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...

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants. #2025ISMPMI

After a refreshing break in the Eifel, I’m also heading to #2025ISMPMI Excited to meet all the friendly faces again and dive into some amazing research. Come find us at posters P-364 & P-070 to chat about SCARs and their role in plant susceptibility. Let’s talk science! 🌱🧬

Sometimes beakers can also be useful for rescuing beautiful peacock butterflies that enter the office by accident. This guys is now flying around Weihenstephan again.

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. - And the roots are more resistant!

This is the amazing work from the super talented @alexguyon.bsky.social. Always loved to see your images in the seminar. Huge congratulations for finalizing the manuscript. Looking forward to reading it!

Strawberry moon in Freising, yesterday

90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3) tinyurl.com/DudinO

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉

@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c... And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

Congratulations to all of you. It’s amazing to see how everything came together and you already impressed the jury. I am sure the other visitors will love the exhibit as well.

Microscopy Wednesday: Preparing for a practical course on Friday. Students will have to look at sporangiophores/sporangia of different oomycetes. #PlantScience #PlantMicrobeInteractions

If you are member of the IS-MPMI society, you will have received the option to vote for the next president and members of the board of directors. This is an encouragement to vote. Also, I am running for one of the two director positions. www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...

I had some absolutely incredible papers come online this week, and I need to take a minute to post about each of them. First, let me tell you about the CarboTag probes for imaging plant cell walls! From the Sprakel lab (a short thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Check out this amazing finding: Inactivation of a symbiosis-specific Glucan binding protein leads to increased nitrogen fixation in Medicago. Amazing work, congratulations to everyone!

🌱 Kennt ihr schon PUKI? Alle können mitmachen bei der Erforschung der Anpassungen der Pflanzen an eine sich verändernde Umwelt. Mit der App Flora Incognita werden von allen die mitmachen bestimmte Pflanzenarten erfasst. @puki-hhu.bsky.social 1/2

Registration is open for the 7th International Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting (iMMM 2025), 16th - 18th September 2025 VENUE: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, BioCenter, Planegg-Martinsried near Munich, Germany​. #iMMM2025 www.genetik.bio.lmu.de/immm-2025/in...

A long-overdue update from my side: At the end of December, I left Cambridge to start as a junior group leader in Ralph Hückelhoven's Phytopathology department at the TUM in Freising. www.mls.ls.tum.de/pp/startseite/ 🥳 🍾🧵1/5

Join the Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health in Germany (DPG)! phytomedizin.org/en/home

While preparing for a lecture this week I was reading up on Emmer and learned that while its niche, there are a couple of brewery’s in Germany left that use emmer for beer production. Found one in the supermarket today and could not resist :) Very tasty!

📜 Technical advances drive the molecular understanding of effectors from wheat and barley powdery mildew fungi 🧑‍🔬 Merle Bilstein-Schloemer, @marioncmueller.bsky.social & @izzysaurlab.bsky.social 📔 @mpmijournal.bsky.social 🔗 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Wrapping up 5 years of research. Left: barley seeds. Right: Arabidopsis, Benthi and Medicago…bigger seeds means much more storage space needed 😅

This is an amazing resource. Love the browser that comes along with it and is really accessible. Fantastic work!

So proud of @binebrumm.bsky.social and Alex Guyon - poster awardees at #Botanicon

What makes blueberries blue? Cool study with wider implications: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Show your plants some love and they might love you back 😉 Medicago api roots expressing dsRED transformation marker.

Good morning everyone. Happy to finally look at the blue sky. Here above my workplace, the beautiful Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge