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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Marta Salas Gómez @msalasgomez.bsky.social · Aug 6

Very excited to see our review on metacaspases finally out in Cell Death & Differentiation! Grateful for the opportunity to summarise the current state of the field, thanks to everyone involved 🌱🤓

bactodeath.bsky.social @bactodeath.bsky.social · Aug 6

Check out our new review metacaspases in Cell Death & Differentiation @springernature.com . It´s not all about cell death, but more about survival 👇https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-025-01555-y

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jul 3

Absolutely! Anthocyanins just prove vacuoles have both flair and function.

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️

Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱

@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Jul 1

🆕 Review by @josejulian.bsky.social on one of my favourite organelles: #vacuole (signaling & biogenesis & quality control) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There's so much exciting stuff waiting to be discovered on these mammoth organelles!

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · May 2

📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls

🧑‍🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.

📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods

CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls - Nature Methods

A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall ch...

www.nature.com

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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Apr 10

Juan Carlos De la Concepción, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI, is one of the recipients of this year’s Early Career Research Awards, awarded by the Biochemical Society.

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congrats! Really exciting insights into non-canonical autophagy 👏

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Mar 19

The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Mar 13

Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5

Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw

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SFB Targeted Protein Degradation @sfb-tpd-vienna.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congrats to @josejulian.bsky.social from the lab of @plantophagy.bsky.social and all co-authors on this great work uncovering a novel quality control mechanism that protects the vacuole’s integrity upon cell wall damage. Out now @natureplants.bsky.social:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants

ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

www.nature.com

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Feb 10

📜 ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage

🧑‍🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @natureplants.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls

ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants

ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

www.nature.com

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 8

Thank you Marco!

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Feb 7

Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…

ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants

ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

www.nature.com

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Feb 7

New Article: "ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage" rdcu.be/d8Y3S

ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 7

Science is never a solo journey! 🌿🔬✨

A huge thank you to my amazing lab members, collaborators, and my mentor @plantophagy.bsky.social for their support and insights throughout this project. 🙌

Grateful for this community pushing boundaries and excited for what’s next! 🚀

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 7

For the first time in plants, we used APEX-based electron microscopy to map the precise localization of ATG8 at the vacuolar membrane after stress! 🚀

Pushing the boundaries of plant cell biology—one EM image at a time. ⚡👀

#PlantScience #ElectronMicroscopy #Autophagy #Vacuole #NaturePlants

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 7

We found that the key autophagy protein ATG8 gets conjugated to the vacuolar membrane (tonoplast), acting as a safeguard for vacuolar integrity—and, by extension, cellular survival. 🛡️

This is the first evidence of a vacuolar quality control (VQC) mechanism! Check out the figure below. 👇

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants

ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.

www.nature.com

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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Feb 7

New paper alert! The Dagdas group @plantophagy.bsky.social discovered that the molecule ATG8 protects the vacuole when the cell wall is damaged. This mechanism ensures that the highly pressured vacuole, essential to the plant cell, remains intact. Read more: bit.ly/4aLCZK9

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Angelina Gross @angegross.bsky.social · Feb 4

Exciting news! 🌱 With march I will join the BOKU University in Vienna as a tenure-track assistant!
My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy.
www.thegrosslab.com

@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky

Gross Autophagy Lab

www.thegrosslab.com

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you!

Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thanks!

Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jan 23

Congrats on the amazing work! Just what the field was needing right now.

Angelina Gross @angegross.bsky.social · Jan 23

📣Now out: our review on plant 🌱 #autophagy in health and disease!
We hope it will be a resource to the community! Please let us know what you think
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#stressbiology #plantproteolysis2025 with @plantophagy.bsky.social @suaybuestuen.bsky.social and Margot Raffeiner

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jan 23

I'm very happy to receive this prize! Thanks to Professor Byung-Ho and the #plantproteolysis2025 committee for awarding my poster at #GRC.

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