Gabriel Schaaf
@gabrielschaaf.bsky.social
Professor for Ecophysiology of Plant Nutrition at the University of Bonn (Germany) with interest in nutrient & stress perception, inositol-derived signalling and sustainable agriculture
PhenoRob at the University of Bonn is recruiting 3 Junior Research Group Leaders in plant/crop science, phenotyping, robotics, sensing, ML, ecology & related fields. Each position comes with 2 funded PhD positions. Deadline: 2 Nov 2026 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...
3 Junior Research Group Leaders (100%)
full-time, limited until December 31, 2032 , EG 14, Reference number: 2026/397
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Great to see this excellent work led by Fen Zhang published! 🌱 Fen is now a postdoc with us at INRES Bonn; much of this work was done at Southwest University, Chongqing. Smarter N management = less NH₃ loss while maintaining vegetable yields. Congrats to all! 👏
New W2 Professorship in crop/plant sciences at the University of Bonn 🌱 We especially welcome expertise in genome engineering and pest & disease control …and interdisciplinary research bridging topics with the cluster of excellence #PhenoRob Apply by Sept 30 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
W2 Professorship within the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob
W2 Professorship
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Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
www.eu-sage.eu/sites/defaul... A major step for European agriculture: the European Parliament has backed new rules for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), helping pave the way for more resilient and climate-adapted crops in the EU. Next: Council agreement and trilogue negotiations. #NGTs #EUAgri
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KKRSU-001: The Missing Inventory Manager Inspired by the recent study @science.org Meet Rooty, Chef Chloro, Inspy, and Vivi, the first residents of the KRSU universe. Based on the work from @martinaried.bsky.social and @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social The science is real. The story is fiction🌱:-)
Congratulations to Borjana Arsova, Stefan Sanow, and everyone involved! Very nice work and thanks for letting me be part of it. Nice evidence that beneficial microbes can help plants thrive under nitrogen limitation, not primarily via N fixation, but by improving how plants acquire and use nitrogen.
Borjana Arsova@borjana-a.bsky.social · 5mo ago🆕📃: #Pseudomonas🦠 helps #plants🌾 grow better under #Nitrogen limitation by stimulating mild protein changes, in the #root, only @⬇️#N. #phenomics #PlantSci #Botany #proteomics #lipidomics #phenotyping #PlantMicrobeInteractions #PMI 🧪 #Brachypodium #PlantCellEnvir #PCE doi.org/10.1111/pce....
🆕📃: #Pseudomonas🦠 helps #plants🌾 grow better under #Nitrogen limitation by stimulating mild protein changes, in the #root, only @⬇️#N. #phenomics #PlantSci #Botany #proteomics #lipidomics #phenotyping #PlantMicrobeInteractions #PMI 🧪 #Brachypodium #PlantCellEnvir #PCE doi.org/10.1111/pce....
Systems‐Level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas‐Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation
The plant growth–promoting bacterium Pseudomonas koreensis improves Brachypodium distachyon growth under limited nitrogen by modulating plant-encoded N acquisition and metabolic organization within a....
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I am happy to share that the final version of our review on Metabolism, Perception, and Functions of Inositol (Pyro)Phosphates in Plants has been published. Many thanks to Ricardo Giehl @leibnizipk.bsky.social for this great collaboration - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Metabolism, Perception, and Functions of Inositol (Pyro)Phosphates in Plants
Inositol phosphates and pyrophosphates are small, water-soluble molecules involved in a range of physiological processes across eukaryotic organisms, including plants. Over the past two decades, signi...
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Excited to see our new Science Advances paper out! A wonderful collaboration with Martina Ried-Lasi’s group at IPB Halle. Many thanks to Kiran Raj and Verena Gaugler for their outstanding work, and to everyone involved who helped make this study possible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Deeply grateful to all co-authors for their contributions, especially Henning Jessen @jessenlab.bsky.social and Dorothea Fiedler for bringing their fantastic expertise to this project. Very happy to see this story published!
This was a wonderful collaboration with Gabriel Schaaf’s lab @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social and a real team effort. Huge thanks to first authors Kiran Raj @kiranrajrki.bsky.social and Verena Gaugler driving this story forward!
