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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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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 1d

⏰ Just 13 days left to apply!
Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers!
Please, spread the word! 🗣️
🌿🌱

The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 8d

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 20h

... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim

Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 1d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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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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Paloma Durán @paduba.bsky.social · 5d

TIRIS Postdoc fellowship call will soon be open in Toulouse! If you're interested in plant microbiota, or plant-plant interactions or experimental evolution, the ECOGEN team at the @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social would be happy to support and help with your application!

AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr

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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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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 5d

Junior PIs, apply for the TPJ fellowship! I became TPJ Fellow in 2023 and highly recommend this program 💚 More details 👇

The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 8d

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

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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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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 6d

Have you noticed someone new here? 👇
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI

Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Sebastian @pfeilmeier.bsky.social for coming to the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for a #TRR356 seminar. We have all enjoyed discussing with you about #MPMI, Xanthomonas, hydathodes and more!

Three ZMBP junior PIs (Mau, Margot and Isa) and Sebastian sitting in a bar with some empty glasses

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Sebastian @pfeilmeier.bsky.social for coming to the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for a #TRR356 seminar. We have all enjoyed discussing with you about #MPMI, Xanthomonas, hydathodes and more!

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David Biermann @davidbiermann.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social !

Enjoy reading it!!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Vojtěch Schmidt @vojtech-schmidt.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been a long but exciting journey — a few days ago I successfully defended my PhD thesis on the evolutionary origins of auxin action, carried out in the Petrášek Lab.

Huge thanks to @isabelmonte.bsky.social and Anthony Bishopp for coming to Prague and for being such wonderful reviewers!

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 9d

I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.

The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries

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Freddy Boutrot @freddyboutrot.bsky.social · 9d

A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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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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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to @vojtech-schmidt.bsky.social from Jan Petrášek's lab on his PhD defense! It was a pleasure to be one of your reviewers and discuss the #evolution of auxin in streptophytes in beautiful Prague 🦠🌱
I wish you all the best as postdoc (and landscape photographer) in Finland 🤞

Flyer for Vojtech Schmidt's PhD defense "Exploring the evolutionary origins of auxin action in streptophyte green algae" and the seminars by his reviewers Isabel Monte and Anthony Bishopp

View of Prague and the Vltava river on a cloudy day

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 10d

A co-evolved peptide-GPCR system senses host entry to drive fungal infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678928v1

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 11d

A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blooms supersized - Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology - Blooms supersized

www.nature.com

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to @icips.bsky.social around
@plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social at @jlugiessen.bsky.social
and at 5 other German universities, who will be funded for another 4 years by @dfg.de to further analyse the evolution of reproductive mechanisms in plants + how new organs / communication evolved

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · 12d

Fortpflanzungsmechanismen bei #Pflanzen – Wie kam das Neue in die Welt? @dfg.de -Forschungsgruppe „Innovation und Koevolution der sexuellen #Fortpflanzung in Pflanzen“ wird auch in den nächsten vier Jahren gefördert. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Rückschlüsse auf die Evolution vor vielen Millionen Jahren: Sporenbildung im Moos Physcomiterium patens.

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to Adrián and Fran from our lab and the other awardees and presenters! The #ZMBP PhD Symposium Day was really fun and a great platform for scientific discussions 🌱🥰
Another reason to join the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for a PhD 😉

ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to the winners of the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium awards 🥳🥳🥳

🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social
🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák
🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab

Mariam, Adrián, Theresa and Fran holding their certificates to the best posters, chalk talk and oral presentation from the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium that Farid (in the middle) had just given to them

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 14d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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