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Svenja Augustin

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PhD student @ceplas.bsky.social working on plant development, board member @oekoprog.bsky.social, #GiveGenesAChance

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Podcast: Gentechnik - nachhaltige Raumfahrt - Biber schützen das Klima Gentechnik künftig ohne Kennzeichnung?; Elefantenrüssel mit Fingerspitzengefühl; Fastenzeit ist Fischzeit - und das geht auch nachhaltig; Geht Raumfahrt nachhaltig?; Wie Biber und Moore das Klima schü...

Ich mag Radio als Medium sehr und so habe ich mich über die Einladung von @quarkswdr.bsky.social auch besonders gefreut.

In den ersten 40 min der gestrigen Sendung bei WDR5 haben wir über Neue Genomische Techniken und ihre geplante Regulierung gesprochen 🌾🧬✂️
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...

18.02.2026 10:51 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
CEPLAS: Call 2026

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

18.02.2026 09:43 👍 27 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 2
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CEPLAS, the cluster of excellence on plants sciences, is looking for PhD candidates for a number of exciting projects. See below for more info on the topics and on the recruiting process, and here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

18.02.2026 09:36 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

09.02.2026 23:56 👍 3011 🔁 609 💬 51 📌 86
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Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

30.01.2026 13:56 👍 83 🔁 118 💬 0 📌 3

Congratulations, Mary!! ✨💖🌱

28.01.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECR’s hurry up, only 2 days left, if you want to take part in

3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting
Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026

⏱️Application deadline is 23rd Jan 2026
#PlantSci
➡️ www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

21.01.2026 18:01 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

08.01.2026 10:09 👍 44 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 1
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Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

08.01.2026 00:49 👍 60 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1
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New Article: "Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development" rdcu.be/eYiMF

With Research Briefing rdcu.be/eYiM7

09.01.2026 10:26 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

05.01.2026 18:58 👍 10923 🔁 3069 💬 163 📌 644
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03.01.2026 11:13 👍 45 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 0
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu

19.12.2025 14:48 👍 46 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 4
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Gotta catch em all: Neuzugänge in unserer CRISPR-Bibliothek! - Progressive Agrarwende Trockentolerante Tomaten? Krankheitsresistenter Kakao? Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die Anwendungsbeispiele für NGT (Neue Genomische Techniken) in der Pflanzenzüchtung! Und wir sammeln sie in unserer CRI...

Trockentolerante Tomaten? Krankheitsresistenter Kakao? Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die Anwendungsbeispiele für NGT (Neue Genomische Techniken) in der Pflanzenzüchtung! Zu finden in unserer CRISPR-Bibliothek.✊🌱

Jetzt neu mit Illus von @sanguinik.bsky.social⤵️
progressive-agrarwende.org/neuzugaenge-...

16.12.2025 08:46 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 4
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Wondering about the dynamics during a developmental transition? Check out our preprint “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis”, a very exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab @mpipz.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

12.12.2025 19:25 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Great opportunity to join this excellent plant research network for a PhD!

09.12.2025 18:47 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS

09.12.2025 13:24 👍 7 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Oh Wow!

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

05.12.2025 08:37 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Stellungnahme zum Trilog zur Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGTs) in der EU - ÖkoProg Das Öko-Progressive Netzwerk e.V. (ÖkoProg) begrüßt die Einigung zwischen Europäischem Parlament, Europäischem Rat und EU-Kommission in ihrer gemeinsamen Sitzung im Rahmen des Trilog-Verfahrens am 03....

#GiveGenesAChance 🌱🧬✊
Das Öko-Progressive Netzwerk e.V. (ÖkoProg) begrüßt die Einigung zwischen Europäischem Parlament, Europäischem Rat und EU-Kommission in ihrer gemeinsamen Sitzung im Rahmen des gestrigen Trilog-Verfahrens.

Zur Stellungnahme ⤵️
oekoprog.org/stellungnahm...

04.12.2025 09:33 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

Weil es viele Meldungen verkürzt darstellen:
Die #Gentechnik -Regeln in der EU werden im Kern nicht geändert. Es wird lediglich eine Ausnahme-Regel für Pflanzen geschaffen, die mit neuen Techniken gezüchtet wurden, aber äquivalent zu konventionellen sind. Für alle anderen gelten die alten Regeln.

04.12.2025 07:58 👍 51 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2
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AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

02.12.2025 12:34 👍 77 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 2

Im Interview mit @jostmaurin.bsky.social in der @taz.de stellt die Demeter-Bäuerin und Co-Initiatorin einer Petition gegen die geplante neue Regulierung für NGTs, Pola Krenkel, eine Reihe gängiger Falschbehauptungen auf, die ich aus diesem Anlass in einem kurzen 🧵 debunke:
#GiveGenesAChance

01.12.2025 16:20 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 5
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Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab

22.11.2025 16:28 👍 77 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply!
Please share!

19.11.2025 17:20 👍 12 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2

Me, too! 😂 I am currently using the library in an image analysis script and it is really funny to see the word "yeet" pop up regularly :D

15.11.2025 15:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Countdown has started:

There are only 10 days left, if you want to join

Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef

Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025

www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

13.11.2025 17:26 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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🔥We released a new episode of the Night Science Podcast today, all about the power of improvisation in life, the arts and the sciences. We talked with Stephen Nachmanovitch who wrote the classic book "Free Play". Check it out and please me know what you think!

11.11.2025 02:25 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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This is a such an inspiring book about the art of improvisation and how it applies to our lives in general. I think it’s also very relevant also for what it’s like to do science. It was a pleasure to talk with Stephen about it on the Night Science podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/165i...

12.11.2025 16:47 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

11.09.2025 16:51 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Plants: happy, healthy, and reaching the required developmental stages ✅
Microscope: working and available ✅
Favourite dissection tools: arrived on time ✅
Analysis of the last experiment: done ✅
Final selection of stable reporter lines for the next experiment: in progress 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️

10.11.2025 13:56 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0