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plantophagy.bsky.social
Yasin Dagdas
@plantophagy.bsky.social
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Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/evolutionary-cell-biology
www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 2h
New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…
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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 2h
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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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 10h
Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de
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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 1d
New paper from Karen Halliday, @andruromanowski.bsky.social and Mengke Zhou, showing how PIF7 interacts with and inhibits phyA and can actually cause it to move to the cytosol!
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 1d
Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 1d
#Caturday in full swing
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 2d
Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾
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
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 2d
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 2d
Huge congratulations to PhD students @lenaknorr.bsky.social, from the Ma group, and @amiralito.bsky.social, from the @kamounlab.bsky.social, for their 2025 ASM poster awards! 🎉🌱
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Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social · 2d
Do you want to do a PhD with me and Mike Devine? Of course you do! Or if not, maybe you know someone who does? @devinelab.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Beale & Devine Lab | Role of the V1H subunit of the V-ATPase in neurons and cell-autonomous immune responses
www.crick.ac.uk
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 2d
Check out our newest issue where we interview Amy Gladfelter, who studies how extreme cells are organized in space and time at Duke University. Read the interview to find out about Amy's greatest research ambitions and more! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Amy Gladfelter
Interview with Amy Gladfelter, who studies how extreme cells are organized in space and time at Duke University.
www.cell.com
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RyanLab_TCD @ryanlab.bsky.social · 2d
Exciting study from @frisophagy.bsky.social in @chinnery in the Chinnery lab @mrc-mbu.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors involved in the study! #mitochondria

Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations | Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations
Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 2d
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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Johannes Zuber @johanneszuber.bsky.social · 3d
Just out in @science.org: Together with the lab of @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social, we used sequential in-vitro/in-vivo CRISPR screens to decipher metabolic adaptations in tumors. We find that acidosis is a dominant factor that shapes energy metabolism and stress resilience. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 3d
Show off!
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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 5d
The most gorgeous moonrise over river Neckar at the end of the very inspiring Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 🙌, thank you for having me, @snstuebingen.bsky.social! #SNS2025
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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 4d
A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!
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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 4d
Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology
As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...
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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 4d
The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Community Manager
EMBL is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and teams performing scientific research in disci...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
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Marco Trujillo @trujillolab.bsky.social · 5d
Big news! Our group has joined the University of Hamburg — we’re excited for the opportunities and collaborations ahead! #Hamburg
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations Marco & the team!!! They are lucky to have you there!
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 5d
We’re renewing our collaboration with Google DeepMind!

We'll keep developing the AlphaFold Database to support protein science worldwide 🎉

To mark the moment we’ve synchronised the database with UniProtKB release 2025_03.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

🖥️🧬 #AlphaFold
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 5d
🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge

PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬

Read more in this interview👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Two men at a huge microscope, one is sitting in front and one is standing next to him, both are looking into the camera.
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