The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
"From industrial Past to Green Future" written around an ancient industry tower typical for the region together with a plant changing colours from blue to green is the motto of the German Society for Plant Sciences international Conference, the Botanik-Tagung, 2026 in Bochum Germany, that brings together plant scientists from several scientific disciplines. The logo highlights the structural change of the Ruhr area, from coal mining + heavy industries to the increasingly important issues of climate protection, sustainability + preservation of biodiversity, with plant sciences at the forefront of this transformation.
#PlantSciConfi
Registration open for
International Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences
Botanik-Tagung #BT2026
in #Bochum, Germany
6 – 10 September 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/82bsBT2026
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?
1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨
It is my pleasure to share:
"Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants"
Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
7 PhD positions
SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs
SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs
@ceplas.bsky.social
in several locations
Deadline: 18 March 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Highly recommended EMBO Workshop on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026) in Les Diablerets, Switzerland! (even if I may be slightly biased...) Registration open. We are very much looking forward to seeing you there! ⬇️
Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!
Plant Physiology webinar, Plant Ecophysiology. Feb 26. Speakers Amanda Cardoso, William Thomas, and Sabina Villadangos, hosted by Agustin Zsögön and moderated by Thomas Depaepe.
📅 Save the date! We have a free upcoming Plant Physiology webinar on Ecophysiology, 26 Feb (2PM GMT). 🌱
👉 More info and registration link: blog.aspb.org/plant-physio....
#PlantScience
Schüler im Labor fotografiert eine Petrischale mit dem Smartphone, im Hintergrund unscharfe Computergeräte.
Heute startet die KölnerKinderUniversität🎉
Kinder der Klassenstufen drei bis sechs können bis zum 2. April an vielen Vorlesungen und Workshops zu ganz unterschiedlichen Themen teilnehmen.
Mehr dazu ▶️ kinderuni.uni-koeln.de
#uniköln #unicologne #kinderuni #kölnerkinderuni #liebedeineuni
🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf!
If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required
Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!
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:...
📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)
Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
rust effector PstCFEM2 manipulates TaHA2- and TaCIPK9-mediated apoplastic acidification to promote wheat susceptibility url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
roses are red
violets are blue
both make sugars
from atmospheric CO2
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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
📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵
Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
UK wheat faces a serious new threat: yellow rust has overcome Yr15 resistance in major varieties. A BBSRC /DEFRA Rapid Response led by JIC with Niab and RRes as partners is hunting new resistance genes to protect harvests. 🌾 www.niab.com/news-views/n...
agreed to basically all!
We have published a methods paper describing how to identify cell surface receptor complexes by immunoprecipitation and map their phosphorylation sites.
We hope this protocol will be useful to the community. link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Promote brilliant plant science #ECRs 🌱
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Awards 2026 are open. monetary prize, a certificate & a plenary talk at Botanik-Tagung.
Deadline: 26 Apr 2026.
Pro tip: 👉 Self-noms welcome for Horst Wiehe Award
Details: www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/3awards
A ubiquitin binding protein mediates the crosstalk between PTI and ETI! Check out our new preprint below 👇
Interesting read!
Plant–fungi interactions in Marchantia polymorpha are associated with horizontal gene transfer and terpene metabolism
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.
Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
Morgen, 5. Feb. an der @hhu.de:
19.00 - 20.30 Uhr im Haus der Universität @hhu.de
Dr. Götz Hensel vom @ceplas.bsky.social stellt Grundlagen der CRISPR-Genschere vor und Susanne Vollmer @hhu.de gibt Einblicke in ihre aktuelle Forschung.
#GrüneGentechnik
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New preprint out! Zhoubo Hu et al "A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis". We identify CAIR1, a UVR8-interacting protein, as a redox-responsive regulator of catalase localization and activity, maintaining cellular ROS balance. 🌱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fig. 3. A single L91Y amino acid substitution in AVRPM3a2/f2-A leads to recognition by the non-corresponding PM3b.
Editor’s Pick: "Interactions of Wheat Powdery Mildew Effectors Involved in Recognition by the Wheat NLR PM3," by Jonatan Isaksson et al. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-05-25-0050-SC
