These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

Single-molecule live-cell fluorescence in situ hybridization uses an RNA-targeting CRISPR–Csm complex to image and track endogenous RNAs go.nature.com/3EJPKsM rdcu.be/eUK9K

📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

Another exciting preprint! Two additional HMA-TKP sensors from wheat and barley, swapping HMAs can confer recognition specificity. Evo analyses supporting HMA-TKP has differentiated to recognize different effectors through HMA diversification. other links below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are happy to have a new BZ-X1000 in the lab: a nice Christmas present! Would not be possible without @w-s-w.org and the @uni-muenster.de support 🔬🤩💥

"cis-regulatory evolution involves turnover of thousands of individual binding site instances while largely preserving transcription factors’ binding preferences." From: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Modelling stomatal mechanics: a critical review Tan et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

A team led by Prof Susann Wicke from the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity has shown that certain parasitic plants activate their haustoria independently of the host plant. This strategy increases their ability to successfully infest the host. @univie.ac.at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Celebrating upcoming Christmas 🎄 with my great colleagues @uni-muenster.de #IBBP and good German Glühwein 🍷!

Crop calcium signaling #TansleyReview by Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)! GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging. Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations. 👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

IAM triggers ABA #biosynthesis and signaling in #Arabidopsis #thaliana 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Moya-Cuevas et al. @stephanpollmann.bsky.social @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) … Root cell wall plasticity in iron homeostasis: An overlooked frontier in plant nutrition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Evolution of #conifer seed cones 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by @kmatsunaga @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

🚨We are hiring🚨 We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026. You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment. 👉 More information below 📩 Apply until 4 January 2026

🧬 🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 🧬 MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Oh Wow! Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬 Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions. Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a.... Please help us get the word out!

Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! 🌱🌾🫛🇪🇺🧬 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

Looking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ? Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring ! 📅 Apply by 10 January 2026 More info: 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs

🧬🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅🧬 Recent breakthroughs in genome sequencing have transformed tomato research, unlocking key wild germplasm traits 🌍 Rose et al. outline how these well-characterized genetic resources can be used to improve tomato research 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fantastic talk on plant cell division by amazing @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de !

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Unlocking sugar subcellular dynamics: The crucial function and regulation of tonoplast sugar transporters in plant response to climate change academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides. medium.com/p/gene-editi...

Attention ECRs! Apply now for a Conference Travel Award from @eseb.bsky.social to attend @empseb31.bsky.social OR the upcoming @evolmtg.bsky.social in Cleveland 2026 📣 DEADLINE: 30th January 2026 eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Sorry here is the good link doi.org/10.1111/nph....

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Out First Release in @science.org A pollen ligand, SIPS, binds to the female receptor, SRK. SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK, for interspecific incompatibility, unlike the self-incompatibility factor, which binds to a different, variable region www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!

Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.

🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱 In all land plants, small secreted peptides belonging to the CLE family move from cell to cell and activate their cognate receptors to control a plethora of developmental processes - Cornelis & Hazak 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @hazaklab.bsky.social

It’s finally out! 🎉 Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #PlantSciences

A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply! Please share!

Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested! tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

Celebrating my inaugural lecture with @tlvuni.bsky.social and my @uni-muenster.de Biology colleagues! Happy to be part of the Münster Plant Bio community @ifink-lab.bsky.social @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social 🌱

We had @tlvuni.bsky.social for the institute seminar and dinner yesterday! I especially liked a comprehensive overview on ROP signaling in plants and great scientific discussions! Thanks for visiting us Shaul @uni-muenster.de !

Happy to see the next GRC in Salt and Water stress 🌱💧in Plants will be organized in Europe-Switzerland 🇨🇭! Great meeting and Great Community- now open for applications to participate @bradylabs.bsky.social !

Interested in doing a postdoc on fundamental problems in plant biology? Apply for our Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. Due 12/4/25: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/13/applications-for-simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology-now-open/ #biology #lifesciences

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...

A matter of life and death... ☠️🧬 Sakil et al. review the physiological role of autophagic cell death in plants incl. its contribution to stress response & developmental processes, and discuss the mechanisms underlying such processes #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...