Science days at Europa-Park! 🌿 Science, thunderstorm, a little bit of sunshine and curious minds with @dobrogojski.bsky.social at Europa Park! Special thanks to @elkebarbez.bsky.social for the GMO basket. #PlantScience #ScienceIsFun #Outreach #CuriosityDriven #PublicEngagement #ScienceForEveryone

“AI provincializes Europe.” For Tobias Rees, #AI is a philosophical earthquake that destabilizes the very concepts on which #Europe has thought itself. What happens when AI runs diagonal to the foundations of European thought? 📍 @uni-freiburg.de | 🗓️ 28 Oct 2025, 17:00 uni-freiburg.de/frias/artifi...

A pic from yesterday’s #hike - The pink #snow is caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis, an algae that thrives in the cold high altitude environment. These algae release pink pigment as a protective barrier against the sun throughout the summer snowmelt & then go dormant in winter.

#JustIn on Plantae — Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Katarina K., Nibedita P., and Ann-Kathrin R. explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health. buff.ly/lI8coP3 #plantscience

Another amazing collaboration for @plantaeofficial.bsky.social, this time with @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social and @aroessling.bsky.social 🌿 We wrote about mental health strategies for researchers, a topic close to our hearts. Check out our tips on staying sane in the lab! plantae.org/lab-tips-for...

Talking Science to school students! For ERC grantees.. Apply here: link.europa.eu/vgTTr4

Here’s a sneak peek from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social new poster featuring all the exciting projects we’re working on! My section explores the evolutionary role of PILS proteins in Chlamydomonas. Come join us for the intro in BIO I today at 13:50 & ur Master thesis. #plantbiology #masterthesis

EMBL is recruiting for the winter semester lnkd.in/p/ecDM-K2X

We're almost there and growing in numbers.. but lost @advaitagashe.bsky.social 🤔 #ISPLORE2025JP

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

260 people, 88 talks, 90 posters, Chlamy 2025 in Münster is just a whirlwind of information, but its oddly comforting being surrounded by people battling the same scientific battles. Makes me feel a little less clueless, a little more fond of my own work, and dare I say, a tad proud of myself.

So you think you understand everything about #Chlamydomonas photoresponses? think again! #protists #behaviour #cilia To explain how Chlamy switches handedness from swimming in CCW circles in low-light to CW in high-light... see our new preprint led by Alan Tsang (HKU) 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Everything you want to know about lateral roots Join us for our next seminar by @sophiezoe.bsky.social (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social), from auxin oscillations to gravitropic angles, dive into the plasticity of lateral root development! 📅 Fri, Jul 18 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 See you there! #PlantScience

The Role of CO₂, Nutrients, & Heat in Algal Proliferation Incidences of Harmful Algal Blooms are becoming more frequent, together with their impacts on food & water security. Algal blooms act as a sink for atmospheric CO2, but can also harm biodiversity & disrupt ecosystems buff.ly/A4Y9fUH #Algae

A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering From @laura-gunn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

This is interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our latest work on the specific role of phosphatase PLL2 in phytocytokine vs MAMP signaling. Published today in Nature Plants. rdcu.be/euNse

I'm surprised that, with a bit of help, 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘵𝘪𝘪 can be hybridized with 𝘊. 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢! "Establishing the green algae 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢 as a platform for recombinant protein production" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great work by Li et al. (2025) on identifying the regulatory loop between #PlantTOR complex (TORC) via its RAPTOR1B subunit (Ser897) and the CBL4/CBL10–CIPK24 module in #Arabidopsis, which regulates the balance between plant growth and #SaltStress response ⚖️. #PlantScience 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae? Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.

🌿🏆 Congratulations to Marc Somssich! 🏆🌿 @somssich.bsky.social He receives the 2025 SciComm Award for outstanding social media contributions bringing scientific discoveries and plant scientists to life through engaging storytelling and historical context. Well deserved! 👏 #SciComm #PlantSci #MBP2025

in artificial #photosynthesis, #CarbonNitrides use light to break 💧 into oxygen and #hydrogen = a promising renewable energy source But how exactly does #WaterSplitting work? @paologiusto.bsky.social & co. solved this long-standing puzzle @naturecomms.bsky.social #chemsky tinyurl.com/ycv5fezh

Full house on our first departmental seminar this year. Which biopolymer is your favorite? If you ask @lauraragni.bsky.social it's suberin and lignin, if you ask @reskilab.bsky.social he will say sporopollenin and cutin, but in the opinion of @huguesrenault.bsky.social all four of them!

#Reminder, tomorrow!

Plant Science Research Weekly: December 20, 2024 plantae.org/plant-scienc... . Enjoy the last PSRW of 2024, out one day before the solstice (“maximum tilt day”). We highlight root development (form fitting function / cambium positioning / exodermis / root cap shedding) (1/2)

We are excited to share 71,700 new #Chlamy mutants from the CLiP2 collection pre-publication! Nearly-saturating genome coverage. Please note: new background strain, mating type, and antibiotic resistance. Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Search and order: www.chlamylibrary.org

Algae use the underwater light spectrum to sense depth #marineecology #Phytoplankton www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our latest pre-print where we used our ASP-#SPARK #sensor to unveil #SnRK1's multifaceted role during #plant growth and #development! bit.ly/49JVZrY Including real-time #spatiotemporal visualization of SnRK1 activity in a growing #Arabidopsis root! 😀

A new biosensor is born 👼 The NAPstar family of genetically-encoded sensors for live NADP redox monitoring🔋🪫 Jointly with the Morgan lab & @riemerlab.bsky.social we looked in vitro, in yeast, plants & mammalian cells 🧪🦠🧫🌱 Where to go next? @naturecomms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Join us for tomorrow’s #CIBSS Seminar by Prof. Gert Bange from #SYNMIKRO Marburg! He will explore the role of Ap4A: a conserved signalling molecule involved in stress responses across diverse organisms, from bacteria to humans. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/aipi

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CLiP2 mutant collection expands genome coverage with high-confidence disrupting alleles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.626622v1

The activation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alpha amylase 2 by glutamine requires its N-terminal ACT domain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.583849v1

Beautiful study by Martin, Alistair, and crew on the membrane tubules that traverse the Chlamydomonas pyrenoid and help deliver a high concentration of #CO2 to Rubisco 🧪🌾

It's tomorrow!! Don't It's out!!

At this week's Plant Science Seminar @aidamaric.bsky.social (@sjonhartman.bsky.social lab) will talk about epigenetic factors regulating flood stress memory in plants. Bring your own mug, we will provide ☕ and 🍪. See you tomorrow at 10:15 in KS 00.009.