We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks @uhammes.bsky.social for a truly enjoyable seminar and nice scientific discussions! We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳

Our editors write: - "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1 A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com : "Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW

Inspiring visit and exciting talk by @likeyoda1.bsky.social today in @psb-vib.bsky.social. Impressive progress after starting her lab only 2 years ago!

Research Briefing: Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding go.nature.com/47EBk8f rdcu.be/eN6k1

Thanks a lot Isa @isabelmonte.bsky.social👩‍🔬for accepting our invitation🤩. Such a terrific talk, opening up new research lines hand-in-hand with #Trichoderma. MPMI in its purest state!!! Special thanks to @agrienvironcyl.bsky.social for funding the visit, and many more yet to come. 🌿🧫🦠🧬

Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Plant cell wall signaling is indeed a very dynamic process 🌱 You can read what our very own Sebastian Wolf says about pectin in this news feature 👇

Don't miss this online seminar by Emanuele Scacchi, from Marja Timmermans' lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, on how mobile small RNAs and Turing patterns coordinate leaf polarity!

Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg. We are so proud of you! #plantsci

⏰Happening in three days, Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 9 am Eastern time. Join us!🌱 👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese...

Another study from the lab🔬🎉 Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science! Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... #PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP

Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1

Shu Yao Leong, Erik Schäffer @schaefferlab.bsky.social & team @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social discover that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 acts as a versatile interaction hub for microtubules, MAP65-3 & lipids. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar! Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏 #MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

Jessica @ericksonlab.bsky.social, Junior Group Leader at the #ZMBP, will discuss about work-life balance with other plant scientists in this upcoming Plantae webinar 🤸‍♀️🌱 Registration open in the link below 👇

Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱 #EvoMPMI #MPMI Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️

Have you noticed someone new here? 👇 Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP! #newPI #plantscience #MPMI

Congratulations to the winners of the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium awards 🥳🥳🥳 🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social 🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák 🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab

Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social #superresolution #plasmamembrane academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Thanks Farid and @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for inviting us from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this year! I had a great time listening to the great talks from my peers at ZMBP and enjoyed the discussions and feedback about my work ☺️ see you again next year!

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

A year ago I gave my first chalk talk at the ZMPP symposium. This year, I returned for my 2nd symposium with a flash talk and poster presentation. Grateful for the chance to share my work, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues—thanks @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for making it so memorable!

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱 🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter & @lauraragni.bsky.social Closing 30th Sept '25 Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...) #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 (1/2)

So great having @isabelmonte.bsky.social visiting Edinburgh. Thanks for a wonderful seminar and some great discussions. Really pleased the rain held off for a lovely walk round the Botanics - including the obligatory stop to see the Lycopodium clavatum 🪴 🌿 🍄 🦠

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

Our latest paper is now published in Nano Letters! "Attonewton Force Resolution Measurements with Silicon Nanospheres at the Thermal Noise Limit in Ambient-Temperature Liquids" Check it out: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #opticaltweezer #forcemeasurement #siliconnanosphere #ZMBP

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

I'm going to miss my Norwich family to bits 🥲💔. Sad to leave but excited for what lies ahead for the Contreras lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social!

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation! How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation Positions to be announced soon!

Dr. Joel Frohlich vom fMEG-Zentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät und Dr. Clémence Marchal vom @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social haben jeweils einen Starting Grant des @erc.europa.eu eingeworben! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr Infos: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ERCStartingGrants #Molekularbiologie

Check this article by Leí Wang and Georg Felix on how tomato 🍅 regulates immune signaling through antiSYS, a natural competitive receptor antagonist! #plantimmunity #ZMBP

Today Jessica @ericksonlab.bsky.social from the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social and me met in @stadtnuernberg.bsky.social to discuss an already fruitful collaborative project. Stay tuned..

We were invited to write a short Preview article for @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social on the recent @cp-cell.bsky.social publication from Du & Alam et al. on overcoming Restricted Taxonomic Functionality of NLRs Read our Preview here: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Happy to share the new article from my former lab at IBMCP — the final chapter of my PhD! We optimized geminivirus-based vectors for the controlled expression of recombinant proteins in plants, using autobioluminescence as a real-time reporter 💡🧬🌱 If you’re curious… 👀: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell-type specific gating of gene regulatory modules as a hallmark of early immune responses in Arabidopsis leaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668105v1

Trang Phan (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) found that a Xanthomonas pathogen activates the expression in Citrus leaves of a fruit ripening enzyme that digests leaf xylan, which consequently triggers T2SS effector secretion.

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

Congrats to Niels Gallas, from Thomas Lahaye's lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, for winning the Top Poster Award at #2025ISMPMI Well done! 🥳🥳🥳

Grateful to all that came to my poster at #2025ISMPMI this week 🌱 This was not an easy story to present, but the support and discussions were great and made this a journey worth telling!

Leonie Zott brings up the often overlooked phage in the microbiome. She shows that the phyllosphere and Pseudomonas viridiflavae pathogenicity can be impacted by phage lysis on the leaf. #2025ISMPMI

#2025ISMPMI Trang Phang from the Lahaye-lab shows her unpublished and cool results on the water soaking inducing CsLOB1 transcription factor targeted by Tal effector. CsLOB1 directly promotes cell wall degradation.

A brilliant start to Plenary Session 2 at @mpmijournal.bsky.social Prof. Rosa Lozano-Durán delivered an outstanding talk highlighting just how cool and relevant plant virology truly is. Plant virology is not just relevant… it’s essential. @geminiteamlab.bsky.social