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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations Uli! I’m sure that you will make the best of this new opportunity.

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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 20d

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

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CRAG @cragenomica.bsky.social · 20d

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Sensing light direction in plants" by Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics, Switzerland @fbm-unil.bsky.social

👀 Don't miss it!
📍 CRAG Auditorium

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/qzdjdrwizu

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · Jul 1

Deux professeur·es du CIG nouvellement élu·es membres @embo.org pour 2025

👏 👏 Félicitations à 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 et 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄 du Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG) @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1751269...

@chfankhauser.bsky.social @nvastenhouw.bsky.social

Deux professeur·es du CIG élu·es au sein de l’EMBO

Le 1er juillet 2025, la prestigieuse Organisation européenne de biologie moléculaire (EMBO) a annoncé l'élection de 69 nouvelles et nouveaux membres issu·es de 24 pays, tous·tes des chercheur·euses ho...

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 26

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

www.cell.com

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · Jun 18

The lack of self-reliance Europe has in terms of food security makes this all the more painful. The stubborn bureaucratic casual walk into famine is so disheartening, and an insult to the excellent plant bioengineering capacity in EU academia and industry.

Insanity.

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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations Detlef! An extremly well deserved award @plantevolution.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · Jun 16

Detlef Weigel- Max Planck Inst- Tubingen- honored for his lifetime of excellence in research, mentorship, and support of the Arabidopsis community #ICAR2025

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Jun 17

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana
transient expression”
#plantscience

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

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fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Applications open for an Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in #pediatric #dermatology
📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology

❗ Apply before August 10th, 2025
More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv

DM/DER: Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in pediatric dermatology within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Ursula Oggenfuss @oggenfussursula.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excellent meeting for those interested in protein lipidation. More info & registration here www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · Jun 2

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you!

We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun!

🌱🔬💻🤓

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · May 30

Applications are now open for funded early-career researcher places at out Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'.

Organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová.

biologists.com/workshops/fe...

#Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology

Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales
Organisers: Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová
Early-career researchers click to apply for funded places
22-25 February 2026
Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · May 6

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · May 6

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Building AI models or the data to train them?

Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

pls RT!

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · May 6

⚠️ Super important update of the Arabidopsis reference genome! 👇👇👇

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · May 6

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Apr 3

'The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences, is seeking outstanding candidates for a faculty position.'
#ScienceJobs in Vienna.
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/career-...

Group Leader Search

www.oeaw.ac.at

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Mar 28

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city.
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

Senior Group Leader Position

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Ronald Pierik @ronaldpierik.bsky.social · Mar 27

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis. Great work from @djgibbs.bsky.social lab together with @sjonhartman.bsky.social and @ekaiserli.bsky.social Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis

Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...

www.cell.com

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · Mar 25

this owl accidentally included me in a group chat discussing his plans to attack that deer

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Nov 12

this owl just inhaled a pound of cocaine

Night vision photo of owl mid-flight, talons extended, about to attack a fully grown deer at least 5 times its size

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 21

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Mar 21

Exciting work from the team of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social on the role of Casparian Strips in a legume & how CS influence nitrogen fixing root nodules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

www.science.org

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