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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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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 2d

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social!

Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work!

EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 2d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

www.biorxiv.org

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Prof Braj Singh @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 6d

We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management.

More details below. The position will start next year.

Please circulate and repost.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 2d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

www.biorxiv.org

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Baptiste Castel @baptistebio.bsky.social · 2d

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

Two papers to tell us more about mysterious EPP1, a protein required for symbiosis. Well done @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social and all co-authors.

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 5d

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu.

A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves.

A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Baptiste Castel @baptistebio.bsky.social · 3d

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Fun read today: Did figs and chilli peppers 'domesticated' humans?

Beyond mutualism: the nature of domesticator–domesticate interactions

The literature on domestication commonly calls the association between human domesticators and their plant and animal domesticates mutualistic, yet this designation is rarely examined critically. Here...

www.cell.com

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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · 4d

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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Paloma Durán @paduba.bsky.social · 5d

Check our webpage for details in what we do and don't hesitate reaching out if this sounds interesting for you! www.lipme.fr/ecogen-1

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

ECOGEN | LIPME | Laboratoire Toulouse

www.lipme.fr

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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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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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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 6d

#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben:
14 October
Tuesday
1:30 - 15p.m. CET
in English

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IRNASA-CSIC @irnasa.bsky.social · 8d

👩‍🔬 La investigadora @carmen-escudero.bsky.social se incorpora al #IRNASA-CSIC gracias al Programa de Atracción del Talento del Ayuntamiento de #Salamanca. Esta mañana, ha sido recibida por el alcalde.

➡️ www.irnasa.csic.es/carmen-escud...

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Matt Agler @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social · 16d

We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

www.microverse-cluster.de

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · 16d

👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social

Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research

Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...

journals.plos.org

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · 16d

New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes

In microbial ecosystems, metabolic interactions are key determinants of species’ relative abundance and activity. Given the immense number of possible interactions in microbial communities, their expe...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 19d

Integrated diversity and network analyses reveal drivers of microbiome dynamics

#mSystems by @guan06rui.bsky.social and Ruben Garrido-Oter

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Integrated diversity and network analyses reveal drivers of microbiome dynamics | mSystems

Understanding microbiome dynamics requires capturing not only changes in microbial composition but also interactions between community members. Traditional approaches frequently overlook microbe-micro...

journals.asm.org

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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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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 21d

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
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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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 23d

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding.

More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF

What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28d

2/2 @hotvegetables.bsky.social now solved this mystery, showing that this locus is responsible for natural variation in root architecture in response to commensal Pseudomonas — likely due to local adaptation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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Gabriella Mosca @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social · Sep 7

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).

Please share!

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Wolfgang Dröge-Laser @wdl1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th

www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience

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