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

Great presentation by Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social focusing on geminivirus peptides (sORFs). Also, an important call at the end to increase plant virology at MPMI; there is much more to explore. #2025ISMPMI

@geminiteamlab.bsky.social reminds us the importance of virology in plant immunity research #2025ismpmi

Viral genomes might encode more proteins than we initially thought! Intrigued? Come see my poster on the identification of potentially new ORFs in the potato virus X genome. Tuesday 9:55-11:30, P-266 @geminiteamlab.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI

A vibrant first day at @mpmijournal.bsky.social Great science, great people, and great energy all around. Hung up my poster—presentation coming tomorrow! 🪧 P-441 | Mon 14 July | 13:30–15:15 PTI or ETI? Unveiling BIR evolution and functional diversity Excited for the days ahead. 🙌✨ #ISMPMI2025

Interested on (gemini)viral peptides? 🦠🍅 ➡️ Come see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 🧾 Poster P-003: Mon 14th, Session 1 #unpublished-results #I’lldraw’em4U 💥

I am presenting my work as a poster @ISMPMI #2025ISMPMI on monday 14.07 ! :) Join me and learn more about HIR2 oligomeric rings - a novel perspective on membrane organization (Poster number 39) Head here to see more: ismpmi.org/congress

Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱 We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science! However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories.. So let's change that! Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!

I will be there present my poster at tomorrow’s poster session. Find me at P-011 where I will tell you about the story of Marchantia BIR protein and how may it help plant fighting against evil bacteria. #2025ISMPMI

And another @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social delegation just arrived in Cologne for the #2025MPMI Niels (P-041), @chia-nan.bsky.social (P-011), Pin-Jou (P-438), Yujing (P-027), Farid (P-063), @raphaelschaal.bsky.social (P-094) and @ericksonlab.bsky.social (P-169)

The @geminiteamlab.bsky.social on the way to #2025ISMPMI See you all there!! 🫶🏻

It was such a pleasure to host @albertopmacho.bsky.social at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social —in his little detour on his way to Cologne for the #2025ISMPMI. “Deciphering the interaction between plants and bacterial pathogens: beyond activation and suppression of immunity”—what a treat we got!

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

Last week I gave a short talk in Colorado at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social about my PhD project „Using superresolution microscopy and biomechanics to uncover new mechanisms in root growth“ in Arabidopsis thaliana. Had a great time talking to wonderful scientists and making new friends 😊 #superresolution

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

The best part of conferences: Meeting old friends and making new ones 😊 @davefaveplants.bsky.social @keikosugimoto.bsky.social @ipgsa2025.bsky.social #IPGSA #plantscience

The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture. If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures! ‪@cerealcell.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/32a74xpd

Are you in Germany in September (25th-27th) and ready to present your science? no further hesitation and register for the 15th GfE School on "Lineages: Revealing how Cells make Embryos and Tissues" at Schloss Reisensburg: www.vbio.de/gfe-entwickl... all #devbio enthusiasts and interested welcome!

First post 🤠 If you want to discuss about the evolution of receptor kinases signaling pathways in land plants, please pass by my Poster (n° 306) #ICAR2025