Super stimulating talk by Olivier Hamant from @rdplab.bsky.social on the tradeoff between efficiency and systemic robustness in biology and beyond. And on how we define societal progress.

We could also say that two @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social junior PIs and three @greenrobust.de PIs won the 2018, 2026 and 2027 @biochemsoc.bsky.social
awards 😉 We are good at recruiting biochemists! 😄

The ribosome-associated N-terminal acetyltransferase B coordinates global proteostasis and autophagy in plants by creating Ac/N-degrons - Nature Communications Protein N-terminal acetylation profoundly influences protein fate. Here, the authors establish NatB as a central regulator of the interplay between ubiquitin–proteasome system and autophagy, and highl...

New publication from Markus Wirtz and colleagues on N-terminal protein acetylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 🧵

Job advertisement for PhD and postdoc positions

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust
@greenrobust.de
we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology.

Deadline: 15 April

Reposts are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity.

@gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

New #Sci #Job !
Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de

backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥
We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤.
Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute!

Please re-post!

Grafik mit goldenem, geschwungenem Weg und Bäumen, Text: „Excellent – today and in the future. University of Excellence 2027–2033“.

Grafik mit Text vor grünem Hintergrund: Fünf Ziele in der neuen Förderphase Die in der vergangenen Förderphase begonnenen Projekte werden fortgeführt beziehungsweise weiterentwickelt. Dabei wird die Universität Tübingen mit den Mitteln aus der künftigen Exzellenzförderung fünf Ziele verfolgen: Exzellenz in Forschung und Lehre Aufbau eines integrativen und kooperativen Universitätsumfelds Flexibilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit in einer sich schnell verändernden Welt Globales Bewusstsein und internationale Vernetzung Gesellschaftliches Engagement, Innovation und Ko-Kreation

Logowand: Exzellenzstrategie, Wissenschaftsrat, DFG sowie Förderhinweis mit Logos von Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt und Baden-Württembergischem Wissenschaftsministerium.

Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen #Exzellenzstrategie

Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University.
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

©Alexander Ries / Universität Tübingen

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥

@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de

Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Auf der norwegischen Insel Spitzbergen, tief im arktischen Permafrost, liegt der wohl sicherste Ort der Welt für pflanzengenetische Vielfalt: der Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Saatgut eine strategische Ressource, die die Resilienz unserer Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme stärkt. @croptrust.bsky.social

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

A preprint of GreenRobust PI @pascalhunziker.bsky.social:

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Seit den 1960ern hat sich die Getreideproduktion je nach Sorte verdreifacht bis versechsfacht - bei ziemlich genau gleichbleibendem Flächenbedarf. Es ist eine atemberaubende Landwirtschafts-Revolution, die wir als selbstverständlich hinnehmen.

One of the first publications of our GreenRobust consortium: On the role of SERK co-receptors on systemin signaling. GreenRobust is beginning to make impact!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word!
www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

Our symposium on plant breeding for biodiversity is about to start!

The Tielbörger lab at @unituebingen.bsky.social is offering TWO PHD POSITIONS in rangeland ecology, as part of the sage-centre.org. It is about tipping points in Middle Eastern rangelands. A large interdisciplinary project with unique long-term experiments!

Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Fig. 1 Geographic distribution of phenological observation sites across Europe captured in the PEP725 database.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New preprint from our group:

Phenotypic differentiation between highland and coastal quinoa under cold stress conditions

We use both field trials and lab experiments under controlled conditions to show that the two major quinoa ecotypes differ in adaptive traits.

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

Für eine krisenfeste Landwirtschaft: DFG-Senatskommission fordert stärkere Unterstützung für vielfältige Anbausysteme von Nutzpflanzen

#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9