Hot off the press 🚨 Epidemic spreading between regions is often modelled on a network 🕸️ But how do we describe this process properly? Here, we show how to build a linear transport operator at the network scale, by coarse-graining local advection-reaction-diffusion within edges. shorturl.at/0tAN8
Super excited to share some great news 😊
Our team has been awarded a @hfspo.bsky.social grant!
We’ll be working on genetic conflict over sex ratio in vertebrates, together with @takashiakeralab.bsky.social and Jiri Hejnar.
Really looking forward to this new adventure! Science is a team sport!
52nd EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16th April 2026 at 15.00 CET discussing
‘Genome Editing Public Consultation Outcomes’ with Janne Artell, Gabi Waldhof and Mia Olsson. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for autumn seminars bit.ly/41jzkzn. #PlantScience
Active matter physics studies living beings as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent systems. In this perspective on plant morphogenesis, we show how such features arise from the basic hydromechanics of plant tissue and how to capture them in models. 🌱💧
Preprint 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2512.05554
The post shows a picture of Magdalena after successfully passing her viva on a green background with words congratulating her on acquiring the PhD title.
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Magdalena Slawinska on her PhD defense in the lab of Ruben Garrido-Oter at @mpipz.bsky.social! Wishing all the best ahead. #phdone #plantscience #acacemiccareer
The post shows a picture of Maik after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.
Dr. Maik Mendler has successfully defended the PhD in the lab of Franzsika Turck @mpipz.bsky.social. Congratulations on reaching this milestone and best wishes ahead! #phdone #plantscience
Great to see this really cool story published in Nature! rdcu.be/e7UoR
Parker & Wang’s commentary, “A fellowship of the rings in plant defence”, provides further insights into the elaborate structures of NLRs formed during plant immunity. rdcu.be/e7UnA @nature.com @mpipz.bsky.social
More women in leadership positions: This chart shows the development within the Max Planck Society from 2019 to 2025 among directors, independent research group leaders, group leaders, postdocs, and PhD candidates.
We can do it! The positive trend in #womeninscience leadership positions within the Max Planck Society continues. All figures in detail 📈➡️ www.mpg.de/26233321/app... #idw2026
VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time
🥔 We traced the ancestral legacy of modern breeding introgressions in European potato! Combining pedigree records & genome-wide SNPs, we reveal which wild relatives shaped the European gene pool and how.
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-05143-z
🚨Job Alert – Please RT!
We’re looking for bright minds to join our community!
We are looking for 12 postdocs and 7 PhD students!
Details on all projects and application: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
@leibnizipk.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...
What a great talk by Kirsten Bomblies and an inspiring discussion on #womeninscience. 🌿Always believe in yourself - you belong here! 🧪🔬Learn more about our fantastic female scientists @mpipz.bsky.social here 👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5784211/inte...
The post shows a picture of Meng after successfully passing her viva on a green background with words congratulating her on acquiring the PhD title.
🎓 Congrats to Dr. Meng Zhang on defending her PhD in the lab of @amarques.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social! Welcome to the circle of doctors and all the best ahead! 👏
#PhDone #NewDoctor #PlantScience
Poster Barbara McClintock Seminar
We are excited to welcome Kirsten Bomblies as the speaker at our 🌿Annual Barbara McClintock Seminar🧪 and guest at our roundtable discussion @mpipz.bsky.social on “Women in Science,” held in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #11Feb #womeninscience
Bean root system, text: "Dig into the latest in root and rhizosphere science: Mini Symposium of the ISRR, January 28th 2026"
Rooting for roots?
#PlantScience
Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social
Register here for free:
tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx
Programme👇
Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated!
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".
We are #hiring!
Join Miltos Tsiantis’s lab within the IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social to identify genes driving root sucker formation in crucifer plants — combining evolution & genetics.
📆 Deadline: Jan 5, 2026
✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de
ℹ️ More info: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs
📣📣Paper alert! Excited to share a new paper @pnas.org from the Tsiantis lab @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues on how enhancer evolution shapes leaf diversity. 🌱🌿Congratulations! 👏🥳 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4583PdR #plantsci #evolution
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
How do plants fight disease? 🌱 #NASmember Jane Parker studies NLR proteins that help plants sense attackers and launch powerful immune defenses. She shares her latest findings on how these proteins signal plants to resist disease in a new @pnas.org QnAs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".
We are #hiring!
In Nadine Töpfer’s group within the IMPRS @unicologne.bsky.social, the PhD candidate will use computational modelling to unravel metabolic interactions between plants and their root microbiota.
📆Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
✏️Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de
ℹ️More info: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs
The post shows a picture of Mingming after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.
Congratulations to Mingming Fang on successfully defending his PhD!
Completed at @mpipz.bsky.social in the lab of Miltos Tsiantis — all the best for what’s next! 🎉👏
#PhDone #NewDoctor #PlantScience
A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".
We are #hiring!
Join Raphael Mercier’s team within the IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social to investigate meiotic recombination, focusing on inversions, selection & genome evolution.
📆 Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de
ℹ️ More info: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs
A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".
We are #hiring!
This IMPRS PhD project @algazuccaro.bsky.social group @unicologne.bsky.social explores plant–microbiome interactions.
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de
ℹ️ IMPRS: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs
🔗 Group: ag-zuccaro.botanik.uni-koeln.de
📣🥳 We are thrilled to share that our director, Raphaël Mercier @raphmercier.bsky.social has been awarded the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields 🌱✨. Congratulations 👏👏 #plantsci #genetics 👉https://bit.ly/3MtCGLW
vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...
Press release on our new work about inferring Spatial Ploidy (iSPy), a collaboration with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox Lab, with @nickrussell31.bsky.social being the first author @mpipz.bsky.social @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social www.mpipz.mpg.de/5771290/pr-f...
🚀New publication out by @pauformosa.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social and collaborators @duke-university.bsky.social, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social introducing a computational pipeline enabling high-throughput ploidy quantification. 🔬📊 👏👏 👉https://bit.ly/4pOipiq
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
