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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 3h

Looking to do a postdoc? Explore this fantastic opportunity to do a postdoc at a Max Planck institute. Applications for this program are due by October 13, 2025.

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Max Planck Postdoc Program

Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 2d

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!

▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS

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Hajk-Georg Drost @hajkdrost.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉

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Carole Duchene @caroleduchene.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share our new preprint on giant virus infection in brown algae: Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host

Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) inserted in host genomes are often regarded as inert relics of past infections. Whether they can retain infective potential and contribute to active viral cycles has r...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 8d

International Podcast Day
Curious about algae sex? For #InternationalPodcast Day Dr. Susana Coelho explains in our #wissenspodcast episode 🎧 twtr.to/4tbQv. Plus, read about her latest research on asexual brown algae 📰 twtr.to/8ynOj. #BiologyPodcast #Nature #reproduction

Wie haben Algen Sex? – Podcast über kuriose Algenfortpflanzung

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 9d

Meet the next guest in our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series: Dr. Prince Marowa, senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe who joined our African Plant Genomics Group in the month of September as part of the Horned Melon Genomics and Breeding Project. Read more tinyurl.com/5n6henhx

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Patience Chatukuta @drpchronicles.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Are you interested in plant genomics?
📢 Will you be in Zimbabwe this November?
🫵Apply to attend the #ARTEMIS Bridging Minds Workshop at the University of Zimbabwe.
Our fantastic PhD researcher, @catarinalino.bsky.social, will be leading the workshop.
#africanplantgenomics #plantgenomics

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 14d

Busting myths with @jweir.bsky.social. Did you know you don't inherit exactly 1/4 of your DNA from each grandparent? Or that fertility issues can affect young people, too? Find out more: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 14d

Hassan Salem will be co-hosting the EMBL/EMBO Symposium “The Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis: Sensing Friend from Foe” from 17–20 March 2026 in Heidelberg next year. Registration and abstract submission will open next month! For more info: tinyurl.com/bdhyv3ht

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 20d

Meet Georgios Tsissios from the FML! For #PostdocAppreciationWeek, we're celebrating his research on wound healing & tissue regeneration, which is turning the sci-fi dream of scar-free regeneration capacities in humans into a reality. #WeAreFML #PostdocAppreciationWeek #WeAreMPIBio

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 29d

Why do prey "play dead" when caught? Our new study reveals how the #nematode C. elegans goes into a sleep-like state when caught by a predatory fungus. It's not giving up—it's activating specific neurons to "freeze."
Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO
#maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Sep 4

Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals.

Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Sep 2

🪱🍄 The secret to predatory escape lies in collagen. A new study how a single nematode gene nhr-66 resist fungal traps thanks to Velcro-like abilities, but the trade-off is their weakened cuticles making them vulnerable to rainfall. For more: s.gwdg.de/VJySw4
#Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Sep 2

How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?

Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social

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

PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content

Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society.
🗓️ Date: 25 September
🕐 Time: 10am BST
💻 Location: Zoom
📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very proud of our @canaztekin.bsky.social on his Rising Star Award 2025 from @isrbio.bsky.social! Find out more about his work on the structural limb #regeneration, specifically in understanding the differences in regeneration abilities across various species: s.gwdg.de/QidoUL #biology #maxplanck

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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · Aug 13

We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool.

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

Rewinding the tape: historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped the evolution of APikL virulence effectors in the blast fungus

Protein evolution is influenced by historical contingencies and functional constraints, but their combined impact on rapidly diversifying pathogen virulence effectors remains poorly understood. Here, ...

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Honored to receive the @isrbio.bsky.social Rising Star Award for our work in regeneration biology! Grateful to the committee and our colleagues for the recognition. A huge motivation for the lab. Excited to give the award talk in Madison next week and connect with everyone! 😎🥳🍾 shorturl.at/LnkSt

2025 Award Winners

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Aug 4

The mind of a predatory worm
A new perspective piece in Science highlights a study (published in same issue) showing that a behavioural switch in nematodes (from non-predatory to predatory) is due to widespread neural changes, not just one key connection.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Jul 31

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology

Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Jul 29

New Research! Our postdoc Kateryna Maksymenko & co. developed a new method making it possible to design custom proteins that bind precisely to specific sites in diseased cells. A big step for the development of targeted drugs, esp. cancer.

Find out more: www.bio.mpg.de/476284/news_...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · Jul 23

Two of our researchers, Gesa Freiman and Alexandra Waldherr, are giving short, interactive and engaging talks as part of #SoapboxScience Tübingen this Saturday!
📌Holzmarkt, Tübingen (Georgsbrunnen)
🕐 13:00 to 16:00
soapboxsciencetuebingen.github.io

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Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social · Jul 17

Grateful to the folks @CurrentBiology.bsky.social for the fun Q&A!

Come for the beetles, stay for the symbionts — and forgive the basketball detour 🪲🦠🏀

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hassan Salem

Interview with Hassan Salem, who studies beetles and their microbial partners at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.

www.cell.com

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