A question of death ☠️ and life 🧬 Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.

We heard a very engaging talk today from @gjjang.bsky.social. 👀 You can dive deeper into their research in their recent publication "SlimVar for rapid in vivo single-molecule tracking of chromatin regulators in plants" (doi.org/10.1038/s414...)

So proud of @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social for winning best oral presentation award at #ISPLORE2025JP 🥇🤗☔🌱

Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo. 📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 #PlantScience

So proud of our team members @aidamaric.bsky.social @kevindaniel.bsky.social @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and @advaitagashe.bsky.social presenting their work on flooding and hypoxia responses at #ISPLORE2025JP 🤓🌱🌊☔ #plantscience

New leadership for #CIBSS! Welcome Sonja-Verena Albers as new spokesperson & congrats to Claudine Kraft on her confirmation. Together with Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, they’ll lead CIBSS into its #NextChapter – following Wolfgang Driever & Carola Hunte. More info: kurzlinks.de/fkv4

Happy to share our latest publication: Production of human papillomavirus type 16 virus-like particles in #Physcomitrella #photobioreactors It's the first report on the production of #VLPs as #vaccine candidates in a non-vascular plant. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources. In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We made made it with the team to #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

TODAY at 12:00 ➡️ We are are excited to host Dr. Tanja Mittag in our Seminar Series! @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social www.stjude.org/research/lab...

Another best presentation award for @aroessling.bsky.social! Congratulations! We are very proud of you @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo. 📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 #PlantScience

Thanks to @lauraragni.bsky.social for the chocolates and happy post doc appreciation day.

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!

Untangling the wall: from building blocks to complex glycans 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 We start the academic year with @beritebert.bsky.social (from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de) on how nucleotide sugar transporters drive cell wall biosynthesis and shape rhizosphere interactions. 📅Fri, Sep 19 | 🕥10:15 |📍KS 00.009 #PlantScience

The state has funded a large amount of initiatives to make lab work more green and sustainable 🌱, including the "Nachhaltiger Bio-Campus Freiburg" proposal by our @corneliaklose.bsky.social & Henriette Rübsam. Congratulations!

Happy to see our latest #plantscience review by @aidamaric.bsky.social, @advaitagashe.bsky.social and Johanna onlinr! We describe how epigenetic mechanisms control ethylene signal generation and progression, and how ethylene in turn modulates chromatin. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to our fantastic MSc student Johanna Söntgerath for winning best #plantscience Master Thesis of @uni-freiburg.de 🎉🥇Thanks to @aidamaric.bsky.social for leading the project and @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social for the award!

Die #UniversitätFreiburg hat im renommierten #ShanghaiRanking den 5. Platz von 51 deutschen Institutionen erreicht und gehört weiterhin zu den Top 101–150 Universitäten weltweit. ➡️ Mehr dazu: ufr.link/shanghai-2025 #Ranking

Ein mobiles Beteiligungsformat überzeugt in der universitären Ausschreibung #Unicorn Fund 🦄. Aus 35 starken Ideen wurde #UniWerk als Gewinner ausgewählt. Als Teil des Freiburger Exzellenzantrags könnte es ab 2027 universitätsweit Impulse für #Innovation & #Wandel setzen. ➡️ ufr.link/unicorn-gewinner

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

Congratulations @guofengzhang.bsky.social for successfully defending your PhD today @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social. Very proud of you. Symbiosis lovers stay tuned, there is a nice study to come from him hopefully soon.

Can a drop of rain prime plants for survival? 🌧️🌿 Join us as @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) reveals how Arabidopsis uses rain as a mechano-signal to boost flooding tolerance via calcium, jasmonate and ethylene pathways. 📅 Fri, Jul 25 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 #PlantScience

For this year's 3-week @stadtradeln.bsky.social our Faculty members and teams contributed a large amount of biking KMs. Good for our health and our environment 🌱 Nice job @degradomics.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @cyanolab.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social @reskilab.bsky.social et al 👍🏻

Amazing talk on all things Lateral Roots by @sophiezoe.bsky.social today in our @dompsfr.bsky.social seminar series. 🙏🏼 We binged through the whole series in under an hour!

Happy to be selected again for this years teaching prize awarded by the students at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social for the best teaching in the past winter term. Congratulations also to @chrisvanderdoes.bsky.social who received the same prize for the winter term. A motivating reward.

