New preprint! We looked at the genomes of Alternaria isolates collected from wild tomato hosts and found something really interesting! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

very cool work and a milestone in synthetic biology. how impressive are the new phage genomes? with generative bioML, i'm always looking at how similar the generated sequences are to known sequences. let's take a look

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Professorship Plant Genetics. Kiel, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w-2-pro...

Professorship Plant Genetics. Würzburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/univers...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

🌱🧬The future of biotech starts here! We’re excited to announce that SynBio Reactor 2026 is coming back!🚀 📅January 19–20, 2026 🌍Berlin, Germany Get ready for two inspiring days of networking, panels, workshops, fireside chats, and more! 🎟️Early bird tickets are available now! 👇 synbioreactor.de

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Sie haben Interesse an der Gesamtkoordination eines Projektes von @leibnizipk.bsky.social und der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, das innovative Technologien in der Pflanzenforschung mit Dialog und Design verbindet? Dann haben wir ein Jobangebot! ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/yfkym5up

First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer! The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥 Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al. #NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology

In Brief: A new center in San Francisco will offer tailor-made CRISPR therapies to cure children with rare diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was ist gut an NGTs? 🌱🧬✂️ Wir haben uns in der Vergangenheit mit zentralen Diskussionspunkten rund um Neue Genomischen Techniken - kurz NGTs - auseinandergesetzt. @martinreich.bsky.social hat einmal ein Kondensat unserer Hauptargumente erstellt: Die NGT-Essentials! oekoprog.org/ngt-essentia...

An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !

#BlueLZ aufgepasst: Genomeditierung macht Schule! Jetzt noch für die anerkannte Fortbildung zu #CRISPR & Co. in Pflanzenforschung und -züchtung anmelden. Nächste Woche im Grünen Labor am @leibnizipk.bsky.social in Gatersleben. Wir machen auch ein echtes CRISPR-Experiment 🤓🧬🌾 Alle Infos:

Back from holidays. During this time, we published two papers about engineering FLS2-flg22 perception, to expand the recognition spectrum, and one News & Views highlighting them: rdcu.be/eBbgd rdcu.be/eBbgk rdcu.be/eBbgm

We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :) uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html

We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬Die EU plant einen neuen Biotech-Rechtsakt – und du kannst mitreden! Fülle den Online-Fragebogen aus und sag der EU, wo der Weg in Sachen Biotechnologie, Bioökonomie & Co. hingehen soll. 💬Jede*r kann mitmachen – egal ob Forscherin, Aktivist oder einfach interessiert. ➡️https://shorturl.at/a8yTm

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Sonnencreme meltdown. Wir haben Buchstaben im Gesicht. 🤣☀️😎

Our paper on TadA-based cytosine base editors is now online in Advanced Science. We introduce zTadCBEs—a next-generation CRISPR base editor optimized for zebrafish. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Well, the one non-dutch book in the free book exchange cupboard on our campsite is this one. I am tempted…

Just a normal day with the kids in a museum in Amsterdam…🧫🧑‍🔬🔬🦠🤗

“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4lPz3MX

There is still time to apply 👇 #MSCA #Postdoc #Biotech #Bioinformatics #Genomics

What a beauty. We managed to get her to water and took a first trip, yesterday. So nice… 🏴‍☠️⛵️😎

Hydathode immunity 🌱 - the discovery journey continues ... ⏩ Today: Immune receptor SUT1 confers resistance against #Xanthomonas pathogens in hydathodes. In the latest version, we contrast the tissue-specificity of SUT1 with the well-known ZAR1 resistance. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Am Samstag ist es so weit! 🥳 Unser Tag der offenen Tür findet in diesem Jahr wieder in der großen Ausgabe mit dem Fest der Begegnung statt. Es gibt also nicht nur exklusive Einblicke in die moderne Pflanzenforschung am Campus, sondern auch ein internationales Kulturfestival. Kommt vorbei! 💚

🌶️🥦🌾Genome Edited crops like drought-tolerant bell pepper, salt-tolerant broccoli & early rice are boosting climate resilience. #NGTs speed up innovation for food security. Learn more in this @plants4thefuture.bsky.social factsheet: www.plantetp.eu/wp-content/u... #LetsTalkBreeding #ClimateSmart

PhD position open! 🌾🧫🧬✂️😃 Are you interested in plant pathology and genome editing? Have you ever seen how cool Xanthomonas manipulates the plant cell using TALEs? Don't hesitate to apply! www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

Base editors model mitochondrial disease #NBTNV - @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social go.nature.com/45O9PJM

Zack…ist die Liege besetzt und mir bleibt nur der Gartenstuhl. 😁

@manmademoon.bsky.social Happy Birthday! …just in time…

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@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c... And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Are you looking for an exciting postdoc on quantitative disease resistance in Quinoa in collaboration with @kjschmid.bsky.social and others?? Apply now. The project can start as soon as possible!

This week's genome editing triumph is a big deal. Here's why erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-...

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

„Lass Blauregen wachsen, meterlang!“ (Karl Förster)

New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Weinfrühling in Freyburg/Unstrut. Fühle mich wie zu hause…ääähm…im Labor! 😎

Cat camouflage…

New Paper out! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.... We wanted to know how much genetic variation exists for Zymoseptoria in a single wheat field.

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity! If you are fsacinated by proteins and their dynamics and want to engineer them to develop new molecular tools: apply now! We are a young and dynamic team combining state-of-the-art laboratory and bioinformatics approaches. Please share.

Nature research paper: The phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato https://go.nature.com/43TsEup

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