My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊

#plantjob If you are interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and have a PhD degree obtained between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, come join us and apply to the "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contracts!. Drop a mail with your CV + motivation letter!

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

We are very lucky to day @cragenomica.bsky.social for having @grandpahiro.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social sharing with us his fantastic science revolving about the diversificarion of plant immune systems.

Very nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was very lucky to have the chance to organize what it turned to be a fantastic workshop last ICAR2025 with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and two talented ECRs, Katarina and Hantao, including very exciting talks. You can find a nice summary of what happened in this blogspot!

And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

If you happen to be at #ICAR2025 you can not miss this workshop in which I will be sharing the stage with really amazing colleagues to talk about antiviral immunity!

#ICAR2025 we start our panel discussion around some questions

#ICAR2025 we start with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social introducing our workshop, let's the fun begin!

Congrats on the @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social award for dissemination to @natanellae.bsky.social ! Well deserved!

Tomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!

How cool is that!, bacterial canibalism to cope with hard times!

#PlantScience I will be talking about evolution of plant development and antiviral immunity #ICAR2025 along with amazing colleagues!, come join us on Friday 20th! @cragenomica.bsky.social

#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang

Happy to attend a seminar by Eric Schranz from @w-u-r.bsky.social talking about his work on rice genomics

Join this exciting #ICAR2025 workshop on plant heterogeneity and novel imaging/sequencing tools, with an excellent speaker lineup you won’t want to miss!

@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social @cragenomica.bsky.social is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies

Exciting!, the second EvoDevoSigNet meeting will take place next June 2nd to 4th!, come join us for the talks and networking for free (details in the advertisement!!), supported by @cienciagob.bsky.social

Did you know that plant species that pioneer land colonization, such as the bryophyte M. polymorpha, are infected by RNA viruses and show similar/dissimilar antiviral defense programs to those found in crops and other vascular plants?. Check out our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really happy to attend to a seminar by the one and only @brunocontrerasm.bsky.social telling about his work on discovering regulatory sequences

Conservation of the role of the SERK-BIR module in Marchantia polymorpha. Nice tour de force from @grandpahiro.bsky.social et col @currentbiology.bsky.social !

Our work on cryptic infection of giant viruses was published today in @ScienceMagazine . We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami & NIOZ scientists. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our wonderful collaboration with Luisa Lanfranco lab on crosskingdom RNAi in AM synbiosis is now out @newphyt.bsky.social, along with the comment nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... more to come soon!

#Evolution #plantimmunity are you interested on understanding the evolution of plant immunity and their interaction with viruses?, how evolution of development has affected those interactions?, We would be happy to support candidates for a HSFP postdoc (shorturl.at/HqiLk)!, get in touch if you do!

Latest from Jia-Wei Wang's lab on overcoming sampling limitations for scRNA-seq experiments!, a suit of fixative procedures to collect field samples and more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So...is NCBI down?

Several Presidents and Prime Ministers should learn from this kind of statements and stand against the Fascism from the Trump Government and his wolrdwide acolytes (Milei, Le Pen, Bolsonaro...) not just thinking in their pockets but in our ethics and believes rooted in equity and morality

Just a week left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab in Oxford.

Last Monday and Tuesday I had the chance to present our latest research @i2sysbio.bsky.social and discuss with colleagues @ibmcp.bsky.social, as usual, I had a blast and enjoyed pretty much learning from the researchers there, many thanks for your generosity answering my never ending questions|

Happy to have contributed to this nice study!

If you happen to be in Valencia (Spain) next Monday, drop by @i2sysbio.bsky.social and let´s discuss our latest findings!

How much I do love those "click" moments

So apparently being member of the editorial board of some journals is an Honor. I am not sure it is an honor to work for free for for-profit companies that, in addition, ask you to approach your colleagues to participate in two special issues/year not only working for free but paying to publish

#PlantSciJob, deadlines are approaching!, get in touch if you are interested in studying the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and how that imoacts on cell-type specific immunity programs!

Nice commentary about our latest paper @mpmijournal.bsky.social with Francois Vasseur, @pbaldrich.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social what a great way of ending a fantastic yesr!, lookimg forward to next one! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....

New: Kenny, the magnetic separation rack for six 2 ml tubes! The position of the magnets can be customized. But even in the lowest position, the super-strong magnets are able to pull beads out of a full 2 ml tube (time-lapse vid 90 sec). Check it out: tinyurl.com/kennymag

#PlantScience Come join us!, The MoRE Lab (shorturl.at/CUwM4) is open to support PhD candidates for these programs (shorturl.at/FQBaI and shorturl.at/FmwiF), early postdocs (shorturl.at/KVyVv) and senior (shorturl.at/zkk7l), check eligibility and get in touch!, help us spread the word, please!

#PlantScience @cragenomica.bsky.social welcomes scientists interested in becoming Junior PIs through the Ramon y Cajal program (shorturl.at/UxXQb), If interested, get in touch first with our director Maria Lois , help us spread the word, please!

If you are looking for the best lab equipment, check @custom-lab.bsky.social. After trying many magnetic racks from top companies, they make the best ones. No carry overs, nicely designed and very affordable!. Happy New Rack to everyone!

#PlantScienceJob Interested on the evolution of plant-virus interactions, cell-type specification of plant immunity or crosskingdom RNAi in AM symbiosis?, got a PhD between Jan2023-Dec2024?, we will be happy to support you for this call to join us! shorturl.at/wsSmh Help us spread the word!

Good molecular communication is at the core of long standing biological partnerships!. Exchange of micro-messages between fungi and plants are the basis of a very profitable association that might contribute to a cleaner agronomy and environment

It is a pleasure to have the chance to organize this session with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social . Save the dates and come join us in this exciting opportunity to meet your colleagues!. We would love to hear about your science, thoughts and future dreams. ECRs are more than welcome!. Stay tunned!

👋 Hi there! We're already on Bluesky, if you want to know about our research on plants and animals, follow us 🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fefm...

#PlantScience What an year! Excited to share our work on Crosskingdom RNAi in plant-fungus symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social as part of a wonderful collaboration with Prof. Luisa Lanfranco at University of Torino (more to come!) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4XMQAB...

We are looking for suitable candidates to apply for a INPhINIT fellowship. Our current interests are focused on understanding the evolution of plant virus interactions and on the role of crosskingdom RNAi in plant-fungus symbiotic interactions and their evolution. shorturl.at/0FOSx shorturl.at/UbbgT

Anyone has a review on the evolution of plant vasculature that can recommend?, Many thanks in advance!

And it is finally out, our take on the role of plant miRNAs as sensors that enable a new layer of defense upon pathogen-imposed dysfunction www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Come check!