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Section of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
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
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
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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....
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Chemical treatment rescues reduced growth of the autoimmune mutant chs3‐2D without compromising its immune responses
We generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing the immune response of the chs3-2D autoimmune mutants, thus chemically uncoupling its growth–def...
https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70211
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Umeå Plant Science Centre
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🧪🌾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
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New Phytologist
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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...
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DOMPS Symposium 2026 - Freiburg
Symposium taking place in Freiburg from 25.03-27.02. With this symposium, we aspire to strengthen the connection between members of the Department of Molecular Plant Sciences (DOMPS). We especially…
https://dompssymposium.wixsite.com/domps
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Ryo Yokoyama
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Importance of cysteine residues in the C-terminal region of PGRL1 for PSI photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Importance of cysteine residues in the C-terminal region of PGRL1 for PSI photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Proper conformation of the C-terminal region of PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION5 (PGR5)-LIKE1 is essential for PGR5 accumulation, which mediates photosystem I p
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiag164/8539910
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Michael Raissig
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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! 🤯
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Marc Somssich
7 days ago
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.
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
8 days ago
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
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So it comes to an end. Another fantastic
#MBP2026
meeting! See you all next year!
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And here are the winners for this year prestigious
#MBP2026
Poster and Talk Awards! Winners in no particular order are:
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Closing
#MBP2026
is Christopher Grefen from the University Bochum on the Insertion Pathways for Membrane Proteins in the Plant ER
#FarewellLecture
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Closing the first session is Michelle Marofke from the MLU Halle on Where is the mRNA? - Localization and dynamics of plant mitochondrial gene expression
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Chiara Giossi from the HHU Düsseldorf on the Regulation of zeaxanthin epoxidases and its importance for photoprotection in plants and algae
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Lisa Fischer from the University Hannover on Make and Break: How Nucleotide Degradation Supports Chloroplast Biogenesis
#MBP2026
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Christin Naumann
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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
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Sarah Courbier
9 days ago
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
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KleineVehnLab
9 days ago
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.
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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
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Juan Carlos Dávila Frantzen of the HHU Düsseldorf on Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DIP1 supports early steps of Photosystem II assembly
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Jan Multhoff from the University of Münster on Auto-fueling of single mitochondrial motility by a local ATP halo
#MBP2026
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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
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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
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Isabel saur
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Wow, also a great talk from an ECR. Gee Voting will be difficult this year!
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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
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Hans-Henning Kunz introducing Reinhold-von-Sengbusch and the poster and talk awards. PLEASE VOTE!!!
#MBP2026
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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
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
9 days ago
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#...
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Our SciComm Award for excellent science communication
Our SciComm Award and other news from science communication
https://www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/sci-comm#c39188
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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
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Liese Schnurbusch from the University Tübingen talking on the role of ARGONAUTE10 in developmental plasticity
#MBP2026
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Laia Segura Broncano from the HHU Düsseldorf on a new-to-nature chloroplastic photorespiratory bypass increases CO2 assimilation and stimulates plant growth
#MBP2026
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
9 days ago
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
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Mariana Schuster
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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
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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
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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
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Josep Mercadal from the MPI Cologne on Evolutionarily conserved lateral inhibition governs cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts
#MBP2026
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Jakob Weber Böhlen from the RWTH Aachen University on the Unraveling the biosynthesis of ayapin - an antifungal coumarin of sunflowers
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Sebastian Schade from the Ulm University on Regulation of Powdery Mildew Susceptibility by CrRLK1L-RALF modules
#MBP2026
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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
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Check out Manuel's work on P-bodies and biotic stress
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MBP2026
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9 days ago
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...
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Manuel González-Fuente from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum will tell us how bacteria exploit plant P-bodies to attenuate host translation during infection
#MBP2026
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Frederica Locci
@federicalocci.bsky.social
from
@mpipz.bsky.social
will talk about TIR-domain proteins in plant systemic resistance
#MBP2026
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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
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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
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Next speaker is
@incavirus.bsky.social
who will talk about virus vertical transmission in plant stem cells and gametes
#MBP2026
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Marco Incarbone, Jr. PI at the MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology will talk about control of virus vertical transmission in plant stem cells and gametes
#MBP2026
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Şuayb Üstün
9 days ago
We start the biotic interactions session at
#MBP2026
with
@mpcontreras.bsky.social
from
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
who will talk about the regulation of a NLR immune receptor network
#plantscience
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Plant CC-NLR form membrane: associated resistosomes
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Starting the biotic interaction session is Mauricio Contreras anewly minted PI at the University of Tübingen talking on Structural and biochemical basis of activation and autoinhibition of an NLR immune receptor network
#MBP2029
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Good morning 🌞 we are starting the second day at
#MBP2026
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