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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...

Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and Diversity

The successful applicant will be expected to build an independent research group to study plant development and/or its natural variation.

www.mpipz.mpg.de

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Aug 14

Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 22

@ic416.bsky.social @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @albinteulet.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social & Renuka Kolli

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 22

Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!

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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · Jul 21

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants

The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...

www.biorxiv.org

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 21

Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!

Josh Lawrence @jmlawrence.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our latest paper is out now in @jacs.acspublications.org . In this study we tried to push the limits of #electrochemistry beyond proteins, to studying entire pathways of biological electron transfer ⚡️🦠. Here's a summary 🧵 (1/10)

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Dissecting Bioelectrical Networks in Photosynthetic Membranes with Electrochemistry

Photosynthetic membranes contain complex networks of redox proteins and molecules, which direct electrons along various energy-to-chemical interconversion reactions important for sustaining life on Ea...

pubs.acs.org

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

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Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social · Jul 7

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity at Imperial College London

Apply for the Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 16

With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.

Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 14

Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell?

The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI

A person giving a talk on a stage with purple lighting. A slide asks the question how do plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the same cell?

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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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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 13

Full circle moment for me at #2025ISMPMI: the Congress started out in #Bielefeld where I did my undergrad in biochemistry!

A picture of the first Congress program of MPMI at Bielefeld university 1982.

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 13

#2025ISMPMI turnout is massive!!!!

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 13

Really lovely talk with great insights into scientific mentoring. Obvs also love the puns 😂

Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · Jul 13

MPMI: Magic Professional Mentorship Interaction

Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 13

Really cool start of a week of conference yesterday at #OMGN2025. I learned so much about oomycetes and got to present our some of our work studying its interaction with Marchantia. Looking forward a free morning in Cologne and to #2025ISMPMI starting later today!

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Jul 12

#omgn2025 @dariuskos.bsky.social presenting research on a Marchantia transcription factor which controls its reproductive structures and is stress-regulated.
Read more about it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 11

And for oomycete-chat at #OMGN tomorrow!

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 11

First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI!
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jul 4

What a cool day at Botanicon today! I’m excited to part of such a buzzing research community in #plantscience!
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Jul 4

Botanicon 2025 - the 3rd annual Plants @ Cambridge conference bringing together plant scientists from across Cambridge to share their work and ideas.

@camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PlantsAtCambridge

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 24

Beautiful microscopy from Alex leading to exciting insights on the interface membranes between plants & pathogens/symbionts!
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions

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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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 23

A big thank you to my coauthors, the editors of @theplantjournal.bsky.social as well as the reviewers for making this publication possible!
I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.
#plantscience

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae?
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.

A game of tag: A review of protein tags for the successful detection, purification and fluorescence labelling of proteins expressed in microalgae

Protein tags for detection, purification and fluorescence labelling are vital in microalgal research, yet the suitability of specific tags remains largely unexplored. This review discusses the pros a....

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 23

A big thank you to my coauthors, the editors of
@theplantjournal.bsky.social as well as the reviewers for making this publication possible!

I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.

Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · Jun 23

I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.