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Christian Fankhauser

@chfankhauser

Professor at the University of Lausanne, interested in environmental control (particularly light) of plant growth & development.

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Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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05.03.2026 21:35 👍 79 🔁 111 💬 2 📌 3

Wishing you great success

05.03.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Evaluate the product , not the method, so much more justified

05.03.2026 18:06 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

03.03.2026 06:53 👍 111 🔁 68 💬 2 📌 1
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🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

26.02.2026 18:28 👍 20 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0
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Miltos Tsiantis Interview with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

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...

26.02.2026 13:58 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 3

Highly recommended EMBO Workshop on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026) in Les Diablerets, Switzerland! (even if I may be slightly biased...) Registration open. We are very much looking forward to seeing you there! ⬇️

25.02.2026 19:11 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts.
Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

25.02.2026 17:10 👍 18 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 2
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I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

23.02.2026 13:18 👍 33 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 3
1 JOUR = 1 INFO SUR LA
CRÉATION VARIÉTALE
J87
cabbage
kohlrabi
Chinese cabbage
turnip
Brassica oleracea
Brassica rapa
La sélection par les humains des mêmes
caractères à partir de 2 espèces
ancestrales différentes a abouti à un
résultat similaire. Alors que le chou et le
pe-tsaï ont été sélectionnés pour un
bourgeon terminal unique provocant une
prolifération des feuilles, le chou rave et le
navet ont été sélectionnés pour leur
épaississement de la tige et/ou de la racine.

1 JOUR = 1 INFO SUR LA CRÉATION VARIÉTALE J87 cabbage kohlrabi Chinese cabbage turnip Brassica oleracea Brassica rapa La sélection par les humains des mêmes caractères à partir de 2 espèces ancestrales différentes a abouti à un résultat similaire. Alors que le chou et le pe-tsaï ont été sélectionnés pour un bourgeon terminal unique provocant une prolifération des feuilles, le chou rave et le navet ont été sélectionnés pour leur épaississement de la tige et/ou de la racine.

1 JOUR = 1 INFO SUR LA
CRÉATION VARIÉTALE
J87

A retrouver sur Instagram
www.instagram.com/p/DT2jPkqje9...

23.01.2026 16:17 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

It’s 2026 and one of the first things that has happened is that a major news outlet has announced that it will no longer seek information from experts.

I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.

02.01.2026 16:00 👍 2089 🔁 628 💬 110 📌 23
02.01.2026 14:27 👍 1557 🔁 402 💬 33 📌 6
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We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

23.12.2025 09:37 👍 41 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
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Transcriptional dynamics and chromatin accessibility in the regulation of shade-responsive genes in Arabidopsis - Genome Biology Background Open chromatin regions host DNA regulatory motifs that are accessible to transcription factors and the transcriptional machinery. In Arabidopsis, responses to light are heavily regulated at...

Accessible chromatin enables rapid recruitment of PIFs to induce expression of shade-induced genes! doi.org/10.1186/s130.... Particularly proud of the excellent work of Sandi Paulišić and Alessandra Boccaccini. Many thanks to all authors who made it happen. @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

15.12.2025 20:21 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Les Diablerets 🇨🇭 for the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026), Sept. 8-11, 2026! @martinalegris.bsky.social @emiliedemarsy.bsky.social @chfankhauser.bsky.social @plantphotobiology.bsky.social ➡️ See the links below.

13.11.2025 12:31 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Promoting research by reducing uncertainty in academic writing: a large-scale diachronic case study on hedging in Science research articles across 25 years - Scientometrics Hedges are important in academic writing since they indicate uncertainty and tentativeness about academic knowledge. However, few studies explore how hedges have changed in academic writing overtime. ...

Researchers use less and less hedges (may, might, perhaps, probably ...) in their papers. Or in other words papers are becoming more like biblical texts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

06.11.2025 15:53 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

31.10.2025 17:53 👍 27 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1

Congratulations Uli! I’m sure that you will make the best of this new opportunity.

23.09.2025 17:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

17.09.2025 20:00 👍 44 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 1
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🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Sensing light direction in plants" by Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics, Switzerland @fbm-unil.bsky.social

👀 Don't miss it!
📍 CRAG Auditorium

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/qzdjdrwizu

18.09.2025 10:02 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

01.07.2025 17:24 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

01.07.2025 12:04 👍 113 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 36
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Deux professeur·es du CIG élu·es au sein de l’EMBO Le 1er juillet 2025, la prestigieuse Organisation européenne de biologie moléculaire (EMBO) a annoncé l'élection de 69 nouvelles et nouveaux membres issu·es de 24 pays, tous·tes des chercheur·euses ho...

Deux professeur·es du CIG nouvellement élu·es membres @embo.org pour 2025

👏 👏 Félicitations à 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 et 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄 du Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG) @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1751269...

@chfankhauser.bsky.social @nvastenhouw.bsky.social

01.07.2025 12:18 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

26.06.2025 06:41 👍 84 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 5

The lack of self-reliance Europe has in terms of food security makes this all the more painful. The stubborn bureaucratic casual walk into famine is so disheartening, and an insult to the excellent plant bioengineering capacity in EU academia and industry.

Insanity.

18.06.2025 20:39 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations Detlef! An extremly well deserved award @plantevolution.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

17.06.2025 19:45 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana
transient expression”
#plantscience

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

17.06.2025 04:51 👍 94 🔁 58 💬 0 📌 0
DM/DER: Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in pediatric dermatology within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology - Site des postulations FBM

📢 Applications open for an Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in #pediatric #dermatology
📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology

❗ Apply before August 10th, 2025
More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv

11.06.2025 15:16 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

16.06.2025 15:48 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

16.06.2025 16:18 👍 51 🔁 66 💬 0 📌 0