Today at #2025ISMPMI and up for some chat over root colonization patterns and the role of oxidative stress? We show how the spatial patterns of ROS shape the cell differentiation of B. subtilis. Our work at Grossmann Lab @hhu.de up on poster P429 - @ceplas.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
Our latest paper is out in its final form in @theplantcell.bsky.social
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Amazing, what a trip..,Congrats to our friends @Ceplas, plant science rocks!
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de:
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Important thread! Do pay attention to what is happening at STEM institutes that are not NIH. Their budgets are smaller and their work can be more challenging to defend, but their destruction will be everyone’s demise. 🧪 #academicsky
First slide of the maize meeting.
Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting:
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
📜 Nucleotide Sugar Transporters: Orchestrating Luminal Glycosylation in Plants
🧑🔬 @beritebert.bsky.social, Ariel Orellana
📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTransporters #PlantPhysiology #PlantGlycomics #PlantProteomics
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists
https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq
The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join 1,400+ experts! More info: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C... #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe
Giles Oldroyd
Congratulations to the Danforth Center to recruiting Giles Oldroyd to succeed Jim Carrington as its next President. In these challenging times, science needs strong leaders!
www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
🌾 A major milestone for Healthy Crops!
We will transfer our bacterial blight-resistant rice varieties to our team members at KALRO in Kenya. Next steps are field trials under local conditions with the ultimate aim of combating rice diseases! 🚀🌱
#GenomeEditing #PlantScience
https://buff.ly/3Xam8Ln
🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to apply_healthycrops@hhu.de
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
#LoveData25
If you love your research data, you’ll love the ARC.
Join our CEPLAS MibiNet hands-on workshop next Tuesday.
Details here: nfdi4plants.org/events/2025-...
@ceplas.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
@nfdi4plants.bsky.social
Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
Vor dem Hintergrund der bestürzenden politischen Ereignisse dieser Woche lasse ich dieses Zitat nochmal hier. Inzwischen sollte uns allen klar sein: Unsere Demokratie ist unmittelbar bedroht. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen: Zeigt Haltung für diese Demokratie. Betont ihre Relevanz. Ruft zum Wählen auf!
Zum Abschluss der friedlichen #HH0102 Demo gegen Rechts in #Hamburg singen alle Teilnehmer:innen gemeinsam in einem Lichtermeer von (Laut Veranastalter:innen) 80.000 Menschen.
@fridaysforfuture.bsky.social
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Max Crüsemann visited to discuss "Omics-guided Discovery and Biosynthetic studies of Bioactive Natural Products" in bacteria. Huge potential for identifying novel compounds with therapeutic and plant-protective activities.
@mcrusemann.bsky.social New prof at @goetheuni.bsky.social
#publiclyfunded
A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix
Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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Big News (a bit late 🙃): my group is moving to Düsseldorf
@hhu.bsky.social
Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social
Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP
www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
@cfkaiser.bsky.social provides a sharp analysis of the attack on scientific freedom by the Trump administration and right-wing populists in Europe. Protecting scientific freedom is essential for progress in open and prosperous societies. @leopoldina.org @dfg.de
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Research has been under siege since the inauguration of #Trump - frozen #NIH grants, silenced communication and isolation from the global community like #WHO. A stark reminder that scientific freedom needs to be defended also in the #EU - my comment on ⤵️
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
How the attack on the freedom of science in the US will affect all of us and why we need to protect it in the EU @ec.europa.eu:
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Analysis and commentary (English version) by @cfkaiser.bsky.social @oekoprog.bsky.social
Freie #Wissenschaft ist #Trump ein Dorn im Auge. So treffen seine ersten Dekrete Behörden und Organisationen in Forschung und Gesundheit empfindlich. Steht die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit auf dem Spiel?
@cfkaiser.bsky.social kommentiert die aktuelle Lage in den #USA und was wir von der EU erwarten:
Btw, Draparnaldia was elected “Alga of the year 2025” by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
It takes huge courage, commitment and focus to build a molecular biology toolkit that many of us take for granted.
Today, Lenka Caisova gave an inspiring talk about studying the evolution of multicellularity and terrestrialization using Draparnaldia - a model system she pioneered!
Lenka’s lab has open PhD and postdoc positions:
tinyurl.com/379y7p9r
tinyurl.com/mryf7whx
@czechacademy.bsky.social
"Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’ "
This is absolutely appalling. But at least they do surveys about it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research
https://go.nature.com/4gc0Bc5
A bit late to the party. Hello BSKY!
