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🚨 Hurry up, if you want to save on registration fees to take part in our international conference, the Botanik-Tagung #BT2026 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📆 6 - 10 September 2026 Early bird rates end this Thursday, 30th April botanik-tagung.de/registration...

🚨 Paper out now in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 🌱🦠 Pathogens don’t just target protein degradation—they also hijack host translation. "Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" ⚖️♻️ led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

Big congratulations to Thorsten Langner who recently moved to Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), where he now heads the Department of Phytopathology and Plant Protection #plantsi #ecr #tenure

Teams around Stefan Hoth @uni-hamburg.de + Lars Voll (Marburg) generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing immune response of the autoimmune mutant chs3-2D. Read more #OpenAccess in our journal #PlantBiology DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

🧪🌾VACANCY - Postdoc in fungal ecology & modelling🧬 This 2-year postdoc focuses on mycorrhizal fungal biogeography using large-scale metabarcoding data and species distribution models.🌍 Join the group of @frewecologist.bsky.social and work with us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se! 📅 Apply by 30 April

We are pleased to support the DOMPS Symposium taking place in Freiburg this week: dompssymposium.wixsite.com/domps The New Phytologist Foundation supports events that further innovation and advancement in plant-focused research around the world: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

Importance of cysteine residues in the C-terminal region of PGRL1 for PSI photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

I really wish more plant scientists, and especially influential big name plant scientists, would publish with eLife. Their new publishing model is a fantastic way forward and to get us out of the #ScientificPublishing mess we have gotten ourselves into and to which we claim we are held hostage.

Hope to see all of you (again) at our international #BT2026 organized by #MBP2026 @molplantsci.bsky.social co-host Christopher Grefen 📍 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de in Bochum, Germany. 📆 6 – 10 September 2026 bsky.app/profile/plan...

So it comes to an end. Another fantastic #MBP2026 meeting! See you all next year!

And here are the winners for this year prestigious #MBP2026 Poster and Talk Awards! Winners in no particular order are:

Closing #MBP2026 is Christopher Grefen from the University Bochum on the Insertion Pathways for Membrane Proteins in the Plant ER #FarewellLecture

Closing the first session is Michelle Marofke from the MLU Halle on Where is the mRNA? - Localization and dynamics of plant mitochondrial gene expression #MBP2026

Chiara Giossi from the HHU Düsseldorf on the Regulation of zeaxanthin epoxidases and its importance for photoprotection in plants and algae #MBP2026

Lisa Fischer from the University Hannover on Make and Break: How Nucleotide Degradation Supports Chloroplast Biogenesis #MBP2026

Our First preprint 🌱 about a new Component of the Autophagic Network identified in Pi-deprived root tips is online ❣️ All I wished for Valentine's day 😀 #proudPI#autophagy#rootPiSensing#plantproteolysis

Reunited once again! 🌱This time at #MBP2026. It’s always special to catch up with fellow AFEs (and Plantae Fellow 😉). A big shoutout to @plantteaching.bsky.social for bringing us together and for the lasting impact it has on us! 🙏🌿 @plantphys.bsky.social

The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇 Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

Xenia Safronov from the Universität Bochum will teel us about her studies on a TOC-TIC-interacting DnaJ-like protein with crucial role in chloroplast biogenesis #MBP2026

Juan Carlos Dávila Frantzen of the HHU Düsseldorf on Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DIP1 supports early steps of Photosystem II assembly #MBP2026

Jan Multhoff from the University of Münster on Auto-fueling of single mitochondrial motility by a local ATP halo #MBP2026

Next up is Julia Legen from the University Berlin on Phase-Separation of Plastid RNA Binding Proteins is Required for Chloroplast Development in the Cold #MBP2026

We start the last day with Thilo Rühle from the LMU Munich telling us about PAF1 - an assembly factor guiding the formation of chloroplast ATP synthase in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas #MBP2026

Wow, also a great talk from an ECR. Gee Voting will be difficult this year!

Closing the day with the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch Lecture which will be given by Andrea Bräutigam from the Bielefeld Univesristy "On the Evolution of CAM Photosynthesis" #MBP2026

Hans-Henning Kunz introducing Reinhold-von-Sengbusch and the poster and talk awards. PLEASE VOTE!!! #MBP2026

Susanne Mühlbauer from the LMU Munich talking about the signaling crossroads: PLASTID ENVELOPE ION CHANNELS link Ca2+ and Jasmonic acid signaling in plant cells #MBP2026

Congratulations! 👏 Marco @trujillolab.bsky.social receives this year‘s #SciComm Award of our @molplantsci.bsky.social for his long-term, consistent + clear presentation in social media. Read more about the award and his tips for #ECRs www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/sci-comm#... #MBP2026

Fernanda Daniela Giampaoli from the University of Cologne is now telling us about novel pigment with old regulators: Red plant pigments share regulators but not enzymes #MBP2026

Liese Schnurbusch from the University Tübingen talking on the role of ARGONAUTE10 in developmental plasticity #MBP2026

Laia Segura Broncano from the HHU Düsseldorf on a new-to-nature chloroplastic photorespiratory bypass increases CO2 assimilation and stimulates plant growth #MBP2026

Our German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social is happy to sponsor the 39th Molecular Biology of Plants Conference #MBP2026 of our Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology @molplantsci.bsky.social in Hennef, Germany

The @ipbhalle.bsky.social is truly unique in that plant scientists and chemists work in very close proximity. I thoroughly enjoy the “total immersion” in chemistry I get from time to time. It is really inspiring #grateful

Cäcilia Felicitas Kunz from the University Göttingen will report on Plant Terrestrialization: Phenolics in Stress Response in the Closest Algal Relatives of Land Plants #MBP2026

Nandeesh Jalahalli Rangegowda from the Kile University Kiel on Lineage and Genotype-Specific Variation of Developmental and Defense RLPs in Wild and Cultivated Tomato #MBP2026

Josep Mercadal from the MPI Cologne on Evolutionarily conserved lateral inhibition governs cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts #MBP2026

Jakob Weber Böhlen from the RWTH Aachen University on the Unraveling the biosynthesis of ayapin - an antifungal coumarin of sunflowers #MBP2026

Sebastian Schade from the Ulm University on Regulation of Powdery Mildew Susceptibility by CrRLK1L-RALF modules #MBP2026

Jana Ordon from the University of Zurich will talk about the elucidation of a perception mechanism for cell wall-derived oligogalacturonides in Arabidopsis thaliana #MBP2026

Check out Manuel's work on P-bodies and biotic stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MBP2026

Now our very own @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social from @theustunlab.bsky.social who will talk about his exciting findings on how bacteria exploit P-body condensates to attenuate immune-related protein translation (see also our preprint below 👇) #MBP2026 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Manuel González-Fuente from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum will tell us how bacteria exploit plant P-bodies to attenuate host translation during infection #MBP2026

Frederica Locci @federicalocci.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social will talk about TIR-domain proteins in plant systemic resistance #MBP2026

Federica Locci also from the MPI Cologne will reveal “How not to die”: studying the workings of TIR-domain proteins in plant systemic resistance #MBP2026

Charles Copeland from the MPI Cologne talking about a multigenic QTL underlying natural variation in Arabidopsis root system architecture and transcriptional responses to microbiota-derived bacteria #MBP2026

Next speaker is @incavirus.bsky.social who will talk about virus vertical transmission in plant stem cells and gametes #MBP2026