@spicybotrytis.bsky.social asks where do new pathways come from? A master class on glucosinolates 🤩

Amazing day 1 of IPB Plant Biochemistry symposium 2026 , great lineup indeed! @ipbhalle.bsky.social

Starting off our symposium #IPB2026 is @luciastrader.bsky.social with recent insights from her lab on temperature regulation of #auxin signalling and also interesting approaches to shed light on plant transcription factors.

Changing gears and diving into #phosphorus: Matthew Pasek, as our second #IPB2026 speaker, really expands our view. Deep sea, other planets, lightning chemistry, biogeochemistry - fascinating perspectives that are rarely on our plant researchers' minds, but so interesting to see a bigger picture.

Next up is Matthew Pasek discussing where Phosphorus comes from

Kicking the symposium off, @luciastrader.bsky.social gives us a beautiful overview of her work on the molecule that is involved in almost everything 🙃

Next, @structplantbio.bsky.social is sharing on inositol pyrophosphates' regulatory function and their implication in plant #phosphate homeostasis - with beautiful #structuralbiology. In addition, there's still a lot of plant InsPs and interactors and interactions out there. 🅿️🌱 #IPB2026

Before our lunch break, an amazing talk from Michael Horton on how plants sense phosphorus internally.

Let's go!!! The lecture hall is filling up and our Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium is about to start. #plantsci #IPB2026

🌱 #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

New pre-print from the lab! We show that the subtilase SBT12a is essential for symbiosome stabilization in Medicago. Using HUNTER proteomics, we even got some of its substrates. Have a look.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Autophagy acts as a spatial organizer of cell-type-specific plant immunity To prevent frequent outbreak of diseases, plants have acquired a complex and multi-layered immune system. Cell surface immune receptors recognize conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (P…

Autophagy acts as a spatial organizer of cell-type-specific plant immunity theustunlab.com/2026/04/12/a...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#proteostasis #plantscience #plantimmunity #theustunlab

Check out this cool #plantscience work by @guofengzhang.bsky.social & @ottlab.bsky.social on symbiosome stabilization and the HUNTER tool 🌱

We are inviting applications for a joint appointment MLU and IPB: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 at the IPB and 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 (W3) of Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives
𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 via the MLU appointment portal:
berufungsportal.uni-halle.de

Hiring at IPB Halle! Department Head & Director – Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives.
Exceptional position with outstanding support & research environment.
Apply now by April 24, 2026!-> berufungsportal.uni-halle.de
#NaturalProductChemistry #AcademicJobs #IPB #PlantScience

Really cool and beautiful drawings 🤩. Congrats to all involved!

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...

"5th International Conference on Plant Proteostasis – Proteostasis 2026"

More details: https://proteostasis-26.sciencesconf.org/

#Events

Oxygen deprivation due to flooding brings many changes in plant physiology.

SNP2Prot hosted Dr Romy Schmidt-Schippers from Uni Bielefeld today. Her work demonstrated key proteins and cellular pathways that adapt upon flood induced hypoxia.

#Hypoxia #RCD1 #Arabidopsis #O2 #OxygenSensing #Evolution

A quick reminder: Our 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium is just around the corner.

eveeno.com/ipbsymposium...

Registration is open until April 12, but spots are filling up fast.

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 🧵

After two inspiring days with @crc1644.bsky.social, it’s clear how complementary our initiatives are.
Exited for future collaborations!
@dfg.de

Our work on the role of Ufmylation on ribosome quality control on the ER is out! Great work of two terrific first authors Milica and @alessandrick.bsky.social together with our wonderful collaborators, the one and only Dagdas lab @plantophagy.bsky.social!

The final day of our joint retreat with @crc1644.bsky.social starts with a talk by our invited speaker @alexanderforderer.bsky.social

Kick-off of our joint retreat of CRC1644 & @snp2prot.bsky.social We are excited and look forward to two inspiring days!

Open Science: Why you should preprint your next paper What are preprints and how do they benefit you and your research community? Plus find tools that help you keep up with the preprint literature.

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What is better than a CRC retreat? A retreat of two CRCs!
Welcome @crc1644.bsky.social to Halle!
We are exited for two days of getting to know each other and discovering new synergies.

Early kick‑off for the SNP2Prot Spring Retreat.
Ready to dive in! 🌱

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

Ca²⁺ leakage is a conserved signal for non-canonical ATG8/LC3 lipidation and membrane repair - The EMBO Journal Endomembrane damage of intracellular vesicles triggers signals that activate membrane repair in mammalian cells to restore homeostasis. However, the signals that drive diverse membrane repair recruitm...

Highly dynamic membrane-repair mechanisms are triggered upon lysosomal damage–
@dichen02.bsky.social , @maxgg.bsky.social et al show that it is the leakage of calcium ions that initiates this process
link.springer.com/article/10.1...