News on PILS & ERAD! Big congrats to @seinabnoura.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social and colleagues!

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...

Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich. A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!! - We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA - We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis Link to both preprints below

How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social

Oligosaccharide Elicitors in Plant Immunity: Molecular Mechanisms and Disease Resistance Strategies #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 11th International Symposium on Root Development🌱 👉 buff.ly/Y29T13z #PlantScience

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Paper 🚨!! Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!

How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵1/ New preprint out! We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth. This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

📣 Join us for the 3rd Carbon Allocation in Plants Workshop 🇨🌿 🗓️ Oct 27–29, 2025 📍 INRAE Versailles – @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social 🌱 Explore carbon flow in plants with top researchers! 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4kYzzrT ⏳ 10th of August ℹ️ Info: bit.ly/43HpN5P 🙏 Thanks to all partners 👇 see below

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...

Warming up to #ICAR2025 🌱with two days of cool vascular science at our Vascular Development satellite meeting at @psb-vib.bsky.social.

We are looking for a Research Associate to work with the Dupree Group on the relationship between glucomannan structure and function. Apply here by 20 June 2025: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51288/

What a beautiful day! First trip with the lab into the mountains around Neuchâtel. So happy to have such wonderful people in my team!

🚨🔬🌱 This is a landmark paper! Finally got around reading it in full. Such a beautiful screen and elegant genetics! Huge congratulations to @jian-pu.bsky.social, @mariebarberon.bsky.social and team!

I've been working on a series about the systems that undergird our lives. This one, about water, is personally important. Fresh water is our worst immediate environmental problem--and one that we've known how to solve for more than a century. That we don't is infuriating. (Paywall lifted for today)

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Finally out!, after a few months of delay, our protocol on ExM in plant roots is now available in The Plant Cell academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... Beautiful images in a great collaboration of the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social with @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social and Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social

for this week's @newyorker.com magazine issue, I wrote a Profile of Bluesky, the site we are on right now! It's the deepest look yet at how Bluesky started as a Twitter side project and how CEO Jay Graber went from welding Bitcoin rigs to running a social network www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looking forward to this essay series! The 1st essay is on how agriculture evolved in the last 100-150 years and it’s a fantastic read!

@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi! Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation. What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plasmodesmata Editors: Tessa Burch-Smith & Jake Brunkard Deadline: 1st Feb 2025 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🔗 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @pdchristine.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social (1/2)

Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience

Please spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots 🧑‍🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes

Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience

Please spread the word, 2-year-postdoc position in my group to understand fate determination. www.upsc.se/jobs/6548-po...

Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!

Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Let's start this with a bang! It's been already a while but I was awarded an @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant to set up a lab in Neuchatel🇨🇭. We'll set up shop likely late summer 2024. So stay tuned! www.snf.ch/en/93E43Wi7L...