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Michael Webster @michaelwebster.bsky.social · 4d

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 4d

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

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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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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 18d

Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
sesbe2026.es

🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
@uv.es @ucciuv.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es @sibecol.bsky.social @raciencias.bsky.social

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wabniklab.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social · 20d

Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development - Nature Plants

A positional and developmentally regulated cell cycle duration gradient exists in the root meristem whereby the G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLET...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 20d

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)

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · 27d

Cool work, cooler FISHes, sad no bryophytes involved...

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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 27d

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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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Recently, both our team and the Richardson/Estelle/Strader teams showed that ARF transcription factors are actively degraded. In this new preprint, Martijn de Roij explores the requirements and relevance of ARF degradation (1/7)

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Sep 5

Diversification of functional requirements for proteolysis of Auxin Response Factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.03.673984v1

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Sep 4

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

Steven Burgess @sjb287.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology

Duties & Responsibilities

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SciCom opportunity!

Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Science @science.org is recruiting an editor with postdoctoral expertise in infectious diseases or microbiomes. Come and work with us in the UK or USA! bit.ly/3UHOiMf
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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Aug 26

I partly agree. The historical problem (not only in plants) is taking a single species as paradigm. We now have an unrealistic view of what TFs/regulators do. IMO we can keep being regulator-centric if the research question is properly established and accept there are species-specific 'situations'.

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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · Aug 25

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout:
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html
Apply here:
obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh wow, can you DM? Trying to make a few slides for a lecture on AI!

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · Aug 14

There is a nice News & Views article by @suruchiroy.bsky.social and others regarding our recent Nature Plants paper (@mestelle.bsky.social, @drannisr.bsky.social, and @luciastrader.bsky.social labs) and another from @dolfweijers.bsky.social 's lab. #PlantScience #Auxin rdcu.be/eAEnz

ARF degradation fine-tunes auxin response in land plants

Nature Plants - Two recent studies in phylogenetically distant plants integrate a new layer of control into the canonical auxin pathway. A deeply conserved degron that affects the stability of...

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Auxin does everything, but how? The story just got more complicated by the discovery of a B class ARF degron providing a means of protein (in)stability regulation. @mjprigge.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social

Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · Aug 14

There is a nice News & Views article by @suruchiroy.bsky.social and others regarding our recent Nature Plants paper (@mestelle.bsky.social, @drannisr.bsky.social, and @luciastrader.bsky.social labs) and another from @dolfweijers.bsky.social 's lab. #PlantScience #Auxin rdcu.be/eAEnz

ARF degradation fine-tunes auxin response in land plants

Nature Plants - Two recent studies in phylogenetically distant plants integrate a new layer of control into the canonical auxin pathway. A deeply conserved degron that affects the stability of...

rdcu.be

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Feb 17

The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just to be sure, this is to work at @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social under my supervision, for now. And the link to the group website is on my profile and here bit.ly/455IlPh

Home

Our group is focused on understanding the molecular basis of specific eukaryotic transcription factors function and evolution. Transcription factors are the elements of signalling pathways that direct...

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.

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🔬🌱 CBGP | Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social · Jul 31

🆕‼️ #NewCBGPpaper

🌊➡️🌿The GBCP researcher @jorgehg.bsky.social co-authors a roadmap published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ‬calling on scientists to unite in tracing the land plants antecesors

📜The publication charts a shared path forward for algae-based plant research

🔗 shorturl.at/0l24W

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Beuzón & Ruiz-Albert Lab @type3lab.bsky.social · Jul 30

And now for something completely different!

Very proud to have contributed to this work on molecular plant-pest interaction led by Isabel Diaz Rodriguez at CBGP

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

@cbgpmadrid.bsky.social
@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social
#PlantScience

miR825‐5p‐regulated TNLs govern Arabidopsis resistance to Tetranychus urticae and Pieris brassicae

MicroRNAs are essential regulators in plant resistance to biotic stresses, but their specific roles in the plant–herbivore context require deeper investigation. Here, we studied how the Arabidopsis .....

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Jose A. Esteban @jaestebancbm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Y si este era tu primer proyecto (track A), debes saber que este año fue más difícil que el anterior: tasa de éxito del 30%, frente al 37% del PID2023.

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join Andy on the road to unravel seed evolution using a cute fern (a seedless plant)! Deadline is tomorrow, hurry!

the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground

ALT: the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Nice round figures is all this is about, data is just a byproduct, right?
Hahaha, poor student! We both know more is not necessarily better, and less is many times enough...can be a tough realization. That piece felt a bit like patchwork of two different chapters that were regarded as 'not enough'.

Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sounds like the best workshop ever, I'd love to witness it! Enjoy!

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