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!
The Agrisera Talk Award 2026 goes to
- Johanna E. M. Dickmann - ENS de Lyon
#MBP2026
The Plant Journal Award 2026 goes to
- Josephine Herbst - MLU Halle
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And the This year’s winner of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Talk are:
- Susanne Mühlbauer - LMU Munich
- Jakob Weber Böhlen - RWTH Aachen University
- Jan Multhoff – University Münster
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And here are this year’s winners of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Poster are:
- Gali Araguirang - University Hamburg
- Sophie Farkas - University Freiburg
- Nazanin Mahouram Mashhadi - University Berlin
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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
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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
#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
A group of happy former plantae fellow/Assistant feature editors at Plant Physiology.
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
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Jan asking what causes an ATP crisis in plant cells?
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Jan Multhoff from the University of Münster on Auto-fueling of single mitochondrial motility by a local ATP halo
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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
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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
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Andrea Bräutigan on the "thinking sessions" about CAM resulting on a publication on the evolution of CAM
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