Role of membrane-organizing SPFH proteins in plants: @hannah-web.bsky.social, Alexandra Ehinger, @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social et al define how Arabidopsis HIR2 forms higher-order assemblies and organizes receptor signaling domains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and plasma membrane organization - The EMBO Journal

Plant plasma membrane proteins are organized into distinct domains; however, the principles that govern this spatial organization are not fully understood. HYPERSENSITIVE-INDUCED REACTION (HIR) protei...

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Check out our Review on #AFM in plants now on @jxbotany.bsky.social !

Luiselotte Rausch@luiselotterausch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Now in @jxbotany.bsky.social ! Check out our opinion piece on Atomic Force Microscopy #afm in Plant Biomechanic Research: A powerful tool that needs careful handling, interpretation & more research! @Klaus Harter, @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack

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We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

📢 Preprint Update 📢 New Title 📰 More Data 📊 New Co-Author: @luiselotterausch.bsky.social 👋 We show simultaneous dual-color #sptPALM in live #Arabidopsis hypocotyl cells using codon-optimized #PA-GFP and #PATagRFP. 🌱🔬 Check it out👉 t1p.de/6cybn @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🎂Someone truly special! 🎁

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

David Attenborough turns 100 today. 💯 🎂🥳 "As David Attenborough turns 100, four experts explore his legacy, from science to storytelling" www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/... 🧪

There's an update of #EZreverse, it is much quicker and supports drag-and-drop joachimgoedhart.github.io/EZreverse.html

Deutschland beteiligt sich an "Open Research Europe" #ORE. Über die Plattform können Wissenschaftler*innen aller deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen ihre Ergebnisse künftig kostenfrei veröffentlichen u. im offenen Verfahren begutachten lassen. Die DFG ist mit der Durchführung beauftragt: sohub.io/rqll

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

Finally out in @theplantcell.bsky.social ! 🌱 👇Check out the work of Prabha and colleagues on #NPH3 #condensation with some #FRET-FLIM from me 🔬! Great combination of wetlab experiments and #AI assisted protein structure prediction!

The Plant Cell@theplantcell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Molecular determinants underlying NPH3 condensation and function in phototropism: an integrative approach (Prabha Manishankar , Atiara Fernandez , Leander Rohr , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

On the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience at the ZMBP we interviewed Trang Phan and Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social Check how they became plant biologists and their advice to ECRs! 🌱 (and follows us on 👇) www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026 at the ZMBP

Interview with Dr. Trang Phan, postdoc Trang Phan is a second-year postdoctoral researcher in Prof.

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AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop thenode.biologists.com/https-www-yo...

AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop - the Node

This video is the culmination of several years attempting to: (1) Figure out best practices for modeling protein-protein interactions; (2) Understand the This video is the culmination of several years...

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Latest from our lab in 2025. A wonderful collaboration with Sabrina Sabatini's team at Sapienza University of Rome. How mechanical signals contribute to root growth and zonation @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @upm.es doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Cell wall–derived mechanical signals control cell growth and division during root development

Mechanical changes in elongating root cells guide division of neighboring cells, shaping root development.

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🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬 Oven-Krockhaus et al. introduce single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy for studying plasma membrane proteins in plants, outlining key applications and practical guidance on instrumentation, probes, and analysis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Apply now for a PhD in Life Sciences at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! Research nanomechanics of cellular machines and track kinesin motors at high resolution in Tübingen in Erik Schäffer’s group at the University of Tübingen. More information available on our website: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de

📣 JXB Issue 1 of 2026 is out now - and it’s a special one! 📣 🔬 Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology 🔬 📘 Guest edited by Federica Brandizzi, Zachary Nimchuk, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova 📘 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues

New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity: the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs #MPMI #ZMBP

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Small Molecule Binding to EDS1/PAD4 in LRR-RP-Mediated Pattern-Triggered Immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.692544v1

A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply! Please share!

Don't miss this online seminar by Emanuele Scacchi, from Marja Timmermans' lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, on how mobile small RNAs and Turing patterns coordinate leaf polarity!

Emanuele Scacchi@morphospace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ll be presenting my latest work on self-organizing gene regulatory networks and how they shape leaf morphogenesis in WG/GLIMPRINT Virtual Seminars on Multiscale Modeling. Grateful to the IMOBio team for the kind invitation. iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #RNA #Turing #morphogenesis #leaf #plants

Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1

At this week's #VirtualPub, we welcome Ilaria Testa, @scilifelab.se and KTH, for a talk on "Caught in a moment: dynamics of proteins at the nanoscale." All are welcome! Join us! 🗓️ Friday, Oct 24 @ 13:00 CEST Register 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/explo...

Another study from the lab🔬🎉 Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science! Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... #PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP

The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub

Summary: In vitro reconstitution experiments reveal that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 interacts with microtubules, MAP65-3 and lipids as a possible mechanism for division site deposition and...

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Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar! Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏 #MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

Nature Biotechnology@natbiotech.nature.com · 10mo ago

Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9

What an amazing opportunity to do impactful work in bioimage analysis!!!!

Jean-Yves Tinevez@jytinevez.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

... and @likeyoda1.bsky.social review is available as well now! 👉 Check it out!

Margot Smit@likeyoda1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out our new review in JXB: tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b @pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

With Sven zur Oven-Krockhaus, @luiselotterausch.bsky.social & Klaus Harter we wrote an #ExpertView on #sptPALM in #plants 🌱 (focus: #plasmamembrane). ✔️ Our goal: help you get started with this powerful method 🚀 ❓ Curious? We’ll be happy to get you ready!

Luiselotte Rausch@luiselotterausch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social #superresolution #plasmamembrane academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱 🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter & @lauraragni.bsky.social Closing 30th Sept '25 Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...) #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 (1/2)

Looks like a great ressource! Thanks a lot for sharing @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social !

NFDI4BIOIMAGE@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Interested in #bioimaging and #datascience? The "Bio-Image Data Science Lectures 2025 @unileipzig.bsky.social / @scadsai.bsky.social" by @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social offer theory and practice on #Python, #machinelearning, #deeplearning, #LLMs, and research data. 📝 zenodo.org/records/1585...

Amazing proposal to repurpose existing medicines for genetic diseases! Let's share to support @drannecarpenter.bsky.social idea!

Anne Carpenter@drannecarpenter.bsky.social · last yr.

Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1...