🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers.
Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?
🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!
Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!
#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪
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Welcome back (stronger), thalemine! @bar-plantbio.bsky.social
PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
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
Congrats Laura and team! 🎊
Stoked to share our review advocating a whole plant perspective on resource balancing strategies with Joe Earle, Lucila Salvatore, Bas van den Herik and Kirsten ten Tusscher
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
English is the dominant language of science. Does this help us share knowledge? Or does it further exclude the already excluded?
This webinar looks back at the colonial past of science communication and how we can better embrace multilingual science: buff.ly/5f2uPQi
Like, the storyline's format, the size of preliminary data, how to explain objectives/work packages, and what adjectives were most common
I'm super curious about how the writing style then compares to what we do now. If you've got an old proposal you'd be willing to share, or even just some insights into the typical style from that era, I'd love to hear about it! Drop a comment or send me a DM. 🌱 #writing #proposal
Just submitted my first PI grant proposal – what a wild ride! It got me wondering about something specific: for those of you in plant science, what did grant proposals look like back in the late '90s or early 2000s? #writing #proposal
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social
Scheme how genetically encoded biosensors can shine light on plant metabolism. Intrinsic sensors bind their analyte directly, extrensic sensors require a sensing domain fused to one, or more, fluorescent proteins. In paraplexing experiments, multiple sensors are individually expressed in plants and their responses are recorded in parallel. In multiplexing experiments, two or more sensors with non-overlapping excitation and emission spectra are expressed in the same plant. Sensor responses, either recorded in paraplexing or multiplexing experiments over time and through appropriate instruments, such as fluorescence microscopes or plate readers, can be used to create increasingly complex metabolic networks.
A growing list of genetically encoded biosensors helps to shine light on plant metabolism. We reviewed - also for the non-expert - available probes and recent advances in the field:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are looking for a postdoc to study the impact of interspecific variation of ELF3 at the #mlu-halle within the EU-funded research consortium #ValuePlant. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss... Please share within your networks!
I will post this again, cause it is important more than ever: #Inclusion,#diversity& #equality have also become integral in academia.It has deeply impacted my life.I have felt (still feel) the weight of not fitting in & feeling misunderstood @academic-chatter.bsky.social #AcademicChatter #DEI 🧵(1/6)
Shout out to house dj @rensingstefan.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org #mbp2025
Past midnight and it's still going strong #mbp2025
At this week's Plant Science Seminar @putriningrum.bsky.social (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab) aims to clarify GID1's role in shade avoidance through the DELLA-independent GA perception pathway.
Bring your own mug, we will provide ☕ and 🍪.
See you tomorrow at 10:15 in KS 00.009.
Without downloading any new pics, what‘s your energy going into 2025?
Neat! "Which cell/tissue spent the most energy, and when?", might try to answer it with this tool 😃
So pretty! 😍
Is it a Norwegian forest cat?
Diagram of the TAPscan v4 workflow
Proud to share TAPscan v4, automated annotation of 138 TF families; code, webtool and database available online.
@watertoland.bsky.social @nfdi4plants.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @shiltemann.bsky.social
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I found this paper, written by 10 doctoral students in Stockholm, quite interesting:
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values
#academia
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Good week for those interested in oriented divisions and middle cortex formation in the Arabidopsis root. Out in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Playing Possum: How animals understand death, book by Susana Monsó
And this is what I am reading
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Beach in Gili Air, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
This is what I am seeing
Indonesian forests pay the price for the growing global biomass energy demand
https://botany.fyi/47kgbx
The global push for biomass that can be burned for energy is causing concern about the price Indonesia's forests are paying.
#Botany