Everything you want to know about lateral roots Join us for our next seminar by @sophiezoe.bsky.social (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social), from auxin oscillations to gravitropic angles, dive into the plasticity of lateral root development! 📅 Fri, Jul 18 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 See you there! #PlantScience

Are you a #PostDoc or #Professor seeking time to focus on your research in a vibrant, international community? Apply now for the FRIAS Fellowship Programme 2026/27! Deadline: 13 Sept 2025, 13:00 #Fellowship #AcademicJobs #CfA 🔗https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/funding/frias-fellowship-programmes/

Sweet summer night vibes as this year's Faculty party slowly comes to end 🎶

After the break, we finish the symposium with talks by our fantastic iGEM team, newly hired Professor @simonelsasser.bsky.social and honorary Professor @ibrahimcisse.bsky.social of @mpi-ie.bsky.social.

@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social introducing #CIBSS at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #FacultyDay. If you haven’t already: Come, join! There’s a scientific programme followed by entertainment and BBQ!

The first part of our Faculty Day symposium highlighted the latest research and teaching achievements, and how two Excellence Clusters integrated into our faculty. Great talks by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, @archaellum.bsky.social, @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social, chaired by @ottlab.bsky.social

This year's teaching awards go to @chrisvanderdoes.bsky.social and @ottlab.bsky.social 🎉💐 Congratulations and thank you to all teachers of this year!

Exciting things are happening in Biology! Today, our professors gathered for a mini-retreat full of fresh ideas, collaboration, and planning for an even brighter future for the Faculty.

Today's a full day of celebrations at the Faculty of Biology! We start with a symposium to celebrate 50 years of Geobotany, followed by a full afternoon and evening of Fakultätsfest. Everyone is welcome: faculty, guests, friends and family.

The Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg is now on Bluesky. Follow our faculty members for the latest news and updates. go.bsky.app/SEf1J3F

Dean @archaellum.bsky.social kicks off Faculty Day with a heartfelt welcome to our amazing support team! From our dedicated technicians & secretaries to the workshop and building management, your hard work powers our research and teaching success. We couldn’t do it without you! 🙌🏼💙🙏🏼

Now attending the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social event where @archaellum.bsky.social presents diversity of the faculties research

Bronze for our Johanna 👍🏻🌱 So proud!

Full house at this year's Science Slam Freiburg! We're rooting for the @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience pitches by Johanna Söntgerath and Yanling Yu 🌱👍🏻

@marischuster.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social) gave an eye-opening talk on Friday, highlighting how receptor-like kinase processing is an emerging and crucial mechanism in plant development and immunity, with big potential for crop protection. #PlantScience #SeminarRecap

I had the best time in beautiful Freiburg the past couple of days. Many thanks Elke for the invitation and all @dompsfr.bsky.social members for the most engaging conversations! Looking forward to interacting with this great community a bit closer in the future 😀

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Join us for the Faculty Day 2025, including an exciting scientific program, Bio-Olympic games and a party! See you in 2 weeks?

Cyanobacteria invented oxygenic photosynthesis—originally on the plasma membrane. Then they upgraded their design with thylakoid membranes, giving them 10× the surface area to harvest light. The design was so successful, it powers photosynthesis in all plants. 📢Conrad Mullineaux

Today Alisha (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social) gave a talk on the evolution of key regulatory genes in non-seed plants. She explored SPL transcription factors in Marchantia polymorpha and showed how phytochromes diversiPHYd to help plants conquer land. #PlantScience

Super excited and happy both the @cibss.bsky.social and Future Forests Excellence clusters were funded for the next 7 years! Look forward to more collaborative signalling research and moving to stress signals and epigenetics in trees 🌱🌲 Great boost for Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social too!

We are thrilled to have just found out: CIBSS has secured continued funding under the #ExcellenceStrategy! This major boost will enable us to accelerate our research into biological signalling and lay the groundwork for next-generation insights from 2026 to 2032!

Great moment yesterday afternoon for signalling research in Freiburg, when we learned that our Cluster of Excellence @cibss.bsky.social was funded for another seven years! Happy to be part of it. Many thanks to the speaker team and rectorate of @uni-freiburg.de!