I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Histone deacetylases and cell cycle regulators orchestrate cell identity transitions during Arabidopsis root regeneration #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
Many congrats to Akira!
The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇
Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.
text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water
text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco
text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem
text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"
Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social
📢Job alert📢
@uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call
tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf
and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.
Please share!
PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Workflow of single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy (sptPALM) analysis. (A) Localization: single molecule spots are cut out of the raw data image stack, fitted with two-dimensional Gaussian functions and the results (most importantly, their coordinates) stored as lists. (B) Tracking: single-molecule positions are grouped to tracks, based on their relative positions in subsequent frames. (C) Mean square displacement (MSD) analysis: the average squared distance the molecules have traveled in certain time intervals (top left) can be plotted in MSD curves (bottom), showing a straight line for free Brownian motion (dark gray), for which the slope is directly proportional to the diffusion coefficient. Other motion types like superdiffusive (red) or subdiffusive (yellow) show different curve shapes (inset: corresponding single-molecule example tracks).
🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬
Oven-Krockhaus et al. introduce single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy for studying plasma membrane proteins in plants, outlining key applications and practical guidance on instrumentation, probes, and analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Apply now for a PhD in Life Sciences at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! Research nanomechanics of cellular machines and track kinesin motors at high resolution in Tübingen in Erik Schäffer’s group at the University of Tübingen. More information available on our website: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de
Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Phosphoproteomics uncovers rapid and specific transition from plant two-component system signaling to Ser/Thr phosphorylation by the intracellular redox sensor AHK5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:
- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x
Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025
RT are welcome
#plantjobs #plantscijobs
With Sven zur Oven-Krockhaus, @luiselotterausch.bsky.social & Klaus Harter we wrote an #ExpertView on #sptPALM in #plants 🌱 (focus: #plasmamembrane).
✔️ Our goal: help you get started with this powerful method 🚀
❓ Curious? We’ll be happy to get you ready!
Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social
#superresolution #plasmamembrane
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494
📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th
Please spread the word!
More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
I am presenting my work as a poster @ISMPMI #2025ISMPMI on monday 14.07 ! :) Join me and learn more about HIR2 oligomeric rings - a novel perspective on membrane organization (Poster number 39) Head here to see more: ismpmi.org/congress
Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱
We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science!
However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories..
So let's change that!
Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!
Niels, Chia-Nan, Pin-Jou, Yujing, Isa, Farid, Raphael and Jessica arriving in Cologne Messe by train
And another @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social delegation just arrived in Cologne for the #2025MPMI
Niels (P-041), @chia-nan.bsky.social (P-011), Pin-Jou (P-438), Yujing (P-027), Farid (P-063), @raphaelschaal.bsky.social (P-094) and @ericksonlab.bsky.social (P-169)
… also why do I look so tiny behind that thing 😄
Last week I gave a short talk in Colorado at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social about my PhD project „Using superresolution microscopy and biomechanics to uncover new mechanisms in root growth“ in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Had a great time talking to wonderful scientists and making new friends 😊
#superresolution
Paper accepted! Time to celebrate with the team with an ad hoc cake!
How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The best part of conferences: Meeting old friends and making new ones 😊 @davefaveplants.bsky.social @keikosugimoto.bsky.social
@ipgsa2025.bsky.social
#IPGSA #plantscience
Starting IPGSA25 with a great goodie 😊 Stay hydrated! @ipgsa2025.bsky.social
#conference #plantscience
This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
Yasin Dagdas portait
We are very happy to welcome Yasin Dagas soon starting as a Heisenberg professor at COS. Yasin's topic is evolutionary cell biology focusing on autophagy in plants and beyond. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... @dfgpublic.bsky.social
