpiPlant keynote speaker is Mariella Ferrante from Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn in Naples discussing DNA methylation in diatoms - with a role in sex determination mechanisms!

☀️Hot weather, hotter science! Day 2 at #EpiPlant 2026 starts with a keynote lecture by @borglab.bsky.social from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social on chromatin evolution and function in complex red seaweeds.

Thanvi is starting her own lab in August 2026, supported by an Ambizione Fellowship. She’ll investigate the role of epigenetic variation in adaptation to high altitude. Check out her website: www.epidiversitylab.org

I’ve Ben looking forward to this talk by @thanvisrikant.bsky.social, who is speaking about her postdoctoral work with @kbomblies.bsky.social on the effect of #polyploidy on #chromatin architecture!

Next at #EpiPlant is Cristel Carles @cristelcarles.bsky.social from LPCV Grenoble presenting very elegant work on how a PRC2 cofactor orchestrates developmental transitions and cell fate in plants. Want to know more? Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fascinating opening lecture by Frédéric Berger @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social on how chromatin regulators cooperate to maintain transcriptional silencing in Arabidopsis and beyond! #EpiPlant

Kick-off of EPIPLANT 2026 by Leïla Tirichine and @celineduc.bsky.social in the beautiful city of Nantes! Three days of exciting science on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms 🌱🧬 Check #EpiPlant for all the latest posts about the conference!

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

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/...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

If you want to read more about our recent work on how gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression academic.oup.com/nar/article/... , @jamespblloyd.bsky.social has a excellent spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social.

Woah www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are thrilled to share our latest work uncovering a completely novel pathway in plants, where Pol II elongation factor SPT6L recruits AGO4 to guide mRNA methylation 🌿🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #PlantSci #Epigenetics #RNA #Preprint #epitranscriptomics

Sharing this very sad news. Greg influenced many beyond his lab and across fields. This is a very nice write up from CRUK-CI highlighting what he meant to many of us. Thank you for putting into words what many of us can't right now. www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

📢 Call for papers - Symbiotic relationships 📢 #BMCBiology Guest Editors: @yjluo.bsky.social @schwarzergnoto.bsky.social Thomas Bosch Dr rer nat, Kiel University Anil Kumar PhD, Chandigarh University Michael Sinvula Lukubwe BA, MSc, University of Namibia link.springer.com/collections/...

🌱🧬 EPIPLANT 2026 is happening soon! Registration for the conference is still open, but places are limited and filling up fast. If you haven’t registered yet, now is the time to secure your spot 👉 epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes!

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #epigenetics #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg) Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached 📅 Apply by March 30, 2026 📩 [email protected] Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

🌱 EPIPLANT is live! Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–24). We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms! 👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis. I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!

Searching for a PhD? 🧬🌾 A fully funded 3.5-year PhD is available at @latrobeuni.bsky.social (Melbourne) to work on engineering transcription factors for better nitrogen use in plants! Reqd: ✅ Honours/Masters in Mol Bio, Biotech, or Plant Science ✅ Passion for sustainable ag Contact me for details

Come join our lab in Sussex, UK for a PhD on TEs, on centromeres, on the genome ecosystem! Exciting times for TE:genome dynamics given the rate of T2T sequencing. Please circulate! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...