Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy

🌸 Flowering Newsletter Review 🌸 López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social

Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱

Our work now on @jxbotany.bsky.social. Make sure you add some Cas13a fluorescent virus detection to your Christmas lights ✨️

Excited to share our latest work to close out 2025: Dynamic ASK1 proximity networks uncover SCF-dependent and noncanonical roles in ABA and drought adaptation🌱 With @justinwwalley.bsky.social , we map how ASK1/SKP1 dynamically rewires protein networks during stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Researchers developed a #CRISPR-based method that's user-friendly, extraction-free, 15 min protocol for on-site #virus #detection using a portable fluorescence viewer and a mobile #phone camera directly from RNA of several crop species, including #tomato, #cucumber, and #rapeseed. 👉 bit.ly/4p6Jo8t

A 1.25 A!!! cryo EM structure of rubisco.

Christmas 🎄 and Hanukkah 🕎 celebration in Hala's (Dr. Khamesa-Israelov) place with all group members. What a treat 🥂🍻🍰

Excited to share our work about autophagy and raffinose. So proud of Sahar Magen for doing a great job and grateful for all the people who helped bring this work to light. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Christmas 🎄 and Hanukkah 🕎 celebration in Hala's (Dr. Khamesa-Israelov) place with all group members. What a treat 🥂🍻🍰

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

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

When the localization of a protein you thought you know well still manages to surprise you... 😯🤔☘️ #fluorescenceFriday by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @newphyt.bsky.social study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Narcissus

When the localization of a protein you thought you know well still manages to surprise you... 😯🤔☘️ #fluorescenceFriday by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New plant-specific DUBs that cleave K63 Chains and reduce endocytosis rates by the Hofmann Lab (Köln)

Was fabulous at the Israeli Society of ☘️ Sciences (ISPS) 2025 conf. held at Sde Boker @bengurionuni.bsky.social. It started with an In Memoriam lecture by @taw-lab.bsky.social dedicated to the Late Prof Gad Galili and ended with best poster 🏆 awarded to Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group!

That's great clip!

Our new group photo, from the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences meeting at Sde Boker

Very last chance to register ! Extended deadline: 10th of December. 🌱 Curious about plant biology? Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam! 🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts. 9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!

Was fabulous at the Israeli Society of ☘️ Sciences (ISPS) 2025 conf. held at Sde Boker @bengurionuni.bsky.social. It started with an In Memoriam lecture by @taw-lab.bsky.social dedicated to the Late Prof Gad Galili and ended with best poster 🏆 awarded to Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group!

X-Ray Vision: New Tech Secures Israel's Rarest #Seeds from Damage The Israel Gene Bank (IGB) successfully evaluated X-ray imaging and micro-CT technology. These are non-destructive alternatives for assessing seed viability.

Activation of alternative oxidase ensures carbon supply for ethylene and carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening (Ariadna Iglesias-Sanchez, Nestor Fernandez Del-Saz, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

My November.... Fun as well as troubling

Prof. Gad Galili, my mentor @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social, was a pioneer in plant amino acid metabolism and cell biology, including #autophagy. Primarily, he was one of the kindest people I've known. Attentive to the mental side of students long before it became common. May he rest in peace.

Rest in peace,Gad. You will be greatly missed.

Prof. Gad Galili, my mentor @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social, was a pioneer in plant amino acid metabolism and cell biology, including #autophagy. Primarily, he was one of the kindest people I've known. Attentive to the mental side of students long before it became common. May he rest in peace.

Oh no Tamar! I am so sad to hear this. He was a great scientist and a lovely person.

May he rest in peace! 😔 I never met with him but always enjoyed reading his papers. He was ahead of his time.

Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops #TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.

New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants @chistinesd.bsky.social, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience Summary also available in French and Spanish.

🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested! tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

"Autophagy appears to be important to our health, not only by operating directly within our own cells, but also indirectly, through the quality of fresh produce we consume"

Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of molecular sequence variation in plant evolution and breeding (Thomas L Slewinski, Sarah Turner-Hissong, Tomasz Paciorek, Brent Brower-Toland, Christine Shyu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Pass me some healthy mitochondria and ill give you a few defective ones to chew on in return 🤔

The ENPER bell is already in Sofia!

🎉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...

A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening: #plantscience rdcu.be/eOY3h

Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1 Connecting auxin-autophagy-development

Congratulations! Claudine Kraft @kraftlabfr.bsky.social receives a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant – to find out why some protein #aggregates can be cleared by #autophagy and others not. She and her partners will harness this knowledge to improve autophagy in #ageing & #disease. 🔗  kurzlinks.de/50j8

Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA! In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.

A bit more of my Chengdu experience