🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture. buff.ly/P8ZTl0A

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science! (1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

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

Cellular energy sensor SnRK1 suppresses salicylic acid-dependent and -independent defenses and bacterial resistance in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679707v1

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Congrats Dr. A. Abdrakhmanov for a fantastic PhD defence @vbcscitraining.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social ! I am proud of you👏

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

We are recruiting! A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

The hybrid origin of potato tuberization. From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Check out our new preprint all about Pirsonia, a tiny killer of bloom-forming Coscinodiscus diatoms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky #marinemicrobes 🌊🔬

I'm off to ASPB #PlantBio2025 tomorrow, with a poster and talk on using X-ray imaging in Plant Biology. New soybean imaging to share, like this fly-through animation of the meristematic region from an XRM scan. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers! Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social . 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/4 #PlantScience

I need you, and I can't stress this enough, to read this paper by Margaret Kidwell et al. on horizontal transfer of P elements from mites to flies and back...from *1991*: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My last day at the @gmivienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Here’s what I accumulated at my (office) 🚪 🧵 1/advice from my daughters

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️ With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼 #openscience @erc.europa.eu

Congrats to Clemens Plaschka, who was selected to become a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO bsky.app/profile/embo...), becoming the eighth out of 14 IMP faculty members to receive this honour. More on Clemens Plaschka and his research: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

🔬👨‍💻📰 #SReD is out! Automated structural detection for #ImageJ & #FIJI, from nano to macro ✨🐘. No training data, no bias - texture analysis with GPU acceleration!⚡️ Brainchild of @afonsomendes92.bsky.social and adventure w @christlet.bsky.social lab + friends. Check: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Silvia Ramundo, Group Leader at the GMI, who has been awarded an ASTRA Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in recognition of her research on chloroplast biology! Read more: https://thegmi.science/049300

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Big congratulations to all the newly elected @embo.org Members! A special shoutout to @impvienna.bsky.social #ClemensPlaschka for this well-deserved recognition. Your contributions to life sciences continue to inspire and I count myself lucky to work with you!

Next up in #ICAR2025 is @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social on plant signalling specificity, focus of her postdoc work with @nikogeldner.bsky.social, and her new work on insect galls on plants (using Arabidopsis as a model!) as independent PI @gmivienna.bsky.social !

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

When the pressure is on, Archaea go multicellular! A new @science.org study reveals surprising organizational capacity in archaea. 🍞“It’s like rising sourdough loaf”: tinyurl.com/yc2nxmr6 #Archaea #Multicellularity @archaeon-alex.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social

And an unexpected reunion with @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social …!! We first met as PhD/postdoc in Rhodes, then paths crossed for a couple of times elsewhere, and reunited in Japan as fully independent PIs… good luck with your new journey at GMI!

Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5 Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw