Congratulations, Juan Carlos! Another Junior group supported by @dfg.de within the GreenRobust cluster.

🎉 Our paper on the first reference genome of 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘮 has been accepted in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social This has been a great collaboration and a rewarding outcome of this work. @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @greenrobust.de @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Super stimulating talk by Olivier Hamant from @rdplab.bsky.social on the tradeoff between efficiency and systemic robustness in biology and beyond. And on how we define societal progress.

We could also say that two @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social junior PIs and three @greenrobust.de PIs won the 2018, 2026 and 2027 @biochemsoc.bsky.social awards 😉 We are good at recruiting biochemists! 😄

New publication from Markus Wirtz and colleagues on N-terminal protein acetylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust @greenrobust.de we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology. Deadline: 15 April Reposts are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…#ExStrar#Forschungn#UniTübingene#Exzellenzstrategieie

Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥 @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Auf der norwegischen Insel Spitzbergen, tief im arktischen Permafrost, liegt der wohl sicherste Ort der Welt für pflanzengenetische Vielfalt: der Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Saatgut eine strategische Ressource, die die Resilienz unserer Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme stärkt. @croptrust.bsky.social

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

A preprint of GreenRobust PI @pascalhunziker.bsky.social:

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Seit den 1960ern hat sich die Getreideproduktion je nach Sorte verdreifacht bis versechsfacht - bei ziemlich genau gleichbleibendem Flächenbedarf. Es ist eine atemberaubende Landwirtschafts-Revolution, die wir als selbstverständlich hinnehmen.

One of the first publications of our GreenRobust consortium: On the role of SERK co-receptors on systemin signaling. GreenRobust is beginning to make impact! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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-...