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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 22d

Independent roles of Arp2/3 complex and RIC4 protein in the control of epidermal cell shape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675338v1

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · 8d

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

www.science.org

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 15d

"Two Funded Group Leader Positions –Plant Systems Biology at Technische Universitat Munchen, Munchen, Germany"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=leaders_9-23-25.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations to the preprint and your new position Alexandra 🎉. What a cool story!

Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Isabel! That’s amazing!

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carogutj.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Albin Teulet @albinteulet.bsky.social · Jul 14

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jul 12

After a refreshing break in the Eifel, I’m also heading to #2025ISMPMI Excited to meet all the friendly faces again and dive into some amazing research.
Come find us at posters P-364 & P-070 to chat about SCARs and their role in plant susceptibility. Let’s talk science! 🌱🧬

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jul 11

That’s amazing Manu. Congratulations!! 🥳 Will I have the opportunity to say this soon to you in person at the MPMI meeting?

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sometimes beakers can also be useful for rescuing beautiful peacock butterflies that enter the office by accident. This guys is now flying around Weihenstephan again.

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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · Jun 30

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks a lot David for the wonderful complement which I can give straight back 😊

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 26

For more information, please see the attached advert picture or visit: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens.... Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We will start reviewing applications from the 10th of July onwards.

TUM - Doctoral student in the field of molecular plant pathology

Our group focuses on the role of RAC/ROP GTPase-mediated signalling at the plant–fungus interface and its contribution to cellular changes that facilitate the establishment of the powdery mildew Blume...

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Jun 24

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is the amazing work from the super talented @alexguyon.bsky.social. Always loved to see your images in the seminar. Huge congratulations for finalizing the manuscript. Looking forward to reading it!

Alex Guyon @alexguyon.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 12

Strawberry moon in Freising, yesterday

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 10

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

Omaya Dudin

Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Jun 2

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · May 26

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · May 23

🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · May 22

@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development

Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Trichomes on an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf (here shown using electron microscopy) are formed by a single cell adopting this spiked shape (top images). Arabidopsis plants without a SCAR/WAVE gene cannot form properly shaped trichomes, because their inner cytoskeleton control is impaired (bottom images). Images by Sabine Brumm.

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · May 21

Now onto writing up the first chapter of our parallel project—diving deeper into SCAR functionality and investigating whether SCARs are conserved susceptibility factors in monocots. Stay tuned for what's next! 🌾🦠 🧵3/3
Some introductionary info here: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

Cambridge plant scientists receive BBSRC funding to combat barley root diseases | Sainsbury Laboratory

Funding to advance strategy that promises long-lasting disease resistance against multiple root rot pathogens in barley Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) has received funding from the B...

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · May 21

Huge thanks to the editor and reviewers for their constructive feedback and for helping us improve the manuscript. Grateful for the support and insights from everyone that shaped the final version. 🧵2/3

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