Very excited to share our new preprint: “A pseudohelicase-centered complex couples assembly-dependent RNA cleavage to poly(UG)ylation”! 🎉 Want to know more? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So excited and incredibly grateful for this opportunity! 🦠🌱🧬

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

Great work by Ingram & Zipfel labs. Congratulations, everyone! An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

Angiosperm seed formation requires the coordinated development of the products of double fertilization—the embryo and the endosperm. The endosperm mediates efficient nutrient transfer from surrounding...

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I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

We are thrilled to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has been awarded a highly competitive @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his new project ImmuneCellStates, which will allow him and his team to study immune cell states as the fundamental building blocks of plant immunity 🧬🌱 buff.ly/77g56nV

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 3w ago

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Congrats @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social !!! Looking forward to see all the cool things your lab will discover!

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 3w ago

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

New paper! A study led by Pamela Vetrano and @sramundo.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social revealed novel factors involved in maintaining chloroplast membrane integrity following exposure to stress. Read the study published in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

VIA1 is a conserved regulator of thylakoid membrane integrity that acts through VIPP1 | PNAS

Thylakoid membranes are indispensable for oxygenic photosynthesis, yet the mechanisms that protect these membranes from photooxidative damage remai...

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Silvia Ramundo@sramundo.bsky.social · last mo.

A stress response can be a great starting point for discovering new biology! By following genes regulated during the chloroplast unfolded protein response, we’re discovering novel factors involved in chloroplast homeostasis. Here’s the first one we characterized: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌱 We are hiring! I’m looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Julian Lab at BOKU University Vienna as part of our FWF ASTRA-funded VITAL project. 🔬 Plant cell biology & vacuolar remodeling 📅 2 years, starting early 2027 ⏳ Apply by 30 September

What wonderful news! 🥳 Such a great catch for the MPG and a huge boost for plant virology. Congratulations @geminiteamlab.bsky.social on this tremendous achievement, very well deserved! Looking forward to seeing the science coming out of MPIPZ :)

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

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If I were an Early Career Researcher (#ECR) today, I wouldn’t join a lab that doesn’t #preprint (the PI agreed to keep paying me until my paper is finally published). It now takes ages to get papers through peer review, and without preprints you’re putting your future in someone else’s hands.

@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...

Scientific Director (f/m/x)

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

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*PhD position in Plant Physiology at Stockholm University* We are looking for a new PhD candidate to join our new lab at Stockholm University! The project will focus on epigenetic regulation of reproductive thermotolerance. Please share🙏 More information: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF

Proud of @filbinci.bsky.social and @gguarneri.bsky.social: A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus academic.oup.com/plphys/artic.... Great collaboration with @lorellanavazio.bsky.social

A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus

Abstract. Mildew Locus O (MLO) genes, initially identified as powdery mildew susceptibility factors, are increasingly recognized as multifunctional regulat

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@ohadroth.bsky.social and @soreklab.bsky.social discover bacterial enzymes that cleave the immune signal 2'cADPR explaining the mystery of XopQ virulence proteins in plant pathogens. Beautiful results mirroring phage inhibition of 2'- and 3'cADPR in bacteria! 🌱✂️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations David! It's absolutely great to see a Plant Scientist leading a college with such a remarkable contribution for the history of Science. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/new-mas...

Trinity College's next Master: Sir David Baulcombe

His Majesty King Charles III has appointed the plant scientist and geneticist Professor Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci to succeed Professor Dame

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Interested to join us to study plant proteostasis? We study host translation controlled by condensates 🧬, cell-type specific proteostasis ♻️, proteotoxic stress in the context of biotic and abiotic stress 🦠🔥🧂 👉 Build your own project in @theustunlab.bsky.social ⏳ Sept 9 #MSCA #Postdoc

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 6mo ago

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

It's out! A tour-de-force in plant-virus interactions by @thevirusmc.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social and many others @gmivienna.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. It turns out autophagy prevents virus-induced cell death, allowing plants to tolerate viral infection! A must-read 🌱

Marion Clavel@thevirusmc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our work is out now! (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). We discover a selective autophagy pathway that protects plants from the mess caused by RNA viruses. Intrigued? Follow the spaghetti trail for a summary of our findings🧵-->

I am thrilled to share our last work on the evolution of plant antiviral immunity @cragenomica.bsky.social !. Please, let us know what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.648 98/2026.05.18.725958v1 🧵

Sucha fantastic visit!!!! Thanks Marco for hosting! Going back to an MPI always feels like home!

Marco Incarbone@incavirus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thank you so much @manavellalab.bsky.social for visiting us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 🌱 It was a great day of discussion, especially with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social @gesahoffmann.bsky.social @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social @fritz-kragler.bsky.social See you soon in Malaga!

Thank you so much @manavellalab.bsky.social for visiting us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 🌱 It was a great day of discussion, especially with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social @gesahoffmann.bsky.social @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social @fritz-kragler.bsky.social See you soon in Malaga!

We thank @incavirus.bsky.social for his excellent work at #SeedCon2026! 🛡️🦠 A deep dive into virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes! Essential research for plant health and inheritance! #MicrobiomeResearch #SustainableAgriculture

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants

This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.

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See my new post on our homepage ✍️ The journey to our newest publication on how plants cope with proteotoxic stress ♻️ www.cell.com/molecular-ce... From Doubt to Discovery: A 15-Year Journey into Proteostasis, Pathogens, and Persistence

From Doubt to Discovery: A 15-Year Journey into Proteostasis, Pathogens, and Persistence

More than 15 years ago, during my PhD, we stumbled upon something unexpected. In a yeast two-hybrid screen, bacterial effector proteins from Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas interacted with a subunit of…

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Next stop Spain/Málaga 😍 Excited to talk about cell-type specificity,spatial immunity, heterogeneity & then in one of my favorite countries 🤩 I will mainly present our work on how „Autophagy acts as spatial organizer of cell-type specific 🌱 immunity“ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📋 Join us on Friday 8th for a fascinating talk by Suayib Ustun from the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) as part of the #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series Don't miss it! 🕑 9:30 AM 📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium

Fantastic paper led by Matthew Davis from @grey-monroe.bsky.social, on genome degradation in long-term walnut tissue culture: Somatic embryogenesis increases mutation rates >30x, with aneuploidy, large deletions, somatic recombination, and elevated #TE activity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here’s the press release by @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for our newest publication 🧬✨ “Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection” How pathogens rewire host translation via condensates 🔄🌱 #plantscience #proteostasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How Bacteria Circumvent Plants’ Immune System

Bacteria deactivate the protein synthesis of host cells to hamper immune reactions. This insight could aid in the development of more resistant plants.

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