First publication of the year! We set up an image-based quantification of seed phenotypes (here Arabidopsis thaliana). It comes together with a random forest classifier for our favorite phenotype, seed abortion.
Workflow for Samplify-based phenotyping of seed abortion.
Samplify – automated quantification of seed abortion
Bente et al. @hebente.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New OA Article: "Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development" rdcu.be/e1pxk
...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
New paper in @natplants.nature.com finds that #siRNAs can act as long-distance communication signals from maternal to male tissue in #Capsella with functional role in #pollen development.
Read here: nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02219-6
@claudiakohler11.bsky.social @jiali024.bsky.social
Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚
Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀
We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
⏰ Last week to apply!
Don’t miss the chance to join our lab and explore the fascinating world of meiotic recombination 🌿
👉 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here it comes, first preprint from my postdoc time at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in the lab of @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
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
Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
📝 Deadline: Sept 18 (11:59pm MDT)
Early-career researchers—submit your abstract for Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering 🌱
Compete for the People’s Choice Poster Award 🏅 Winner gets free Keystone registration!
👉 keysym.us/KSPlantEpi26
@claudiakohler11.bsky.social
#KSPlantEpi26
Call for Applications / Ausschreibung
Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer
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/...
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
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👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :)
uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html
A researcher wearing glasses and a gray t-shirt carefully tends to young tomato plants in a greenhouse laboratory. He is examining or adjusting a plant with small yellow flowers while standing at a work bench with organized plant specimens in containers. The modern greenhouse facility has glass walls and metal framework visible in the background.
From initially finding botany classes boring to leading cutting-edge seed development research at the Max Planck Institute. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo's journey shows how the right mentors can transform your relationship with plant science.
wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq
#Botany #PlantScience
I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction
. #Botany2025 My institution (JIC in Norwich, UK) is hiring for a tenure-track Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences - see more here:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Let me know if you have questions!
Registration is OPEN for the 7th Plants & People Conference (P&P’25)! Join us Sept 9–10 at MPI-MP for talks on plant science, AI, space research & more. Poster submissions are welcome!
Sign up here: plants-and-people.mpg.de/form/registr...
#PlantsandPeople #P&P’25
Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚
Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !
www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
If you are interested applying for a DFG Emmy Noether group in the field of plant reproduction and /or epigenetics, please get in touch!
Plese consider signing this open letter to remind EU leadership of the importance of ring-fencing the budget for ERC, Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships and other basic research essential for innovation.
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🌿 Postdocs & ECRs—Last chance to present at #KSPlantEpi26! Submit your abstract or scholarship app by July 2 (11:59pm MT). Join Xiaofeng Cao & global leaders in plant epigenetics.
🔗 keysym.us/KSPlantEpi26
🎥 youtu.be/dGufMz8IQMY
#PlantEpigenetics #PlantScience @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline: June 18!
Apply for a scholarship or submit a short talk for Keystone’s Plant Epigenetics meeting. Join Doris Wagner & global experts exploring how the plant epigenome is regulated. 🌱
🔗 keysym.us/KSPlantEpi26
youtu.be/RYBb_tbMQ64 #KSPlantEpi26
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❗ We have an open post-doc position in our group! 🌱🥔🧬
Are you interested in novel crop breeding techniques and potatoes? If yes, the CRISPS project (in collaboration with Wageningen University and SLU Sweden) may be something for you! You can apply here:
jobs.admin.ch/job-vacancie...
#NBTs
Very happy to see this new preprint out from our lab, led by @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social. Congrats Gerardo and everyone involved! Check it out! 👇
