We are thrilled to share our latest work uncovering a completely novel pathway in plants, where Pol II elongation factor SPT6L recruits AGO4 to guide mRNA methylation 🌿🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#PlantSci #Epigenetics #RNA #Preprint #epitranscriptomics
Sharing this very sad news. Greg influenced many beyond his lab and across fields. This is a very nice write up from CRUK-CI highlighting what he meant to many of us. Thank you for putting into words what many of us can't right now.
www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...
📢 Call for papers - Symbiotic relationships 📢
#BMCBiology
Guest Editors:
@yjluo.bsky.social
@schwarzergnoto.bsky.social
Thomas Bosch Dr rer nat, Kiel University
Anil Kumar PhD, Chandigarh University
Michael Sinvula Lukubwe BA, MSc, University of Namibia
link.springer.com/collections/...
🌱🧬 EPIPLANT 2026 is happening soon!
Registration for the conference is still open, but places are limited and filling up fast.
If you haven’t registered yet, now is the time to secure your spot 👉 epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org
We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes!
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
🔥Fantastic paper!🔥
TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#epigenetics #plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg)
Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached
📅 Apply by March 30, 2026
📩 stefan.grob@cnrs.fr
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
🌱 EPIPLANT is live!
Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–24).
We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms!
👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org
1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨
It is my pleasure to share:
"Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants"
Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#PlantScience
A thread...
Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis.
I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!
Searching for a PhD? 🧬🌾
A fully funded 3.5-year PhD is available at @latrobeuni.bsky.social (Melbourne) to work on engineering transcription factors for better nitrogen use in plants!
Reqd:
✅ Honours/Masters in Mol Bio, Biotech, or Plant Science
✅ Passion for sustainable ag
Contact me for details
Come join our lab in Sussex, UK for a PhD on TEs, on centromeres, on the genome ecosystem! Exciting times for TE:genome dynamics given the rate of T2T sequencing. Please circulate!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽
Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social !
and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Some of the ENOD team attending the SymbiPhyt conference 🌱
Inspiring presentations and great scientific discussions! @andreasniebel.bsky.social @melissa-simonnet.bsky.social @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social @fdecarvalhonie.bsky.social @anaisdelers.bsky.social
TULIP Summer School 2026
Applications are OPEN ✅
“Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems”
will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️
Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology
www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...
ECRs in plant–microbe interactions:
Join us in Norwich for an intensive, interactive 1.5-week Summer Conference at TSL (20–31 July). Lots of opportunities for networking and deep discussions.
(We also plan to offer hands-on practical sessions using our technologies 🔬🧬)
We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)
Pre-meiotic H1.1 degradation is essential for Arabidopsis gametogenesis | The EMBO Journal share.google/XbbrdRP9nZce...
Photo of the interior of award-winning Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University building. Glass walls look into the research labs and naturally lit staircase and walkway with study boxes looking into the Botanic Garden
Launch your own independent research group!
2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
📆 Apply by 30 Jan 2026
More info:
👉 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/careers/grou...
Job details:
👉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Please share this post #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
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Lors de la domestication de la tomate, la sélection a surtout privilégié des fruits plus gros et qui se conservent, ce qui a conduit à la perte de certains caractères liés au goût
Repost appréciés pour avoir une vision des avis la plus large possible
Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to those who already shared the link!
Beyond excited to see this work finally out in @narjournal.bsky.social! We show that epigenetic modifiers on fungal accessory chromosomes can contribute to the overall epigenetic profile. Many thanks to @gomezlucia93.bsky.social and our other amazing collaborators 👏🏻
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
An early Christmas present from our team for all of the tomato 🍅 & recombination fans:
Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱
Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026
www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
