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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 8d

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light

Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.

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Pascal Hunziker @pascalhunziker.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Kicking off #SWS2025 at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social with an inspiring opening talk by my PhD supervisor, Barbara Ann Halkier! Excited for the days ahead 🚀🌱

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Life of P.I. @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social · 19d

Meet this year’s team 🌟
After booking speakers, funding acquisition, poster design, ordering merch, and more, we’re excited to launch a brand new season of Life of P.I. talks!

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 21d

Welcome to day 4 of #EMBOBioImage 🖥️
👉Happening right now: practical session 5, spatial statistics and omics integration, led by @brittavelten.bsky.social, assisted by Anna Klemm.

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · 19d

Life of P.I.: an initiative of Heidelberg life science students focusing on career and life in research. Please check! www.lifepi-hd.com @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social

Life of P.I. | Building a Career in Science | Heidelberg

What does it take to build an academic career in scientific research? To answer this, a group of students majoring in life sciences invited faculty from a diverse range of institutes and research area...

www.lifepi-hd.com

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s speaker @cosheidelberg.bsky.social is Asa Strand on #Chloroplast development-a tale of two genomes

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

The group of former COS PI Steffen Lemke reveals mechanisms of mechanical stress management during fly gastrulation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation - Nature

Flies have evolved two distinct strategies for managing mechanical stresses during embryogenesis: out-of-plane cell division in midges and transient out-of-plane tissue folding in fruit flies.

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Universität Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

ERC vergibt vier Starting Grants an die Universität Heidelberg – Europäischer Forschungsrat fördert richtungsweisende Projekte von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in frühen Karrierestufen
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #förderung #ERCStG

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome

"Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out.

Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here:

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964

@eLife
@biology […]

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please spread - COS is searching for a new IT engineer (full time, permanent) to support our central IT infrastructure and data management:
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg

Infosystem der ZUV

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Aug 19

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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SPARK@COS @spark-cos.bsky.social · Aug 13

Last Friday we held a Mini-Symposium to wrap up the SPARK@COS Summer Practical 🎉
Our students shared what they worked on and learned during the practical – well done and great presentations!
A big thank you to everyone who helped make it happen and to all who came to support the talks!

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Aug 11

New preprint of the Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social group on the role of P-body proteins in autophagy of Marchantia polymorpha.

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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Ingrid Lohmann @ilohmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am so happy to announce that our Drosophila testis multiome paper is now published in Nature Communications !!! I am very happy and proud of all who contributed, in particular Patrick and Pallavi who did an amazing job! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dissecting the enhancer gene regulatory network in early Drosophila spermatogenesis - Nature Communications

Single-cell multi-omics in Drosophila testis reveals enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks and shows how Wnt signaling and key transcription factors orchestrate stem cell maintenance and lineage pr...

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Jul 21

First preprint of the @josephinebageritz.bsky.social group! The group discovered a spatially distinct muscle progenitor population in Drosophila that stays in a less committed state thanks to graded Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Congratulations!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gradient of Wnt signaling facilitates Mef2 heterogeneity and limits commitment of the developmental muscle progenitor pool

During skeletal muscle development, the timing and extent of lineage commitment towards differentiation must be coordinated to ensure proper tissue formation while preserving undifferentiated progenit...

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations! Very good to see that this is funded.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]

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scanning electron micrograph of a Platynereis larva showing a close-up of the prototroch ciliary band

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Jun 11

A new paper from the Storelli group @cosheidelberg.bsky.social on how microbial signals modulate nutrition and metabolism in animals:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Endosymbiont control through non-canonical immune signaling and gut metabolic remodeling

Animals coexist with bacteria and need to keep these microorganisms under tight control. To achieve such control, pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)…

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · Jun 10

The new excellence cluster GreenRobust is recognized by the local RNZ newspaper:

GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · Jun 10

GreenRobust is hitting the first headlines: www.rnz.de/region/heide...

Universität Heidelberg: Welche Pflanzen-Arten können sich dem Klimawandel anpassen?

Heute verstehen, was Pflanzen morgen tun: Der Klimawandel fordert Ökosysteme und Landwirtschaft heraus. Ein Exzellenzcluster will hier Vorhersagen treffen.

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Roland Gromes @gromesroland.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wonderful presentation from @lsaunders.bsky.social and Gilles Storelli about their work in fish development and Drosopohila gut biome

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arR...

BioRevolution III - Microbiome Research meets Developmental Genomics.

YouTube video by Faculty of Biosciences Heidelberg University

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Ingrid Lohmann @ilohmann.bsky.social · Jun 5

www.embo.org/people/twent...

Twenty-five years of EMBO experiences – People – EMBO

An interview with Ingrid Lohmann, Professor of Developmental Biology, University of Heidelberg | EMBO Member

www.embo.org

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Jun 3

The GreenRobust cluster of Excellence is now live on Bluesky @greenrobust.de
Follow to be informed of the great things coming up 🌱

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Jan Lohmann @meristemania.bsky.social · May 26

New COS faculty members making a [email protected]

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · May 23

Wonderful time in Heidelberg w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy + our HFSP team (Thomas Kiørboe & Alastair Simpson) discussing the origins of eukaryotes and their excitable behaviours! can you feel the ⚡⚡⚡in the room??

(funded by @uniheidelberg.bsky.social International Guest Professorship)

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COS Heidelberg @cosheidelberg.bsky.social · May 22

Great achievement! The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence with a strong contribution of COS groups is funded! Excellent!

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 22

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.

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