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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 5d

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🔬Plant Proteases - Guardians of Proteome Integrity & Function
🌱 Exploring the fascinating diversity, function & regulation of proteases in plants

📘 Edited by Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaller

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Johana Misas Villamil @jomivi.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats Merissa! Really cool work 👏👏🎉🥂

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 6d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 11d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

agristok.net

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 12d

Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal
Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics

The Department of Botany and the School of Computing at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. We in...

eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com

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Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · 14d

I am happy to see this out!

Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context.
We summarize the current knowledge on this.

Hope you enjoy~

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

Dynamic shifts in plant-microbe relationships

Plant-microbe interactions encompass a continuum from mutualism and commensalism to parasitism. Mutualists confer benefits such as nutrient acquisitio …

www.jstage.jst.go.jp

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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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Freddy Boutrot @freddyboutrot.bsky.social · 15d

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis

Author summary To protect themselves against pathogens, plants have evolved a sophisticated and intricate immune system that allows pathogen detection and the activation of appropriate defense respons...

doi.org

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Lamya Kaddor @lamyakaddor.bsky.social · 16d

Glückwunsch an unsere Sportlerinnen und Sportler zu den Medaillen bei der Leichtathletik-WM in #Tokio! Ich bin stolz auf unser großartiges Team - ein tolles Beispiel für die Vielfalt unseres Landes!

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16d

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 16d

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 21d

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 21d

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

www.science.org

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 22d

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

www.nature.com

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Christina Steidele @steidele.bsky.social · 23d

Happy to share our pre-print!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 25d

Multi-omics of barley Fusarium Head Blight converge on pathogen-triggered biosynthesis of aromatic amino acid derived chemical defense compounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674812v1

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Johana Misas Villamil @jomivi.bsky.social · 24d

In Cologne 🌈🌈😊

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 26d

Cell wall integrity and elicitor peptide signaling modulate antimicrobial defense in Arabidopsis via jasmonic acid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675042v1

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!