Come to join us in beautiful Freiburg #PlantSciJob #Plantscience. 🌱

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

EMF2 maintains epigenetic and chromatin states required for root regeneration Wang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had a great time visiting @uni-goettingen.de, giving a talk about our ongoing #plantscience memory work (see preprint) and discussing ongoing and new projects and more. Thanks to Salma for the invitation 🌱 doi.org/10.64898/202...

We are over the moon! 🎈 Dr. Marieke Oudelaar joins the MPI-IE as a new #MaxPlanck Director, heading the newly established Department of Genome Biology She studies how the 3D folding of DNA controls gene expression – more details below ⬇️ Welcome to #Freiburg, @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social!

Benchmarking normalisation methods for differential binding analysis in CUT&RUN https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.24.727463v1

Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

Principles and mechanisms of plant acclimation to heat stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Development is something that happens over time." Today @augustinsvenja.bsky.social (from @simonrdg.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social) showed how CLE40 coordinates developmental timing in the shoot apical meristem, linking WUS regulation and auxin-mediated differentiation. 📅 May 22 #PlantScience

Come join us to uncover epigenetic memory in trees 🎄 #plantscience

🌲 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Future Forests Excellence Cluster at Uni Freiburg to uncover the molecular basis of stress resilience in forest trees. Work with Douglas fir & sessile oak using epigenomics, RNA-seq, and more. 3-year position, TV-L 13. Apply now! 🧬🌿 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Exciting #CtrlEpiEdit conference update: Maja Jagodic @ki.se will be joining us in Paris! Check out her fantastic in vivo epigenome editing preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... And register for the symposium here 😉: ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org Please repost!

We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June

RAP2.3 is required for MYB51 and SIGMA3 expression during the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to multifactorial stress combination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725943v1

With the number of students studying #PlantScience declining each year, a community of educators is taking steps to transform the subject into an engaging, modern subject, central to the green jobs of the future. Read the article: biologist.rsb.org.uk/regrowing_pl... #FascinationOfPlantsDay

An oxygen-sensing Polycomb-group protein encodes flooding stress memory in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722198v1

The compartmentalized activity of a legume subtilase SBT12a allows symbiosome stabilization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717438v1

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Finding your way into scientific publishing: from peer review to editorial roles 👉 buff.ly/FLnCK4N #PlantScience

Frauke Garbsch (from Laux group) explored how the shoot apical meristem is established in Arabidopsis. We learned about the WOX2 module and how it initiates stem cell formation, together with newly identified downstream genes involved in shoot stem cell niche establishment. 📅 Apr 17 #PlantScience

Ethylene receptors send an unexpected messenger #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇

🌾❄️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ❄️🌾 Through characterizing and understanding genetic pathways that regulate floral development, we can move away from classing winter wheat as vernalizing or not and towards a tailored winter growth habit - Hirsz & Dixon 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I wanted to share my new Spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social that highlights a terrific paper linking gene body methylation with noise in gene expression: Silencing the noise with gene body methylation doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

Science Shared: May 9 www.botany.one/science-shar... This week: memories of floods, how could we find peer-reviewers more easily, and more. #Botany #PlantScience

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

So nice to see such interest in our recent preprint 🥹 www.botany.one/science-shar... #plantscience

Exploring living cells: Simon Elsässer is a leading expert in epigenetics and synthetic biology and one of seven top researchers to receive a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 12 May. #AvHProfessor @simonelsasser.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UKn...

Great work from @aidamaric.bsky.social @hartman-plantlab.com @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social #flooding #memory #plants 🌱 🧬 💦 🧠

Single-cell chromatin landscapes visualize epigenetic barriers and reveal lineage-specific Polycomb-mediated repression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.04.722686v1

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@dompsfr.bsky.social is well represented at the #Rooting2026 conference! We just heard a great talk by @lauraragni.bsky.social. You can check out our posters #7 (@hengqi.bsky.social) and #4 (mine) today, and listen to my talk tomorrow.

Great highlight from an amazing study: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... The wild MIR156BC allele can be reset in developing tiller buds after flowering, with increased #chromatin accessibility and reduced levels of the repressive #epigenetic mark H3K27me3.

It's a special week of firsts. I never really imagined doing this until last year, but we also started our first field trial with a local farmer and consortium, supported by @mwk-bw.bsky.social 🌽🌾 Super exciting! #plantscience

Another one for the plant stress memory field - way to make a big entrance! Congratulations to the authors, this is a very nice read.

Great work by Liao et al. (2026) on how the #SnRK1 –RAP2.4h–PIP2 module regulates the energy-signaling-mediated trade-off between vegetative growth and #hypoxia tolerance in plants ( #Arabidopsis and rice), offering a potential target to improve crop flood tolerance. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early-bird registration for the #SEBconference in Florence 🇮🇹 closes in just a few days (15 May 2026)! Check out our scientific sessions ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Visit our information page: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Book your place now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Very happy to see this new work on flooding stress memory in plants via the oxygen-sensitive polycomb protein VRN2, now online @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. A fantastic job led by @aidamaric.bsky.social, @hartman-plantlab.com, and collaborators! 🌱 🌾💦

So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An oxygen-sensing Polycomb-group protein encodes flooding stress memory in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722198v1

Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Netherland > #wildfire ’t Harde / Epe, Regio Gelderland - NL ALERT 6pm Dutch Public Warning System. Fire with a lot of smoke from the Veluwe. Stay out of the smoke! Close windows and doors. Switch ventilation systems off. For more details and updates, check www.veiligheidsregioflevoland.nl

Sensing endoplasmic reticulum redox state by ethylene receptors www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

New preprint from the He lab: FERONIA is required for high humidity-induced Ca²⁺ waves and adaptive leaf hyponasty in Arabidopsis. Whole-plant calcium imaging across three species. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plantbiology #calciumsignaling

#JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Developmental Biology with a focus on Signalling in Vertebrate Development. ❗Application Deadline: May 15, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/eksd