Only 4 seats left for the online course "Population Genomics using ancient DNA data" from Sept 22-26. Learn about aDNA challenges, processing, and analysis. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/adna-popgen/ #course

[🚨Pre-print alert🚨] Excited to share our findings on the enigmatic ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis. 🔴For the first time we provide evidence that ericoid mycorrhizae evolved from ancestral arbuscular mycorrhizae through the co-option nutrient-dependent regulation 👇! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does heat reshape plant immune responses? Our PhD student Anica Schmauch shows higher temperatures boost ROS bursts in barley and potentially affect Z. passerinii growth, revealing abiotic-biotic cross-talk in disease resistance. 🗓️ Poster P-424 #2025ISMPMI

Can fungal pathogens hijack host signaling peptides? Our PhD student Maxim Faroux @molecularmax.bsky.social uncovers a Zymoseptoria KEX2-processed effector putatively mimicking the plant hormone peptide phytosulfokine (PSK) known to lower immunity against hemibiotrophs. 🗓️ Poster P-226 #2025ISMPMI

🌾🍄 The Environmental Genomics group (@estukenbrock.bsky.social lab) is excited to be at #2025ISMPMI! We’ll be sharing posters on plant resistance, host–microbe interactions, effector function and more! Stay tuned!

Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

The PlantsCoChallenge homepage is now online. Please come and visit us! www.plantscochallenge.de/

The meeting ended with an exciting panel discussion on possible future directions after 12 glorious years of the @dfg.de funded @trr124-funginet.bsky.social consortium. With @estukenbrock.bsky.social, Oliver Kurzai, Axel Brakhage and others.

How did plants evolve to cope with such a challenging habitat? It turns out the answer is in 600 million years of stress! Researchers compared algae and plants spanning million years of independent evolution: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research at #NatureCommunications: doi.org/n9m4

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

📣 We offer a #PhDposition within the @dfg.de-funded @rtg2498.bsky.social on "Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments" in Debora Gasperini's lab at the IPB. 🔗All information: www.ipb-halle.de/karriere/ste... 📅Apply now until: March 21, 2025! #plantsci #plantscijobs #phd

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join the EMBO-FEBS Course 26-30 May 2025 in Blois, France on: - Organelle-microbe conflicts - Host-pathogen communication - Compartmentalization during infection - Metabolic control of and manipulation by pathogens Register by March 1st! meetings.embo.org/event/24-hos...

7 PhD positions open at Kiel University in our graduate program TransEvo focused on translational evolutionary biology. Two of the projects focused on adaptive evolution of crop pathogens. Check out: www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...

Faculty position in plant-microbe interactions at Cornell “The Plant Microbiome, Plant Health, and the Changing Climate” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28742

cifar.ca/next-generat... The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) welcomes applications from researchers in their first 5 years as PIs, who are highly motivated to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion, broaden their networks, & strengthen their leadership capacity.

3rd Symposium on the Basal (or the Dikarya sister groups!) Fungal Kingdom will be held as an ECFG pre-conference workshop on 2nd of March 2025. The deadline for abstract submission extended to 29-Oct. Registration and abstract submission via ECFG webpage ecfg17.org/call-for-abs...

A transformation protocol for #quinoa has been published: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here, a job advert for junior group leader position in Molecular Biology of Plants, especially with focus on cell division, cell cycle, chromosomes and DNA repair. Please spread the word. stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/d...

My group is recruiting a postdoc to study how environmental interactions shape the virulence of human fungal pathogens. Please share! Full job description and how to apply at barber-lab.com/join.

Our faculty is looking to recruit a Full Professor (W3) in Plant Breeding! Official advert text and translation below! if you have questions about the position, I could probably provide some insights.

Job alert 📢 We are looking for a new Independent Junior Group Leader in plant molecular biology at the ZMBP in Tübingen! 🌱 Submit your application by December 8th as a single pdf Please share

microshades: An R Package for Improving Color Accessibility and Organization of Microbiome Data #Microbiome #Rstats #metagenomics journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join our team. If you are fascinated by mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication in plants, get in touch to find out more. #PlantScience www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

Please share! Wonderful opportunity to join us in Wageningen www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! An amazing opportunity to build an independent research group with ~3M€ guaranteed support over 6 years. Bonus: You can choose your favorite Max Planck Institute, including ours www.bio.mpg.de/50783/about-us www.mpg.de/career/max-p...

Check out a new preprint from my time working with @estukenbrock.bsky.social, Rahul Unni, and Onur Kavlak! It's easy to think about viruses as "bad", but they can be mutualists, pathogens, and/or commensals. We found this with yeasts in the forest. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Single cell CNV in Candida albicans from @annaselmecki.bsky.social lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology https://botany.fyi/5hclj6 Dartmouth College seeks highly qualified candidates in Plant Ecology who combine field and laboratory approaches to address the interactions of algae or plants with other organisms, such as microbes, mutualists, competitors,

Really cool work showing how lab-conditions can be drastically different from "the real world". #PlantScience 👇

My department at U Bath is hiring 6 new posts in Microbiome Research! 2 x Prof; 2 x Asst/Assoc Pof; 2x Prize Fellows www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/jo...

A warm welcome to @rm0sher.bsky.social, who is joining Oxford Biology as a new Professor in Molecular Plant Biology! Rebecca's research focuses on gene silencing in plant systems 🌱 bit.ly/3L4VnSk

For our newly funded Research Unit “PlantsCoChallenge” we are looking for excellent junior scientists, phd and postdoctoral candidates to study plant responses to stress. Collaborative projects in Germany: Kiel, Berlin, Tübingen and Münstet. See more: www.environmental-genomics.de/uploads/1/4/...

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow? www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologi... *) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called "adorable". See how happy she looks with us!

Looking for an exciting highly relevant MSc course? Applications for our international MSc course Agrigenomics close soon! Modules cover applied and computational genomics and allow to focus on plant, animal or soil science. Open to all nationalities. www.agrigenomics.de/en

Come join us in Cambridge this September - Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2024 #SLS24 Development — Reprogrammed Evolution-Domestication-Environment-Engineering 17-19 September 2024, Cambridge UK REGISTER NOW! www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Abstract submission closes 29 March 2024

New paper alert 🚨. We found a virus in the amphibian pathogen fungus Batrachochytrium. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in joining our lab in Berlin as a postdoc for work on soil biodiversity, global change, mycorrhiza, fungal ecology? Departmental fellowship, deadline May 31. #soil #biodiversity www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/forschung...

Very happy and proud to share that the DFG will fund a new Research Unit at Kiel University focused on plant stress biology. Exciting new model systems on land and in water. Check out: www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...