Gesa Hoffmann
Postdoc at the @MPIMP in Potsdam with Marco Incarbone.
Fascinated by all things plant pathogen and trying to understand the mysteries of plant virus vertical transmission. 🦠🌱💚
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannPlease share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannPlease share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannThanks a lot to @zivirus.bsky.social visiting us from @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social to talk about the #tobamovirus revealing a crossroad between viral movement and #PlantImmunity 🍅🦠 Thanks as well to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting! 🙏
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannJoin us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann🎄✨ Season’s greetings from UPSC! Looking ahead to the new year - are you an early career plant scientist interested in new research ideas and collaborations? 🌾Apply for the UPSC Early Career Symposium, April 2026!🧪 🗓 Deadline: 11 January 2026 👉 www.upsc.se/early-career...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannAre you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu
- Thank you @scienceslam.de for this wonderful night in Hamburg! 👩🔬🎤 I had a blast, learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed slamming about vertical transmission of plant viruses 🦠💚
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannOrganelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
- Organelles harbour pH gradients biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannThe Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠
- Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
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- Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚 Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀 We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
- Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannGlad 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!
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannCheck out our latest paper on mirusviruses, one of the most remarkable new groups of protist viruses - extremely diverse, carry lots of spliceosomal introns (including new homing introns) and are at the evolutionary crossroads between tailed phages and herpesviruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannGreat 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! 👏
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannLooking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ? Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring ! 📅 Apply by 10 January 2026 More info: 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannAnd now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannTEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty. Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion. With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEworldwide
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannExcited to share our latest work on the factors that determine what genes we find (and don't find!) in GWAS and burden tests. We describe a critical concept that we call *specificity*. Led by Jeff Spence and Hakhamanesh Mostafavi:
- How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals? In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck! 🧬🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannHow many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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- It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬 Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
- Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannHow 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...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannHistorically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann🦠🌱 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
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannDo not miss it! 1st Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition "Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)" Credit Jay McClellan 🧪 #Science #SciComm #Nature #Photography 1- www.nikonsmallworld.com 2- www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
- Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannInterested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannSix more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannAttention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannOne more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱 Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php... @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannThis is amazing. Engineered broad disease resistance #plantscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Thank you so much for the opportunity to present at #ASV2025 !
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannPlease spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...
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- First time in Montreal, first time at #ASV2025, first time giving an invited talk at a conference! I am stoked for the next days ‼️
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannHave you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannCan't enough of science? Worry not - we've got you covered! 😊Our 2024 Yearbook Highlights Research just dropped: filled with inspiring science that shapes our future, from breakthroughs in heart health to ingenious ways to cut waste. Read all here ➡️ www.mpg.de/13631298/yea...
- Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannThe recent acceleration of climate change is wild. Brace for the impact, and get our shit together, world! #ShowYourStripes day. showyourstripes.info
- Reposted by Gesa Hoffmann🌾🦠 Trade, war, and viral rice A new study traces how Rice yellow mottle virus spread across Africa via caravan trade, seed exchange – and even WWI troop movements. Plant virus history is human history too. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #PlantPathology #Rice #SciComm 🧪
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- Reposted by Gesa HoffmannLatest preprint from the lab, many years in the making! By combining #cryoEM with #AlphaFold3 modelling, we propose that norovirus NS3 forms a transmembrane RNA translocase. This could have big implications for our understanding of viral replication & assembly (🧵) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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