Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor and Endowed Scholar in the UT Southwestern Molecular Biology Dept this Fall! 🥳 We’ll study #peroxisomes #mitochondria #metabolism via the lens of neonatology 👶🏻, a very exciting frontier in medicine! #neotwitter
Marchantia gemmaling grown under UV-B
Our work on UV-B perception and signaling in #Marchantia is now out in @plantphys.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/plph... Thanks to all authors @yuankeliang.bsky.social @romanulm.bsky.social @grandpahiro.bsky.social #PlantScience
Our former PhD student Xin Cheng was highlighted by New Phytologist.
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She won the poster prize at the 46th New Phytologist Symposium (Kaifeng, China, 2024) and just recently published her main work!
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Congrats, Xin, we miss you!
Registration for the International PhD School Plant Development 2026 is up and running, half the places have been already booked!
So don't wait until the deadline to register raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... !
Cost: €350.- for conference, accommodation, meals, and a wine tasting in a local winery 🍷
Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month!
Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year
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Our #UExM efforts with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @moorefound.bsky.social featured in @nature.com this month.
Beyond the #science, every image is a thing of beauty.
I think a world-tour exhibition has to happen at one point.
#Expansion #Microscopy
Come to Bochum 🌱 — we’d love to host all #plantscience peeps!
From biotic interactions 🦠 to #proteostasis ♻️ and development 🌿, there’s something for everyone. Looking forward to inspiring science & great conversations ✨
More info here: botanik-tagung.de
👏So well deserved silver medal from @cnrs.fr 😍
Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social from @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social is an outstanding scientist 🤓 and one of a few female role model in the plant research field 🍀
www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
👏So proud of our dear colleague Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social for this bronze medal from @cnrs.fr
✨️Such a pleasure to benefit from vibrant interactions at work with this fantastic research✨️ and amazing female group leader 🫶
www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/talents/c...
Gitta is an excellent scientist and mentor 🤩
This is WILD
(& microbes rock 🎸)
“These findings […] revealing a protein-templated mechanism for sequence-specific DNA synthesis.”
Take that, central dogma! 🧪
“Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase”
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Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Coaker group University of California, Davis We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research program focused on immune receptor engineering and spatial analyses of plant pathogens interactions using computational and imaging approaches. The position will involve integration of molecular, imaging, and computational approaches. Relevant publications from the laboratory include Nature Plants (2025, PMID: 40721669), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024, PMID: 38814867), and Cell Reports (2023, PMID: 37342910). https://www.coakerlab.org/ Qualifications: • Ph.D. in plant biology, molecular biology, genetics, computational biology, or a related field • Strong background in genomics and/or computational biology • First author publications in peer-reviewed journals • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment • Experience in plant innate immunity is preferred Application Instructions: The position is initially available for two years, with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Salary is based on the University of California postdoctoral salary scale (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/represented-oct-2025-scales/t23.pdf). The salary range for this position is $69,073-$82,836 US Dollars/year. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a brief statement of research interests (~1 page), and contact information for three references to glcoaker@ucdavis.edu. The research statement should describe your previous work, how your expertise aligns with ongoing research in the lab, and potential future research directions.
We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...
Very proud to share our new paper led by Mathias Brands from my team at @UniCologne! With Markus Pauly team @HHU. Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
Excited to share our new preprint on rhizobacterial biosensors mapping sucrose exudation 🌱
Work spanning my TomKat postdoc in @josedinneny.bsky.social's lab to my own lab at @universityofga.bsky.social; co-first with my PhD student Gretchen Brinkman: 🧵
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Next i am going to Yale Medicine School for a seminar on how plant cells communicate ☘️ 📳 !! Can't wait
thank you Pietro De Camilli for the invitation @pdc-lab.bsky.social
m.yale.edu/dhjp
Reminder: PhD position in my lab is open for two more weeks.
How do germ cells use their own private transcription factors? Come help us find out.
Fully funded. Deadline May 1.
Flyer attached — please boost! 🙏
Lipid-CLEM by @mathilda95.bsky.social on the Cover of @natcellbio.nature.com! Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now in @science.org
Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
and they decided to initiate a PLUS scheme, instead of increasing the budgets of already running schemes ☹️
This only reflects the view from panelist’s perspective. How about the applicants that can only build a lab if they have an ERC grant? National funding schemes are a joke & most labs don’t have core funding. This will make the rich richer and the poor will disappear. Sad 😔
Well deserved!!! Congrats!
I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!
1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere
Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social
#plantscience #microbiome #holobiont
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Absolutely ❤️ this slide from Olivier Hamant about the role of inefficiency in biological robustness. Thx @maizel-lab.org for bringing him to @cosheidelberg.bsky.social
Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell?
Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social
Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents…
He is not very wrong. We are mostly boring and annoying.
“Plants are so unlike people that it’s difficult for us to appreciate fully their complexity and sophistication.” #NowReading The Botany of Desire & loving it!
The first "Made in Okinawa".
Some thoughts on how bryophytes can "enhance" plant synthetic biology.
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#marchantia #physco #hornworts #synbio
I just published: TSL Alumnus wins Biochemical Society Award
Mauricio Contreras has been recognised as an exceptional Early Career Researcher by the Biochemical Society.
#CelebratingAlumni
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