New lab / new life 🌱 The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹 We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️ Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab. #PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB

Let's keep in touch: How membrane contact sites drive immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

So my looks and appearance decide whether I fit into the "typical" German city landscape? Not surprising — even after 42 years, people still can’t seem to process that Germany is my home.

Wie soll man das anders verstehen, als dass der Bundeskanzler nach Aussehen und Ethnie entscheidet, wer dazugehört und wer "im Stadtbild" stört? Störe ich Sie auch, Herr Merz? Ich laufe schließlich nicht im Arztkittel herum.

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Sometimes being a supervisor, project leader, mentor, or professor can feel quite lonely. I miss my PhD and postdoc days — it was the sense of community, the great interactions, and the feeling of belonging to a family that kept me sane in academia @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicChatter

Surreal to hear folks don't think agricultural biosecurity isnt a national security risk and a massive strategic weakness for ALL countries on earth. We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin. Everyone needs to eat.

FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!

Starting our first @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience seminar series of the academic year with a thank you by @elkebarbez.bsky.social for postdoc appreciation day, chocolates and a talk by @beritebert.bsky.social on cell walls and glycans!

If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts

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...

Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676479v1

I am excited to share my graduate work in the Sabatini and @bartellab.bsky.social labs. Since their discovery, we have known lysosomes possess RNase activity; however, their substrates were not known. Surprisingly we find specific RNAs are targeted for degradation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience

I am extremely happy and honoured to share with you that I received an #ERCStG! It has been an amazing journey. 🤘 Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱 1/3

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation! How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation Positions to be announced soon!

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

Almost missed this one! Congrats @plantophagy.bsky.social and all people involved! This is certainly such a good resource for everybody!

7 years ago,I sat outside @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social,gathering the courage to begin a new chapter as a group leader. Now in Bochum, I still need that courage to face challenges—both inside & outside the lab—but after all I’m grateful that I still find joy in what I do. #happybirthday #theustunlab

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Indeed like @plantophagy.bsky.social said we are digging into this and think we found the selective autophagy receptor/module in Arabidopsis. But as usual it will take some time to fully prove it (genetics 🙃)

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tired of what‘s happening in the world and surrounding - I guess I‘ll just stay here for awhile and disappear #offline

𝐏𝐆𝐑𝐏𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 - 𝐌𝐚́𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐚 Posttranscriptional gene regulation in Plants 🌱🧬 🗺️ Beautiful city of Málaga (Spain) 🗓️ 5-7 Oct 2026 Organizers: @manavellalab.bsky.social @kmerchante.bsky.social @laura-ah.bsky.social More info: very soon!

We (@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social @margotraffeiner.bsky.social @shanshuo.bsky.social) had a fantastic #2025ISMPMI in Cologne with lots of amazing science and great networking meeting old friends and new ones. Hope to see you all next time in Jeju/South Korea #2027ISMPMI

#2027ISMPMI - Try 2 for Jeju, Korea! Hope to see you there and I’m glad that South Korea gets to host after their turn was missed because of the pandemic. There is a promise of good food 🤤 Though I may need to start saving up now with the state of things… #2025ISMPMI

Guess they got the memo that plant people were at this conference. #2025ISMPMI

Great talk by @teamthomma.bsky.social who shows that effectors have antimicrobial activities that are ancesteral - other functions within the host have evolved later on to suppress immunity in plants #2025ISMPMI

@cornepieterse.bsky.social shows off the incredible automated growth and phenotyping setup with the Hades in vitro root system which “loves microbes”. Incredible throughput. Link: www.npec.nl/phenotyping-... #2025ISMPMI

Fantastic talks from 5 speakers showcasing diverse approaches and biological questions to explore MPMI across space and time! Loved seeing the discussions continue well beyond the session. Huge thanks to the speakers and everyone who attended the session! #2025ISMPMI

Last plenary of #2025ISMPMI started (🥲) @algazuccaro.bsky.social will talk about the exciting findings of her group on effectors of mutualistic fungi

We conclude the session with Yi-Feng Chen wo will talk about organelle dynamics in resistosome-mediated HR. Or more simple: What happens actually during HR in the host cell? #2025ISMPMI See also their preprint with some fantastic cell biology 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Please don't miss it! A great session on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions, hosted by @uprogress.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Many attractive talks, including our latest research presented by @crbeuzon.bsky.social #ISMPMI2025 #MicroSky #PlantScience

Last speaker of this session is @kenichitsuda.bsky.social - he is talking about the influence of abiotic stress on the plant microbiota #2025ISMPMI

Next up is @carlosgonzsanz.bsky.social who is talking about plant-microbe interactions during heat stress: is it too hot to handle🔥?! #2025ISMPMI

Next up in the concurrent session „abiotic/biotic trade-off“ is @smukhtarlab.bsky.social who is talking about a scRNAseq approach to study abiotic/biotic stress in guard cell #2025ISMPMI

@kenichitsuda.bsky.social is introducing the Concurrent sessions on biotic/abiotic trade-offs in plant-microbe interactions #2025ISMPMI

Last day of #2025ISMPMI, last poster session: dont miss @shanshuo.bsky.social fantastic poster about how we used a combination of scRNAseq and cell-type specific approaches to reveal the role of autophagy in stomatal & mesophyll immunity during Pseudomonas infection - more info ➡️ P-432 #proteostasis

Evans Lagudah at the last morning plenary of #2025ISMPMI discussing the potential of non-NLR / isolate-specific resistance genes (eg adult plant resistance genes) in terms of durability and broad specificity

Jian-Min Zhou shows unpublished data related to ZAR1 signaling and what other players are required in planta for activation of the resistosome and localization in the plasma membrane. Find similarity with a salt stress response. #2025ISMPMI