And one who is interested in *your* goals, which may lie in academia *or elsewhere*

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last mo.

Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.

🧵🌿 Did you know that tRNA gene organization in plants is shaped by strong evolutionary constraints? Uncover how cis-regulatory elements and chromosomal distribution work together to maintain optimal tRNA dosage in @theplantjournal.bsky.social . 🌍🔍 🔗https://urlr.me/sQMAyx

Finally online! It took ut 9 yars from formulating the hypothesis to actually finalizing the last experiments... but there it is!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄@melaniekrich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The conclusion of a long-lasting obsession about lipids, plant terrestrialization and the origin of plant symbioses 1/7 🧵 @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social

And now also in @lemonde.fr 🎉 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Le ballet épigénétique derrière la floraison des plantes mis au jour

La vitesse de fleurissement et la quantité de pétales produits par les plantes à fleurs dépendent d’un mécanisme bien orchestré mais complexe. Des chercheurs sont parvenus à déterminer les acteurs et ...

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Vangeli Geshkovski@vgeshkovski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions - Nature Plants

This study reports a bivalent factor, ULTRAPETALA1, that can counteract as well as promote PRC2 activity at hundreds of developmental genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The pro-PRC2 activity of ULTRAPETAL...

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🧬 New on bioRxiv! 🧬 We developed SirenScan – a computational framework to systematically identify siren RNAs from sRNA-seq data.

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SirenScan reveals the conserved presence of siren RNAs and their evolutionary diversification across angiosperms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744852v1

[⚠️JOB ALERT⚠️] We are looking for a Research assistant (IE for those familiar with the French system) in molecular biology to run DAPseq in the lab. 18 months contract (to start) Start date: October 1st. Exprience in library prep., in vitro transcription/translation system or DAPseq is a must.

Please check out our latest preprint from the team @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and many more! Happy to have contributed to this really cool story!

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744897v1

❗ French agriculture is experiencing one of the worst nationwide agricultural disasters since 1945 due to drought. 🔻 corn -41% 🔻 sorghum - 61% (promoted as drought tolerant! 🤔 ) 🔻 wheat -31% 🔻 potato -42% 🔻 legumes -30 to -70% A huge challenge for all. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

La situation agricole française n’est plus au bord du gouffre, comme elle pouvait l’être en 2022 : cette fois-ci, elle est dans le gouffre. Il n’est désormais plus inconcevable que nous soyons en… | S...

La situation agricole française n’est plus au bord du gouffre, comme elle pouvait l’être en 2022 : cette fois-ci, elle est dans le gouffre. Il n’est désormais plus inconcevable que nous soyons en trai...

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The applications are starting to roll in! A sample News and Views must be submitted with the application, so don't procrastinate 😵‍💫 The blog post lists papers you can write on; if you can't access the one you select, I can send it to you. Good luck 🍀 blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af... Please share!

Plant Physiology is recruiting Assistant Features Editors to start in 2027 and 2028 | Plant Science Today

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. Since 2018…

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Together with Mathieu Hanemian, we're searching for an undergrand student (Master or Erasmus internship, final-year engineering student) to explore the effect of intercropping on the soil microbiota. If this sounds interesting to you, please reach our with your CV and a motivation letter!

#PlantScience Res Weekly(2/2) plantae.org/plant-scienc... What’s up with stromules? Single-cell stem cell dynamics; Not all arbuscules pull the same weight; Long non-coding RNA in rice blast disease; Retrotransposons ➡️site-specific genome editing @sebamorenor.bsky.social @jenmcgaley.bsky.social

#PlantScience Research Weekly: July 10, 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Lichen super pangenome reveals interaction repertoires; Maize multi-omics predicts phenotypes; Role of Tre6P in root development; A host-viral regulatory circuit affects chloroplast stability (1/2) @bobvanburen.bsky.social

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Great discussions on the roles of lncRNAs in the regulation of plant-microbe endosymbiosis at @inrae-france.bsky.social Centre Val de Loire. Thanks @stephane-maury.bsky.social, Claire Veneault-Fourrey & @karimaelm.bsky.social for the invitation in frame of the EpiMyc project: anr.fr/Project-ANR-...

The Epigenetics of Mycorrhizae

An intrinsic characteristic of trees from boreal and temperate forest ecosystems is the mutualistic association with soil-borne ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi in their roots. ECM fungi provide trees with...

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1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

We have an open position for lab technician to support our research @uni-muenster.de : stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/9... Experience in molecular biology, laboratory management, and strong communication skills are required. The position is initially offered at 50% for one year. 🌱🍅🧪

Technische*r Assistent*in

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[ #VeilleESR #LPPR ] Durcissement des règles d'attribution pour l'appel à projets générique ANR. Notamment : réduction du nombre de dépôts et augmentation du délais de carence. L'argumentaire est : plus les scientifiques ont besoin de l'ANR, moins il faut que les scientifiques sollicitent l'ANR.

We are hiring! Together with @bastien-boussau.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated candidate in bioinformatic and deep-learning to develop an approach for non-coding regions prediction in eukaryotes. More information and application here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Concluding remarks on a fantastic #Epiplant 2026 by organizers Leïla Tirichine and @celineduc.bsky.social after 3 days of inspiring science! We are already looking forward to #EpiPlant 2028 to be held in Grenoble under the lead of @cristelcarles.bsky.social @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social. Stay tuned!👋

A fantastic #EpiPlant 2026 closing lecture by @plantevolution.bsky.social from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social taking us on a transposon journey! In depth analysis of somatic transposition events revealed new fascinating aspects of TE biology.

📆 Save The Date! The Plant-Bacteria Interaction Meeting (18th RPB) in Aussois, Savoie will take place from January 11 to 15th, 2027 👉 More info on the keynote speakers & sessions: plants-bacteria-2027.symposium.inrae.fr Deadline: September 25th @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

Isabel Bäurle from IBB @unipotsdam.bsky.social delivers a #EpiPlant keynote on the interplay between transcription factors and chromatin to regulate heat stress memory in plants.

Our very own @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social @inrae-toulouse.bsky.social presenting his PhD work at #EpiPlant! His work suggests an interplay between long non-coding RNAs and histone modifiers to promote transcriptional reprogramming in root nodule symbiosis. Stay tuned!

Strong start of day 3 at #EpiPlant 2026! Naïs Daviddi from @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social showing elegant demonstration of gene regulation by histone deacetylases during symbiotic nodulation in legumes.

Now #EpiPlant GDR Director @alineprobst.bsky.social from @igred.fr taking us on a chromatin journey: histone variant H2B.8 plays a major role in the reprogramming of gene expression during the seed-to-seedling transition. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#EpiPlant speaker Lionel Navarro from @ibensens.bsky.social presenting how DNA methylation and demethylation regulate plant immunity. Great data showing natural DNA methylation variation with consequences on gene expression and plant adaptation 🌱🦠

More talks on plant-microbe interactions at #Epiplant with Stéphanie Jaubert from Institut Sophia Agrobiotech @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social showing a neat case of cross-kingdom RNAi involving parasitic nematodes that hack plant AGO1 to induce host cell reprogramming.

How are hormonal responses controlled during plant development? @jiquesta.bsky.social from @cragenomica.bsky.social discussing VAL1-mediated chromatin control from germination to organogenesis. #EpiPlant

This week we are at #EpiPlant 2026 in Nantes with @yaranoureddine.bsky.social & @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social for 3 days of great plant epigenetics research 🌱🧬 Make sure to hit Yara's poster #40 to discover how TFs and lncRNAs cooperate to regulate transcription in contrasted plant-microbe interactions.