📢 #Postdoc opportunity! We're looking for a Postdoc to join the lab of @carogutj.bsky.social at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social (Potsdam, Germany). Research focus: #molecular mechanisms of nutrient exchange in arbuscular #mycorrhiza #symbiosis 📩 See www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2287446/karr...

New in @science.org 🌱 @thevirusmc.bsky.social and @plantophagy.bsky.social show how selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to help cells survive viral infection. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you so much @manavellalab.bsky.social for visiting us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 🌱 It was a great day of discussion, especially with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social @gesahoffmann.bsky.social @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social @fritz-kragler.bsky.social See you soon in Malaga!

Very excited to be tomorrow @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social telling our latest work at the Molecular Reprogramming and Evolution (MoRE) lab @cragenomica.bsky.social on the co-evolution of plant development and Immunity, come to join us tto discuss about it if you happen to be around!

Very nice seminar by @carogutj.bsky.social from @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social today on plant - fungal symbiosis.

Yesterday Felix Willmund from @unimarburg.bsky.social visited us to talk about the features of heat-induced aggregation of #chloroplast #proteins in #algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Great seminar und discussion! Thanks to Adrian Nievergelt for organizing the event.

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social

A big thank you to Yen-Ping Hsueh from the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social for an outstanding talk on #predatory #fungi yesterday! A fascinating topic and a truly insightful discussion. Many thanks as well to @alexanderforderer.bsky.social, @carogutj.bsky.social and Gloria Meng-Hsuan Lin for hosting!

🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming @thorstenlangner.bsky.social from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social for a fascinating talk about #plantpathogen #coevolution and pathogen-informed disease control🌱🦠 Thank you for the inspiring visit and many thanks to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting!

Shoutout to yesterday’s guest @eswallner.bsky.social, who visited us from @gmivienna.bsky.social for her talk “Lessons from sporeling development: How to form plant organs and meristems de novo?” - fascinating perspective on plant development!🌱 Thanks as well to @thevirusmc.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

Samplify – automated quantification of seed abortion Bente et al. @hebente.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge congrats to Dr. Yunli Hsieh from AG Nikoloski for successfully defending his thesis “Computational Integration of Multi-Omics and Phenotype Data into Genome-Scale Metabolic Models“ 🤖🌿 All the best for your future! 🎉

It was a great pleasure to host Nick Irwin from @gmivienna.bsky.social here at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social, where he talked about their work on horizontal gene transfer, its effect on evolution and on the development of new molecular pathways. Looking forward to follow future developments!

Thanks a lot to @zivirus.bsky.social visiting us from @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social to talk about the #tobamovirus revealing a crossroad between viral movement and #PlantImmunity 🍅🦠 Thanks as well to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting! 🙏

New paper in @natplants.nature.com finds that #siRNAs can act as long-distance communication signals from maternal to male tissue in #Capsella with functional role in #pollen development. Read here: nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02219-6 @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @jiali024.bsky.social

🌍 Happy #CleanEnergyDay! 🎉 With our #photovoltaic systems and additional #sustainability measures, our campus located in @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social is able to cut about 600 tons of #CO₂ annually. Proud of this step toward a cleaner future! 🌞🌾

Genomic imprinting in an early-diverging #angiosperm reveals an ancient mechanism for #seed initiation in flowering #plants A #Letter by Florez-Rueda et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @anaflo.bsky.social @duartedf.bsky.social

🎓 Double Doctorate 🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Luisa Wittemeier and Dr. Alina Ebert from AG Kopka for defending their #PhD theses on the same day 💪🧠 Two defenses, two new doctors, one proud lab - we couldn’t be happier for the both of you. Wishing you an amazing future ahead! 🚀

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

We were delighted to welcome Luis Lopez Molina today! Many thanks for the excellent talk on how endospermic ARFs regulate #seed dormancy, seed #development and #cold adaptation ❄️ We had a great time listening and discussing! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting ✨

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🔽☘️🦠

Many thanks to Peter Brodersen (University of Copenhagen) for an excellent talk on “A proxy #RNAi pathway for sensing pathogenic cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA in #plants.” It was a pleasure to have you with us! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting the talk.

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...

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Diego Brito from AG @fritz-kragler.bsky.social for defending his #PhD thesis titled “Characterization of Cold Shock Proteins (CSPs) and their role in the coordination of growth and stress responses in Arabidopsis“ Wishing you all the best @dipbrito.bsky.social 🎓🌱

Delighted to have @bkrenz.bsky.social from @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social visit us for his inspiring talk “ #Plant #Viruses in Focus – Challenges and #Innovative Solutions for #Sustainable #Agriculture ” 🌱🦠 Great discussion, thanks to everyone who joined and to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting!

