Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for Agricultural Crop Plants - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Agroøkologi - Plantepatologi og Mikrobiologi, Aarhus Universitet

Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for Agricultural Crop Plants at Aarhus University www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

My colleague and collaborator Nazgol Emrani is looking for a Research Assistant / Postdoc in Crop Genetics at the University of Rostock.

www.b-ite.com/recruitingma...

Screenshot von der Startseite zur Kampagne "geschwärzte Zutaten". Es wird behauptet, dass bald nicht mehr ersichtlich wäre, ob sich "gentechnisch veränderte DNA in unseren Lebensmitteln" befindet.

Die Kampagne setzt vor allem auf Weiterleitung der Share Pics und Videos bei WhatsApp und anderen Messengern.

Screenshot einiger Logos der beteiligten Organisationen, vor allem Demeter und andere Bio-Verbände

Angeführt von Demeter, haben viele Organisationen aus der Anthroposophie und Biolandbau-Bubble gerade eine neue Aktion gegen #Gentechnik gestartet. Anlass ist die letzte Abstimmungsphase zu einem jahrelang diskutierten EU-Gesetzentwurf zur Regulierung sog NGT-Pflanzen. Wir gucken uns das mal an:
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Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Nandeesh Jalahalli Rangegowda from the Kile University Kiel on Lineage and Genotype-Specific Variation of Developmental and Defense RLPs in Wild and Cultivated Tomato
#MBP2026

Thank you @sev1panier.bsky.social for the shoutout.
I highly recommend reading their fantastic work on one of the most challenging areas in #plantsciences: quantitative disease resistance (QDR).An honour to cover this work as the @theplantcell.bsky.social AFE @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Phylogeny of the 284 species of plants included in Conservatory data set. Conservatory uncovered ~2.3 million conserved non-coding DNA sequences across 284 plant species from 72 families including eudicots, monocots, gymnosperms, and algae. Illustrations by Professor Madelaine Bartlett.

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species
Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman
▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Same experience here with presentations (perfect slides, very eloquent yet no content and silence the moment you ask follow-up Qs)

I am trying to make discussions and defences the centre of the evaluation...

@thaisdalsasso.bsky.social is applying new tools to address the evolution and functional diversification of secreted proteins of fungal plant pathogen. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

This week in @science.org, a celebration of plant pangenomes. A pangenome analysis for massively polyploid sugarcane species, and one for Brassica rapa giving insight into subspeciation.

What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)

Gentechnik: Forscher züchten Zwiebel, die einen zum Lachen bringt Braunschweig (dpo) - Darauf haben Hobbyköche und Gastronomen weltweit gewartet: Gentechnikern ist es gelungen, eine Zwiebel zu züchten, die einen zum

Gentechnik: Forscher züchten Zwiebel, die einen zum Lachen bringt www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/lach...

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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...

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

So, throw the trainees under the bus and keep the PIs unscathed?!? What if the PI created a toxic environment leading to this behaviour? What if the institute creates a toxic environment glorifying CNS papers??? Will you mention these at the retraction note?

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition

@usyseth.bsky.social

ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

That's a great idea!

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?

🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BMFTR funds plant research on climate adaptation at Kiel University with 2.25 million Euros Dr Farooq Ahmad from the Institute of Phytopathology receives extensive BMFTR funding to investigate forest adaptation strategies to climate change.

More great news!
Farooq Ahmad has received funding to establish a junior research group in my department @uni-kiel.de

He will focus on assisted tree migration to combat forest pathogens in a changing climate.
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

He will be looking for PhD students soon!

BMFTR funds plant research on climate adaptation at Kiel University with 2.25 million Euros Dr Farooq Ahmad from the Institute of Phytopathology receives extensive BMFTR funding to investigate forest adaptation strategies to climate change.

👏 Congratulations, Dr. Farooq Ahmad​! The postdoctoral researcher from the Institute of Phytopathology receives extensive #BMFTR funding to investigate forest adaptation strategies to climate change using the concept of assisted tree migration.
#KielLifeScience #KielPlantCenter #KiTE #BioKreativ

Network Inference Reveals Distinct Transcriptional Regulation in Barley against Drought and Fusarium Head Blight We analyzed transcriptional networks in barley under single and combined Fusarium head blight (FHB) and drought stress. We applied complementary Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) to i...

My barley transcriptional network preprint is officially out!
Started as my Bachelor’s thesis — now it’s online:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Huge thanks to @itisalist.bsky.social, @daisybio.de, @huckelhovenr.bsky.social , Felix Hoheneder & Johannes Kersting for all their help and support!

Network Inference Reveals Distinct Transcriptional Regulation in Barley against Drought and Fusarium Head Blight We analyzed transcriptional networks in barley under single and combined Fusarium head blight (FHB) and drought stress. We applied complementary Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) to identify stress-associated gene co-expression modules and GENIE3 to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Integration of these frameworks revealed strong overlaps between co-expression modules and GRN clusters, highlighting robust regulatory patterns. Key transcription factors (TFs) were identified based on their weighted node degrees, reflecting their connectivity within the network. Independent analysis of paired transcription factor binding sites in promoter regions further supported predicted regulatory interactions. Notably, WRKY TFs emerged as central regulators of FHB response, consistent with their known roles in defense and secondary metabolite biosynthesis, but did not appear in drought-associated contexts. For bHLH or NAC TFs, individual family members steered FHB or drought responses but not both. Our findings demonstrate the power of combining network inference and motif enrichment to identify candidate TFs controlling stress responses, providing a solid foundation for targeted functional validation. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

Congratulations to @steidele.bsky.social who unscrambled complex transcriptional networks in barley double stress responses. Thanks to @itisalist.bsky.social and @daisybio.de for the support: doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Rstudio wrapped

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Historic day! 🌾
The #EU agrees on new rules for genomic techniques, paving the way for crops that better resist climate change and pests, deliver higher yields, and need fewer fertilisers & pesticides. A big step towards a more sustainable food system.

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...