JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

New preprint from our lab Statistical learning of bacterial growth in combinatorially constructed environments, led by brilliant PhD student Andrea Arrabal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We systematically study nutrient-nutrient interactions in bacterial growth under carbon-limiting conditions.

ENSA is hiring a postdoc in maize–microbe interactions. 🌽🦠 If you have expertise in maize molecular biology, physiology, or cell biology, apply to join Simona Radutoiu's lab at Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline: 31 July 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes Closing date: 1 September 2026 Salary: competitive Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

We are hiring! The CRC TRR 341 "Plant Ecological Genetics" is looking for a new scientific coordinator for the next funding period🌱 Please find more information including how to apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Happy to announce that I have started my own research group at the MPIPZ and that I am looking for a postdoc who would like to investigate Marchantia prothallus development with me! Please spread the word and/or apply if interested :)

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

The common symbiosis pathway controls plant root microbiomes in a host-specific manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723321v1

🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org @teamthomma.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hola amigos from Köln! I'll be speaking at Pint of Science 2026 in Cologne on May 18! 🍻 My talk: "Can Plants Have Huntington's Disease?" 📍 Zappes Broi Zentral, Cologne 🗓 May 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM 🎟 Limited tickets — pintofscience.de/event/superf...

Back to our great invited speakers! Marie Invernizzi (LIPME, Toulouse 🇫🇷) takes the stage with “Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Plant Responses to Competition in Arabidopsis thaliana” 🌿⚔️ Plants competing like in a Pokémon battle — and we’re learning their secrets! #UPSCSymposium #PlantBiology

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

Evaluation of combined root exudate & rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches to elucidate plant–soil–microbe interactions Escudero-Martinez et al. @carmen-escudero.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really proud of this work led by Ruben Eichfeld! We show how a CBM domain gain/loss can rewire fungal chitinases, turning them from antifungal enzymes into immune-suppressing effectors that support plant symbiosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our work on soil-emulating plant growth media! 🌱 ArtSoil supports a self-repopulating complex microbiome, promotes plant growth, avoids sucrose artifacts, and enables reproducible, cell-type-specific root responses 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MKTXP2...

Three New Synthetic Algal Culture Media to Grow Them All www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust @greenrobust.de we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology. Deadline: 15 April Reposts are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

New study: Benzoxazinoid‐mediated microbiome feedbacks enhance Arabidopsis growth and defence - Stengele - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the frame of the French ANR funded project HOMONIME project (anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2...), we will open 3 PhD positions to work on nickel homeostasis in plants using genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and spectrometric approches in Toulouse, Grenoble and Pau. Contact me for further informations

⚠️⚠️ @jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting. As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes. It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th. Registration 🔽 nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s based at the Universities of Tübingen - Heidelberg - Hohenheim and the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de

[#Pint26] Le 20 Mai,@corentin-chls.bsky.social, PhD dans l'équipe #Ecogen, nous dévoilera pourquoi le futur de l’agriculture se cache sur les feuilles & nous présentera l’holobionte,"super organisme" né de l’association entre hôte🌿et microbiote🦠 ▶️Programme>30 Mars ▶️Billets>13 Avril 🔗pintofscience.fr

See the thread below for the newest story from the PATHOCOM consortium!

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

🌱🔬 Réduire l’usage d’engrais azotés sans réduire les performances agricoles : un défi clé. Le projet SYMBIPLANTS, porté par des chercheurs INRAE, étudie comment les interactions entre plantes, notamment légumineuses et brassicacées, influencent la fixation de l’azote. www.inrae.fr/actualites/s...

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po... Deadline - 25 March 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - 3 years, full-time

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 8 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc. The call is open! More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

I'm super happy to share my new preprint reporting a study in collaboration with the Seebeck (Basel) and Sasso (Leipzig) labs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We discovered that ovothiol A, a thiohistidine, is a major antioxidant in the green alga Chlamydomonas. (1/4)

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗ CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

We’re hiring! Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab “Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

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

Check out our new preprint using 30 SynComs covering a phylogenetic diversity gradient, we uncover many interesting strain and community features involved in seed to seedling bacterial transmission 🧫🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social in the SUCSEED project @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

📢 Job alert! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, junior group leader at #ZMBP, has 2 open positions (PhD and postdoc) to investigate appressoria formation in plant pathogenic #fungi using #cryoEM and #cryoET #EmmyNoether #MPMI #plantscijob More info 👇

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

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...

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...

TULIP Summer School 2026 Applications are OPEN ✅ “Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems” will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️ Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...

My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses. Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important. The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵 🔁 🙏 #microSky #phagesky #UTIsky @cnrs.fr

Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)

New year, new #pathosystem! Yes, #Aeschynomene evenia can be used as a model to study #legume_Immunity — together with #Aphanomyces euteiches, the pea grower’s worst nightmare. Check out our preprint on bioRxiv : www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... . Special congrats to @madeleinebaker.bsky.social !