🚀 Don’t miss our 2nd webinar with @plantbiotechj.bsky.social! Explore The Nicotiana benthamiana Biofactory with experts from around the world: Dominique Michaud, Frank Sainsbury & Kathrin Göritzer. 📅 Apr 29, 2026 | ⏰ 14:00 CEST 🎟️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #PlantScience

Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

A scalable approach to inoculate plant viral vectors into plant tissue using non-pathogenic, transgenic galls https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706162v1

Following the successful completion of the Series A funding round, our plant disease resistance start-up Resurrect Bio @resurrectbio.bsky.social is hiring for its London lab: (1/2) AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/resurrect/ai...

Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

Notre membre Centre SÈVE @ilafores.bsky.social était aux Années Lumière @iciradiocanada.bsky.social pour commenter une recherche sur l'impact des garderie dans l'enrichissement du microbiome @usherbrooke.bsky.social @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

New Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀 This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱 To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.

Ten days left to apply for the Faculty position in #plantscience in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the department of biology #usherbrooke. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

Looking forward to this www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Want to establish your research program in Canada? The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026. www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards

Kicking off the annual meeting of the #CentreSÈVE with @j-karst.bsky.social. Great insights on how plants and fungi interact, as well as important analysis of how value-soaked analogies affect our interpretation of scientific studies

The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

Début du symposium BiSP/McrHub @usherbrooke.bsky.social.

Beautiful work by Ingrid Berenice Sanchez Carrillo on the in situ structure of the Arabidopsis nuclear pore complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs! Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)

Happy thanksgiving! Me: did you know that canned pumpkin pie filling is actually squash, of the species Curcubita moschata? Jack'OLantern pumpkins are Curcubita pepo. But the definition of pumpkin is flexible. My Daughter: we were just discussing how long it would take for you to mention that today.

Want to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...

Il est encore temps de s'inscrire aux Journées Centre SÈVE! ‼️Date limite : 6 octobre 2025 🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025 📍 Hôtel Chéribourg, Orford ✨ Nos conférencier-ères invité-es: Pre Justine Karst @j-karst.bsky.social (@ualberta.bsky.social) et Pr Frank Sainsbury (@griffith.edu.au)

Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social from @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social. We investigated the link between induction of chloroplastic ROS and the production of SA in defense and its suppression by effectors, as well as the importance of ABA in this phenomenon nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Report from our collaborators now published: an improved method using the dsRNA-binding protein B2 from flock house virus to enrich viral RNA for sequencing. Quicker and much cheaper that previous methods and commercial kits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social! After winning the best thesis @usherbrooke.bsky.social, Charles won Prix d'Excellence from the Québec Association of University Deans, which recognizes a PhD thesis that stands out for original and significant contributions. adesaq.ca/wp-content/u...

Félicitations @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social ! Après avoir gagné le prix du meilleur thèse @usherbrooke.bsky.social, Charles a gagné le Prix d’excellence de l’ADÉSAQ et le FRQ, qui reconnait une thèse de doctorat qui s’est distinguée par son apport original et déterminant adesaq.ca/wp-content/u...

Et si les tomates étaient pollinisées… par un robot? 🍅🤖 Grâce à un financement du Centre SÈVE, trois étudiants encadrés par Pre Inès Esma Achouri et Pr @moffettpeter.bsky.social, explorent cette idée dans les serres de l’Université de Sherbrooke.💡 👉 Lire l’article : www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

I am going to do so much reading for pleasure on vacation…

Where to find a set of giant googly eyes when you need them?

Final talk of #CSPB2025 is from Daphne Goring, winner of the CSPB Gold Medal award for outstanding career research and leadership contributions, primarily in Canada. Indeed, Daphne has had a very productive career, contributing important insights into the mechanisms of self incompatibility.

Congratulations to Márcia Gonçalves Dias, from the Monaghan lab at Queen’s, winner of the Carl Douglas Award for outstanding contributions to plant biology by a postdoctoral fellow #CSPB2025

Next up in the #CAPB2025 plenary II, zoë Migicovsky @zoemig.bsky.social on Quantifying apple diversity for a future of sustainable agriculture.

Day 2 of #CSPB2025 kicks off with our first plenary! Dr. Dani Jones is sharing insights on using AI to drive smarter decision-making in agriculture 🤖🌿 Check out some of their relevant research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CSPB2025 David Joly starts his talk with the question “who is David Joly?” He is the speaker telling us about the importance of cannabis as a crop.

Xin Li starts off #CSPB2025 presenting an exciting new research direction from her group. Fungal pathogens that break the one nucleus one genome rule

Marcus Samuel kicks off #CSPB2025

En route to Halifax for #CSPB2025 #CSPB #SCBV. Looking forward to hearing lots of great science at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists-Société canadienne de biologie végétale

Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Offre de MSc avec @pbbeauregard.bsky.social Mirella Aoun et moi #agriculture #durable #écologie #microbienne Open MSc position #sustainable #agriculture #microbial #ecology Un partenariat entre Bishop's University & @usherbrooke.bsky.social C'est le temps d'appliquer! 🕐🤩 Time to apply! 🕐🤩

Took advantage of a conference in Montréal to pick up some local authors to read at the beach afterwards. A new find and an old favourite.

Centre SÈVE Annual Meeting: Registration Now Open 🙌 The Centre SÈVE is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its annual conference, the Journées Centre SÈVE, which will take place on 🗓️ November 20-21, 2025! For more details 👉 event.fourwaves.com/journees-sev...

Journées Centre SÈVE : inscriptions ouvertes 🙌 Le Centre SÈVE est heureux d'annoncer l'ouverture des inscriptions pour son congrès annuel, les Journées Centre SÈVE, qui aura lieu les 🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025 ! Pour plus de détails 👉 event.fourwaves.com/journees-sev...

David Baulcombe @dcb40.bsky.social delivers the Michael Goodin lecture #ASV2025

In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

A second great talk #ASV2025 by @gesahoffmann.bsky.social, presenting an exciting method to track vertical transmission of viruses