"Mosquitoes in Iceland are more than a curiosity or future annoyance. They are a warning …" - Amanda M. Koltz and Lauren E. Culler

Iceland—previously the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes—no longer holds that distinction.

"The detection of mosquitoes just north of Reykjavík in 2025 reflects an ecological shift already underway," write Amanda M. Koltz and Lauren E. Culler in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4tg86pJ

@ifink_lab.bsky.social

Biozentrum Universität Basel

Hot Topic workshop on Cryo-Electron Tomography 🌱🌱organised by the great Engel lab @cellarchlab.com at @biozentrum.unibas.ch. Thank you for the great meeting! Funded by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social and @dfg.de

Great opportunity to present our work @ifink-lab.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de on #proteomics and #PTMs in plants #LCMS #MBP2026

⏰Applications for ASPB's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) close tomorrow, Friday, February 6.🌱

Finalize and submit your applications soon!👉https://aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a/

Professorin/Professor (w/m/d) für das Fachgebiet Molekulare Botanik - Universität Bremen Universität Bremen bietet Stelle als Professorin/Professor (w/m/d) für das Fachgebiet Molekulare Botanik in Bremen - jetzt bewerben!

Professorship Molecular Botany. Bremen, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668 The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a   Tenure Track Professors...

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Screenshot von der Webseite des Deutschlandfunks mit der Überschrift: Grüne Gentechnik: EU will Regulierung lockern, Interview Robert Hoffie, IPK

Die Einigung im Trilog letzte Nacht hat zu vielen Fragen geführt.
Im Interview mit @forschungaktuell.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk habe ich versucht, einige davon zu beantworten:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/gruene-gente...
#Gentechnik #CRISPR #NGTs

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W1 Junior Professorship

Plastid homeostasis - algal molecular biology with a focus on organelles.

@rptu.bsky.social

Details on the website of our Phycology Section
www.dbg-phykologie.de/forschung/st...

Einigung auf dem letzten Drücker: Die EU erleichtert den Umgang mit Pflanzen aus Neuen genomischen Techniken (04. Dezember 2025) EU-Parlament und Rat haben sich doch noch auf einen gemeinsamen Kompromiss verständigt. Einfache genom-editierte Pflanzen (NGT1) werden künftig herkömmlichen weitgehend gleichgeste...

Schnelles Update nach der Einigung in der letzten Nacht auf neue Regeln für NGT-Pflanzen. Kernpunkte: NGT1-Pflanzen im Kern wie konventionelle. Aber: Deutlich strengere Kriterien. Alle übrigen NGT-Pflanzen (NGT2) weiterhin wie GVO. www.transgen.de/aktuell/2880...

The EU will #GiveGenesAChance! 🇪🇺💚
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
#Trilogue #NGTs

Weil es viele Meldungen verkürzt darstellen:
Die #Gentechnik -Regeln in der EU werden im Kern nicht geändert. Es wird lediglich eine Ausnahme-Regel für Pflanzen geschaffen, die mit neuen Techniken gezüchtet wurden, aber äquivalent zu konventionellen sind. Für alle anderen gelten die alten Regeln.

Susanne Menzel-Riedl wird am 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels ...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.

FEBS Workshop ‘Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological Impact’ (2026) Wed 3 Jun - Sat 6 [EDT]: The FEBS Workshop 'Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological impact' is the 5th biennial conference of the International Society for Protein Termini (ISPT)…

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: FEBS Workshop ‘Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological Impact’

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#PlantScience

Congratulations Ora!! We are very happy to have you as a colleague @uni-muenster.de

Celebrating my inaugural lecture with @tlvuni.bsky.social and my @uni-muenster.de Biology colleagues! Happy to be part of the Münster Plant Bio community @ifink-lab.bsky.social @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social 🌱

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.

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🤫Registration for #MBP2026 will start very soon. Please tell all your friends 🌱.

See you at Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the 2026 Protein Termini Conference | Co- and post-translational modifications | Proteolytic processing and degradation pathways | Microbes, plants, animals #ProteinTermini2026 #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026

Impressions from the German Plant Mito Meeting 2025 in Rothenberge. Thanks everybody for the great talks, discussions and a lot of fun! #mitochondria 🌱🍁

Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested

Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster

We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.

Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in a whole plant chamber Satoru Naganawa Kinoshita, Iris Finkemeier; Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in

Thrilled to share our latest short technical paper in PCP!
We propose an alternative leaf-level gas exchange measurement method with petiole-cut leaves and whole plant chamber, enabling the measurements even with the small Arabidopsis plants.🌱
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other community members e.g., studying proteostasis, protein quality mechanism, and retrograde signaling. We hope you enjoy reading our preprint. Thank you.

we find evidence that mistranslation in wild-type plants varies under stress conditions. This suggests that optimization of protein synthesis may improve plant stress tolerance. Moreover, the initial discovery of a hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant will benefit

mistranslation was unknown. We isolated a Q➡️E hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant and show that plant cells are highly tolerant towards Q➡️E mistranslation in mitochondrial- and plastid-expressed proteins and even incorporate Q➡️E altered peptides into the photosynthetic machinery. Interestingly,

that gene expression works close to perfection, especially protein synthesis is a messy business. Bacteria use protein mistranslation since increased proteome plasticity can aid survival under stress conditions. The relationship of plant cells and their bacterial-type organelles towards protein

Lost in translation? Chloroplasts can handle slang!
New study from our group at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social with great collabs @plantproteomics-ms.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social bsky.social‬ @hhu.de @wsupullman.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.... 🧵Often assumed

Please read here the summary of our news on DOG1 and its signaling pathway via AHG1 and AFPs in Arabidopsis 🌱seeds. www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph... @uni-muenster.de #seeds #plants @seedbarrett.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social