Excited to share our pre-print on how Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates ROP6 recruitment to nanodomains upon auxin. Great job from my PhD student Matheus Montrazi, @arthur-poitout.bsky.social, @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates Rho-GTPase recruitment to nanodomains for signal activation in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686946v1

Cool new paper on receptor specificity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Join us next Thursday, November 13th, at the IECB amphitheater for our annual Chemistry & Biology Interface Day covering the hottest research topics at our beautiful Nouvelle Aquitaine Region 🤩 🧪 ⚗️ 🧫 🦠 🔬 🤓 !!! Special guest: Dr Priya Ramakrishna @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social from the EPFL Lausanne

1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ... #PlantScience

(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy. Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We have our annual Chemistry Biology Interface Day @iecb.bsky.social soon (13th of Nov). Excited to welcome @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social from @epflenac.bsky.social as an invited speaker. Open to the full scientific community of @univbordeaux.bsky.social . Join us for day full of exciting science!

🌊 A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualised the inner workings of hundreds of marine species for the first time www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️

🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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. 👇

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

Oomycete plant pathogens: biology, pathogenesis and emerging control strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Excited to share our study out in @natcellbio.nature.com! Led by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social, we identify the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway: LD-localized FSP1 protects stored lipids from oxidative damage and prevents LD-initiated #ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection go.nature.com/4nqhFhU

Pls RP Gunther and I invite manuscript submission to the special issue at Phytopathol Research, the flagship journal of The Chinese Society of Plant Pathology. Topic: Plant microbiome and disease resistance Deadline: June 30 2026 Both original and review papers are welcome. bit.ly/4hr1vng

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...

Disulfide bond sculpts a peptide fold that mediates phytocytokine recognition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684422v1

Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s been 14 years since I uploaded a video on YouTube showing that Striga does not infect other members of the Orobanchaceae family.JSPS Fellow Simon came to Japan and carried out mutant screening to find mechanism and it was 10 years ago that the mutant was finally obtained. A long journey.

Structural insights into #lanosterol #synthase #evolution 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Ma et al.

We have our annual Chemistry Biology Interface Day @iecb.bsky.social soon (13th of Nov). Excited to welcome @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social from @epflenac.bsky.social as an invited speaker. Open to the full scientific community of @univbordeaux.bsky.social . Join us for day full of exciting science!

Léa Ninzatti, Marie-Françoise Jardinaud, and Aurélien Carlier review current knowledge of hereditary leaf symbiosis in tropical plants and explore hypotheses regarding mechanisms that enable these highly specific interactions: https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-11-24-0111-RVW

We have an open Post Doc position in plant-volatile interactions, starting April 2026. Ideal if you love to use molecular tools to understand the natural world and improve agriculture. Interested? Send your CV, grades, motivation letter and refs (single pdf!) to [email protected]. Please share.

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

An elevated environmental temperature impairs accumulation of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683271v1

“Gall inducers of E. copacabanensis exhibit strategic adjustments that enable them to occupy the same host and ensure completion of their life cycles.“ Read more #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Reassociation of specialist herbivores with an invasive plant selects for reduced allocation to soil mutualists Wandong Yin, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XDAEMR... #PlantScience #herbivores #mutualists

Journal of Experimental Botany explains the complex strategies used by plants and by insects in their struggle to survive.

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I came across this beautiful obituary for Chris Lamb in @annualreviews.bsky.social, authored by Richard Dixon: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... It's very well written, putting his science into perspective & also painting a picture of Chris as a person and mentor. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.

Perfect timing in the field for a beautiful review on NAD+ in bacterial immunity by @hugovaysset.bsky.social and @audeber.bsky.social @cp-molcell.bsky.social #MicroSky www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

"Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Plant Interkingdom Environment Interaction and or Plant Immunity at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Torii_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

How do you detect transgenes in genome-edited crops? We tested several methods and report our findings in 2 back-to-back papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... rdcu.be/eLgUi

Let's explore the #Mifobio2025 programme ! 👉 Focus on the seminars We are delighted to welcome : Dr. @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social 🎤 Talk : “how and why plant cells communicate” 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRimabio #microscopy #biological_imaging

IN BRIEF: Metacaspase-Peps-PEPR: The three musketeers in boosting wheat resistance against Fusarium head blight (Margot Raffeiner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵

Primary metabolism determines the outcome of salicylic acid-mediated immune induction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682132v1