Nice press release about our new project revolving around antifungals and Fusarium 👇🏻 w/ @luziagyr.bsky.social by Kerstin Breuer @leibniz-hki.de www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-rel...

nice comprehensive review on plant cell surface receptors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Redox-dependent extracellular interaction networks of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714216v1

Interested in signaling? Evolution? Microfluidics? Phosphoproteomics? Imaging? Green organisms? Consider joining the awesome Jan De Vries team for this 5-year (!) post-doc and come collaborate with Joris Sprakel and me!

Effector-centred proximity-dependent labelling enables the discovery of cell-surface immune receptors in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713615v1

Valentin Hammoudi, Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellow, former postdoctoral researcher & freelance journalist, talks about their experience with the #fellowship and how they transitioned into #ScienceJournalism: https://www.embo.org/people/bringing-new-perspectives-to-science-journalism/#fellowship🧪

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software ✅ Free 🔓 Open Source 🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene 🤖 Can be automated with python 👨‍🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers! 👉 Check it out at opencloning.org

Hiring a postdoc for an exciting collaborative project on drought, microbiomes, chemistry and herbivores IN TREES! In Jena we offer great living and scientific conditions and a strong system for postdoc support and training vai @jsmc-info.bsky.social. Details/apply: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/7...

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #plantscience

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership. Evolution, fast-forwarded. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#JustIn on Plantae: How to Build a Start-up in Plant Sciences. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Charlay Wood and @fengoulaavgeri.bsky.social demystifies what a start-up really is and shows plant scientists that they already have the skills to build one. buff.ly/HJMuqeK #PlantScience

We have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social Group, to work on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling on a programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Apply by 27 February: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/

Guard cell wall water 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Blatt et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Local CLE peptides promotes rapid, ABA-independent stomatal closure (Nature Comms.) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/eyOuBLV #PlantaePSRW

We have published a methods paper describing how to identify cell surface receptor complexes by immunoprecipitation and map their phosphorylation sites. We hope this protocol will be useful to the community. link.springer.com/protocol/10....

👀 A Specific Sinorhizobium Flagellin Suppresses Legume Nodulation Through Immune Activation doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

EVENT - OPEN Friday Seminar - HOPWOOD LECTURE: Prof. Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich - "Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research" 🗓️ 13 February 2026 ⏰ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 💻 Register to join online: okt.to/s7xUb5

Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social and Eugene Koonin discuss one of most interesting questions in the field connecting bacterial and animal immunity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Crinkler proteins—first discovered in Phytophthora—can be fused to ADP-ribosyltransferases, acting as epigenetic parasitic elements in free-living eukaryotes. #AACRNL #Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s414...

GCN5 negatively regulates class III peroxidases PRX71 and PRX33 to promote lignin deposition in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701911v1

Join us in Amsterdam for a FEBS advanced course on "Functional Imaging of cellular dynamics" from 31st of May - 6th of June 2026 Info: microscopy2026.febsevents.org

A New Multiplex TaqMan qPCR for Precise Detection and Quantification of Clavibacter michiganensis in Seeds and Plant Tissue | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Rescheduled Date for Dr. Caitilyn Allen’s APS Webinar on January 29: “Catching the Scent: How Plant Pathogenic Ralstonia Know They Are in a Host” Register here 👉 bit.ly/3WqLF2p #PlantScience #PlantPathology #plantdisease #scicomm

The new textbook Essential Plant Biology, written by @johninnescentre.bsky.social and TSL experts, is now available! 🌱 This richly illustrated textbook is accessible undergraduate biologists and will be a valuable resource for all biology students and teachers 🌿 Full announcement ➡️ buff.ly/AmDw3en

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international and local speakers. ⏰ APPLY by 30 March '26 New keynote speakers ⬇️

🆕 version work @sylvain-vicente.bsky.social and collaborators #BIOSP #MathNum @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Re-evaluation of STAMP modelling, introducing time-resolution. Works also on Animal-bacterial infection models. #infection #Ralstonia #Pseudomonas #Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @philcarella.bsky.social Group, working in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions). okt.to/yIlgTU Closing date - 10 February 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - Full-time, 3 years

I'm excited to see this out after hearing Matt give a nice seminar a few months ago. Ralstonia is such an interesting pathogen! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Asgard archaea may have facilitated the evolutionary development of the mitochondria via endosymbiosis of α-proteobacteria at some point between the first eukaryotic common ancestor (FECA) and the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA)! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw

🆕📰‼️ #PaperCBGP 🔬 Researchers from CBGP (@stephanpollmann.bsky.social) together with @cnb-csic.bsky.social, uncover a new biochemical link between auxin and ABA 🌱 The study, published in @newphyt.bsky.social, reveals how IAM connects plant growth and stress responses 📎 shorturl.at/KBi3w

PhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!

Efficient and accurate prime editing system in plants Nishizawa-Yokoi et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to share our recent preprint: "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social

Bacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

🛎️🛎️ Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship? Interested in tackling real-world challenges? Then check out EMBL's EIPOD-LinC fellowships. Gain transferable skills and work on self-designed projects to make a lasting impact on global issues. 📆 Closing date: 2 February www.embl.org/about/info/p...

Bacteria swap DNA far more than we thought. This study shows recombination between species can blur genetic boundaries, with up to 95% of diversity coming from hybrid DNA in some microbes.

How do pathogens sneak past plant defenses? Join Dr. Quan Zeng in "Illustrating a Novel Host Entry Mechanism of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.​" Don’t miss this event in our Advances in Phytobacteriology series on January 15! https://bit.ly/3YnkfLz #planthealth #plantscience

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#TAIR is a key reference tool #plantscience. That's why nearly 100 volunteers chose to contribute to the soon-to-be-released reannotation of the #Arabidopsis genome. 🧪 Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ #plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky