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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 6d

...and if you missed it, here are 60 phylogenetically diverse brown algae genomes
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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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
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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 7d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 13d

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 19d

Have a good start, Simon!

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 24d

Kigelia africana, Leberwurstbaum, in Namibia

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Dollar Bush, Zygophyllum stapffii, #Namibia

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Sep 6

So happy to have seen it in the wild!
#Welwitschia #Namibia

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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌱Big news
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social to highlight TPJ papers

1st features researchers from our 𝑆𝐼 𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 🌱🧬
🗓️Sept 29 ⏰17:00 CEST
🎙️Hosted by EiC @katherinedenby.bsky.social
🔗 Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Engineering – Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

This webinar is the 1st in a series together with "The Plant Journal" Join us for a webinar hosted in collaboration between The Global Plant Council and the "The Plant Journal", exploring the latest ...

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Aug 19

Science management job in plant science @dfg.de
dfg.concludis.de/prj/shw/5218...

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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...

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

Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de
uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Aug 10

How conserved are plant transcription factor binding sites?
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Great study by @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social lab shows a mixed pattern. Thanks for making good use of #TAPscan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... also. C2H2 neofunctionalization fits ny thoughts.

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 8

An exciting negative result!

Liana Lareau @lianafaye.bsky.social · Aug 7

At the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects.

Scatterplot showing fitness effect of ~7000 synonymous mutations in yeast: read count at start vs log2 fold change. Most data points are not significant but 204 points are significant outliers, either advantageous or deleterious.

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Universität Freiburg @uni-freiburg.de · Aug 8

Das Konsortium #DataPLANT @nfdi4plants.bsky.social unter Leitung der #Unifreiburg entwickelt seit 2020 Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne #Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die @dfg.de die Förderung bis 2028 verlängert.
➡️ ufr.link/dataplant-foerderung
@fz-juelich.de

Das Konsortium DataPLANT unter Leitung der Universität Freiburg entwickelt seit 2020 eine Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) die Förderung des Projekts bis 2028 verlängert.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Good morning

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Then again, being a generalist might be metabolically more costly. Otherwise, why be a specialist?

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Freshly appointed @simonelsasser.bsky.social presenting his research @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social - welcome @uni-freiburg.de !

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now attending the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social event where @archaellum.bsky.social presents diversity of the faculties research

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 5

Congratulations to the winners of @uni-freiburg.de liga soccer tournament; great day full of sports organized by Hochschulsport

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Big fun with @bahn.de yesterday and today on my way to Hamburg and back: 2h+3h delays. New record, yeehah.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · Jul 1

@dfg.de assembly with a view

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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌿🧬 Plant Evolution Starter Pack from @barkerms.bsky.social‬
Scientists researching the evolution of plants and plant diversity - including population genetics, plant genome evolution, plant speciation, plant systematics, and macroevolutionary patterns of plant diversification.

Plant Evolution

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · May 24

To make the statement that it is generizable in the sense of a common/shared trait one should have a broad sampling - so the first to find it in one species usually can't make the claim. ;)

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · May 23

🎉✨ Congratulations for the 70 newly @dfg.de -funded #ClustersOfExcellence ✨🎉

and especially for the
4 #PlantSci 🌿 🧬 🔬 🌱 🍀 clusters

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