Congratulations again! We are so proud 💚 And huge thanks to @theplantjournal.bsky.social for supporting our meeting once again this year 🌿 #plantsci #MAdLand2025

And last but not least, congratulations to all the winners of the best poster prize! 🏆 1st place: Lara Canovai (right) from Zachgo lab in Osnabrück, Diego Artigas Hernández from Müller-Schüssele lab in Kaiserslautern and Ellen Lorberg from @jandevries.bsky.social
lab in Göttingen #MAdLand2025

Congratulations to Elena Lesch from the Ischebeck lab @uni-muenster.de for the best Postdoc talk and winning the @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🎉 #MAdLand2025 #plantsci

Congratulations to the winners of best PhD talk @ #MAdLand2025! 🏆 1st place: @hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social lab, who won @theplantjournal.bsky.social award! Christoph Kentrath (left) from Petersen Lab in Marburg
& Tim Ruder (right) from Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover #plantsci

Thank you all for coming! It was great to have you in Osnabrück this year. Have a safe trip home and we hope to see you all next year in Göttingen. Stay tuned 🌱 #MAdLand2025 #Plantsci

The last talk of the session is given by Katrin Philippar from Saarbrücken, talking about the evolution of the plastid FAX (fatty acid export) proteins and the plants’ conquest of land #MAdLand2025

Next, Lea Marie Preuß from the Ischebeck lab in Münster is diving into the evolution of lipid droplet-associated proteins and their role in drought resistance #MAdLand2025

Gisela Hartmann @thanahartmann.bsky.social from @schullerjm.bsky.social lab in Marburg is telling us more about Cryo-Electron Tomography: Revealing the native cellular organization of streptophyte algae #MAdLand2025

Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025

Shreya Kalan from the Buschmann lab in Mittweida is asking the important question: how has cell division evolved from water to land? #MAdLand2025

Next up is Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab in Rostock, tracing cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia #MAdLand2025

We start the next session, and Elena Sturm from the Bucher & Becker lab in Cologne is sharing insights about the role of phosphate starvation response and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in plant terrestrialization #MAdLand2025

A few impressions from the beautiful botanical garden in Osnabrück. Sabine shares her passion for the wonders of the tropical house and it's such a joy to listen and learn 🌺 #SciComm #MAdLand2025

And we are wrapping up the session with Zahin Bin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, discussing his findings on phytochrome-mediated light signalling of Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2025

Alisha Alisha from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is telling us more about the
functional analysis of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORS and their potential roles in light and cytokinin signaling #MAdLand2025

Niels van de Haar from the Höcker Lab in Cologne is diving into molecular adaptations to light during the water-to-land transition, using the moss Physcomitrium patens and charophyte algae #MAdLand2025

Next, Chiara Kuhlmann from the Schünemann Lab in Bochum is presenting new insights into the adaptations of chloroplast protein transport mechanisms during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025

Kicking off the morning with a light-signaling session: Tim Ruder from the Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover, diving into the evolution of the plastid transcription machinery as a key adaptation to plant terrestrialization #MAdLand2025

Wrapping up the session with our final Invited Talk — @shiltemann.bsky.social and @dvarshney.bsky.social are giving the community informative overviews of DataPLANT ARCs @nfdi4plants.bsky.social and Galaxy @galaxyproject.bsky.social 🌱
#FAIRData #UseGalaxy #MAdLandtools #MAdLand2025

Now we dive into MAdLand tools and resources with the Invited Talk by Noe Fernandez-Pozo @noefpbio.bsky.social from @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social in Malaga — presenting MAdLandExpression, a gene expression atlas for MAdLand species.
#MAdLandtools #MAdLand2025

Next, we have an Invited talk by Lenka Caisová from Czech Republic, telling us more about the alga of the year: Draparnaldia and why it's interesting for studying plant evolution #MAdLand2025

Starting the next session with an Invited Talk by Assaf Mosquna from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We're diving into the evolution of Abscisic Acid (ABA) signaling and synthesis #MAdLand2025

Last talk of the session by Carolin Apel from the
@cnaumann123.bsky.social /Apel lab (Halle) with the topic TERRAPHOS – Exploring the Evolution of Phosphate Scouting during Plant Terrestrialization #MAdLand2025

Now, Maria Dolores Lopez Bueno from @philipp-denninger.bsky.social lab in Munich is telling us more about the evolution of novel RHO OF PLANTS signalling activators during the adaptation from water to land #MAdLand2025

Up next is Matthias Freh from Panstruga lab in Aachen, investigating the co-evolution and molecular adaptation of the MLO-EXO70 functional module in the course of plant terrestrialization #MAdLand2025

After a short break, we are back with Christoph Kentrath from Marburg, tackling the question if cytochrome P450 enzymes can swim #MAdLand2025

Mina Kazemianrouhi from the Reumann lab in Hamburg investigates the assembly of peroxisome functions during plant terrestrialization (PeroxEvo) #MAdLand2025

#MAdLand2025

The next session starts with Gabriel Garcia-Ramirez from @grandpahiro.bsky.social lab in Cologne, exploring salicylic acid perception and response in bryophytes and streptophyte algae with us #MAdLand2025

Up next, we have a workshop on power abuse in science, hosted by Be COSMOPOLITE (-> linkedin.com/company/be-cosmopolite) and organized by the MAdLand EDI Committee. We look forward to engaging conversations! #MAdLand2025 #EDI #AcademicEquity