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Cluster of Excellence "GreenRobust: Understanding Robustness of Plant Systems from Molecules to Ecosystems" research initiative led by the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim. Website: www.greenrobust.de
Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University.
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Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!
Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥
@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de
Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇
our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim
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Auf der norwegischen Insel Spitzbergen, tief im arktischen Permafrost, liegt der wohl sicherste Ort der Welt für pflanzengenetische Vielfalt: der Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Saatgut eine strategische Ressource, die die Resilienz unserer Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme stärkt. @croptrust.bsky.social
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!
A preprint of GreenRobust PI @pascalhunziker.bsky.social:
Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Seit den 1960ern hat sich die Getreideproduktion je nach Sorte verdreifacht bis versechsfacht - bei ziemlich genau gleichbleibendem Flächenbedarf. Es ist eine atemberaubende Landwirtschafts-Revolution, die wir als selbstverständlich hinnehmen.
One of the first publications of our GreenRobust consortium: On the role of SERK co-receptors on systemin signaling. GreenRobust is beginning to make impact!
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Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word!
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Our symposium on plant breeding for biodiversity is about to start!
The Tielbörger lab at @unituebingen.bsky.social is offering TWO PHD POSITIONS in rangeland ecology, as part of the sage-centre.org. It is about tipping points in Middle Eastern rangelands. A large interdisciplinary project with unique long-term experiments!
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!
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Fig. 1 Geographic distribution of phenological observation sites across Europe captured in the PEP725 database.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
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New preprint from our group:
Phenotypic differentiation between highland and coastal quinoa under cold stress conditions
We use both field trials and lab experiments under controlled conditions to show that the two major quinoa ecotypes differ in adaptive traits.
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#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9
Glad to share our latest work on #barley and #climatechange. The heat is definitely on breeding!
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Professorship Plant Ecology. Regensburg, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.
Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive
Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.
For more info, see
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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!
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Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!
How to achieve plant robustness on the cellular level? The regular divisions of cambium stem cells:
Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Most members of the Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab, the El Kasmi Lab and the Contreras Lab enjoying a Christmas garden with Glühwein and other drinks before their feet got too cold! From left to right around the table: Frank, Moritz, Eldin, Isa, Raphael, Chia-Nan, Sharon, Fran, Elke, Sara x2, Farid, Mau, Xander and Uli
Our lab (Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab) together with El Kasmi Lab and @mpcontreras.bsky.social Lab enjoyed a very Christmassy evening with Glühwein and many 🎄🎄🎄 not far from Tübingen.
Cheers to a new year at the #ZMBP full of discoveries on immune receptors 🥂
#JuniorPIs #EMCRs #MPMI
Porträts der Forscher/innen: Obere Reihe von links: Prof. Dr. Jan Böttcher, Dr. Madhuri Salker. Untere Reihe von links: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Brochado, Prof. Dr. Tobias Hauser und Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger. Text im Bild: Fünf Consolidator Grants des Europäischen Forschungsrats gehen an die Universität Tübingen
Zwei Forscherinnen und drei Forscher der Universität und des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen erhalten hochdotierte Förderungen für Projekte in der #Medizin, der #Mikrobiologie und dem Maschinellen Lernen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #ERC #ERCCoG #MachineLearning
Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!
A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
European Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems.
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