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's great to see this work finally out! @newphyt.bsky.social Here we showed that auxin production after fertilization is a conserved, paternal-triggered mechanism for seed initiation in angiosperms.

Looking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ? Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring ! 📅 Apply by 10 January 2026 More info: 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs

Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅 Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏

Research never tasted this good! 😀🌿

🌟 International recognition for #PlantScience in #Potsdam 🌟 Four #researchers from the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social are among the world’s top 0.1% most cited scientists. Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock, Dr. Saleh Alseekh, Dr. John E. Lunn & Prof. Dr. Mark Stitt! 👏🌱 #HighlyCited2025

Today we had the pleasure to welcome Mehdi Davari from @ipbhalle.bsky.social at our institute and listen to his captivating talk about #MolecularSimulation and #MachineLearning strategies to accelerate #protein and #enzyme design. Thanks a lot for your visit! 🌱 Thanks to Dirk Walther for hosting 👏

Register now for Lunch+Learn on 📅 Dec. 1 🕛 12:00 »𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲« and discuss the potential of tRNA display with Dr Daniel Dunkelmann! 👉https://p-sp.link/lunch-learn-20251201 #cellulartranslation #tRNAdisplay #newtherapeutics

Huge thanks to Alison Smith from @camplantsci.bsky.social for visiting our institute and sharing her expertise in “Manipulating the Chlamydomonas #chloroplast #genome.” 🌿 Our #PhD students loved the chance to meet and exchange ideas at lunch and are still buzzing with inspiration! 💡✨

Big thanks to Prof. Heribert Hirt from #KAUST for visiting us and giving a fascinating talk on how desert #plants and their #microbes can help crops adapt to heat and drought 🌵🌾 Inspiring ideas for resilient and #sustainable #agriculture — and thanks to @carogutj.bsky.social for hosting!

It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬 Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!

Congratulations to PhD student Ana Catarina Silva — winner of Best Poster at APOMIXIS 2025! 🏆🎉

Another PhD success! Congrats to Dr. Fabienne Bürki from AG Bock for successfully defending their PhD thesis titled Leaking Information: Stress-Induced Chloroplast Rupture and Nucleic Acid Release in Transplastomic Nicotiana tabacum Plants 🌿💡 Wishing you all the best!

Congratulations are in order for our newest doctor! Dr. Vittoria Clapero successfully defended her thesis on “Natural variation of the Calvin-Benson cycle” in the group of Mark Stitt. Wishing you all the best for your next steps! 🚀🌱🎓

New study unveils first large-scale view of the "pocketome" using AI-predicted protein structures: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

That’s a wrap on an amazing conference #PlantsandPeople ! 🎉 Huge thanks to all participants for your energy, to our speakers and panelists for inspiring insights, and to our sponsors for making it all possible. 🌟 Until next time! 🙏 #PnP25 #Targenomix #metaSysX

📢 We’re hiring! 🌱 The @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam is seeking a Head of Service Unit Proteomics (mass spectrometry-based proteomics). 🗓 Apply by 30.09.2025 👉 jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

🥔 Potato harvest is in! For project POMORROW we are currently testing 240 potato accessions for their ability to survive drought stress and partner with mycorrhizal fungi. 🌍✨ More on this: mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2800196/news_publication_25387229_transferred?c=6211

Day 2 of #PnP25 🌱; great talks, lively panel, best poster awards 🎉 and BBQ to close it all!🔥 Thank you to everyone who made it unforgettable. #PlantsandPeople #PnP25

Day 2 of #PnP25 is here! After a fantastic first day of science and discussion, we’re looking forward today; with plants in space, reimagining future crops and more. 🌱 Looking forward to all the sessions, posters, and our panel this afternoon before we close with a BBQ! #PlantsandPeople #PnP25

Day 1 of #PnP25 has started! Inspiring talks, great discussions, and a fantastic atmosphere here in Potsdam-Golm. Theme: Looking In, Out, and Forward; from molecules to space, and from research to communication. Loving the energy already! #PlantsandPeople #PnP25

We’re ready for the 7th Plants and People Conference! 🗓️ September 9–10, Potsdam 🎙️ Organized by PhD students at MPI-MP This year’s theme: “Looking In, Out, and Forward” - exploring plant science from molecules to space, and from research to communication. Follow along with #PnP25 & #PlantsandPeople

🌞🔬 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!

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...