Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas. Huge thanks to the whole team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💡 INSIGHT 💡 Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social

Last week I was awarded the Jeff Schell Prize 2025 for outstanding research by our MPl, in recognition of our most recent Nature Plants paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I am deeply honored, and thankful to my co-authors + the many, many helpful colleagues who made this research possible.

The June issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

Very excited to see one of our EGT plants in the cover of @natplants.nature.com! While tobacco flowers have 5 petals, this beauty produces 3-petal and 4-petal flowers, likely as consequence of mutation/genome instability. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📷: E.G-D., MPI-MP Cover: Erin Dewalt

SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻 We encourage New Generation Researchers to take the stage and share their new ideas on cytoplasmic genetics. Don't miss the talks by Femke van den Berg and Schewach Bodenheimer. Registration Deadline: 13 June Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... #SEBconference

Join us at SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻 #SEBconference Early Career Researchers, @egonzalezduran.bsky.social and Tom Theeuwen, will share their excellent research with us in the Plant Session P4! Conference Registration Deadline: 13th June Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Research team uncovered a stress response network in algae and #plants, spanning 600 million years of #evolution. Using bioinformatics, identified genetic 'hubs' that shape responses to stressors, offers insights into early adaptations of land plants. buff.ly/02DjhYH v @unigoettingen.bsky.social

There's a press release for our new @natplants.nature.com article! Plants use fast DNA repair to guard against risky gene transfers from their own organelles—the lessons might go beyond plant biology Release tinyurl.com/prnpegrb by @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new Nature Plants paper is out! Defects in nuclear DSB repair can boost gene transfer from plastids up to 20X— suggesting 1) organellar DNA has strong mutagenic potential and 2) fast repair is key for genome stability in plants & possibly other species nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w

With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w