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

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants!

More info:
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Lab website:
thejolab.org

#Plantbiology #Phd #Job

#phloem #plantscience #collaboration #scientificresearch | Uwe Sonnewald A big thank you to all participants of the Phloem Workshop “Unraveling the Mysteries of Phloem Transport: Challenges and Innovations” (10–13 April 2026, Kloster Irsee, Germany). Your contributions and...

Thanks a lot to Uwe Sonnewald and Michael Knoblauch for setting up such an inspiring meeting at Kloster Irsee! The interactive format was excellent for focusing on key open questions in phloem biology.
#Phloem #PlantScience

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit:

Botanik-Lehre + Forschung zur Stressadaption in Landpflanzen

@ Uni Osnabrück
Deadline: 17 Mai 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 8 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Pink coloured banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is a panoramic X-ray fluorescence imaging of Mn (green), Fe (red), and Zn (blue) distribution in a small region (∼ 500 mm by 400 mm; 500 nm resolution) within the rice radicle and part of the plumule of rice embryo. Credits: measurements performed by João Paulo R. Marques at the CARNAÚBA X-ray nanoprobe beamline of Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS/Sirius). See Benato et al., pp. 2264–2281.

📢 🔬 Issue 8 of JXB is out now 🔬 📢

📔 On the cover: A panoramic X-ray fluorescence imaging of Mn (green), Fe (red), and Zn (blue) distribution within the rice radicle and part of the plumule of rice embryo (image credit: João Paulo R. Marques).

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...

#PlantScience 🧪

Open position in our group—don’t miss this opportunity

#PlantJob do you have experience in metabolomics and want to help us to get to the next level in our research @cragenomica.bsky.social , if so, please consider applying to this post to manage our facility!, please, help us spread the word! recruitment.cragenomica.es/jobs/genomic...

Two doctoral students in plant ecophysiology and ecosystem services of crop mixtures (Project: PhenoMix)

🌱 2 PhD positions open at @ethz.ch Grassland Sciences!

Join PhenoMix – a joint project at @ethz.ch, Swiss Data Science Center & @agroscope.bsky.social – studying legume-cereal crop mixtures in the field. Apply by 15 May 2026.

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

@snf-fns.ch @usyseth.bsky.social

🌱 #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

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

Foto mit Straße und Sonnenblumen an Rand weist auf Forschung zum nachhaltigen Straßenbau an der Hochschule Anhalt hin: mit biologischen Alternativen zu fossilem Bitumen

Asphalt ohne Erdöl. Um Kosten zu sparen, das Klima zu schützen und regionale Kreisläufe zu stärken. Forschende der Hochschule Anhalt arbeiten daran, Pflanzenreste aus Feldern und Grünflächen zu einem Ersatz für fossiles Bitumen zu verarbeiten – statt sie kostenpflichtig zu kompostieren: t1p.de/qwq02

Stay tuned… the Austrian Society of Plant Biology 
will host the next
Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology
conference
in Vienna, 17-20 August 2027
save the date and we will soon upload new details #fespb #plantscience #societiesofplantbiology

The Swiss Plant Breeding Center is looking for a Breeding Data Scientist and a Molecular Geneticist

#plantscijobs #plantscijob

www.spbc-plantbreeding.ch/en/vacancies

Now that it's official i've got some news! Our group has moved from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to @unihalle.bsky.social where I am now leading the department for phytopathology and plant protection 🍄🌾🧬

Aufgepasst, erstmals bietet das @leibnizipk.bsky.social ein Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (FÖJ) in der Genbank an! Du hilfst bei der Erhaltung der einmaligen Sammlung, bereitest die Versendung von Saatgut vor und arbeitest im Feld und im Gewächshaus. Neugierig?

➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2zhd7b8m

Do you want to put your deep learning and computer vision skills to work on pressing real-world challenges in agriculture and plant breeding?

OPEN post-doc position: www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
📅 Apply by: 2026-04-10
#ComputerVision #DeepLearning #PostDoc #Phenotyping #PlantScience

Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth Nature Communications - While auxin typically inhibits root cell growth, elevated temperatures reconfigure the auxin transcriptional pathway to promote elongation. This study reveals how plants...

🚨📢 Excited to share our back-to-back publications in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧬🌡️ In a fantastic collaboration between @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social, we’ve showed how plants "re-tune" the auxin pathway to regulate growth in response to warmth. 🌡️🌱 🧵 rdcu.be/fayYC, rdcu.be/fay0X

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers!
We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG

📅 Deadline - April 26

Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

😃 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN!
www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...
You can book hotel rooms at the venue here 👇

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!

Read it in Science
dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi-science.bsky.social

Our first Kalanchoë laxiflora story found its perfect home @Science Advances with a beautiful cover image of Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaves. I am grateful that I can continue working with this incredible new model to learn more about succulent development 🤩
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Diverse starch granules from different grass species.

Congratulations to the Seung group for its @currentbiology.bsky.social article based on a survey of 105 species in the grass family Pooideae 🌾: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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.

A Recent one on plastid intron splicing from B. Pfister.

rdcu.be/e9vKl

Homepage of the Flora Incognita app

Spring is coming! 💐🌷🪻 If you need help identifying #plants, get the #FloraIncognita app now! It‘s free, and your findings make a valuable contribution to global #biodiversity research.

Why plants fail in dry soil Whether a plant can draw water from the soil depends on the soil’s physical properties, not the plant itself. This explains why previous programmes aimed at cultivating drought-resistant plants have n...

Whether a plant can draw water from the soil depends on the soil’s physical properties, not the plant itself. This explains why previous programmes aimed at cultivating drought-resistant plants have never been successful. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Our Spring PhD call is OPEN!
30+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. Explore projects in Stem Cells, Development: www.vbcphd.at
Apply by 9 April 2025
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, IMP, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

Hope to see all of you (again) at our international #BT2026

organized by #MBP2026 @molplantsci.bsky.social
co-host Christopher Grefen

📍 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de in Bochum, Germany.
📆 6 – 10 September 2026
bsky.app/profile/plan...