Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!

Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...

Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!

A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

„Großartige Ermöglichungs- und Ermutigungspreise“: Jan Lohmann erhielt den Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis für Spitzenforscher – Als herausragender Wissenschaftler in einer frühen ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin

A rare opportunity to experience the grandeur of the Alte Aula of Universität Heidelberg, on the occasion of the award of the Lautenschläger prize to Jan Lohmann of @cosheidelberg.bsky.social Thanks @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy for letting me tag along!

Inaugural lecture to the faculty of Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) and Simon Wiegert (@simwieg.bsky.social) - bridging green and red biology.

Happy to see this out now in Cell Genomics: A genome-scale single-cell CRISPRi map of trans gene regulation across human pluripotent stem cell lines: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Very proud that Freddy Igiebor has won a DBG Master thesis prize with his work in my lab on phyB photobody meory function!😃 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w

Jan Lohmann erhält Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis: Auszeichnung ist mit 250.000 Euro dotiert – Preis für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs geht an Lukas Bunse www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin #theologie

The SFB1324 on Wnt signaling with a strong COS contribution has been prolonged by the DFG! Great achievement! (@acebronsp.bsky.social, @josephinebageritz.bsky.social, @lsaunders.bsky.social, @ilohmann.bsky.social, Thomas Holstein, Ulrike Engel, Suat Özbek)

Hey #neuroscience enthusiast! Just watch this BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k781 Very cool and simple explanation and bonus feature to see @jekely#neurosciencein action too! 😉

The new lab website is online 🤩🥰 www.photobodies.com Please have a look 😊 So new and shiny, much info! Thanks Freddy for your contribution :)

Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Former COS scientist @heikelindner.bsky.social secures an SNSF starting grant to study the role of succulent anatomy in CAM photosynthesis. Congratulations!

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Christmas came early this year! Bye Bye Nikon A1. Hello Nikon AX!

Curious about the matrisome of Nematostella vectensis? Check the new paper of the Özbek group now published in eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @elife.bsky.social

The version of record of our paper on the emergence of metachronal waves in the #Platynereis larval ciliary band is now out. Together with Rebecca Poon and Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social#platynereis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067 funded by @ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc

Early Excellence in Science Award goes to COS professor @brittavelten.bsky.social! Congratulations!

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

✨ Kicking off #SWS2025 at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social with an inspiring opening talk by my PhD supervisor, Barbara Ann Halkier! Excited for the days ahead 🚀🌱

Meet this year’s team 🌟 After booking speakers, funding acquisition, poster design, ordering merch, and more, we’re excited to launch a brand new season of Life of P.I. talks!

Welcome to day 4 of #EMBOBioImage 🖥️ 👉Happening right now: practical session 5, spatial statistics and omics integration, led by @brittavelten.bsky.social, assisted by Anna Klemm.

Life of P.I.: an initiative of Heidelberg life science students focusing on career and life in research. Please check! www.lifepi-hd.com @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social

Today’s speaker @cosheidelberg.bsky.social is Asa Strand on #Chloroplast development-a tale of two genomes

The group of former COS PI Steffen Lemke reveals mechanisms of mechanical stress management during fly gastrulation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ERC vergibt vier Starting Grants an die Universität Heidelberg – Europäischer Forschungsrat fördert richtungsweisende Projekte von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in frühen Karrierestufen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #förderung #ERCStG

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

Please spread - COS is searching for a new IT engineer (full time, permanent) to support our central IT infrastructure and data management: adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last Friday we held a Mini-Symposium to wrap up the SPARK@COS Summer Practical 🎉 Our students shared what they worked on and learned during the practical – well done and great presentations! A big thank you to everyone who helped make it happen and to all who came to support the talks!

New preprint of the Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social group on the role of P-body proteins in autophagy of Marchantia polymorpha.

I am so happy to announce that our Drosophila testis multiome paper is now published in Nature Communications !!! I am very happy and proud of all who contributed, in particular Patrick and Pallavi who did an amazing job! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First preprint of the @josephinebageritz.bsky.social group! The group discovered a spatially distinct muscle progenitor population in Drosophila that stays in a less committed state thanks to graded Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Congratulations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […] [Original post on biologists.social]

A new paper from the Storelli group @cosheidelberg.bsky.social on how microbial signals modulate nutrition and metabolism in animals: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The new excellence cluster GreenRobust is recognized by the local RNZ newspaper:

Wonderful presentation from @lsaunders.bsky.social and Gilles Storelli about their work in fish development and Drosopohila gut biome www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arR...

The GreenRobust cluster of Excellence is now live on Bluesky @greenrobust.de Follow to be informed of the great things coming up 🌱

New COS faculty members making a [email protected]

Wonderful time in Heidelberg w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy + our HFSP team (Thomas Kiørboe & Alastair Simpson) discussing the origins of eukaryotes and their excitable behaviours! can you feel the ⚡⚡⚡in the room?? (funded by @uniheidelberg.bsky.social International Guest Professorship)

Great achievement! The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence with a strong contribution of COS groups is funded! Excellent!

Kurzvorträge und Diskussion: Mikrobiomforschung trifft Entwicklungsgenetik – In der Reihe „Bio(R)evolution – Neue Köpfe, neue Ideen, neue Horizonte“ sprechen Gilles Storelli und Lauren Saunders www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #biowissenschaften #vortrag

Die schönsten Momente für mich mit Besuchenden unserer zoologischen Sammlung zu #Museumstag gestern: * Ein Lehrer erzählt, dass er mein Zentrifugenvideo im Unterricht verwendet * Mir wird gesagt, man merke, dass ich eigene Kinder habe, weil ich so gut mit Kindern kann 😉 * Ein Mittelstüfler hat die >

Wonderful collaboration with the Wolf, Greb and Prevedel labs!