I am excited to share with you an amazing video on the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway generated by talented Ann Liu from the Janet Iwasa lab @jiwasa.bsky.social @ann-hl.bsky.social. It shows the real structures of the pathway from #NLRP3, #ASC, #caspase-1, #GSDMD, #IL-1b, to #NINJ1. Enjoy!
Meanwhile AI's greatest contribution to academia will be one of this showing up at the doorstep of every unproductive leech plaguing Universities.
And an appointment to sign in person with someone whose office open only in days with full moon between 9:15 and 10:45
Structural remodeling of the mitochondrial protein biogenesis machinery under proteostatic stress | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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!
2026 has been a remarkable year for me so far (despite the current world events): opening my lab at the University of Zurich, assembling an amazing group of people in the group, and celebrating it with a fantastic lab warming party. Figured it's also time for a small profile refresh.
Mitochondria can indeed be inherited from the father! 🍀
In this new study, we uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial inheritance in Nicotiana tabacum. @natplants.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.
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www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
High resolution, proteome-wide mapping of subcellular protein localization in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708449v1
As a forest researcher, I very often (far too often) encounter questions such as: What does a forest researcher do in Spain? Do you even have forests there? The international image of Spain as a mostly desert-like country, and mainly associated with sun and beach,has contributed to this stereotype.
There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social
- PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit...
- Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto...
Earliest start date: 01/05/2026.
We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!
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! 👇
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies...a theft from those who hunger & are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
The OpenPlant kit is finally available from Addgene as... a kit :)
www.addgene.org/kits/haselof...
@addgene.bsky.social #marchantia #synbio
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 🧵
This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
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!
Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
co-first with: @andschwarz.bsky.social
with: @lea-dietrich.bsky.social, @sgiando.bsky.social, @erin-schuman.bsky.social and many more
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#MolBio 🧪
🎉📣 #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 🧪
bit.ly/3ZHtneT
Eva-Sophie Wallner and Marion Clavel standing together on a snowy campus, smiling at the camera. Behind them are a modern office building and a greenhouse, with bright winter sunshine illuminating the scene.
Shoutout to yesterday’s guest @eswallner.bsky.social, who visited us from @gmivienna.bsky.social for her talk “Lessons from sporeling development: How to form plant organs and meristems de novo?” - fascinating perspective on plant development!🌱
Thanks as well to @thevirusmc.bsky.social for hosting 🙏
Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What a treat to see the work from Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social et al., @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social now published 🫶
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
OryzaNet is a new BBSRC-funded rice research network launching Spring 2026.
We are inviting researchers, social scientists, stakeholders & innovators to register interest ahead of launch.
www.oryzanet.com
If anyone is interested in working on these bacteria @johninnescentre.bsky.social has protocols, strains, plasmids and a genome database available here: streptomyces.org.uk
Plant-parasitic nematode microRNAs hijack plant AGO1 to induce host-cell reprogramming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705329v1
Fascinated by how cells adapt to a plethora of stimuli?
This review describes how cells use and modulate #ribosomes to cope with stresses. We discuss the central role of ribosome-associated processes in #cellplasticity, #signaling, #geneexpression and #diseases 🕹
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
I just published: Adeline Harant: Keeping an open mind is key for a fulfilling career in science
A much-deserved tribute to the amazing Adeline Harant and her leadership at the bench and beyond. She also brings a dose of sanity to the @KamounLab madhouse. kamounlab.medium.com/adeline-hara...
Out in @science.org this week, two fungal enzymes synthesise DHHA, which controls cell wall porosity and turgor in plant pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#mycology
#plantscience
Check out this cool #cryo-EM study spearheaded by our neighbor @tafurlab.bsky.social and his colleagues! A must-read for anyone interested in the molecular mechanisms governing (m)TORC1 regulation. Congrats to all involved! 🎉
In @science.org this week, thermospermine affects ribosome methylation, which in turn regulates translation of xylem development proteins www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
