Last talk of the session by @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing her latest insights into the conserved and divergent UV responses in Mesotaenium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re very delighted to welcome our first invited speaker, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, from Japan! He is taking us into the fascinating world of the unicellular zygnematophycean alga Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex. 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Starting our short talk sessions with James Walker from San Diego, telling us more about linking live-cell dynamics to single- cell molecular states across plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are going into the next session with Maria Dolores Lopez Bueno from the @philipp-denninger.bsky.social lab in Munich, sharing insights into the Evolution of novel RHO OF PLANTS signaling activators during the adaptation from water to land #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Alisha Alisha from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is focusing on investigating the role of FHY1 in phytochrome signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Zahin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is sharing his latest discoveries on phytochrome-mediated light signalling in Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Daniel Heß from @cyanolab.bsky.social in Freiburg is sharing his insights on Inositol phosphates, pyrophosphates and the genes involved in their turnover in the streptophyte green alga Chara braunii #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Zah is up on light quality signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens and beyond #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re kicking things off with a welcome talk by @jandevries.bsky.social, introducing us to Göttingen and the Alte Mensa 🏛️ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@jandevries.bsky.social kicking off the last @watertoland.bsky.social meeting

The final MAdLand Meeting @watertoland.bsky.social starts with @jandevries.bsky.social welcome in Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de #plantsci #evolution

Next up is @heche.bsky.social from the @jandevries.bsky.social lab, talking about Polyploid cycle in land plants: an exaptation of the alternation of dimorphic multicellular generations #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Congratulations to bioinformatician Dr Jaccoline Zegers for the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize, German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG), awarded for her PhD thesis. The prize recognises outstanding achievements in plant research: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #AppliedBioinformatics #Genomics #Algae

Congratulations to Dr. Sophie de Vries to be re-elected to be the YoungDBG representative and creating the #ECR #YoungDBG network - I’m excited to join and see what will grow from this. It is open to any ECR until junior group leaders @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Mark your calendars: The next Botanik-Tagung #BT2028, the international Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 📍will take place at Göttingen, Germany organised by @jandevries.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 - 21 September 2028

Next Botanik-Tagung is going to take place in Göttingen. Looking forward to the next meeting. Thank you, @jandevries.bsky.social ! #BT2028 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Just out in Syst Biol! What are the macroevolutionary rates of species interactions such as mutualisms and antagonisms? @cromanpa.bsky.social We developed a new Approximate Bayesian Computation approach to estimating speciation and extinction rates from cophylogenies. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Jaccoline Zegers receives the Pfeffer Award 2026 for her excellent work on evolutionary conservation of hyperosmotic response #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Congratulations! Dr Paul Grünhofer from @unibonn.bsky.social at #BT2026 receives one of this year’s Horst Wiehe Prizes from DBG’s own Horst Wiehe Foundation for his excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis. He had questioned long-standing assumptions about the protecting surfaces of poplars.

A big congrats to @jaccolinezegers.bsky.social again for receiving the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for her amazing PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de

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Boas Pucker@bpucker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cäcilia Kunz talks about evolutionary transitions during evolution of land plants #BT2026

Cäcilia Kunz talks about evolutionary transitions during evolution of land plants #BT2026

Yippie 🎉 Dr Sophie de Vries @uni-goettingen.de, our extended board member, receives a #ERCStG from @erc.europa.eu for her project “Plant Immune Responses in Perpetual symbiosis (PIRPetum)”, She will analyse how plants maintain their friends while repelling foes www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Thrilled to have the opportunity to investigate the role of membrane protein proteolysis in plant immunity through the ERC Starting Grant FRONTERA! A heartfelt thank you to my mentors, friends, and family whose support, encouragement, and guidance made this possible. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 4w 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

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 · 4w 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

#TansleyReview: The evolutionary origins of streptophyte multicellularity de Vries et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social

Can the pretrained transformer-based architecture TabPFN predict plant organismal complexity based on their complement of transcription factors? Yes it can: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to hear your thoughts! @dvarshney.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Prediction of plant organismal complexity based on transcription factor annotation: an AI approach

How morphological complexity evolves is still enigmatic. While there is evidence in algae and plants as well as animals that diversification of the repertoire of transcription factors (TF) is causativ...

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#Spirogyra genome paper now available @theplantcell.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project! @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to Dr. Sophie de Vries at @uni-goettingen.de for receiving her @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "Plant Immune Responses in Perpetual symbiosis (PIRPetum)" focusing on the #evolution of the #symbiosis between the water fern #Azolla and #cyanobacteria www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 4w 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