10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

Blue Native PAGE YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

When's it good to feel blue? When you're running a blue native PAGE! youtu.be/T0eYmTDX1bc

🌱 #PSSC2026 is coming to IPB Halle (10-12 June 2026).
Organized by our doctoral representatives, the student conference offers great talks, poster sessions, workshops & keynote lectures by invited international plant scientists.
Info & registration: eveeno.com/pssc26
#PhDnetwork #PlantSci #PlantECRs

Great to see this paper in its final published form!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Preprint alert!

I am extremely happy to finally (!) share our work on the redox-dependent regulation of the CRKs in plants!

We integrated high-throughput interactomics, redox proteomics, structural modelling, and genetics to map a ROS-dependent CRK interaction landscape in Arabidopsis.

A Native Nepenthesin Reactor for Improved Proteolytic Digestion of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Proteomics Workflows A workflow is presented for the extraction and purification of native nepenthesin (NEP-NAT) from Nepenthes species, followed by the enzyme's immobilization on POROS-AL chromatographic material. The N...

Latest publication from SNP2Prot colleagues C. Wall and A. Sinz reveals that the Nepenthesin protease, isolated from 𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 sp., carries superior proteolytic activity towards IDPs.

Kudos to the team 🎉

doi.org/10.1002/cbic...

#MassSpec #Protease #IDPs
#Proteomics

@sinzandrea.bsky.social

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!

Read it in Science
dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi-science.bsky.social

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"A plant-based diet requires far fewer resources than a standard western diet ...
Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants."
Nice analogy!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An essential part of our symposium is the Poster Speed-Dating, where our researchers (bachelor/master/PhD students) present their latest results in 5 minutes (+2 minutes Q&A). A fast and effective way to catch up on the newest research across the DOMPS community.

Excited to decode the intricate language of ubiquitin chains and unravel their role in protein degradation? 🧬🔬
👉 APPLY NOW to join the lab of Dr. Leo Kiss @leokiss.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social.
#CellularBiochemistry #Ubiquitin #Proteostasis #ProteinDegradation

Day one of our spring retreat. The poster session is in full swing! @unihalle.bsky.social

I'm excited to share *Stoic*, a method for fast and accurate protein complex stoichiometry prediction directly from sequence. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇(1/10)

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#...

#MBP2026

Our very own Cansu Dilege on: How are E2 enzymes regulated?
-> Yes, kinases are involved (several)!
#MBP2026 #ecr #ubiquitin #UniHamburg

You can read our summary with @prshanth.bsky.social about the mini symposium in the latest #ISRR newsletter. 👇🏼 #PlantScience

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Registration for the 7th International Plant Protease Conference closes soon (Apr 1st)!

If your research touches plant proteases (whether directly or just at the edges), don’t miss this meeting. We’re a small, supportive community and always happy to collaborate!

www.plantprotease.org

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬

Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools.
Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social

Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E
BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X

Happy Imaging!

Journal Impact Factor (JIF): What it is and why it’s a problem (a bit of a rant, sorry...) YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

Journal Impact Factor (JIF): What it is and why it’s a problem (a bit of a rant, sorry...)

youtu.be/KHpn21bW184

Secret science isn't science.

Amazing, thank you!

Reusing spin concentrators (centrifugal filters) YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

If you’re going to reuse a spin concentrator . . . youtu.be/flsjAarv9RA

Wow, that's a lot! I will try, thank you!

I heard that people use the filters multiple times, but never did it myself... How often do you reuse them?

The tool can't do everything, but with pycornweb.appspot.com you can easily visualise the ÄKTA
files. On the Github page is the original script that exports the data to .csv, with that you could in theory make custom graphs :)

Using ampicillin as a selectable marker? You can skip the post-transformation outgrowth! YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

Using ampicillin as a selectable marker? You can skip the post-transformation outgrowth! Why? Because Amp targets cell wall synthesis, not protein synthesis, so the bacteria isn’t impeded from making the protein it needs to combat it! youtu.be/XZn8QG6dzgc

🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥

Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬

interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688

At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!

Thrilled to congratulate the newly minted Dr. Allahham on an outstanding viva! Many thanks to collaborators and the examiners for their invaluable support throughout the process.
@ottlab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @hartman-plantlab.com

Proteoforms versus isoforms and the challenges of measuring them YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

Proteoforms versus isoforms and the challenges of measuring them youtu.be/nRi4-3zl6IE

Happy New Year!

P.S. May this motivate you to perhaps make learning your amino acids one of your resolutions?...