Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! ๐พ ๐ฌ ๐บ ๐งฌ ๐ต ๐งช
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn...
Cost: โฌ350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event)
For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis!
Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...
๐จJob Alert โ Please RT!
Weโre 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
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 โ
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-...
Just in time for Karneval, we present coelsch ! ๐ญ๐ฅณ
A platform-agnostic framework for single-cell recombination analysis. We study crossover variation in mutants & natural lines, identifying the largest natural inversion in A. thaliana to date!
๐ doi.org/10.64898/202...
๐ฑ github.com/schneeberger...
Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
Rational improvement of pennycress using CRISPR.
#PlantScience
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.
Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
Four Images: A scientist in a lab looking at a pipetting robot, a greenhouse with lots of pots containing plants, a scientist with drones and other euipment in a field, and a tractor driver with lots of high-tech equipment in the cockpit. The text is: TalentCampus@KWS May 29, 2026 A look behind the scenes: All KWS research and development departments open their doors
The headline and text says: May 29, 2026 in Einbeck, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Seeding the future โ breeding combines sciences and talents The image is a wheel showing all the R&D contributions to plant breeding, incl. Molecular Biology Experimental Fields Cell Biology Breeding Phytopathology Chemical Analytics Greenhouse Phenotyping Digitalization
Highlights of the program Information stands Breeders of our main crops explain their work From sowing to harvesting: all the special machines of a breeding station Digital tools for field trialing Root phenotyping: how roots grow in the soil Phenotyping with drones: multispectral from a bird's eye view Phytopathology: insects, fungi, nematodes and other pathogens Chemical Analytics and process analysis Catch crops - concepts for agriculture, soil health, CO2 balance Biological seed treatment Breeding technologies โ data and genomics specialists support breeding Genome Editing: new breeding technologies and their application at KWS Regulatory Affairs: paving the way to approval From lab to market: how KWS protects intellectual property Marker lab: examine the DNA The art of engineering for seed production Career opportunities at KWS Hands-on activities The start of a new generation of varieties: crossing plants by hand Tissue culture: placing plant parts on a special diet in vitro Leaf harvest for the marker lab Live view of root growth: navigate a camera through the soil
If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th.
More info here:
www.kws.com/corp/en/care...
It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
โGroรartige Ermรถglichungs- und Ermutigungspreiseโ: Jan Lohmann erhielt den Lautenschlรคger-Forschungspreis fรผr Spitzenforscher โ Als herausragender Wissenschaftler in einer frรผhen ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universitรคt #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin
The EU will #GiveGenesAChance! ๐ช๐บ๐
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
#Trilogue #NGTs
Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! ๐ฑ๐พ๐ซ๐ช๐บ๐งฌ
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
Das ist etwas Gutes! Auch wenn viele wieder anderes berichten werden, aller Wissenschaft zum Trotz.
Falls ihr Fragen dazu habt, warum wir bei @oekoprog.bsky.social & @progagrarwende.bsky.social uns genau dafรผr seit lรคngerem einsetzen, haut sie jederzeit raus ๐
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome โ accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Es stehen erscheinende Tage fรผr eine moderne, wissenschaftsbasierte Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken wie #CRISPR & Co. in der EU an.
Worum es geht und was damit zu erreichen ist, haben wir ๐ nochmal zusammengefasst.
#GiveGenesAChance
Thanks @somssich.bsky.social for a truly fantastic lecture!
Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! ๐ฅณ๐งช Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda
Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Canโt wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!๐ฑโ๏ธ
New preprint from the lab on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! We show how SEPALLATA MADS-box genes in tomato functionally diverged to regulate inflorescence and floral organ development while maintaining redundant functions in conferring floral meristem identity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
CRISPR-Casโmediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues
๐งช Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here ๐ biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26
Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out ๐พ
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
A vinyl box with six colored vinyl LPs sticking out of its right side. The Title "Guns in Rosettes" is on top, with the subtitle "The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" just below. Then there is an Arabidopsis plant with machine guns sticking out. Below is the statement "6-LP LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL BOX SET"
The back cover of the vinyl box set showing the tracklist: 1. Methionine-derived compounds Aliphatic GSLs 2. Tryptophan-derived compounds (trptonites) Indolic GSLs Camalexin Hycanite (4-OH-ICN) 3. Phenylalanine-derived compounds (phenylpropanoids) Benzenic GSLs Coumarins Hydroxycinnamates Flavonoids 4. Terpenoids (E)-ฮฒ-caryophyllene ฮฑ- and ฮฒ-pinene Thalianin, arabidin, and DMNT And the statement "Recorded live in front of an audience in 2025"
Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social!
You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here:
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics โ not only for plants โ for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
This discovery traces back to the spring of 2018, when I was a postdoc in nikogeldner.bsky.social 's lab. After shifting Arabidopsis seedlings from solid to liquid culture, I observed that the root commensal bacterium CHA0 rapidly colonized Casparian stripโdefective mutants.
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We are looking for a new colleague to work as a postdoctoral researcher on crop genomics and machine learning! The position is within our GenomeDesigner project (www.ru.nl/en/research/...). Feel free to be in touch or directly apply here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Please share!!!
Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.
Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
