KJ Muldoon, at less than a year old, was the first known person to receive a personalised CRISPR-based genome-editing therapy He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/48GqTl3

GLP-1 drugs can help people lose weight by quelling hunger queues. Nature reports on the work by scientists testing if these drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids. 🧪

Denmark just mapped its entire environmental microbiome. More than 10,000 samples revealing hidden, dominant nitrifiers that shape fertilizer use, water quality, and climate impact. A national microbiome atlas could transform sustainable agriculture across Europe. #AMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see our review published in issue 11 of Natural Products Reports. 😊

🔓Don't miss in our latest issue this #OpenAccess review by @maximilianfrey.bsky.social & co. @ipbhalle.bsky.social, @unihalle.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social looking at the biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family #naturalproducts #secmet

The MassBank contributions of the mFam Consortium A Global Push to Boost Coverage and Diversity of MassBank chemrxiv.org/engage/api-g... Happy to have contributed.

The book "Natural Product Isolation and Identification" is now online. Happy to contribute to a protocol: "Extraction of Essential Oils and Terpene Volatiles from Plants and Identification by GC-MS-Based Techniques" (Krause & Frey, 2025) link.springer.com/protocol/10....

- Elucidation of a biosynthetic route to xanthanolide sesquiterpene lactones: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our review paper on sesquiterpene lactones was published one year ago in February 2024. Since then there have been some fascinating developments in the field: Full article: Sesquiterpene Lactones – Insights into Biosynthesis, Regulation and Signalling Roles www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/30... We just published the paper "Cytochrome P450-Induced Backbone Rearrangements in Terpene Biosynthesis of Plants" in Molecules. Thanks to everyone involved. :)

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... We just published the paper Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae) in Natural Products Reports. Thanks to everyone involved! :)

www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/30... We just published the paper "Cytochrome P450-Induced Backbone Rearrangements in Terpene Biosynthesis of Plants" in Molecules. Thanks to everyone involved. :)

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... We just published the paper Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae) in Natural Products Reports. Thanks to everyone involved! :)

This AI model can predict where ancient Latin texts come from, estimate how old they are and restore missing parts go.nature.com/4lLQwGr

Und auch unsere Expertin Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social könnt ihr am 3.6. ausfragen, wie das Immunsystem bei Pflanzen funktioniert und warum das überhaupt wichtig ist. 🥬💚(Auf 🇩🇪 oder 🇬🇧) 👉Hier #BookAScientist buchen: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne... #wisskomm #PlantSci #scicomm

🎉We are delighted to welcome Professor Neha Garg @ngarg10.bsky.social from @gtresearchnews.bsky.social to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #chemsky #natprod Learn more about Neha here🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/04/0...

Lässt sich der Nährwert von Gerste steigern? Wie können Pflanzen mehr Zellulose bilden? Fragen wie diese stehen im Zentrum des neuen Forschungsverbunds „Value Plant“ der Uni Halle, der mit rund 7,1 Mio. Euro gefördert wird. Verbundsprecher ist Prof. Dr. Ingo Heilmann von der MLU. mlu.de/6evf0

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of my Python for Life Scientists course at Uni Bonn! 🎉 Proud to have shared coding skills with so many researchers over the years. 📂 Slides are available on GitHub: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #Python #LifeScience #OpenScience #Teaching @puckerlab.bsky.social

European Union takes giant leap forward toward embracing technologically-enhanced agriculture, advances de-regulation of gene edited crops geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/03/17/e...

Wrapping up our Applied Plant Transcriptomics course! From RNA-seq to de novo transcriptome assembly. #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences 📑 Slides available here: github.com/bpucker/Appl...

🧪 In these days, we all need some positive news 😀: Check out our latest work that has tremendous impact on patients’ lives. That’s why we all need science!🧪 A big thank you to all coauthors! 👏👏 @unihalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social #Academicsky #MedSky #ADCY5 @standupforscience.bsky.social

What a title! "This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates" Biodiversity declines really concerning. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest story from Pia Saake: Plant Lipids Mediate Immune Responses to Fungal Lipids in Barley! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#BlackHistoryMonth Plant Scientist Spotlight - Meet Sibongile Mafu!🌱 👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at buff.ly/41fCJQn #plan#plantscience

Let’s kick off this kick-off! Today and tomorrow we are meeting at the @ipbhalle.bsky.social to officially start the #snp2prot journey as a team 💪

Our review paper on sesquiterpene lactones was published one year ago in February 2024. Since then there have been some fascinating developments in the field: Full article: Sesquiterpene Lactones – Insights into Biosynthesis, Regulation and Signalling Roles www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many thanks for visiting us and sharing your exciting stories

🧪If you join our lab you will be able to use our three timsTOF mass spectrometers….and we also got a new microwave oven for our lab kitchen today!😜 #ChemSky #AcademicSky

Job alert 🧪 ‼️ Hi #teammassspec: In our #RTG2467 @unihalle.bsky.social we have a job opening for a PhD student in my group! 🎉 If you want to do cool stuff in cross-linking mass spectrometry of the tumor suppressor p53, please take a look: personal.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/jobs/wissmi/ Please RT!

And industry since has been like: "Hold my beer!"

‼️Altogether we are hiring 12 PhD students in #RTG2467 on intrinsically disordered proteins. Please take a look at our job advertisements❗️ @unihalle.bsky.social

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐏𝐉 The cis-prenyltransferase protein family in Taraxacum koksaghyz 👉doi.org/10.1111/tpj.17233 by Müller, Niephaus et al Comprehensive description of cis-prenyl transferases in this rubber-producing plant that aid in breeding & protein design

Cornflowers are famous for their brilliant blue color. This genome sequence provides a valuable resource for studying the genetics of this striking flower. Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Genomics #FlowerColor

"Es gibt keinen Zusammenhang zwischen Herkunft und Gewalt -Deutschland ist sehr sicher": Unendlich wichtiger Text von Prof. Christian Stöcker über die völlig verzerrte Migrationsdebatte und ihre Folgen. Bitte unbedingt lesen. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

The book "Natural Product Isolation and Identification" is now online. Happy to contribute to a protocol: "Extraction of Essential Oils and Terpene Volatiles from Plants and Identification by GC-MS-Based Techniques" (Krause & Frey, 2025) link.springer.com/protocol/10....

Metabolome and transcriptome profiling of root chicory provide insights into laticifer development and specialized metabolism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.02.573856v1

Happy to share our latest publication. More than 200 diterpenoids producex by combinatorial biosynthesis using 10 diterpene synthases and 4 P450 oxygenases in yeast: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to see our work on improving gene targeting frequencies in plants by fusing 5' exonucleases to CRISPR/Cas endonucleases finally published. Awesome team effort with tremendous contribution by project leader Tom Schreiber www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

We're looking for a postdoc and a technical assistant in a 3-year project funded by the DFG in collaboration with Sophien Kamoun (TSL) and Silvia Restrepo (Boyce Thompson Institute). Genome editing in potato to generate new resistance against late blight. Deadline 30/01.

Attention! The IPB is looking for a new Head of Department in a joint appointment (W3 Professorship) with the University of Halle. This is an exceptional position. Come join us and shape the future of the IPB! berufungsportal.uni-halle.de