David Biermann
PhD Student at TUM in group of @julien-gronnier.bsky.social
Plant Evolution - Plasma Membrane - Cell Surface Innovations 🔬🧬
- 1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Happy to share this preprint, we describe how the membrane could shape the ROS nanoenvironment in plant responses to osmotic signals. Led by @arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing colleagues @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , @jbfiche.bsky.social , A Meyer, and J Ugalde. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Happy to share the pre-print on GEMMIFER, a novel ERF required for the initiation of gemma in Marchantia. One of the coolest phenotypes that I have ever seen. Congratulations to Yuki and Go, who led this research. #PlantScience @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- New Preprint: An ancient alkalinization factor informs Arabidopsis root development (2025) tsl.ac.uk/publications/161540
- Membrane-binding domains define REMORIN phylogeny and provide a predicted structural basis for distinctive membrane nano-environments biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Manipulation of REMORIN gene dosage affects salt signaling and tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- An ancient alkalinization factor informs Arabidopsis root development biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- 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!
- Our lab (Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab) together with El Kasmi Lab and @mpcontreras.bsky.social Lab enjoyed a very Christmassy evening with Glühwein and many 🎄🎄🎄 not far from Tübingen. Cheers to a new year at the #ZMBP full of discoveries on immune receptors 🥂 #JuniorPIs #EMCRs #MPMI
- Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- So glad it's finally out! Great work at the @theustunlab.bsky.social together with @margotraffeiner.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy reading it! 🪴🔬
- There seems to have been a problem... Here's the working link to our latest Current Opinion in Plant Biology about pathogen modulation of plant proteostasis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis
- Sooo happy to see this preprint out 🍄☘️! Congratulations @leocastanedo.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social et al. ! It has been a long journey, from developing ericoid-mycorrhizae in the lab (Leo) to the genetics in Marchantia (Katharina), and many other details (#teamwork)
- 1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ... #PlantScience
- I started my term as PhD rep for the doctoral students at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this month! Excited to be a representative voice for the around 80 students here ☺️
- Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
- Great work by julien Spielmann now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Lost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer @isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱 #EvoMPMI #MPMI Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
- Lost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer @isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- My favorite nucleus stain Also I just learned that the dye is from Höchst outside Frankfurt, not in fact Austria where this is. But the sign is blue!
- Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Enjoy reading it!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- congrats a lot David 🥳
- How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!
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- For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began go.nature.com/3JyRV4S
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- Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry! www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Honoured to receive the #YoungScientistAward from the @sebiology.bsky.social in the Cell section at the Antwerp conference. Thank you for this amazing recognition — I’m truly grateful!
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- How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Advanced illumination-imaging reveals photosynthesis-triggered pH, ATP and NAD redox signatures across plant cell compartments biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Was super fun to present our recent work on protein translation and bacterial infection in the proteostasis session at #ICAR2025 Thanks to the organizers again!
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- Superb analytical study on POK2, master regulator of cell division orientation by Sabine Muller here at the #ICAR2025 More details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- A nifty trick our lab is using to improve structure prediction of viral membrane proteins in #AlphaFold3! 👇
- Amazingly, this gave us a high-confidence transmembrane channel for both mouse and human NS3, with oleic acids forming a bilayer-like pattern. Our group now call this the “fatty acid hack.” The #alphafold predictions with and without fatty acids shown below 👇
