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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 21h

Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January

www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

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Universität Kiel (CAU) @uni-kiel.de · 22h

👏 Congratulations and welcome to Kiel, Dr Christina Barragán! The Mexican molecular biologist has received funding from the renowned Emmy Noether Programme by the @dfg.de to research the evolution of agriculturally relevant fungal pathogens at Kiel University.

Emmy Noether Programme funds Cristina Barragán to study fungal pathogen evolution

DFG supports Emmy Noether Research Group at Kiel University to investigate fungal pathogens relevant to agriculture.

www.uni-kiel.de

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Universität Kiel (CAU) @uni-kiel.de · 22h

🔗 More info here: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/167-barragan-noether

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PlantsCoChallenge @plantscochallenge.bsky.social · 1d

Our first Annual Meeting marked a key milestone for the project, bringing together our community for engaging talks and valuable discussions. It was followed by a two-day workshop for early career scientists focused on networking and professional development. www.plantscochallenge.de/news.html

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · 1d

Und bestärkt weiterhin die Abkehr vom Anspruch der 'Natürlichkeit' in #landwirtschaft Produktionssystemen!

Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · 1d

Urs Niggli fordert eine grundlegende Revision d. direkten #Pflanzenschutz im ökologischen Landbau🌾🍄 Vielversprechende Diskussionen auf der #DPST25

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 8d

Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 8d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

academic.oup.com

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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 8d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

academic.oup.com

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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 20d

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · 20d

We warmly welcome Dr. Megan McDonald as Associate Professor of Plant Disease Dynamics. Her research on fungal diseases in crops will strengthen our expertise and collaborations across plant sciences. 🌱

ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 20d

At its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.

More info:

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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 21d

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe!

Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾

#plantscijob

Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 22d

Sie haben eine Ausbildung als Biologielaborant*in oder Biologisch-technische*r Assistent*in? Und Sie haben
Erfahrungen in der molekularbiologischen Laborarbeit, insbesondere PCR und Klonierungen? Dann haben wir am @leibnizipk.bsky.social ein spannendes Jobangebot!

➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2rkbby5t

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 22d

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 24d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Christina Steidele @steidele.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to share our pre-print!

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

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

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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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations, Isabel!!

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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Nieuwe Oogst @nieuweoogst.bsky.social · Aug 22

🪲🦠 Volgens keuringsdienst NAK trekt het #fytoplasma sterk op door toenemende vectorendruk. Doordat het warmer wordt, hebben glasvleugelcicaden een grotere overlevingskans. Het IRS trof in juni de eerste vondsten aan van een vergelijkbare ziekte.

'Nieuwe' ziekte Stolbur dreigt voor pootaardappelen

Keuringsdienst NAK bereidt zich sinds juni voor op de mogelijke komst van de gewasziekte Stolbur in pootaardappelen. Aanleiding hiervoor zijn signalen uit buurlanden dat Stolbur zich steeds verder ver...

www.nieuweoogst.nl

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jun 17

first weather test: passed! 💨🌧️
all S. chilense accessions survived a super windy & rainy weekend: not a single loss!
tough wild tomatoes. they’re even thriving

#plantscience #StressTolerance #Solanaceae #SciComm

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Aug 6

After some time (and a lot of rain), #Phytophthora finally reached the experiment. Some plants died within only a few days. But more importantly, about 1/3 of our accessions are still going strong! 💪🌿

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌱 Back to the wild!
We’ve just started a field trial with Solanum chilense at the @uni-kiel.de Botanical Garden.
Can’t wait to watch our wild tomatoes tackle the Northern German summer. 🍅
Stay tuned for our next field-trial updates!
#SChilense #FieldTrial #PlantScience #Kiel

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Aug 6

After some time (and a lot of rain), #Phytophthora finally reached the experiment. Some plants died within only a few days. But more importantly, about 1/3 of our accessions are still going strong! 💪🌿

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Scientist - Plant Single Cell / Spatial Analysis

The Institute IBG-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich is a key partner in the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), one of Germany’s leading plant science research networks. The group of Prof. D...

www.fz-juelich.de

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧬 Preprint alert!
Excited to share our latest work on the role of longitudinal gene expression dynamics in resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Check it out here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Temporal Shifts in Gene Expression Drive Quantitative Resistance to a Necrotrophic Fungus in a Tomato Crop Wild Relative

Resistance breeding against generalist necrotrophic pathogens heavily relies on quantitative disease resistance (QDR). Lesion growth dynamics involve distinct phases (e.g., lag phase duration or lesio...

www.biorxiv.org

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jul 22

🙏 A big thank you to all the amazing collaborators:

@rstam.bsky.social @andytobherre.bsky.social, N. Rangegwoda, L. Groenenberg, and T. van der Lee
@uni-kiel.de

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧩 To summarize:
We linked the lag phase phenotype in S. pennellii to longitudinal gene expression dynamics, and identified WRKY6 as a potential transcriptional coordinator of this timed defense response. Most likely contributing to ⏱️ lag phase–mediated resistance against Sclerotinia!
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