🌱 We are very thrilled to announce our Invited Speakers for this year's MAdLand Meeting. Join us in Göttingen, Germany, from September 29 to October 2, 2026, if you are interested in #plantsci & #evolution, and (re-)connect with an amazing scientific community. Register here: madland-meeting.de

Learn about the UV response of the earliest land plants #evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway—& its divergence in zygnematophyte #algae at Cece's @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social poster 100-042 #PlantBio2026 @aspbofficial.bsky.social & checkout @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Happening now: Genes/Genomes: Regulatory & Transcriptional Networks! Featuring talks by: Min-Yao Jhu, Molly Megraw, Jan de Vries, Bahram Samanfar, and Stefanie F. King. #PlantBio2026 #PlantScience

#plantbio2026 Come see me at my poster tonight 000-018 and learn about the Assistant Features Editor program of @theplantcell.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social 💚

Don't forget to join the 100 Celebration of Plant Physiology Symposium- #PlantBio2026 @plantphys.bsky.social Monday, July 20, 1:30 pm-, Canada Hall 1. And, stop by our booth 🥰🌱🍁 -Photo, our might EIC, Yunde Zhao!

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

Elenor Kennedy@ebkennedy.bsky.social · 3mo 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 😊

Learn about the UV response of the earliest land plants #evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway—& its divergence in zygnematophyte #algae at Cece's @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social poster 100-042 #PlantBio2026 @aspbofficial.bsky.social & checkout @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Happy to be at my first #ASPB meeting in Ottawa. If you’re interested in #evolution & phenolics in the closest algal relatives of land #plants, come to my poster #100-042 today from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm and tomorrow (Monday) from 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm #PlantBio2026 #algae

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

The evolutionary origins of #streptophyte multicellularity #TansleyReview by Tatyana Darienko, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social Summary also available in German. #PlantScience

Great team effort & our 1st #chlamy pub. Thx to many nice colleagues e.g., @jandevries.bsky.social @mackinderlab.bsky.social @lmu.de @padovaf.bsky.social #plantscience #GoPMF Conserved and Lineage-Specific Roles of KEA-Mediated Ion Homeostasis in Chlamydomonas academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Conserved and Lineage-Specific Roles of KEA-Mediated Ion Homeostasis in Chlamydomonas

Disruption of KEA-mediated chloroplast ion homeostasis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals conserved and lineage-specific control of plastid rRNA processi

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Als die ersten Pflanzen ihren Lebensraum im Wasser verließen und an Land siedelten, waren sie völlig neuen Gefahren ausgesetzt. Besonders bedrohlich war UV-Strahlung. Wie haben sie das überlebt? Eine winzige Alge gibt darüber nun Aufschluss. Mehr erfahren: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

When a protist engulfed a cynaobacterium, Earth changed forever! @jandevries.bsky.social, @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social, @heche.bsky.social & colleagues review the origins and evolution of archaeoplastids, the lineage that arose from this event, including plants & co www.cell.com/current-biol...

Very excited to be presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen. I'll be talking about evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in UV acclimation in the context of plant terrestrialization. Looking forward to connecting with other researchers interested in #evolution. #SMBE2026

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SMBE2026 S17: Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Happy to be part of the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social on #plant #evolution with @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social @heche.bsky.social! Check out our review on the evolution of Archaeplastida:

Phylogenomic frameworks from deep archaeplastid evolution to embryophyte diversification

Baştürk et al. review the major progress that has been made in our understanding of Archaeplastida, the primary plastid-bearing photosynthetic eukaryotes that include the land plants, highlighting lon...

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Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our latest issue just dropped! It's green & special! And super meaty, even though it is about #plants #evolution! 🌵🌿🫛🍃🌱 This is all you need to read this week! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Very happy to share our recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showcasing the cell systems response of a close relative of land plants to UV-B light by utilising a multi-omics approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Chemodiverse cell system responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants

Plant terrestrialization necessitated overcoming a barrage of stressors.1 Embryophytes (land plants) use an integrated response network to adjust thei…

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Chemodiverse cell systems responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants #plantscience @jandevries.bsky.social

Check out Cäcila's manuscript!

Cäcilia Felicitas Kunz from the University Göttingen will report on Plant Terrestrialization: Phenolics in Stress Response in the Closest Algal Relatives of Land Plants #MBP2026

Plant Science Research Weekly Oct 31, 2025. plantae.org/plant-scienc... What makes a tree a tree? Secret strategy of far-red photosynthesis; Unwinding the Spirogyra genome; H2O2 role in P starvation response; Viral evasion of cap-independent translation defense (1/2)

Sudden complexity just 65 million years ago discovered by team around @jandevries.bsky.social by analysis of the green alga Coleochaete, an ancestor and an intriguing group, which has evolved elaborate disc-shaped bodies. The team reports about it in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae

Bierenbroodspot et al. use phylogenomic analyses to study Coleochaetophyceae, phragmoplastophytic streptophyte algae that are well-known for their complex bodies. They trace that the famous discoidal ...

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Only two days left to apply for the open tenure track professorship in Computational Biology here in @uni-goettingen.de uni-goettingen.de/en/700631.html

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...

Meet the winners of the 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at the 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 consortium meeting 🟢 PhD student 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 @hannahlepper.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social lab 🟢Postdoc 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐡 @physcomitr_ella from the Ischebeck lab CONGRATULATIONS! @watertoland.bsky.social

Next is Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing updates about the Spirogyra genome project #MAdLand2025

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Pan-phylum genomes of hornworts reveal conserved autosomes but dynamic accessory and sex chromosomes - Nature Plants

This study presents 11 new hornwort (Anthocerotophyta) genomes that clarify the structure and evolution of sex and accessory chromosomes in bryophytes and shed new light on the early evolution of land plants.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next up, Hengchi Chen from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is revisiting the deep divergence of land plants with us #MAdLand2025

And we are wrapping up the session with Zahin Bin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, discussing his findings on phytochrome-mediated light signalling of Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2025

This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre

General Information Established thanks to the support of the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using…

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