ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for @maxplanck.de Director Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social! She receives 2.5 million euros to study how mobile small RNAs can impact adaptive functional traits in plants. Congratulations!

🎉 Congratulations to @jiali024.bsky.social and Hanne Zillmer on receiving the Jeff Schell #Award for their exciting discoveries in mobile #smallRNAs and #protein interaction landscapes. A well-deserved recognition of outstanding #research! 👏🔬🌱

📢 #Postdoc opportunity! We're looking for a Postdoc to join the lab of @carogutj.bsky.social at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social (Potsdam, Germany). Research focus: #molecular mechanisms of nutrient exchange in arbuscular #mycorrhiza #symbiosis 📩 See www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2287446/karr...

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New in @science.org 🌱 @thevirusmc.bsky.social and @plantophagy.bsky.social show how selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to help cells survive viral infection. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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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!

Very excited to be tomorrow @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social telling our latest work at the Molecular Reprogramming and Evolution (MoRE) lab @cragenomica.bsky.social on the co-evolution of plant development and Immunity, come to join us tto discuss about it if you happen to be around!

Very nice seminar by @carogutj.bsky.social from @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social today on plant - fungal symbiosis.

Yesterday Felix Willmund from @unimarburg.bsky.social visited us to talk about the features of heat-induced aggregation of #chloroplast #proteins in #algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Great seminar und discussion! Thanks to Adrian Nievergelt for organizing the event.

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social

A big thank you to Yen-Ping Hsueh from the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social for an outstanding talk on #predatory #fungi yesterday! A fascinating topic and a truly insightful discussion. Many thanks as well to @alexanderforderer.bsky.social, @carogutj.bsky.social and Gloria Meng-Hsuan Lin for hosting!

🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease - Nature Plants

Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in the cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective, resulting in biparental inheritance that can rescue mitochondrial mutations and g...

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Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming @thorstenlangner.bsky.social from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social for a fascinating talk about #plantpathogen #coevolution and pathogen-informed disease control🌱🦠 Thank you for the inspiring visit and many thanks to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting!

Shoutout to yesterday’s guest @eswallner.bsky.social, who visited us from @gmivienna.bsky.social for her talk “Lessons from sporeling development: How to form plant organs and meristems de novo?” - fascinating perspective on plant development!🌱 Thanks as well to @thevirusmc.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

Samplify – automated quantification of seed abortion Bente et al. @hebente.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge congrats to Dr. Yunli Hsieh from AG Nikoloski for successfully defending his thesis “Computational Integration of Multi-Omics and Phenotype Data into Genome-Scale Metabolic Models“ 🤖🌿 All the best for your future! 🎉

It was a great pleasure to host Nick Irwin from @gmivienna.bsky.social here at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social, where he talked about their work on horizontal gene transfer, its effect on evolution and on the development of new molecular pathways. Looking forward to follow future developments!

Thanks 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! 🙏

New paper in @natplants.nature.com finds that #siRNAs can act as long-distance communication signals from maternal to male tissue in #Capsella with functional role in #pollen development. Read here: nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02219-6 @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @jiali024.bsky.social

Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development - Nature Plants

This study shows that many small RNAs in Capsella rubella pollen originate from maternal tissues. These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RN...

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🌍 Happy #CleanEnergyDay! 🎉 With our #photovoltaic systems and additional #sustainability measures, our campus located in @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social is able to cut about 600 tons of #CO₂ annually. Proud of this step toward a cleaner future! 🌞🌾

Genomic imprinting in an early-diverging #angiosperm reveals an ancient mechanism for #seed initiation in flowering #plants A #Letter by Florez-Rueda et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @anaflo.bsky.social @duartedf.bsky.social

🎓 Double Doctorate 🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Luisa Wittemeier and Dr. Alina Ebert from AG Kopka for defending their #PhD theses on the same day 💪🧠 Two defenses, two new doctors, one proud lab - we couldn’t be happier for the both of you. Wishing you an amazing future ahead! 🚀

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

We were delighted to welcome Luis Lopez Molina today! Many thanks for the excellent talk on how endospermic ARFs regulate #seed dormancy, seed #development and #cold adaptation ❄️ We had a great time listening and discussing! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting ✨

We are looking far and wide for this position! So if you are motivated, interested in academia, and want to explore the world of plant-virus interaction, we are ALSO happy to host you for a PhD! More detail below🔽☘️🦠

Many thanks to Peter Brodersen (University of Copenhagen) for an excellent talk on “A proxy #RNAi pathway for sensing pathogenic cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA in #plants.” It was a pleasure to have you with us! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting the talk.

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Diego Brito from AG @fritz-kragler.bsky.social for defending his #PhD thesis titled “Characterization of Cold Shock Proteins (CSPs) and their role in the coordination of growth and stress responses in Arabidopsis“ Wishing you all the best @dipbrito.bsky.social 🎓🌱

Delighted to have @bkrenz.bsky.social from @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social visit us for his inspiring talk “ #Plant #Viruses in Focus – Challenges and #Innovative Solutions for #Sustainable #Agriculture ” 🌱🦠 Great discussion, thanks to everyone who joined and to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting!

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...

AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes

The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...

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It's great to see this work finally out! @newphyt.bsky.social Here we showed that auxin production after fertilization is a conserved, paternal-triggered mechanism for seed initiation in angiosperms.

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#Genomic #imprinting in an early-diverging lineage ✉ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Letter article by Florez-Rueda et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience