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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 4d

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

www.biorxiv.org

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations again Chaonan!! 🥳🥳

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5d

Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️

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Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋） @yichangsung.bsky.social · 21d

Our review on disease resistance gene diversity in Triticeae is finally online 🌾🌾! Gained so many insights writing it with Yinghui Li & Liubov Govta and from the guidance of gittacoaker.bsky.social & Tzion Fahima. Fascinated by plant resistance gene diversity—excited to share!

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share this review on the diversity of resistance in Triticeae. I learned a lot writing it. Heavy lifting by Yinghui Li, Liubov Govta, and @yichangsung.bsky.social with our long-time collaborator Tzion Fahima.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Spectrum of Diverse Disease-Resistance Genes Cloned and Characterized in the Triticeae Tribe | Annual Reviews

The Triticeae tribe comprises species representing some of the world's largest food and forage crops, including common wheat, durum, barley, rye, and oat. Crop yields are continuously threatened ...

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 21d

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'

@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world

When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

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Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Gabriella Mosca @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social · Sep 7

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!

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to you too! :)
Sounds like a great idea! When are you coming?

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pfeilmeier.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am extremely happy and honoured to share with you that I received an #ERCStG! It has been an amazing journey. 🤘

Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Isabel saur @izzysaurlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

Universität zu Köln @unicologne.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉 Three ERC Starting Grants for Cologne researchers:
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳

Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9

Millions in EU funding: Three ERC Starting Grants Awarded to Researchers at the University of Cologne

Three researchers at the University of Cologne have each received one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers / for a total of 4.5 million euros over five years

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr. Joel Frohlich vom fMEG-Zentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät und Dr. Clémence Marchal vom @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social haben jeweils einen Starting Grant des @erc.europa.eu eingeworben! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr Infos: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ERCStartingGrants #Molekularbiologie

Text auf rotem Hintergrund: 'Zwei neue Starting Grants in der Medizin und der Pflanzenforschung. Hochdotierte Projektförderungen für Dr. Joel Frohlich und Dr. Clémence Marchal'. Darüber Porträtfotos von Dr. Joel Frohlich und Dr. Clémence Marchal.

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you Suayb!!

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you Pingtao!!

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation!

How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation

Positions to be announced soon!

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

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · Aug 12

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!

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · Aug 13

We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool.

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

Rewinding the tape: historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped the evolution of APikL virulence effectors in the blast fungus

Protein evolution is influenced by historical contingencies and functional constraints, but their combined impact on rapidly diversifying pathogen virulence effectors remains poorly understood. Here, ...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov:
👇 A quick thread + link:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recycling in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha

Processing bodies (P-bodies) are conserved ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules central to RNA metabolism across eukaryotes. Although the mechanisms underlying their assembly are well understood, the path...

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 25

In situ architecture of plasmodesmata suggests mechanisms controlling intercellular exchange https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666190v1

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Alberto Macho @albertopmacho.bsky.social · Jul 26

Our latest article is now online!
@PlantBiotechnologyJournal

Expression of Arabidopsis FLS2 in N. benthamiana confers responsiveness to Ralstonia flg22 and activation of anti-bacterial immunity
doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

By Meng Li, Yujiao Chen, and Yali Wei

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Jul 22

We've tried to gather and unite the streptophyte algae community all around the world to join forces and develop tools and methods for these critters. Learn more about it on @currentbiology.bsky.social!
With @jandevries.bsky.social, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and (many) others!

tinyurl.com/29n4zwen

A roadmap to developing unified streptophyte algal model systems

Carrillo-Carrasco and colleagues highlight the importance of the establishment of streptophyte algal model systems and the community efforts towards this goal.

www.cell.com

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Saskia Hogenhout @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social · Jul 16

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies

Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

www.science.org

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