Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.

Integration of CCT/TRiC assembly, degradation and function: chaperonin complexity in a cellular context pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42628785/ #cryoEM

Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective

Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species, coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellig

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bioRxiv/medRxiv have been dealing with endless bot attacks recently (plus usual DDOS stuff, etc). Tricky to address without impacting genuine users - many of you affected. Apologies. We're working with our hosting service on solutions & think we're getting there [he shouts in his Red Queen costume].

📣 VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group Exciting opportunity to investigate small RNA-based plant immunity, applied to crop disease resistance 🧬 🌱 📍 Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply by 1 Sept 2026 ✨️ 2 positions available www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group

The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich, United KingdomApplication review starts 1 September 2026

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📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

🐙 Octopuses appear to have evolved a ribosomal innovation that increases protein translation fidelity. *suggests that evolution can tune core components of the proteostasis machinery, extending adaptation beyond gene regulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution of a core ribosomal innovation in octopus

Much of biology focuses on how genetic changes mediate new functions, but less attention is given to adaptations in other steps of the central dogma. Octopuses exhibit complex nervous systems and soph...

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🍃🎤🍃 Speaker Announcement 🍃🎤🍃 Join Malcolm Bennett at 'Early Career Essentials for Applied Biologists' 🌱 As he discusses the 'hidden half', moving from fundamental science to in-field applications and how to succeed in research 🧪 📆 20-21 Oct '26 📍 Nottingham & Online Register now 👉 cvent.me/8o1kkP

THEY'RE BACK: Our historic Palm Houses reopen in October 🎉🌴 Want to be one of the first to visit? Sign up to our presale to buy tickets 48 hours before general release: www.rbge.org.uk/palmhouses/

Excited to preprint this collaborative study led by @adamrbentham.bsky.social in which computationally-designed protein binders were generated that recognise pathogen effectors leading to a plant immune response when deployed within NLR immune receptors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Computational design of de novo integrated domains enables rational control of pathogen effector recognition in plant NLR immune receptors.

The rapid evolution of plant pathogens poses a persistent threat to global agricultural sustainability, often outpacing the discovery and deployment of natural disease resistance genes. While bioengin...

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I was back home in 🇰🇷 for the past couple of weeks for a nice break. I enjoyed the scenery, the food, and meeting family and friends. I'm back in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 now, enjoying my cozy home, refreshed to be back at work and catching up with colleagues and friends. I feel very lucky to have two homes!

📣 VACANCY: Scientist/Senior Scientist - Innovation Pilot Lead with @kamiljwitek.bsky.social in the 2Blades Group This position offers an exciting opportunity to identify and address market-driven challenges in crop protection and trait development. ⏰ Apply online by 3 Aug 2026 buff.ly/YR73ZY4

Are you attending the #SEBconference in person? Come join @katherinedenby.bsky.social, @thepallavisingh.bsky.social and myself for @theplantjournal.bsky.social fellows session. We will discuss about career development, postdoc-to-PI transition and publishing! Today at 13:00 in the Onice room 🌱👩‍🎓👩‍🔬👩‍💻

Mary-Dell Chilton, plant transformation pioneer, passed away on June 24th. www.facebook.com/story.php?st... See also Plant Science Classic #6: bsky.app/profile/soms... #PlantScience 🧪

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 3y ago

#PlantScienceClassics #6: The T-DNA. In a 1977 paper, Mary-Dell Chilton & colleagues identify the Transferred DNA (T-DNA), the bit of DNA that Agrobacterium tumefaciens inserts into the plant genome, to kick off the race toward the first transgenic plant. doi.org/10.1016/0092...

Just presented at #ICAR2026 in Singapore: What if plants use nanoscale vibrations to communicate cell wall states? Exciting to share our latest thinking and hear what the community makes of it 🌱. Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity!

🧪🌾VACANCY - How do cell-wall properties shape plant growth?🔬 Join Laura Bacete's group @cellwalldynamics.com as a postdoc and combine plant cell wall biology, biophysics and spatial transcriptomics. Apply by Aug 31👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in Plant Cell Wall Biology, Biophysics, and Spatial Transcriptomics

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Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags from Blackford Hills.

Excited to share our new @ThePlantCell Perspective on training plant scientists in the era of #GenAI 🌱🤖 A practical framework for research, teaching & mentorship across career stages. Open access + actionable ideas—please share! "Read the article" (academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...)

Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective

Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species, coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellig

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Our first invited speaker of the #NRPDTP26 conference is Dr Marco Catoni, from the University of Birmingham. Today he’s talking about combining genomics and plant grafting to investigate mobile RNAs.

Next we have Simone Immler from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social who will be discussing the molecular mechanisms of reproduction.

Next we have Camila Cotrim from Better Dairy, discussing her transition into industry and her science on precision fermentation. #NRPDTP26

Next we have @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social from the University of Bristol. Today he will talking about how plants regulate bacterial infections. #NRPDTP26

It was fantastic to be back in Norwich! Thank you for the invitation, I was really delighted to talk about my career paths from PhD to now. @nrpdtp.bsky.social

Angus Bucknell@ahbucknell.com · 3mo ago

Our last invited speaker for the #NRPDTP26 conference is @hee-kyung-ahn.bsky.social from the @instmolplantsci.bsky.social!

I am thrilled to share this story on how cocktails can help your protein research 🍸. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/6

Polychrome activity profiling distinguishes Cys proteases and their isoforms in plants

Activity-based profiling with fluorescent probes is a powerful tool for the functional characterization of whole enzyme classes in crude proteomes. Here, we discovered that probe cocktails consisting ...

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TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear. Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conserved TIR-only proteins drive transcriptional defense and basal immunity in dicot and monocot plants

Toll/interleukin-1/resistance (TIR) domain NADase enzymes signal in plant immunity by producing ribosylated nucleotide second messengers which activate EDS1 dimer-helper NLR pathways to restrict patho...

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Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences are at the Meadows Festival! Please visit if you'd like to know more about what we do and why we study molecular plant sciences 🌱 @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Last week, to celebrate Prof. Andrew Hudson’s new Emeritus status, members of @instmolplantsci.bsky.social competed in a friendly cricket match: the Snapdragons 🌸 vs. the Tomatoes 🍅. The Snapdragons, fittingly Andrew’s team, were determined to be the best model system of the match!

Interested in an academic career in Europe? Join this workshop for practical advice on funding pathways, job applications, and navigating the European academic job market from experts who’ve successfully done it. 📅 June 2, 2026 | 11am–12pm EDT 🔗: buff.ly/K7Z4tcj @aniekj.bsky.social

Check out our latest pre-print on the evolution of TIR activity/signalling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Elenor Kennedy@ebkennedy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@khongsamchia.bsky.social Extremely excited to share the first pre-print from my PhD project in the Carella lab, co-first authored with @khongsamchia.bsky.social 🎉 (Thread below ⬇️) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to all co-authors and the #CarellaCapybaras for all the support 😊