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- Reposted by pfeilmeierPlease 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...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierPlease share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierA permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!
- It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @inrae-bioger.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to identify #plant #susceptibility factors to #fungal diseases. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply!
- Reposted by pfeilmeierPlease 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 pfeilmeierHighly recommended
- For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science. I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback) www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierCrinkler proteins—first discovered in Phytophthora—can be fused to ADP-ribosyltransferases, acting as epigenetic parasitic elements in free-living eukaryotes. #AACRNL #Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierGCN5 negatively regulates class III peroxidases PRX71 and PRX33 to promote lignin deposition in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by pfeilmeierJoin us in Amsterdam for a FEBS advanced course on "Functional Imaging of cellular dynamics" from 31st of May - 6th of June 2026 Info: microscopy2026.febsevents.org
- Reposted by pfeilmeierA New Multiplex TaqMan qPCR for Precise Detection and Quantification of Clavibacter michiganensis in Seeds and Plant Tissue | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierRescheduled Date for Dr. Caitilyn Allen’s APS Webinar on January 29: “Catching the Scent: How Plant Pathogenic Ralstonia Know They Are in a Host” Register here 👉 bit.ly/3WqLF2p #PlantScience #PlantPathology #plantdisease #scicomm
- Reposted by pfeilmeierThe new textbook Essential Plant Biology, written by @johninnescentre.bsky.social and TSL experts, is now available! 🌱 This richly illustrated textbook is accessible undergraduate biologists and will be a valuable resource for all biology students and teachers 🌿 Full announcement ➡️ buff.ly/AmDw3en
- Reposted by pfeilmeier📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!
- Reposted by pfeilmeierJoin us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international and local speakers. ⏰ APPLY by 30 March '26 New keynote speakers ⬇️
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🆕 version work @sylvain-vicente.bsky.social and collaborators #BIOSP #MathNum @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Re-evaluation of STAMP modelling, introducing time-resolution. Works also on Animal-bacterial infection models. #infection #Ralstonia #Pseudomonas #Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierVACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @philcarella.bsky.social Group, working in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions). okt.to/yIlgTU Closing date - 10 February 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - Full-time, 3 years
- Reposted by pfeilmeierI'm excited to see this out after hearing Matt give a nice seminar a few months ago. Ralstonia is such an interesting pathogen! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierAsgard archaea may have facilitated the evolutionary development of the mitochondria via endosymbiosis of α-proteobacteria at some point between the first eukaryotic common ancestor (FECA) and the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA)! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierThis position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
- The Weisberg Lab at Oregon State University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in molecular microbiology to study mobile genetic element host range and transmission in microbial communities. Please see the full job description here: files-dev.cqls.oregonstate.edu/Weisberg_Lab...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierNew in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🆕📰‼️ #PaperCBGP 🔬 Researchers from CBGP (@stephanpollmann.bsky.social) together with @cnb-csic.bsky.social, uncover a new biochemical link between auxin and ABA 🌱 The study, published in @newphyt.bsky.social, reveals how IAM connects plant growth and stress responses 📎 shorturl.at/KBi3w
- Reposted by pfeilmeierPhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!
- Reposted by pfeilmeierEfficient and accurate prime editing system in plants Nishizawa-Yokoi et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierHappy to share our recent preprint: "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social
- Reposted by pfeilmeierBacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierJoin us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🛎️🛎️ Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship? Interested in tackling real-world challenges? Then check out EMBL's EIPOD-LinC fellowships. Gain transferable skills and work on self-designed projects to make a lasting impact on global issues. 📆 Closing date: 2 February www.embl.org/about/info/p...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierBacteria swap DNA far more than we thought. This study shows recombination between species can blur genetic boundaries, with up to 95% of diversity coming from hybrid DNA in some microbes.
- Reposted by pfeilmeierHow do pathogens sneak past plant defenses? Join Dr. Quan Zeng in "Illustrating a Novel Host Entry Mechanism of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria." Don’t miss this event in our Advances in Phytobacteriology series on January 15! bit.ly/3YnkfLz #planthealth #plantscience
- Reposted by pfeilmeierA free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
- Reposted by pfeilmeier#TAIR is a key reference tool #plantscience. That's why nearly 100 volunteers chose to contribute to the soon-to-be-released reannotation of the #Arabidopsis genome. 🧪 Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ #plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky
- Reposted by pfeilmeier⏰ Reminder! Applications for the International Undergraduate Summer School at Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social close January 16! Spend eight weeks working with expert scientists and technologies in plant, microbial, and data science.
- Reposted by pfeilmeierIn our #VirtualIssue on #Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses we bring together New Phytologist articles that highlight recent developments in the study of how plants respond to herbivores 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience
- Reposted by pfeilmeierI am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
- Reposted by pfeilmeierOne of the most important books I've read this year, from @adambecker.bsky.social. It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!" But it's critical to realize that they are.
- Reposted by pfeilmeierWe wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierGerade hat ein knappe, aber ausreichende Mehrheit der EU-Mitgliedstaaten für den Trilog-Kompromiss zu Pflanzen aus neuen genomischen Verfahren (#NGT) gestimmt. Wie so oft hat sich D enthalten. Jetzt noch das EU-Parlament. #Gentechnik www.msn.com/de-de/finanz...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierSo wild. Ein Bundesministerium, das seine Position auf den tendenziösen Umfragen von NGO und wirtschaftlich involvierten Labelbetreibern aufbaut 🫣 Man stelle sich ein solches Vorgehen bei anderen neuen Technologien vor, z.B. bei Impfstoffen oder regenerativen Energien. Ist doch crazy
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🚨JOB ALERT! We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms. tinygu.de/TknxZ If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🗓️ Mark your calendars! The Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium with the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social returns in 2026! Register your interest now to join us 08-09 July, exploring the latest technologies, research, and applications in single-cell and spatial genomics.
- Fantastic story how bacteria exploit a host pathway to dissolve plant tissue and obtain nutrients 🤯 Uncovering these mechanisms about plant-pathogen interactions is so cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by pfeilmeier📣The webinar recording is now available for viewing. Enjoy!🌱 plantae.org/plantaeprese... #plantscience
- 📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on Wednesday, December 17, 9:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/w6HBivf #PlantScience
- Reposted by pfeilmeierNew opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierBacterial genomes encode a rich repertoire of antiphage systems, but we still know surprisingly little about when these systems are actually expressed. In this preprint, Lucas Paoli et al, ask what shapes antiphage systems expression in native contexts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierHappy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
- Reposted by pfeilmeier📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: International “Fascination of Plants Day” – a global celebration of plants! 👉 buff.ly/TQ5CsrV #PlantScience
- Reposted by pfeilmeieracademic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... Endophytic adaptation in Flavobacterium sp. 98 @xinyapan.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social ✌🏽 lysoPE story could be cool
- Reposted by pfeilmeierPlease RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
- Reposted by pfeilmeier🧬 🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 🧬 MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- Reposted by pfeilmeierEuropean Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
- Reposted by pfeilmeierWant to know how we're advancing equity, diversity & inclusion in science? 🌍 Check out our latest report! buff.ly/2GIgGPH
- Reposted by pfeilmeierWe are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob
