Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

It’s official. Today I was appointed as full professor for Plant Physiology at the University of Würzburg. Looking forward to the challenge and many interactions.

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Delighted to present our Tansley Insight on what we know about the potential of different root cortex layers to do develop into different things! 👩‍🔬 @dorotakawa.bsky.social @hannahschneider.bsky.social 📗 @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration,  https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7

Honoured to be sworn in as President of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly. Guided by our motto #BetterTogether, I will work with all 193 Member States to embrace unity in challenging times & strengthen the UN - for today, for tomorrow & for the next 80 years.

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

Thanks to everyone who joined the Trilateral ECR Symposium 2025 at @unil.bsky.social with colleagues from VIB Ghent and ENS Lyon 🌍 Such a great environment to connect across labs💡 Special shout-out to the amazing organizing committee, and especially @mathieugg.bsky.social for making it all happen !

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

An update to our spatial transcriptomics study of the wheat spike is now available in bioRxiv! The updated version includes functional validation of the roles associated with the specific expression patterns of LFY in intercalary meristems, SPL14 in inflorescence meristems, and FZP in glume axillae.

Gene editing to create plants with exserted stigma and robots to produce hybrid tomatoes. From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Deadline approaching: Friday 15 August Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...

Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo

New group leader opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social! We're looking for interests in (but not limited to) growth and development, environmental / organismal interactions, physiology, signalling, quantitative cell biology, biochemical and modelling approaches. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how pan-genetic analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

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...

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence, a joint venture of the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim, is now a reality!! For the next 7 years, we will investigate the principles underlying robustness to perturbations in plants. Stay tuned! greenrobust.de 🍾🥂💚🌱 @dfg.de

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships support life scientists pursuing a career in #ScienceJournalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education. Apply now: buff.ly/2YPDOJv #LifeSciences #Funding 🧪

Nice preprint from Erh-Min Lai's lab. "By integrating floral stage selection, immune evasion, and Agrobacterium engineering, this study provides a practical and versatile platform to advance plant genome engineering." vhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.07.652770v1

Subfunctionalization and epigenetic regulation of a biosynthetic gene cluster in Solanaceae From: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #PlantScience #SecMet

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social t.co/x3l0lllNS2

📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢 We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity. Learn more below! 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/7

Tired of struggling with different tags to generate transgenic plants expressing your favorite protein ? Check out our latest preprint about ALFA technology and its MANY applications for plant biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉 You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩‍🎨

Interested in doing a sabbatical at EMBL, at one of its 6 sites in Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg or Rome? Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July. www.embl.org/about/info/s...

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

🔬 This colorful picture shows the expression of MADS box genes in a young barley spike. The mapping was carried out by Jan Maika from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. 💡 MADS box genes code for transcription factors that regulate a.o. flower development, fruit formation and seed maturation.

Solanum galapagense (Galápagos tomato/“tomatillo”) Isla Santiago, Galápagos

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Genetically altered 'woolly mice' express several mammoth-like traits, including the animal's iconic coat. The cuteness, meanwhile, is a complete coincidence. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...