Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word! www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

Our symposium on plant breeding for biodiversity is about to start!

The Tielbörger lab at @unituebingen.bsky.social is offering TWO PHD POSITIONS in rangeland ecology, as part of the sage-centre.org. It is about tipping points in Middle Eastern rangelands. A large interdisciplinary project with unique long-term experiments!

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New preprint from our group: Phenotypic differentiation between highland and coastal quinoa under cold stress conditions We use both field trials and lab experiments under controlled conditions to show that the two major quinoa ecotypes differ in adaptive traits. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9

Glad to share our latest work on #barley and #climatechange. The heat is definitely on breeding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Professorship Plant Ecology. Regensburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!

How to achieve plant robustness on the cellular level? The regular divisions of cambium stem cells:

Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our lab (Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab) together with El Kasmi Lab and @mpcontreras.bsky.social Lab enjoyed a very Christmassy evening with Glühwein and many 🎄🎄🎄 not far from Tübingen. Cheers to a new year at the #ZMBP full of discoveries on immune receptors 🥂 #JuniorPIs #EMCRs #MPMI

Zwei Forscherinnen und drei Forscher der Universität und des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen erhalten hochdotierte Förderungen für Projekte in der #Medizin, der #Mikrobiologie und dem Maschinellen Lernen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…#ERCR#ERCCoGo#MachineLearningng

Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!

A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

European Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Very proud that Freddy Igiebor has won a DBG Master thesis prize with his work in my lab on phyB photobody meory function!😃 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

A new study from the @maizel-lab.org, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and @roelandmerks.bsky.social labs starting to unravel a role of SOSEKI proteins in cellular mechanosensing.

We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

GreenRobust PI Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) receives the Lautenschläger award, the most prestigous price of Heidelberg University acknowledging his scientific achievements. Congratulations!

Two ERC Synergy Grants for Scientists at Universität Heidelberg: European Research Council awards prestigious funding for complex research projects www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #university #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #erc #research #eu @erc.europa.eu

Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Early Excellence in Science Award goes to GreenRobust PI @brittavelten.bsky.social. Congratulations!

Wie Pflanzen ihre Anpassung an Trockenheit steuern: Forschungsteam der Universität Heidelberg entdeckt molekularen Mechanismus, der für die Schließung der Poren auf den Blättern sorgt www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

Christoph Schneider hat heute sein Amt als Rektor der #UniHohenheim angetreten. Der Klimageograph & frühere Vizepräsident für Forschung der @humboldtuni.bsky.social will „die Uni Hohenheim im Team voranbringen – in Forschung, Lehre & Transfer.“ 👉 Video t1p.de/t0amo 👉 mehr t1p.de/tgz5y

... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

... a computer scientist... www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Another GreenRobust-related Job opening: The university of Hohenheim is looking for a Data Steward in Research Data Management www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Green and Robust: our first mini booth at the public day of the Heidelberg Botanical Garden. www.botgart.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/de

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Dr. Joel Frohlich vom fMEG-Zentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät und Dr. Clémence Marchal vom @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social haben jeweils einen Starting Grant des @erc.europa.eu eingeworben! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr Infos: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ERCStartingGrants #Molekularbiologie

ERC vergibt vier Starting Grants an die Universität Heidelberg – Europäischer Forschungsrat fördert richtungsweisende Projekte von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in frühen Karrierestufen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #förderung #ERCStG

Please spread - GreenRobust is advertising its first position! We are looking for an IT engineer (full time, permanent) located at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social to support our IT infrastructure and data management: adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cell-Publikation: Forschende der @unituebingen & #UniHohenheim entdecken antiSYS – ein Peptid, das Tomaten vor Überreaktionen ihres Immunsystems schützt und für normales Wachstum wichtig ist. #cp-cell #Pflanzenforschung Pressemitteilung: t1p.de/8qhgv

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 3rd thesis chapter by our latest PhD graduate Che-Wei Chang is published in @theorapplgenet.bsky.social It shows how deep learning can predict the provenance of #barley #genebank accessions and how this info affects genome-environment association (GEA) studies. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Neue Humboldt-Professur im Bereich Strukturbiologie für die Uni Tübingen: Biophysiker Sebastian Deindl kehrt mit Deutschlands höchstdotiertem internationalen Forschungspreis an Studienort zurück uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... @humboldt-foundation.de #Humboldtprofessur #Biologie #Strukturbiologie

A new preprint of GreenRobust PI Rosa Lozano-Durán revealing kingdom-specifc protein composition of Cajal bodies.

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

Tomatenpflanzen im Verteidigungsmodus: Forschende der #UniHohenheim haben herausgefunden, wie das Signalpeptid Systemin gezielt Abwehrreaktionen gegen Fraßinsekten steuert. Eine Schlüsselrolle spielt das Enzym PLL2. Mehr dazu in @natplants.nature.com‬. Pressemitteilung: sohub.io/j0d0

A clear demand for an integrated robustness strategy!

Happy to share our latest work on the specific role of phosphatase PLL2 in phytocytokine vs MAMP signaling. Published today in Nature Plants. rdcu.be/euNse

Temperature is so important for plants that they have come up with many independent temperature sensors. Curious? Read more in this review by former WeigelWorld members Sridevi Sureshkumar & Suresh Balasubramanian. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GreenRobust is hitting the first headlines: www.rnz.de/region/heide...