For those who missed this at the other place: open.substack.com/pub/mikhoeli...

Such a pleasure to host @christatesterink.bsky.social and @ronaldpierik.bsky.social in Freiburg this week! ✨ Beautiful talks, sunny weather, great discussions and plenty of time to catch up. Big thanks to @cibss.bsky.social for sponsoring their visit! 🎉 🌱

📢 Two weeks to go until the first webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging across scales. We’ll hear from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy in this webinar chaired by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social.

Very much looking forward to giving a talk in Basel today. “Plant adaptation to land - evolutionary innovations that changed the planet” duw.unibas.ch/en/event/det...

Happy to see this out! Big congratulations to @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social and all involved! doi.org/10.1038/s443...

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye. jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%... Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)

Women in plant science around the world #plantscience

Thanks to everyone who visited & helped preparing #MBP2026 by @molplantsci.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social . Your contributions made this a great meeting with lots of networking, catching up, and learning. Hope to see you all @ #BotanikTagung2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for more #plantscience.

Invited speakers of the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting, 12-15 july 2026, Montpellier, France Visit our Web site, register and submit your abstract pem26.cnrs.fr @lacombeb.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @frannybarbs.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social

@scourbier.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de @cibss.bsky.social is one of the invited speakers of #pem26. She will give a talk on the role of TOR in shade mediated hypocotyl elongation Join us in Montpellier next july Pem26.cnrs.fr

Voici l'annonce d'un congrès que nous organisons avec @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social les 24 et 25 Juin. Les inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site indiqué!

Reunited once again! 🌱This time at #MBP2026. It’s always special to catch up with fellow AFEs (and Plantae Fellow 😉). A big shoutout to @plantteaching.bsky.social for bringing us together and for the lasting impact it has on us! 🙏🌿 @plantphys.bsky.social

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

Avoiding the shadow: how plants perceive neighbors and reshape the crop light environment (Matías Ezequiel Pereyra , Víctor Oscar Sadras , Jorge José Casal) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Excited to hear some #proteostasis research at #MBP2026 by @cnaumann123.bsky.social who talks about a new plant-specific component of the autophagic network - see also her latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited that our review on carbon allocation to axial sink organs is published. Super writing experience and discussions with Anil and @bjazminrh.bsky.social, thank you both for your great work and ideas!

Symposium preparation in progress ✂️ Name badges, last-minute logistics. Getting everything ready for the 2026 DOMPS Symposium in Freiburg! @kevindaniel.bsky.social @advaitagashe.bsky.social @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social @Carlos

Finally officially out!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We moved the main oxygen sensing machinery from plants to yeast and we learned a few things!

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research.” Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner and since this year ERC Scientific Council member.

🌿🔁 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔁🌿 Crespo et al. examine the central role of the TOR kinase in linking nutrient availability to chloroplast function, detailing emerging evidence of reciprocal regulation between TOR signalling and photosynthesis in plants and algae 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

⚡🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 🌱⚡ 🔎 The Energy Management guest editors Wahl, Hanson & Menand dive into reviews and research exploring the plant energy management machinery as a central hub for stress resilience, development, and crop improvement 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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! 👇

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology) Dec 1 2025 deadline Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB! Link to Flyer docs.google.com/document/d/1... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

🌱 One week to go until our next webinar 'all aabout' Roots & Soil! 🌱 📅 Tuesday 24th Feb - 1pm GMT Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/dcXsZR4 #plantscience #sustainableagriculture @annalsapplbio.bsky.social

“Every calorie we consume has passed through the phloem." @lkalmbach.bsky.social, now at the University of Neuchâtel, returned to share how pectate lyases and callose synthases and remorins shape sieve pore formation in developing sieve elements in the phloem. 📅 Feb 13 #PlantScience

Super initiative from our faculty today! It's great to see the overall motivation moving towards a more sustainable future! @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Get ready to dance! 🕺💃 We’re excited to welcome Ór Ceilidh Band to play live at the YRSPP 2026 social evening! 🎻 Join us for a traditional Scottish ceilidh orscotland.com 🗓️Registration closes 15 February. Time is running out!⌛️yrspp.github.io/register

Looking forward to meeting you at PEM2026 this summer, in beautiful Montpellier 🌱 Registration is open, join us! 👇🏼

📅 Save the date! We have a free upcoming Plant Physiology webinar on Ecophysiology, 26 Feb (2PM GMT). 🌱 👉 More info and registration link: blog.aspb.org/plant-physio.... #PlantScience

Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms. Be quick - deadline is tomorrow! www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

Join us in Toulouse !!

I'm so excited to be speaking at the upcoming PME meeting in Montpellier alongside a wonderful lineup of speakers 🥹 Huge thanks to the organisers! Looking forward to a great meeting 😍

#APPLYNOW 📣 The CIBSS Team is hiring! We are looking for someone passionate about helping early-career researchers develop their skills, qualifications and career prospects🧑🏽🔬🧬 ➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management 🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004767/

🌳 PhD Position in Forest Genetics @uni-freiburg.de Join the BeGenDiv project to study genetic diversity of ~30 tree & shrub species across Germany’s Biodiversity Exploratories. 🧬 Fieldwork, lab work, bioinformatics & interdisciplinary collaboration More info & apply: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

👉iGEM Freiburg is recruiting motivated members for its 2026 team! 🧬🚀 Don't miss out and apply by Dec 30: kurzlinks.de/op05 🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr #iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social

🌱 Spotlight on #CIBSS #NextGenSignallingScientists! Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate. 📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v #PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Hormonal regulation of root growth under moderately elevated temperatures by Tilman Jacob et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/ps8z #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

Super nice tradition we have here 😍

Celebration season is here — time for the traditional DOMPS PI Apéro! ✨ Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚 @dompsfr.bsky.social #PlantScience

Join us for tomorrow´s 📢 CIBSS Seminar Series 🗓 09 Dec 2025 | 12:00–13:00 👩‍🔬 @julianeg.bsky.social, (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) 🎙 Endogenous retroviruses and mouse developmental malformations 📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1 See more: kurzlinks.de/iplv #CIBSS #Science #Immunobiology

🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv