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Marco Incarbone
@incavirus.bsky.social
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Research group leader @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Interested in virus-plant interactions, especially those involving vertical virus transmission from parent to progeny and stem cell antiviral immunity. All posts are my own.
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mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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delphinem-p.bsky.social
It was so nice to visit @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social! Lots of #virus and #RNA discussions. Thanks @incavirus.bsky.social for the invitation!
mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social · 3d
Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social
It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate my Bluesky account sharing our last @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social at @theustunlab.bsky.social, about pathogen-mediated modulation of host P-bodies and translation. 🆕 🎉

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

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January 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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arburga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In Caenorhabditis tropicalis, three toxin–antidote elements arose via gene duplication from the essential tRNA-synthetase subunit FARS-3. The ancestral antidote probably acquired affinity for FARS-3, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org
#PlantScience
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perspective here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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pauligroup.bsky.social
... and we would love to see you ALL - working with ANY fish model - join us in Vienna for www.ezm2026.org, the biggest fish meeting in 2026! We plan to have a special session 'beyond zebrafish' and would love to include talks representing other fish systems across all sessions. Pls spread the word!
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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pejullien.bsky.social
🚨 Postdoc opening in Achard Lab IBMP @ CNRS
Work on AI-based modeling of gibberellin transporters, key plant hormone carriers.

🔗 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#Postdoc #PlantBiology #StructuralBiology #AI #Bioinformatics #CNRS
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Researcher position in computational structural biology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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gmivienna.bsky.social
New paper! Work led by @p-bourguet.bsky.social and Frédéric Berger at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social and @esasaki007.bsky.social identified how protein CDCA7 helps plants stably maintain epigenetic modifications across generations.

Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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gmivienna.bsky.social
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.

More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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rubengonzalez.bsky.social
1/3 What happens when a fly gets persistently infected by a virus? In our latest work, we established persistent infections to examine their impact on this model organism. By tracking four natural, persistent RNA viruses...
Cartoon illustration depicting a sick Drosophila melanogaster surrounded by different viruses, symbolizing the impact of persistent viral infections on the model organism. Image credit Rubén González.
October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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hohmannulrich.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
incavirus.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this out! SalicS is a beautiful new tool to monitor salicylic acid activation live in plants.

Kudos to @xanderjones.bsky.social and @bijuntang.bsky.social for spearheading this work and to @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social for using SalicS in viral infections🌱
slcuplants.bsky.social Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Oct 9
Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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gesahoffmann.bsky.social
It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬

Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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trujillolab.bsky.social
Big news! Our group has joined the University of Hamburg — we’re excited for the opportunities and collaborations ahead! #Hamburg
October 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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honour.bsky.social
There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌿 Kicking off Day 2 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference 🌿

We start with Session 1: Beginnings & Roots
Chaired by Diana Santelia (ETH Zürich) & Steve Penfield (John Innes Centre)

👩‍💻 If you’re joining us online, don’t forget to share your questions in the Zoom chat!

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪
John Lunn and Diana Santelia kicking off day 2 of JXB's 75th Anniversary Conference The programme of the first half of Day 2 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference: Session 1 Beginnings & Roots [Tinto] Chairs: Diana Santelia (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) & Steve Penfield (John Innes Centre, UK) 09:00–09:05 Session intro, Diana Santelia 09:05–09:40 Invited Speaker: Steve Penfield, John Innes Centre, UK “Inter-generational temperature signalling during plant reproductive development” 09:40–10:10 David Hoey, University of Edinburgh, UK “Phosphate starvation signalling was co-opted by plants for the evolution of vasculature” 10:00–10:30 Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow, UK “Why is an ABA-transporter required for the sensitivity of Arabidopsis roots to low phosphorus?” 11:00–11:15 Moritz Göbel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany “Trehalose 6-phosphate regulates root growth by nutrient allocation towards sink tissues” 11:15–11:30 Francesca Bellinazzo, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands “Genetic regulation of root growth in lettuce” 11:30–11:45 Kris Vissenberg, University of Antwerp, Belgium “Growth regulation at the Arabidopsis root hair tip by RALF-LRX-pectin and RALF-LLG-CrRLK1l modules” 11:45–12:20 Invited Speaker: Kin Pan Chung, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands “To begin is easy, to persist is art: the inheritance of cytoplasmic genomes in plants”
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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schnittger-lab.bsky.social
Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis
Female and male meiosis often differ in many aspects, such as their duration and the frequency as well as the positioning of crossovers. However, studying female meiosis is often very challenging and ...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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science.org
“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS
Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
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September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
🌞🔬 Big step for #sustainability in science: Today the Max Planck Campus at @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social inaugurated new #SolarPower systems – including a 6,000 m² agri-PV plant.

Thank you to @manjaschuele.bsky.social & @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de for making this milestone possible!
September 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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martinebotany.bsky.social
Embyophytes what’s up

#iamabotanist
Carton says “eggs from plants”
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L
Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al.

An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors.
The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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plantophagy.bsky.social
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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August 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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isabelmonte.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th!
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo

Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱

#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization
August 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM