IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes
- Excellent example of #EuroBioImaging Nodes are involved in technology development - supporting innovative applications & making cutting-edge imaging tools accessible to all! @france-bioimaging.bsky.social #SmartMicroscopy
- 🚀 Great to see @eurobioimaging.bsky.social highlight the innovative #EnderScope, a low-cost, open-source microscopy system expanding access to imaging! 🔬👏 Kudos to Jérôme Mutterer (IBMP microscopy platform). ▶️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/innovat...
- ASHS Career Center FWS Spring 2026, Hort Fruit Crop Cold Hardiness Technician - Engineering ow.ly/7zkV50XZNEb Rsch Professional-Nankar ow.ly/AJ1v50XZNE4 Ext Educator - Consumer Hort Educator ow.ly/tAZ350XZNE9 ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantsciencejobs
- New Article: "Esterified-pectin-coupled polar stiffening controls grass stomatal opening" rdcu.be/eZLT4 Esterified pectin localized at the stiff poles of maize stomata, modulating stomatal opening. Novel targets for stomatal engineering and higher water use efficiency.
- NEWS & VIEWS: Complex lipids shape cell growth and communication in moss (Blanca Jazmín Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
- New Brief Communication: "A CRISPR-based sequence proximity binding protein labelling system for scanning upstream regulatory proteins" rdcu.be/eZLUP CRISPR-based proximity labelling system to profile DNA-binding proteins such as PIF4 transcription factor .
- 🚀 Great to see @eurobioimaging.bsky.social highlight the innovative #EnderScope, a low-cost, open-source microscopy system expanding access to imaging! 🔬👏 Kudos to Jérôme Mutterer (IBMP microscopy platform). ▶️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/innovat...
- 🌍✨ Our in-house photographer Lalie Achard has been selected in the Global Physics Photowalk, an international showcase of the most captivating science photos! 📸🔥 Help her win the People’s Choice Award by giving a 👍 to her photo here ➡️ www.interactions.org/photowalk-vo... Every vote counts! 💙
- We are seeking a PhD student to investigate the deadenylation machinery in Arabidopsis as part of the IMCBio program. @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @igbmc.bsky.social Please visit the following link (PhD-2026-30): imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr #PhDOpportunity #PlantScience #PlantMolecularBiology
- 🎨🔬 Rendre la science plus accessible, c’est aussi repenser la manière de la raconter. Merci pour la mise en avant de l’IBMP à travers cette illustration façon BD, conçue par Lauraline Feliz (lauraline.net) 🌱 Une belle rencontre entre art et science !
- Explore #FloraObscura: a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology 👇 🌱 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #PlantScience
- #BonneAnnée 🌟 Le #CNRS vous présente ses meilleurs vœux pour l'année 2026 ! #HappyNewYear 🌟 The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) wishes you the very best for 2026!
- Lab with a view 🤩 One of the many perks of our institute @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
- #ResultatScientifique🔎| Comment les mitochondries des plantes fabriquent leurs protéines 🌱 ✍️ Philippe Giegé 🤝 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social 📕 @natcomms.nature.com | buff.ly/1zeJcYR
- 🎄✨ Last Friday at #IBMP: a cozy Christmas celebration with homemade vin chaud and delicious mannele 🥨🍷 A perfect moment to share, laugh, and wrap up the year together. Science also means community!
- 🌱Great momentum at the TYPEX Days 2025 in Strasbourg: new Prime Editing tools, progress across crop species, and a growing shared cloning platform. More here 👉 www.pepr-selection-vegetale.fr/actualites/j...
- We are seeking a PhD student to investigate the deadenylation machinery in Arabidopsis seeds as part of the IMCBio program. @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @igbmc.bsky.social If you are interested, please visit the following link (PhD-2026-30): imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr
- Reinforcing the 🇫🇷France–Japan🇯🇵 collaboration in plant biology🌱 Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
- 🎓 Spotlight on Judith Estefanía López Ponce, PhD student in Manfred Heinlein’s group (IBMP), within the ViroiDoc MSCA network! 🔗 linkedin.com/posts/viroid... #ViroiDoc #MSCA #PlantScience
- How plant mitochondria make their own proteins 🌱🔬 A new study published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals the structure of the cauliflower mitoribosome and a unique RsgA mechanism that blocks premature translation. ▶️https://nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65864-z #PlantBiology #CryoEM #Ribosome
- 🚀 IMCBio PhD Fellowships 2026 - 5 PhD in plant biology open at IBMP : 🌱 RNA biology 🧬 Translation 🔬 Chloroplast & mitochondria 🧫 Antiviral defence 🌾 Seed biology 📅 Apply before 25 Jan 2026 🔗 imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr Join us and push the boundaries of plant science! 🌿
- 🦠PhD Defense🎓 👏Congrats to Lucas Schalck, who defended his PhD “Exploration fonctionnelle de la protéine P3a du Turnip yellows virus” supervised by Véronique Ziegler-Graff
- Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅 Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
- Interreg KliwiResse project project completed : ➡️New resources generated, including metabolic stress markers identified at IBMP. ➡️Strong partner network built for future UpperRhine collaborations. 🔗 More info: kliwiresse.wine-science.eu/news_en.htm
- Cool bonus from participating on the IMCBio event today @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social is to attend to an amazing seminar by the one and only @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social !, what an awesome coincidence!
- Curious about plant genomics? 🌿 Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated. Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience @denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social
- Guillaume Hummel, David Pflieger, Alexandre Berr, Laurence Drouard: From the RNA world to land plants: Evolutionary insights from tRNA genes arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943 arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01943 arxiv.org/html/2511.01943
- 🦠PhD Defense🎓 Congrats to Amélie Janzam, who defended her PhD “Role of the non-coding RNA3 and the p14 protein in long-distance viral movement and RNA interference suppression of BNYVV.” Supervised by David Gilmer #PhDDefense #PlantVirology #PlantBiology
- 🧬PhD Defense🎓 👏Congrats to Margaux Cheminat, who defended her PhD on “Deciphering the molecular interaction between Streptomyces and barley: influence of the brassinosteroid signaling pathway.” Supervised by Florence Arsène-Ploetze & Hubert Schaller #PlantBiology #Microbiology #PhDDefense
- Thrilled to share our new preprint on the evolution of transfer RNA (tRNA) genes in photosynthetic organisms, together with David Pflieger, Alexandre Berr, and Laurence Drouard! #PlantGenomics #Evolution #tRNA @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943
- The 1st chapter of the PhD project of @rachnabehl.bsky.social became online as pre-print. A meta-analysis of epigenomic changes in plants under environmental stresses… #PlantScience #Epigenetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 🌱 Light does more than fuel photosynthesis, it guides plant growth and survival. Discover how the TOR kinase connects light signals to metabolism and stress responses in a new @jxbotany.bsky.social review featuring Mikhail Schepetilnikov
- Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- Congratulations to Jean-Michel Davière and Stefan Grob, laureates of the 2025 IDEX call from the @unistra.fr 🎉 A great recognition of their innovative projects and the excellence of research at IBMP! 🌱🔬
- On Oct 7, IBMP group leaders visited the Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter Institute (JKIP) at @kit.edu. A great day of science, discussions, and new connections — from inspiring talks by Holger Puchta & Natalia Requena to a visit of the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden and greenhouses. 🌱
- A great day at #Mifobio2025! 🌱🔬 From seed germination to Arabidopsis leaves and zebrafish hearts, our team explored the fascinating diversity of living systems with the EnderScope, pushing the limits of live imaging during this inspiring edition ! @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @igbmc.bsky.social
- 🧪 Journée de cohésion des personnels des plateformes de l’IBMP à l'IS2M ! Une journée enrichissante autour des savoir-faire techniques et scientifiques de nos plateformes respectives. Un grand merci à l’équipe de l’IS2M pour son accueil 👏 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social #ScienceEnPartage
- Le rapport d'activité 2023-2024 du CNRS Alsace est paru ! Partage des savoirs, innovation, sciences & recherche, témoignages, Europe & international... Un contenu à picorer ou à lire de bout en bout. Bonne lecture ! ➡️ www.alsace.cnrs.fr/fr/rapport-d... @cnrs.fr
- 🔎 “Tolerance: the plants that make peace with viruses” 🌿 🦠 An activity presented by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social, as part of the Science with and for Society program of the French National Research Agency (ANR). Visual support produced by CNRS Alsace.
- #BDécouvrons SynPPR Un "scratch" à ARN pour bloquer la production de protéines indésirables en #agriculture et #santé humaine ? 🌽🩺 C'est le défi que relèvent Kamel Hammani et son équipe de l'IBMP. BD par Camille Van Belle 👉 bit.ly/synppr-infos #SAPS_CNRS @agencerecherche.bsky.social
- 🥇 Félicitations à Lali Sakvarelidze-Achard, lauréate du #Photowalk de l' @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social ! Sa photo «Télescope à micro-alignement : aux frontières de la physique nucléaire», avec 17 autres, représentera le @cnrs.fr au Global Physics Photowalk 2025 🌍📸
- 🌿⚖️ Growth or defense? A new study in Science Advances shows how the PAF1 complex helps plants toggle between growth and immune responses by regulating gene expression. 📖 science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🔬 Collaboration between Wuhan Univesity & @cnrs.fr
- 👩🎓Congratulation 🍾 to Anita Kaltak on her successful PhD defense about the export mechanism of Cauliflower mosaic virus mRNAs in plants !
- Belle matinée de partage et de découvertes avec les élèves du BTS Biotechnologies du lycée Jean-Rostand, venus pour leur désormais traditionnelle visite à l’IBMP🌱 @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @unistra.fr
- 🦠🌱 New review in Annual Review of Virology: Double-stranded RNA sensing underpins antiviral immunity in plants, linking RNA silencing, RNA decay, PTI & ETI. By Manfred Heinlein (IBMP) #PlantScience #Virology #rna ▶️https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-virology-092623-101447
- 🌱 New review in @newphyt.bsky.social : Protein modifications fine-tune the formation of stress-induced biomolecular condensates in plants. By Margaux Legoux, Jean-Philippe Reichheld (LGDP) and Rémy Merret (IBMP). #PlantScience #StressBiology
- Congratulation 🍾 to Luisa Felgines on her successful PhD defense about Pol IV-CLSY-SHH1 Docking in Small RNA Biogenesis and Transposon Silencing !
- 🎓 Today at 14:00, Luisa Felgines will defend her PhD thesis on Functional study of Pol IV–CLSY–SHH1 docking in small RNA biogenesis and transposon silencing 🌱
- 🎉 Congratulations to Pauline Julien (@pejullien.bsky.social), Professor at IBMP, who recently defended her HDR on epigenetic reprogramming: from reproduction to defense 🌱👏
- ✨ Today at 9:15, we welcome keynote speaker Claudia Köhler who will share her group’s exciting work on mobile small RNA control of plant reproduction.
- Plant’s developmental decision to either abort a flower or set seed #plantscience
- The endocycle regulators SIM and CCS52A1 control Arabidopsis root hair cell ploidy and expansion (Lei Li (李磊), Klaus Herburger, Ilse Vercauteren, Duncan Coleman, Qian Wang, Steven Maere, Jefri Heyman, Lieven De Veylder) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
- 🎉 Publication alert! Association of the PWWP‐domain protein HUA2 and H3K36 methylation in flowering time control in @theplantjournal.bsky.social 🧬 ▶️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.70461
- Congratulation 🍾 to Pietro Giraudo on his successful PhD defense about mRNA-specific regulation of poly(A) tail metabolism in #Arabidopsis thaliana !
- Preparing for Friday! @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
- PRC2 regulates cytokinin and HD-ZIP III pathways to orchestrate vascular tissue pattern formation in Arabidopsis (Yufei Zhang , Runzhou Huang , Tingting Yang , An Li , Zihao Wang , Yuexin Wu , Yang Deng , Jing Zhang , Xin-Qiang He , Yue Zhou) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
- 🌱 Xenium breaks barriers in plant spatial biology! Thick cell walls, autofluorescence & complex tissues have long challenged spatial transcriptomics. A new bioRxiv preprint shows an optimised @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium workflow for Medicago truncatula roots & nodules. #PlantScience #Xenium
- 🌱 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how soil microbiota influence the entire life cycle and population growth of Lupinus polyphyllus, boosting persistence in both native and invasive populations. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/p2j7 #PlantScience
- Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇
- 🌱 Ever heard of PPR proteins? They help plants control their genes! Discover the SynPPR project led by Kamel Hammani in a fun comic by Camille Van Belle (@cevebe_dessin) 🎨🧬 📘 Read it: bit.ly/BD-SynPPR @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social
- Nous proposons un sujet de stage de Master 2 à Strasbourg @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @unistra.fr pour étudier les conséquences de l’uridylation, une modification post-transcriptionnelle, sur le métabolisme des ARNm au cours de la germination des graines. www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/app/uploads/... #PlantSciences
- // CAREER STORY // 🔍 Exploring the hidden battle between viruses and crops🦠🌱 💻 Laura Elvira González, a Spanish postdoctoral researcher based in France, is studying the molecular mechanisms of virus tolerance in plants. www.linkedin.com/posts/euraxe... @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @unistra.fr
- Excited to be at #ISMPMI2025! Come visit poster P-257 to learn about the role of siRNAs in symptom recovery during viral infection @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
- Final result is out! Small RNA mobility and plant virus diseases. Check it out in Journal of Experimental Botany: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar… @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
- Latest #preprint from the lab @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Please welcome Nissolia brasiliensis, the new non-nodulating model legume ☘️ developped by Camille Girou in the team! Work led by Tatiana, with input from many! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 🧬 Single-cell atlas unlocks rice's genetic secrets! 116K cells reveal hidden developmental networks – game-changer for crop improvement 🌾 #Genomics #PlantScience #CellBiology emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily
- I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs
- How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🔬✨ Solidarity Microscopy in Burundi 🇧🇮 From May 12–26, GDR ImaBio helped train scientists and explore nature with the University of Burundi. ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=Qj6o... 📰 savoirs.unistra.fr/eclairage/un... Donate : 📧 microscopie-solidaire@services.cnrs.fr #ScienceForGood
- 🎉🔥 Yesterday, the IBMP team gathered for our annual BBQ! A perfect mix of sunshine, good food, and great colleagues. Thanks to everyone who joined and helped make it such a fun and delicious event! 🌞🍽️ #BBQ #LabLife
- ♻️ From waste to green gold! IBMP-IPHC researchers & partners turn polluted wetland plants into liquid fertilizers, removing up to 95% of toxic pollutants while boosting crop health. A sustainable step forward for agriculture! #PlantScience 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- 🧬🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🧬🌱 📖 Edera & Quadrana review how the interplay between histone variants and DNA methylation is essential for cellular function in Arabidopsis thaliana, with chromatin remodeling serving as a coordinating factor. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- 🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱🧬 Tremblay & Qüesta discuss how examining the seed-to-seedling transition can reveal how non-coding RNAs and epigenetic changes regulate transcription during developmental transitions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jiquesta.bsky.social
- ☀️ SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌡️ 📖 Garro et al. show that non-CG DNA methylation represses SDC expression to regulate auxin & gibberellin-related genes, maintaining hypocotyl elongation in warm temps. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @maigarro.bsky.social @maticapella.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪
- ASHS Career Center Director, School of Plant & Env Sci, VT ow.ly/qVvf50Wiu28 Assc Prof or Prof of Agricultural Irrigation and Water Resources Mgmt, NMSU ow.ly/Mwgs50Wiu29 Asst Prof/Specialty Crops Entomologist, NMSU ow.ly/oqsc50Wiu2a ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantsciencejobs
- 🪴🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌡️⚙️ The role of RNA polymerase II transcript elongation factors in plant stress responses - Klaus D. Grasser 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- insightful review on how seeds decide to germinate from omics research perpective transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenetics - it’s not just germination, it’s well-organized coordination worth reading! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #seedomics #plantdevelopment #spatialomics @lewseylab.bsky.social
- 🌱🧬 New paper "Advances in seed 'omics" is out and available as advance access article in @jxbotany.bsky.social. Covers how omics tech is revolutionising seed research - single-cell and multi-omics integration towards climate-resilient crops. La Trobe and Zhejiang University. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
- 🧬 How do cells ensure the integrity of centromeres during mitosis? Read the new paper headed by I Lermontova (@leibnizipk.bsky.social) and co-authored by P Genschik & E Lechner (@ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social) published in @theplantcell.bsky.social . 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plce...
- [1/3] Slah Boulila, enseignant-chercheur à Sorbonne Université (ISTeP - CNRS), révèle que la Terre suit une horloge interne : un cycle géologique de 60 millions d’années rythme tectonique, chimie des océans et biodiversité marine depuis le Phanérozoïque. #geosciences #geology
- 📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝 🧬 Epigenetics 🧬 🔎 Guest editors Catoni, Lechon & Probst dive into expert views, reviews, and original research exploring how plant epigenetics integrates developmental & environmental signals 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @alineprobst.bsky.social
