The venue of the MAdLand Meeting 2026: The Alte Mensa in Göttingen, Germany
‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2026 is now open!
Join us in Göttingen from Sep 29–Oct 2, 2026 to discuss the latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2026 #Evolution
🌱 Learn more and register here:
madland-meeting.de/2026/
Congratulations @mpcontreras.bsky.social for this well-deserved recognition! Great to see!
Beyond proteins and DNA, #lipids are emerging as key players in nuclear biology - shaping nuclear envelope dynamics, mechanosensing, gene regulation and genome stability.
Our new Perspective highlights recent advances, open questions, and future directions 👉 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Big congratulations to our former postdoc @lorenzoorts.bsky.social, now leading her own at the @imbmainz.bsky.social, for receiving the Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award! Amazing news and so well deserved - super proud of you, Laura!
Data. A mouse model of glioblastoma leads to inevitable death within 50 days. Delivery of HSV+TK plus IL2, driven by a strong and specific synthetic superenhancer, allows almost all mice to survive even after nearly 150 days. From Fig5 of Koeber et al 2026
Just look at this graph (Fig 5A,B from Koeber et al).
Amazing.
Congratulations to the Pollard lab and all authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 Last call to join us in Cambridge for #EMBOMBoA26 (July 6th-10th)!
We are just one week away from the registration and abstract submission deadline for the EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea!
We are very close to reaching the registration cap for MECS2026. Given the strong interest, we have increased the number of participants from 100 to 120 and extended registration until April 12. Please note, however, that we can no longer accept poster submissions.
Busy lipids in nano hotspots: a team with @mathilda95.bsky.social, @nadlerlab.bsky.social & Ori Avinoam @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social developed Lipid-CLEM - an imaging technique to make lipids in cellular membranes visible & show how they are organized at nanoscale. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Single-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA - @bioe-stanford.bsky.social go.nature.com/4sRPr2K
What are the roles of UFMylation during ribosome-associated quality control?
@gekaragoz.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social and colleagues find it to cooperate with RQC factors in promoting clearance of arrested nascent polypeptides at the ER
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Absolutely thrilled that Manon will start her research group here at @gmivienna.bsky.social and @oeaw.bsky.social. Diatoms produce a significant share of Earth’s oxygen and deserve to be studied at every level, which is exactly what Manon will be able to do here at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social!
Automatic screening of cryo-EM grids using EPU is fast and efficient, but reviewing the generated data & picking the best areas for data collection can be slow and cumbersome. We made a little tool that makes this process more streamlined and enjoyable: github.com/mvorlander/E... 1/4
Phd candidates can join by applying to the Vienna VBC fellowship. Many great groups participate, check out the web page to see the labs!
bsky.app/profile/vbcs...
Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026
We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more
Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch!
#teamtomo
Excited for the years to come working with this great crowd @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @pauligroup.bsky.social @haselbachlab.bsky.social & Andela Saric! 🥳
Interested in the most recent developments in plant science? Join the Mendel Early Career Symposium on May 21-22 at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to exchange with experts about their science and career trajectories. Register by March 13th for a talk. More here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Apply now! @vbcscitraining.bsky.social offers more than 25 fully-funded PhD positions! GMI group leaders are also recruiting new students.
Join us in beautiful Portugal for the best & most comprehensive meeting on RNA localization and local translation! > 30 talks will be selected from abstracts. Held for over 30 years, this meeting is small enough to meet leaders in the field, yet big enough to cover a breadth of cutting-edge science.
Mitochondria can indeed be inherited from the father! 🍀
In this new study, we uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial inheritance in Nicotiana tabacum. @natplants.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
A glimmer sparked by electrical fields has been detected in nature for the first time.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OGhOlM
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow!
Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon!
www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...
New preprint on Detectrons from @jihoon-han.bsky.social! These are programmable biosensors for RNA that produce DNA barcodes in the presence of their target RNA. Check out Jihoon's quoted thread and the preprint for more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Plants are amazing chemists", absolutely! That is probably why I studied Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and ended up falling in love with plants 💚
She is an amazing skier but also a beautiful and brilliant woman! Just watch how she responded to the journalist who told her, "Two silver medals also mean two lost gold medals…”
Eukaryogenesis in light of an expanded catalogue of Asgard genomes. a, Simplified, scaled timeline spanning from before the Last Asgard archaea Common Ancestor (LAsCA) to today. Thin bands mark predicted time ranges of relevant events (for example, GOE), thicker bands represent processes (for example, eukaryogenesis), and brackets indicate the period shown in b. The timeline further highlights milestones, including potential early eukaryotic fossils60 and the modern-day co-occurrence of Heimdallarchaeia and Alphaproteobacteria observed in this study (interaction likely originated earlier).
Fig. 1 | Expanded genomic diversity of Asgard archaea. a, Maximum-likelihood phylogeny based on 47 non-ribosomal markers (NM47)using the WAG + C10 + R4 model with 100 nonparametric bootstrap pseudoreplicates, including 869 Asgardarchaeota MAGs and 309 outgroup genomes. The blue branches (lower right) indicate the new Asgardarchaeota classes, Ranarchaeia, and the recently proposed Asgardarchaeia4. The concentric rings denote (in to out): the predicted genome size, metabolic guilds based on Pfam clustering, sampling locations, and black stars on the outside mark MAGs added by this study. Asgard, Asgardarchaeia; Atabey, Atabeyarchaeia; Baldr, Baldrarchaeia; Frey/Jord, Frey/Jordarchaeia; Gerd, Gerdarchaeales; Heimdall, Heimdallarchaeaceae; Hel, Helarchaeales; Hermod, Hermodarchaeia; Hod, Hodarchaeales; Kari, Kariarchaeaceae; Loki, Lokiarchaeales; Njord, Njordarchaeales; Odin, Odinarchaeia; Ran, Ranarchaeia; Sif, Sifarchaeia; Thor, Thorarchaeia; Wukong, Wukongarchaeia. b, SR4-recoded phylogeny of the same genome set inferred with the model GTR + C60 + G and 100 nonparametric bootstrap pseudoreplicates (Methods). This updated catalogue constitutes a large increase in the medium- to high-quality publicly available genomes (completeness >50% and contamination and redundancy <10%) with 65.3% from the Guaymas Basin and 34.7% from the Bohai Sea. The encircled numbers represent MAGS added by this study. The scale bars in bothsubpanels represent the average number of substitutions per site.Map created in BioRender; Appler, K. https://biorender.com/147ieoc(2025).
Our work is published today: ‘Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor’. This was a huge effort lead by @katyappler.bsky.social. Extremely grateful to have been a part of this amazing project! 😊🦠🧬
Links: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
