We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity

Characterization of the C4 proteins encoded by okra-infecting geminiviruses in India https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703481v1

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word! www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

We are looking for a scientific coordinator in Heidelberg for the Greenrobust excellence cluster www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

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...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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...

GT Lab (median) New Year dinner 🎉 + Clem’s farewell 😊🥲😔 at Chin-Thai Restaurant/天富楼 in Tübingen — amazing food and better company! All the best for your PI life (!) @clemmar.bsky.social — so much fun lies ahead! (but we will miss you!!)

🚀 Calling all ssDNA virologists! 🔬✨ Join the International Symposium on ssDNA Viruses (IS³DV 2026) isdv2026.com 📅 15–19 June 2026 📍 Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil 🇧🇷 Whether you’re a P.I., postdoc, ECR, or student, this is your stage to connect, share, debate and push the frontiers of ssDNA virology.

What could be better than discussing single-stranded DNA viruses with an international community of experts and a trans-kingdom perspective — at an affordable prize? Doing it in Bahia, Brazil! 🌴🌊☀️ Join us for IS3DV, June 15-19! isdv2026.com

A giant virus forms a specialized subcellular environment within its amoeba host for efficient translation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱

Join us in Málaga!

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The GT goes to Stuttgart! A (brief) trip, nice scenery, good food, a touch of (mostly fictitious) science, and excellent company! What else could one wish for in a lab retreat? (Ah — it was also the 10th anniversary of the lab!) 🎂🌱🦠

Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅 Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏

Such a cool pre-print on making sentinel plants - so much potential! Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The why, why and how of symptom development in viral disease (Annu. Rev. Phytopathology) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) @geminiteamlab.bsky.social buff.ly/dsQwgbo #PlantaePSRW

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring: - Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO - Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv - Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025 RT are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social

🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

To all friends and colleagues virologists SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil June 15-19 2026 Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !

Check out this new story from the Felix lab, with some contribution from us: Receptor antagonist prevents hyperactivation of the plant immune system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest article is now online! @PlantBiotechnologyJournal Expression of Arabidopsis FLS2 in N. benthamiana confers responsiveness to Ralstonia flg22 and activation of anti-bacterial immunity doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... By Meng Li, Yujiao Chen, and Yali Wei

Inspiring time at @ismpmi.bsky.social, where I had the honour of sharing my PhD work on repurposing viruses for plant biomanufacturing. It was great to reconnect with old friends (special shoutout to @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 💚) and meet so many researchers pushing plant–microbe science forward 🌱🧬🧫

Previous studies of extrachromosomal circular DNA #eccDNA in #plants are based on short-read seq. @vanderschuren-lab.bsky.social uses long-read seq to obtain a map of full-length eccDNAs from #Arabidopsis, identifying their genomic origins & epigenetic regulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44Mq3RI

I had a lot of fun ☺️ next time we need more virus sessions and posters!

Such an intense and enjoyable week at #2025MPMI!

Next in the concurrent session “spatial and temporal session” is @type3lab.bsky.social who will talk about their amazing findings on distinct pseudomonas subpopulations that cooperate to colonize plants #2025ISMPMI

If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI

Come and learn about plant-aphid interactions and the mechanisms by which the Mp10 aphid effector protein interacts with plant immune signalling, my poster is P-158, I'll be manning it in the session on thursday. #ismpmi20025

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cajal bodies are membraneless structures with fundamental roles across eukaryotes—but which proteins actually make them up? Using FAPS, Zhou et al. isolated 34 million plant Cajal bodies and profiled their proteome via LC-MS/MS. Curious? Check out our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

Are you interested in how DNA virus infection can change host chromatin localization🦠 ? Come to see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 📃Poster P-224:Tuesday 15th, Session 1

A full room for the concurrent session on Plant-Virus Interactions at #2025ISMPMI!!! Thanks @lauramepul.bsky.social , Murilo Zerbini, and @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing - what an amazing line-up of speakers!

Also visit the poster from my colleague Shuyi Luo, who is asking similar questions about the genomes of geminiviruses! Same session, P-234 @geminiteamlab.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI

Viral genomes might encode more proteins than we initially thought! Intrigued? Come see my poster on the identification of potentially new ORFs in the potato virus X genome. Tuesday 9:55-11:30, P-266 @geminiteamlab.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI

🤯🤯 and I ❤️ it! #2025ISMPMI @soreklab.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻

Incredibly inspiring talk about the discovery of the more than 200 immune systems in bacteria by Rotem Sorek. From computational discovery in 2018 through functional and structural analyses, even linking bacterial immune systems to that of eukaryotes. #2025ISMPMI

Are you interested in membrane trafficking and viruses🦠？ 🏃🏻Come to see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 📃Poster P-348:Tuesday 15th, Session 1

Interested on (gemini)viral peptides? 🦠🍅 ➡️ Come see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 🧾 Poster P-003: Mon 14th, Session 1 #unpublished-results #I’lldraw’em4U 💥