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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 18h

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 15h

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 1d

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 3d

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 10d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 10d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 10d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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SCNAT @scnat.ch · 19d

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations!!!

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 25d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 27d

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · Sep 9

Plant Com Sep 2025 issue online🎉Cover story: Coumarin-facilitated iron transport: An IRT1-independent strategy for iron acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana (Robe et al., 2025). Images by Kevin robe. cell.com/plant-commun...

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Tina!!

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Vinay!!

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today’s Department seminar by @luciastrader.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social on auxin transcription factors.

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Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social · Aug 25

The lab is moving to the Salk Institute! We are thrilled to join an inspiring community where we will continue to explore plant growth and development.

Deep gratitude for the years of support and collaboration at Duke/NCSU/UNC.

www.salk.edu/news-release...

Plant biologist Lucia Strader joins Salk faculty to study plant growth signaling - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute will welcome plant biologist Lucia Strader as a new professor and holder of the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology in October 2025. Strader is an interna...

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Marie-Cécile Caillaud @mc-caillaud.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide?

Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations.
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis

@camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

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

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Aug 8

#plantscience

Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Aug 7

Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇

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PaulineJullienLab @pejullien.bsky.social · Aug 5

🌱 come join our lab 😀
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · Jul 24

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers!
Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social .
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
1/4 #PlantScience

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to see Kevin Robe’s work on ZIP transporters published. We found evidences that ZIP2 and ZIP8 are involved in Cu and Fe acquisition respectively and confirmed the role of ZIP3 and ZIP5 in Zn acquisition. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · Jul 22

Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

RACK1A positively regulates opening of the apical hook in Arabidopsis thaliana via suppression of its auxin response gradient | PNAS

Apical hook development is an ideal model for studying differential growth in plants and is controlled by complex phytohormonal crosstalk, with aux...

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Jul 22

Huge thanks to all co-authors, especially Léa Jacquier, who led this work during her PhD, and Celeste Fiorenza, who helped finalizing it in recent months. Grateful to the community for the valuable feedback and support throughout this long journey.

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · Jul 22

A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

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