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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 1d

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 5d

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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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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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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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 7d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to

www.cam.ac.uk

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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 27d

🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa

Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social

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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 29d

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

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Stèf Blanc @steffffff.bsky.social · Aug 26

To all friends and colleagues virologists

SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses

Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
June 15-19 2026

Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !

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Schaller lab @as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out this new story from the Felix lab, with some contribution from us:
Receptor antagonist prevents hyperactivation of the plant immune system
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A receptor antagonist counterbalances multiple systemin phytocytokines in tomato

Tight regulation of immune activation is crucial for plant health. How plants control the actions of their immunostimulatory phytocytokines is largely…

www.sciencedirect.com

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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

doi.org

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Elena Garcia-Perez @egarcia-perez.bsky.social · Jul 18

Inspiring time at @ismpmi.bsky.social, where I had the honour of sharing my PhD work on repurposing viruses for plant biomanufacturing. It was great to reconnect with old friends (special shoutout to @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 💚) and meet so many researchers pushing plant–microbe science forward 🌱🧬🧫

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 16

Previous studies of extrachromosomal circular DNA #eccDNA in #plants are based on short-read seq. @vanderschuren-lab.bsky.social uses long-read seq to obtain a map of full-length eccDNAs from #Arabidopsis, identifying their genomic origins & epigenetic regulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44Mq3RI

Dynamics and distribution of eccDNA in Arabidopsis. Left: Schematic representation of eccDNA amplification and sequencing via CIDER-Seq pipeline. Top right: EccDNA size distribution in Arabidopsis Col-0 leaf tissues (n = 4,158). The x-axis shows eccDNA size in kb and the y-axis shows the percentage of eccDNAs belonging to each window. Middle right: Size ranges of eccDNAs with marked median and quantiles (n = 4,190). Bottom right: Percentages of eccDNA reads mapping to TAIR CDS, TE, or intergenic databases (values represent the average of three replicates).

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Eirik Lågeide @eiriklag.bsky.social · Jul 18

I had a lot of fun ☺️ next time we need more virus sessions and posters!

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Agreed! 💪🏼🌱🦠

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Such an intense and enjoyable week at #2025MPMI!

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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Next in the concurrent session “spatial and temporal session” is @type3lab.bsky.social who will talk about their amazing findings on distinct pseudomonas subpopulations that cooperate to colonize plants #2025ISMPMI

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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI

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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · Jul 16

Come and learn about plant-aphid interactions and the mechanisms by which the Mp10 aphid effector protein interacts with plant immune signalling, my poster is P-158, I'll be manning it in the session on thursday. #ismpmi20025

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Dani Stevens, Ph.D. @danimstevens.bsky.social · Jul 15

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!

Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵

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

mamp-ml: A deep learning approach to epitope immunogenicity in plants

Eukaryotes detect biomolecules through surface-localized receptors, key signaling components. A subset of receptors survey for pathogens, induce immunity, and restrict pathogen growth. Comparative gen...

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

Cajal bodies are membraneless structures with fundamental roles across eukaryotes—but which proteins actually make them up? Using FAPS, Zhou et al. isolated 34 million plant Cajal bodies and profiled their proteome via LC-MS/MS. Curious? Check out our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proteome profiling of plant Cajal bodies uncovers kingdom-specific components

Insight into the molecular composition of cellular microenvironments is essential for understanding their function. Membraneless organelles (MLO), such as the nuclear Cajal body (CB), play fundamental...

www.biorxiv.org

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Manuel González Fuente @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

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Kyoka Kuroiwa @kyokakuroiwa.bsky.social · Jul 15

Are you interested in how DNA virus infection can change host chromatin localization🦠 ?

Come to see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social

📃Poster P-224:Tuesday 15th, Session 1

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Jul 14

A full room for the concurrent session on Plant-Virus Interactions at #2025ISMPMI!!! Thanks @lauramepul.bsky.social , Murilo Zerbini, and @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing - what an amazing line-up of speakers!

Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Jul 14

We start with the concurrent session: @lauramepul.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social is introducing the plant-virus interactions session - looking forward to some exciting talks #2025ISMPMI

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