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We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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So grapevine no different than Arabidopsis, where century-scale methylome stability was demonstrated 10 years ago...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
So grapevine no different than Arabidopsis, where century-scale methylome stability was demonstrated 10 years ago...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Pumpkin carving contest 2025🎃
Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆
Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Pumpkin carving contest 2025🎃
Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆
Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆
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We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀
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1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
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1/4 🌍 We are looking for a passionate #PhD student in #Metabolic #Microbiome #Modeling in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network MenoBrain. Join us at one of Europe’s microbiome research hubs and push the boundaries of microbiome science! @uni-kiel.de
🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/menobrain/en...
🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/menobrain/en...
October 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
1/4 🌍 We are looking for a passionate #PhD student in #Metabolic #Microbiome #Modeling in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network MenoBrain. Join us at one of Europe’s microbiome research hubs and push the boundaries of microbiome science! @uni-kiel.de
🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/menobrain/en...
🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/menobrain/en...
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Just returning from a fantastic symposium celebrating my former postdoc mentor, Julia Vorholt, on receiving the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize! Huge congratulations to Julia — and to the Novo Nordisk Foundation on an outstanding choice!
October 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Just returning from a fantastic symposium celebrating my former postdoc mentor, Julia Vorholt, on receiving the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize! Huge congratulations to Julia — and to the Novo Nordisk Foundation on an outstanding choice!
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JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
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Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
September 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
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Today Lucía takes you by the hand and walks you through the entire ERC #evaluation process — from panel selection to interview.
Learn who reviews your #proposal, how decisions are made, & how to best increase your chance of success. 👇
#research #funding #grant #AcademicSky
Learn who reviews your #proposal, how decisions are made, & how to best increase your chance of success. 👇
#research #funding #grant #AcademicSky
How do we evaluate your ERC proposal?
In this video, Lucía Rubio Fernández walks you through the entire ERC evaluation process — from panel selection to interviews. Learn who reviews your proposal, how decisions are made, and how to best…
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September 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today Lucía takes you by the hand and walks you through the entire ERC #evaluation process — from panel selection to interview.
Learn who reviews your #proposal, how decisions are made, & how to best increase your chance of success. 👇
#research #funding #grant #AcademicSky
Learn who reviews your #proposal, how decisions are made, & how to best increase your chance of success. 👇
#research #funding #grant #AcademicSky
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📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
September 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
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The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
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For years I have dreamt of a tool that could neutralize pathogens the moment they emerge. Today we unveil ApexOracle—an AI that, from a pathogen’s genome and phenotypic knowledge alone, predicts which antibiotics will work and invents new molecules for threats it has never seen.
July 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For years I have dreamt of a tool that could neutralize pathogens the moment they emerge. Today we unveil ApexOracle—an AI that, from a pathogen’s genome and phenotypic knowledge alone, predicts which antibiotics will work and invents new molecules for threats it has never seen.
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New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content
Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...
www.biorxiv.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Please re-post: JOB ALERT! Five open positions in our amazing new @dfg.de cluster of excellence TERRA @terra-cluster.org on biosphere-geosphere interactions: (1) a coordinator, (2) a PR officer, (3) a science-dialog manager, (4) a training coordinator, (5) a data manager/scientist.
We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!
August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Please re-post: JOB ALERT! Five open positions in our amazing new @dfg.de cluster of excellence TERRA @terra-cluster.org on biosphere-geosphere interactions: (1) a coordinator, (2) a PR officer, (3) a science-dialog manager, (4) a training coordinator, (5) a data manager/scientist.
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Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
August 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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1/2 Study led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social revisiting somatic mutations in the Napoleon Oak now out after peer review, using @pacbio.bsky.social data to improve the genome assembly. Wenfei also developed a clever way to map short reads to a highly heterozygous genome.
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
1/2 Study led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social revisiting somatic mutations in the Napoleon Oak now out after peer review, using @pacbio.bsky.social data to improve the genome assembly. Wenfei also developed a clever way to map short reads to a highly heterozygous genome.
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
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Happy to have contribute to this series!
To all foreign scientists facing visa hurdles 🛂 :
you're part of a much larger community with similar struggles! You've got this! 👊
To all foreign scientists facing visa hurdles 🛂 :
you're part of a much larger community with similar struggles! You've got this! 👊
The first article in our series on scientific mobility is now online. Check out our conversation with Juliana Almario (@julianaalma.bsky.social) who shares their experiences here: www.cell.com/trends/micro....
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 1
Juliana Almario
www.cell.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Happy to have contribute to this series!
To all foreign scientists facing visa hurdles 🛂 :
you're part of a much larger community with similar struggles! You've got this! 👊
To all foreign scientists facing visa hurdles 🛂 :
you're part of a much larger community with similar struggles! You've got this! 👊
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After her excellent PhD defense, Maryam Mahmoudi goes on a ride with her supervisor Eric Kemen. Check out her work about temp variation in plant microbiota: doi.org/10.1093/isme... doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
More to come soon!
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
More to come soon!
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
After her excellent PhD defense, Maryam Mahmoudi goes on a ride with her supervisor Eric Kemen. Check out her work about temp variation in plant microbiota: doi.org/10.1093/isme... doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
More to come soon!
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
More to come soon!
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social