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Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions @ University of Cologne. Immunity, AVR, receptors, mildews, cereals ..... @izzysaur
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Join the Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health in Germany (DPG)! phytomedizin.org/en/home

We are hiring! Two #PhD positions, 1 on interspecific #hybridisation to introduce insect resistance into #Brassica, and 1 on population-based selection for adaptation to low-input agriculture. Email me for more information and/or send CV and grades transcripts before the end of March :)

Finally! An important step to #GiveGenesAChance was taken today: the member states of the European Union have agreed on a mandate for the further negotiations on the regulation of New Genomic Techniques like #CRISPR. Next step: Trialogue of Commission, Council and Parliament.

The first Meeting of the new working Group Plant-Microbe Interactions of the DPG, hosted by Matthias Hahn starts now in @rptu.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meet new ones!

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!

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Latest story from Pia Saake: Plant Lipids Mediate Immune Responses to Fungal Lipids in Barley! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in Cereal Rust? Submit your abstract for the Joint Meeting! 📅 Oral presentation deadline: March 15, 2025 📅 Poster presentation deadline: May 15, 2025 🔗

Very glad to see #HéloïseDemont PhD work online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social #REACHteam Downstream signaling induced by several plant Toll/interleukin-1 receptor-containing immune proteins is stable at elevated temperature: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

Es fällt schwerer, Menschen für bestehende Errungenschaften wie die liberale Demokratie zu begeistern als für absurde Zukunftsversprechen – oder die Rückkehr zu einer sogenannten guten alten Zeit, die in Wahrheit nie existierte.

Europe as “a haven” for US researcher - The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House #AcademicSky 🧪 sciencebusiness.net/internationa...

Its out.... Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A wonderful collaboration with the Schaffrath @rwth.bsky.social and Oliveira-Garcia groups! Huge credit to Carl Mcombe and Alex Wegner.

📜 Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors 🧑‍🔬 Carl L. McCombe, Alex Wegner, Ely Oliveira-Garcia, Simon J. Williams, Ulrich Schaffrath, et al. 📔 @science.org 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrients

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

This was a truely fantastic day with great speakers. Thx to the organisers at the IfP @unicologne.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social and the @trr341.bsky.social & of course all speaker. Cu next year on 19.02. for the next symposium

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, UV-B Perception and Signalling, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline approaching: 24.02.2025

Join the EMBO-FEBS Course 26-30 May 2025 in Blois, France on: - Organelle-microbe conflicts - Host-pathogen communication - Compartmentalization during infection - Metabolic control of and manipulation by pathogens Register by March 1st! meetings.embo.org/event/24-hos...

🔊New paper out! 👏👏Now published at @embojournal.org by the group of Paul Schulze-Lefert @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues at the University of Cologne and Westlake University, China on immune receptor engineering for plant resistance 🌿🪴. 👉 bit.ly/3EGyfd2 #plantsci www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

7 PhD positions open at Kiel University in our graduate program TransEvo focused on translational evolutionary biology. Two of the projects focused on adaptive evolution of crop pathogens. Check out: www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...

Goodbye @mbp2025 It was a blast! ❤️

Congratulations to @somssich.bsky.social for receiving the @molplantsci.bsky.social #PlantScience #SciComm award at #MBP2025. Marc is a pioneer of #PlantScience #SciComm on social media and he championed the #SciExit #eXit #SciXit movement Well deserved Marc!

Very much deserved. Congrats @somssich.bsky.social ! #MBP2025 #scicomm prize

Martin Balcerowitz @transcription.bsky.social presenting new data on Arabidopsis #thermomorphogenesis at #MBP2025 that reveals a somewhere unexpected mechanism of ARF2.

To honor this occasion, we asked three of our female scientists at CEPLAS to share their perspectives on the significance of this day and why advancing women in science remains essential. #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025

#mbp2025 day 2: we of course also focus on crops incl. cereals here in hennef :-) now on is Karina van der Linde on maize peptide hormones

Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

😍 Welcome @molplantsci.bsky.social , our Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology who organises the well-known conference Molecular Biology of Plants #MBP2025 in Hennef, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 10 - 13 February 2025

Join George at the #SEBconference in Antwerp. Book your place now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Submit your abstract now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our plant sessions ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... More information ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Gunther Döhlemann starting the MadFungi research unit (for5682.uni-koeln.de) kick off meeting involving groups from @hhu.bsky.social, @unibonn.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de, @kit.edu and of course @unicologne.bsky.social (eg. @teamthomma.bsky.social, @algazuccaro.bsky.social ). Let‘s go

Happy to share our new preprint on the role of the metacaspase AtMC1 in immunity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice review of wheat and Zymoseptoria tritici interactions apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 2 PhD positions: cassava storage root development. In Uwe Sonnewald’s lab, @fau.de 📆 Deadline: 28 February 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Einladung zum Dialog über die Zukunft wissenschaftlicher Informationsinfrastrukturen. In ihrem Diskussionspapier analysiert die #DFG zentrale Handlungsfelder und Herausforderungen eben dieser Infrastrukturen. Ziel ist es, gemeinsam Lösungsansätze zu suchen. Mehr dazu: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

This may be an interesting read for some of you! www.nature.com/articles/s41...