Excited to share that our work on VIH2-dependent inositol pyrophosphate signaling and arbuscular mycorrhiza is now out in Science Advances! In this study, we explore how VIH2 contributes to the regulation of AM in Lotus japonicus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lotus japonicus VIH2 is an inositol pyrophosphate synthase that regulates arbuscular mycorrhiza
Inositol pyrophosphate messengers regulate arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and phosphate uptake in Lotus japonicus.
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Nettie Stevens war eine amerikanische Biologin und Genetikerin, die um 1905 anhand der Spermazelle eines Mehlwurms die bis dahin unbekannte Vererbung des Geschlechts durch X- und Y-Chromosomen entdeckte. 7. Juli 1861 -4. Mai 1912 
🌱 Im 2. Beitrag zum #fascinationofplantsday zeigt uns Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social warum Pflanzen faszinierend sind. @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social · 5mo ago🌱Heute ist #fascinationofplantsday! Wir stellen euch diese Woche CEPLAS Forschende vor, die von Pflanzen - vom Samenkorn bis zur ausgewachsenen Pflanze - fasziniert sind. Findet heraus warum! 🔎 @leibnizipk.bsky.social @hhu.de @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social
A small contribution for 🌾 #FascinationOfPlantsDay 🌻 from @fz-juelich.de #PlantScience #PlantSci #biology #Botany 🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteraction #PMI
CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social · 5mo ago🌱Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social vom @fz-juelich.de ist die 3. Forscherin, die wir zum #fascinationofplantsday vorstellen möchten. Sie arbeitet u.a. daran, die Widerstandsfähigkeit/Leistungsfähigkeit von Pflanzen zu verbessern und nutzt dafür Mikroorganismen, die das Pflanzenwachstum anregen.
👥👇S.Sanow @ucdavisplants.bsky.social M.Mantz, @degradomics.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de E.Sturm @unicologne.bsky.social A.Bhatnagar & U.Roessner - Metabolomics Australia R.Walker, M.Watt @unimelb.bsky.social @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social H.Wiessel, A.Lücke, J.Kelm &🙋@fz-juelich.de
Borjana Arsova@borjana-a.bsky.social · 12mo agoIn our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
Very nice & complete review on inositol pyrophosphate metabolism and signaling in plants by Ricardo Giehl @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social . Also includes an impressive to-do-list...
Our dean at the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Engineering is the only dean @unibonn.bsky.social who wears a chain of office. This is a relict of the time before our faculty joined the University of Bonn in 1934 and was an independent Agricultural University. During that era it was the rector’s chain
Yesterday 25 years ago, the first human chromosome (chr. 22) was sequenced. Back then, sequencing of the second smallest chromosome took them almost 10 years!
Sequencing of the whole human genome was completed in 2003 at estimated costs of $ 2.7 billion. Nowadays you can sequence a whole human genome for less than $ 1000. To achieve an accuracy compareable to the 2003 genome sequence costs would be today around $ 10 - 20 million. bsky.app/profile/hoch...
Frank Hochholdinger@hochholdingerf.bsky.social · 2y agoYesterday 25 years ago, the first human chromosome (chr. 22) was sequenced. Back then, sequencing of the second smallest chromosome took them almost 10 years!
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.
Registration for the 2nd PlantACT! conference 7-9 April 2025 is open, check out the conference website. Great lineup of speakers. www.plantactconference2025.cbgp.upm.es
Das ist es, wo Versuche mit genomeditierten Pflanzen hingehören. Ins Feld. Schön, dass sich Wissenschaftler:innen das wieder trauen, trotz Feldzerstörungen. Wissenschaftsfreiheit muss gelebt und verteidigt werden.
Nature Biotechnology@natbiotech.nature.com · 2y agoEurope’s first field trial of gene-edited grape vines have begun in northern Italy. Developed by EdiVite, Chardonnay vines have undergone gene inactivation to enable them to better defend themselves against downy mildew, a major fungal disease
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... My colleagues Rumyana Karlova and Leónie Bentsink are hiring! @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
PhD student MiSeed
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Report: ERC-funded researchers lead rapid use of CRISPR/Cas gene-editing | ERC erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
For the 🧪 feed - and, honestly, the #SciArt feed. Because this belongs in a museum 😂
Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2y agoHope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
