With the new year, is my time to say bye to @gmivienna.bsky.social as I move to @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social in Tuebingen. I will start my solo Group Leader career as a Emmy Norther fellow. Thanks to everyone that helped on the way. I will be advertising PhD and Postdoc positions soon, stay tuned!
Lab survived its first months thanks to these people. LEGO microscopes were a small Christmas token of appreciation 🎉
Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
Gracias Aranxa!
Gracias!
Thanks a lot Yasin!
Thank you Roger!
New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
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!
Very excited to see our review on metacaspases finally out in Cell Death & Differentiation! Grateful for the opportunity to summarise the current state of the field, thanks to everyone involved 🌱🤓
Absolutely! Anthocyanins just prove vacuoles have both flair and function.
Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🆕 Review by @josejulian.bsky.social on one of my favourite organelles: #vacuole (signaling & biogenesis & quality control) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There's so much exciting stuff waiting to be discovered on these mammoth organelles!
📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls
🧑🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.
📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods
Juan Carlos De la Concepción, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI, is one of the recipients of this year’s Early Career Research Awards, awarded by the Biochemical Society.
Congrats! Really exciting insights into non-canonical autophagy 👏
The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5
Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw
Congrats to @josejulian.bsky.social from the lab of @plantophagy.bsky.social and all co-authors on this great work uncovering a novel quality control mechanism that protects the vacuole’s integrity upon cell wall damage. Out now @natureplants.bsky.social:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📜 ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage
🧑🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natureplants.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls
Thank you Marco!
Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…
New Article: "ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage" rdcu.be/d8Y3S
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
Science is never a solo journey! 🌿🔬✨
A huge thank you to my amazing lab members, collaborators, and my mentor @plantophagy.bsky.social for their support and insights throughout this project. 🙌
Grateful for this community pushing boundaries and excited for what’s next! 🚀
For the first time in plants, we used APEX-based electron microscopy to map the precise localization of ATG8 at the vacuolar membrane after stress! 🚀
Pushing the boundaries of plant cell biology—one EM image at a time. ⚡👀
#PlantScience #ElectronMicroscopy #Autophagy #Vacuole #NaturePlants
