We were delighted to welcome Steven Spoel @spoel-lab.bsky.social to Cologne. Thanks to the @sfb1403.bsky.social for supporting his invitation. We learned a lot about ubiquitin chains and their role in plant immunity 🤯.

🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics! Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf. More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position

GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

🚨My very first (co-)first author paper got published in @pnas.org 🥳 We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠 Thanks to everyone involved! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Optimization of a workflow for protease activity profiling reveals a highly abundant, stable C-terminal fragment of complement component 3 (C3) with an immunomodulatory effect Fatih Demir, Markus Rinschen et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Disulfide bond sculpts a peptide fold that mediates phytocytokine recognition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684422v1

☀️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱☀️ Maize leaf tips exhibit the lowest photosynthetic recovery post-drought, due to water storage deficits and hydraulic failure, reducing whole-leaf water use efficiency - Liu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Amazing!! Congrats to the team for uncovering this link We are all phages … Regular reminder to the “The frustrated gene” article from @hitenmadhani.bsky.social

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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...

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵

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

Recognition of a phytocytokine by the DEPR1-SERK2 receptor complex confers multi-pathogen resistance in wheat #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen (S Einspanier, C Tominello-Ramirez, F Delplace, R Stam) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @sev1panier

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 🔬Plant Proteases - Guardians of Proteome Integrity & Function 🌱 Exploring the fascinating diversity, function & regulation of proteases in plants 📘 Edited by Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaller 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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.

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...

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I am happy to see this out! Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context. We summarize the current knowledge on this. Hope you enjoy~ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Glückwunsch an unsere Sportlerinnen und Sportler zu den Medaillen bei der Leichtathletik-WM in #Tokio! Ich bin stolz auf unser großartiges Team - ein tolles Beispiel für die Vielfalt unseres Landes!

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Happy to share our pre-print!

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Cell wall integrity and elicitor peptide signaling modulate antimicrobial defense in Arabidopsis via jasmonic acid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675042v1

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Next PLANT PEPTIDE AND RECEPTOR MEETING will be in Muenchen in 2026 organized by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social and friends. #watchthisspace

‼️Vacancy for an Assistant Professor in Microbiome Engineering‼️ Join us at the Swammerdam Institute in Amsterdam 🦠🧠💻🌱 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

W1 Tenure-Track Professor for Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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)

Only a few more days left until the start of #PPRM2025. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and the final program is now online. Check it out here: api.kdmeventsportal.co.uk/static/downl...

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!