Plant Science Research Weekly Oct 31, 2025. plantae.org/plant-scienc... What makes a tree a tree? Secret strategy of far-red photosynthesis; Unwinding the Spirogyra genome; H2O2 role in P starvation response; Viral evasion of cap-independent translation defense (1/2)

Sudden complexity just 65 million years ago discovered by team around @jandevries.bsky.social by analysis of the green alga Coleochaete, an ancestor and an intriguing group, which has evolved elaborate disc-shaped bodies. The team reports about it in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Only two days left to apply for the open tenure track professorship in Computational Biology here in @uni-goettingen.de uni-goettingen.de/en/700631.html

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project! @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet the winners of the 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at the 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 consortium meeting 🟢 PhD student 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 @hannahlepper.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social lab 🟢Postdoc 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐡 @physcomitr_ella from the Ischebeck lab CONGRATULATIONS! @watertoland.bsky.social

Next is Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing updates about the Spirogyra genome project #MAdLand2025

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Next up, Hengchi Chen from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is revisiting the deep divergence of land plants with us #MAdLand2025

And we are wrapping up the session with Zahin Bin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, discussing his findings on phytochrome-mediated light signalling of Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2025

This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

Just 4 days left to apply! Pls repost!

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html Apply here: obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :) uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html

Registrations are Open for the Rigi Workshop 2026, which I'm happy to co-organise with @michaelraissig.bsky.social "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" This is primarily intended for PhDs & Postdocs. Only 30 spots available! So think fast ! #Cell #Biology #ProtistsOnSky LINK: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/aa...

So for a couple of days on top of a Snowy #Swiss Mountain with a #Lake View We will talk #Cell Biology, #Development & #Evolution. We will also go #Sampling With: @gautamdey.bsky.social @Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social @lsaunders.bsky.social @annikaguse.bsky.social @Edwige Moyroud

🌿 Excited to share our new editorial on streptophyte trait evolution in the latest virtual issue from @newphyt.bsky.social, with @jandevries.bsky.social & @Ralph_Panstruga. The issue features several articles from MAdLand collaborations @watertoland.bsky.social Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2025 is now open! Join us from 30.09 – 02.10 in the beautiful city of Osnabrück to discuss latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2025 #Evolution 🌱 Learn more and register here: madland-meeting.de/2025/

Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud Jan 25-27 2026 biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...

Fun little Q&A! Thank you for the opportunity Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Really happy to see this piece of my PhD out. Thank you to everyone involved. It's being a steep learning journey.

In a few months @dolfweijers.bsky.social and team has provided an unbelievable amount of details on ARF/auxin evolution 😯 Trying to keep track here doi.org/10.1038/s414... doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... And the latest @natplants.nature.com 🔽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2nd phase for EU students: You have a degree in #Biology, #Biochemistry, Appl. Computer Sci. (+related) & want to delve into Computational Biology & #Bioinformatics for your Master's? Apply for our program @uniGoettingen with a broad range of topics—go to: uni-goettingen.de/de/657628.html

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social #PlantScience

Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet

Our review on “Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization” in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social is out now! Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #terrestrialization #Algae #Evolution @watertoland.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social

Welcome to Bluesky! @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social

Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies

If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10). marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... 1/3 #paleobotany #botany

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Pflanzen haben bei neuen Umweltbedingungen Stress. Forschende unter Leitung unserer Uni (@jandevries.bsky.social) entdeckten, dass #Algen und Landpflanzen ähnlich auf Stress reagieren. Grund sind genetische Knotenpunkte, die seit über 600 Millionen Jahren bestehen: buff.ly/BZeAHfm; buff.ly/dgeHjIY

🔬 Systems acclimation to osmotic stress in zygnematophyte cells is now on bioRxiv! 🚀 Huge thanks to @jandevries.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social. Check it out here: [https://doi.org/xxx] Or keep reading this thread for key highlights!👇😉 #Evolution #Algae #PlantScience @watertoland.bsky.social

Post-doc opportunities! Wet/dry/hybrid projects available in my group. Drop me an email with CV if interested. www.scilifelab.se/research/pul...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... - Glad we finally start to see, how sodium gets into the vacuole, congrats to all involved!

Extremely thrilled to share that our @annualreviews.bsky.social went online. We discuss advancements in the field and why streptophyte algae are not only evolutionary giants but offer unique opportunities for plant science. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @watertoland.bsky.social

TAPscan v4, final verson available: dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Annotate TF families yourself or access web-UI online. Thanks to @petrollromy.bsky.social @shiltemann.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Hallo Bluesky-Community! Ab heute berichten wir hier über die Uni Göttingen und freuen uns auf den Austausch. Wer ist auch noch hier? Hello to everyone on Bluesky! You’ll find the University of Göttingen’s news here. We’re looking forward to the exchange! Who else is here?

Here we go again!: You have a degree in #Biology, #Biochemistry, Appl. Computer Sci. (+related) & want to delve into Computational Biology & #Bioinformatics for your Master's? 1 month left to apply for our program @uniGoettingen with a broad range of topics—go to: uni-goettingen.de/de/657628.html

Big thanks to our team members, collaborators, and reviewers!! @peterwschafran.com @tarobison.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social (sorry if I missed someone here - tagging in bluesky is not the easiest...)

WOW! "Subtomogram averaging Soluble and membrane-bound complexes ranging in size from >3 MDa to ~200 kDa, including 80S ribosomes, Rubisco, nucleosomes, microtubules, clathrin, photosystem II, and mitochondrial ATP synthase. The majority of these density maps reached sub-nanometer resolution..." 🧪

It's my pleasure to share with you a chapter of the project I fell with five years ago 🍀🦠 Here is a thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proud to share TAPscan v4, automated annotation of 138 TF families; code, webtool and database available online. @watertoland.bsky.social @nfdi4plants.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @shiltemann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

The application process for this opportunity is open now and until the 9th of January! Full ad: www.umu.se/en/work-with... Application link: umu.varbi.com/en/apply/pos... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #MolBiol #AcademicSky #PhDpositions

We are very happy to welcome Yasin Dagas soon starting as a Heisenberg professor at COS. Yasin's topic is evolutionary cell biology focusing on autophagy in plants and beyond. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... @dfgpublic.bsky.social

🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺 Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!! Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals! SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First post!! Does anyone in Europe have an axenic or monoxenic culture of Stentor, Blepharisma or Spirostomum they would be willing to share? Please DM me :) #protists #ciliates

Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the biggest puzzles in biology 🧩 As genomic data expand, painting a clear picture of LECA requires analytical resources and a commitment to data sharing. This paper led by T. R. emphasizes a community-driven approach to tackle this complexity.

Please share! Applications due Dec 15th for a starting date in Sep 2025.