#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here: ➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

PhD positions! For next year (deadline 15th april 2026, start date ~september 2026), we are looking for 15 PhD students for AGILE: "Advanced Training for Next Generation Scientists in Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Plant Cells" cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... please repost! www.photobodies.com/about-6

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

Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

One alternative plant transformation tek I am so excited to try is the carbide whisker method. It uses thin silicon carbide fibers (nano-needles) to poke the crap out of plant tissue. Just adsorb DNA onto whiskers, add plant bits, and vortex for 1min. Obvs do not breathe in dust; respirator a MUST.

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 🌱

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. 👇

If this being (a human can’t be this cruel) is not a war criminal, who is?!! www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄‍♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Final, edited version of the paper now available www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#somatic embryogenesis! With some #auxin

Very important findings!!!

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

$50 per sample?

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Check out the quality of segmentation by #OneRosette, even when leaves are dying to DC3000. Come and see nuts and bolts of this deep learning prompt-engineering by PhD candidate Felicià Maviane @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social on the 24/10/2025 13h #Margulis

New paper from Karen Halliday, @andruromanowski.bsky.social and Mengke Zhou, showing how PIF7 interacts with and inhibits phyA and can actually cause it to move to the cytosol! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience

You can read Mark's 2024 @dev-journal.bsky.social Review article here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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...

HY5 integrates light and electrical signaling to trigger a jasmonate burst for nematode defense in tomato www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

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.

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture. buff.ly/j3TSIkn

📢 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!

Our latest paper with great work by @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social, Kyra vd Velde and others from our labs on how photoreceptor signals in the shoot can regulate root development. Lovely microscopy and hormone micro-manipulations by Kyra and Kasper!

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light (Kasper van Gelderen , Kyra van der Velde , Chia-kai Kang , Jessy Hollander , Alicia Koppenol , Orfeas Petropoulos , Putri Prasetyaningrum , Tuğba Akyüz , Ronald Pierik) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

One more movie! Using the RL algorithm (from pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), @masaashimazoe.bsky.social analyzed our nucleosome tracking data and classified them by their mobility. Hotter color = faster motion (Slow🔵→ 🟢 → 🟡 → 🟠 Fast)

Four New Cross-Border Doctoral Networks at Universität Heidelberg – European Commission funds establishment of MSCA Doctoral Networks focused on highly innovative research topics www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Very thought-provoking talk by @wigge.bsky.social #ICAR2025 IDRs, intrinsically disordered regions, could stack as parallel beta sheets and respond to temperature that way!

It‘s about to start - such an amazing venue for #ICAR2025

📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots 🧑‍🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes

Happy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool graphic from KWS on the #GenomeEditing timeline. Impressive how few years passed between the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in a crop plant (2013) to the first release of an edited crop ( #GABATomato ) (2021). Trad. #PlantBreeding can take decades! 😮 www.kws.com/corp/de/inno... #PlantScience

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

A Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor position is available in the Plant Biology Department at SLU, related to how plants grow, develop & interact with their environment. Come join us in a welcoming and dynamic department in Uppsala, Sweden! More info below: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

My postdoc was partially funded by a ball of platinum that my mentor found during a lab clean out. Somehow the university treated as unclaimed treasure and he used the proceeds of the sale to cover some of my salary. Postdoc resulted in a little paper that was my most cited and led to 3 books!

WHY do we have so many deadlines in early January? Why do Orgs in countries that overwhelmingly celebrate Christmas do this? These deadlines aren't natural phenomena - we are in control of this!! We don't we just... not? And let everyone have a genuine break? 🤔🙃

For this week's #FluorescenceFriday I bring you a young lateral root that is being "lassoed" in by fluorescent hyphae of the fungus #FusariumOxysporum. The fungus has already colonized the lateral root, which is why it itself is glowing, too.

I´m happy to share with you our latest preprint. In this work we study the role of cis-carotenoids as a source of #retrogradesignals during #plastidbiogenesis to modulate #plantdevelopment. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📜 Nonuple atg8 mutant provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of ATG8 isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana 🧑‍🔬 Alessia Del Chiaro, Nenad Grujic, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al. 📙 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Autophagy #PlantDevelopment

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

Please RT: We’re hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to explore the exciting intersection of microprotein biology, bioengineering, and flower development. 🌺 Apply now: resydeproject.org Deadline: Jan 31 #PhDPosition #PostdocPosition #PlantScience #ComputationalBiology #Microproteins #ERC #RESYDE

We are looking for a new colleague :) Please spread the word!

🥳New cryo tomography Preprint ☀️🌱🔬Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Proud to be part of this great work with @cellarchlab.com @wojwie.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

The abstract submission period for oral presentations is open #ICAR2025 bit.ly/4eMu2k9 Check the community-organized sessions bit.ly/4eUZOvf We @diorkelley.bsky.social & @jbrumos.bsky.social are organizing a session on hormone-driven plant morphogenesis & will select EC speakers from abstracts

#PlantScienceClassics #15 #PlantScienceFails #1: The auxin-independent (axi) Nicotiana tabacum lines. In 1992 Richard Walden et al. (specifically co-worker Inge Czaja) published on activation-tagged axi protoplasts in Science that could divide & grow in the absence of any #auxin!

"and it turns out it didn't work because I forgot the dNTPs!

OK, I’m doing this. I’m relaunching my sporadic series of threads on fun corn facts. Fun #CornFax science by me, cool logo by Andi Kur.