The Julian lab is looking for a postdoc! if you want to help understand how plant maintain their vacuolar membrane integrity under alkaline conditions , how does the autophagy machinery help, and how this mechanism evolved, this is the place for you.☘️

Jose Julian@josejulian.bsky.social · last mo.

🌱 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

The GMI @gmivienna.bsky.social of the @oeaw.bsky.social seeks to appoint a Scientific Director (f/m/x) to lead one of Europe’s premier research institutes in plant biology. Apply by Nov. 15 via GMI.search.director@oeaw.ac.at. More information: www.oeaw.ac.at/de/gmi/join-...

Out now! ➡️ Going viral – Plant selective autophagy swiping left and right on viral infections. We review how viruses and selective autophagy interact and propose that multiple parallel pathways collectively shape infection outcomes. Kudos to @jcmuede.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social.

A newly released AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences. go.nature.com/4wS3Pen

Move over, AlphaFold: open source model predicts shape of 1 billion proteins

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

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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🧵-->

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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New paper! A study from the Dolan lab at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social has just been published in Current Biology. Read the publication titled "Antagonism between blue- and red-light signaling controls thallus flatness in Marchantia polymorpha" here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Who said getaway weekends were not *also* for sampling? Going back to Potsdam with some wild Marchantia polymorpha 🥬(wrong icon sorry) for @sreeja-theresa.bsky.social to analyze as part of her predoc project at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social

Anne Roulin@anneroulin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A long-overdue reunion with two of my PhD office mates @thevirusmc.bsky.social and not-on-Bluesky Julie Jacquemin. Lovely day in Ulm, great company, and yes… we had to look for liverworts along the river 🧐

Lovely day at Charles University invited by the one and only @vanessaloi.bsky.social and the L.O.G.E lab. All about plant☘️viruses🦠, phage and bacterial-derived chloroplastic polymerases. Why keep both? The L.O.G.E lab aims to answer that question!

PhD work of Alibek! <3. "Sometimes the real treasure are the selective autophagy receptors we found along the way (marchantiales) and them dropped unceremoniously".

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

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/...

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

Please 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...

BARVISTA visualises gene expression in the barley shoot apical meristem with single-cell resolution @edgardemesa.bsky.social @usadellab.bsky.social @simonrdg.bsky.social @isaiavardanega.bsky.social @plantgen-hhu.bsky.social @hhu.de @ceplas.bsky.social www.plabipd.de/projects/han...

@edgardemesa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very proud of that one and very proud of @victorsmh6.bsky.social, @marintianava.bsky.social and Anita Bianchi for their amazing achievement! A must read for all selective autophagy afficinados 🍽️🪴

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology@gmivienna.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally, research led by @victorsmh6.bsky.social, @marintianava.bsky.social & Anita Bianchi from the Dagdas lab identified CESAR, a key player in plant stress response via selective autophagy. The study was published in Developmental Cell. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

Ten days left to apply for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026 with the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social! A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park 🧬🧪 ⏰ Deadline 16 January 2026

International Undergraduate Summer School | John Innes Centre

The Undergraduate Summer School is a unique opportunity for undergraduates from all corners of the world to spend eight weeks at our internationally renowned research centre, partnering with fellow…

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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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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🔽☘️🦠

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

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana | PNAS

The seed is a landmark plant adaptation where the embryo is sheltered by a protective seed coat to facilitate dispersion. In Arabidopsis, the seed ...

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Just sprouted on #Bluesky 🌱 Let’s turn over a new leaf together! 🌿