I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

Our junior research group leader, Mariana Schuster, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant, which comes with a grant of 1.5 million euros. Congratulations @marischuster.bsky.social! #ERCStg @erc.europa.eu More Information: www.ipb-halle.de/en/article/e...

ERC Starting Grant: 1.5 Million Euros for Excellent Research on Plant Immunity

IPB Press Release, September 3, 2026 A great success for plant research at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle: The independent junior research group leader Mariana Schuster has been awarded a highly funded ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her FRONTERA project. Over a period of five years and with funding of 1.5 million euros, she and her team will investigate how the targeted cleavage of membrane proteins regulates the immune defense of plants.

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New PEC story 🌱 led by PhD cand Susi with amazing collabs Grimm, Hause & Robatzek labs! We patch-clamped isolated plastids to show that PECs mediate rapid cation flux across the IE. PECs relay Ca²⁺ signals into plastids & link Ca²⁺ to JA-mediated defense. #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨🌱 Just one month to go! 🌱🚨 There’s only one month left to apply for the 2027 JXB Editorial Internship programme! Check out what past interns had to say about their experience 👩‍💻👇 ⏰ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns?ut... #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

PLASTID ENVELOPE ION CHANNELS (PEC1/2) link Ca2+ and jasmonic acid signaling in plant cells | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

Our recent ATP biosensor work was kindly highlighted in a News&Views in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking ATP balance in photosynthesis - Nature Plants

A study recently published in Nature Plants marks a paradigm shift that the primary role of PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 is not to boost ATP production but to safeguard photosynthesis through ΔpH-depe...

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Please to share our paper in @natplants.nature.com showing that PGR5 is not required for ATP augmentation in Arabidopsis chloroplasts @profmattjohnson.bsky.social @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disequilibrium between chloroplast proton motive force and ATP levels in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants

A fluorescent ATP biosensor reveals that chloroplast ATP levels remain unchanged in Arabidopsis mutants with a much weaker proton gradient, showing that cyclic electron transport protects photosynthes...

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Dry seeds are not waiting to build mitochondria—they come pre-packaged with cristae and full respiratory complexes. ⚡️🌱🌱🌱 Check out the updated growth-and-division model in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Optimizing bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) for low-disruption labeling of Arabidopsis proteins in vivo (Nicholas Hassan , Shelly Braun , Mohana Talasila , Curtis Kennedy , Luke Yaremko , Richard P Fahlman , R Glen Uhrig) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Optimizing bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) for low-disruption labeling of Arabidopsis proteins in vivo

An optimized means for utilizing BONCAT protein labeling in plants to uncover protein production and degradation responses.

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☀️ Summer is the perfect time to catch up on inspiring biology! 📖 Dive into the SEB Spring 2026 Magazine: www.sebiology.org/news-publica... 🎙️ And don't miss the first two episodes of the newtSEB Podcast: www.sebiology.org/ressources/s... Happy reading & listening! 🌿🎧 #Biology #Science #SEB

Finally out! Explore how vascular T6P modulates root growth 🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Systemic and Local Regulation of Root Growth by Vascular Trehalose 6‐Phosphate is Correlated With Re‐allocation of Primary Metabolites Between Shoots and Roots

Trehalose 6-phoshpate (Tre6P) consistently regulates root growth, with high Tre6P inhibiting and low Tre6P promoting primary and lateral root growth. It does so by altering the accumulation and alloc...

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As promised: We have an open 2-year postdoc position in my lab at HHU Düsseldorf, starting September 2026. Come join us and help pioneering structural biology of fungal GPCRs! More about the lab: altegoerlab.de Apply here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please share with interested candidates!

Postdoc (m/f/d) structural biology of fungal G-Protein coupled receptors

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Altegoerlab@faltegoer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We just received funding for a 2yr postdoc position on cryoEM of fungal gpcrs. Official call will open soon. Contact me if you‘re interested!

We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

📢 Applications are now open for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞! Are you an early-career PI? The TPJ Fellowship offers mentoring, editorial board engagement, a £2,000 travel award, & opportunities to contribute to TPJ 📅 Apply by 6 July 2026 More details 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... +🧵

The Plant Journal: 2026 Fellowship Scheme

The TPJ Fellowship scheme was first launched in 2020, and we are pleased to announce that we have now opened applications for the 2026 TPJ Fellowship scheme.

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👏👏👏 Huge congratulations to all awardees at the ICPMB in Kagoshima 🇯🇵 Plant mitochondria at an entirely new level 🤩 Thanks for an absolutely amazing conference. Excited to welcome this fantastic community to Germany 🇩🇪 in 2028.

It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium patens resolved by cryo-electron tomography - Nature Plants

Using cryo-electron tomography, the authors reveal how plasmodesmata (plant cytoplasmic bridges) are gated by cell wall remodelling and how helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes, with...

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬@madic.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Research Associate, Plant Energy Biology - University of Western Australia uniroles.com.au/display-job/... You will contribute to innovative research aimed at engineering and characterising synthetic chromosomes for plants. #BotanyJobs

📣APPLY NOW Complexome Profiling in Plants: Exploring Organellar Protein Networks 🌱🧪 Amazing opportunity to learn on-site from the leading experts!! FREE Eduard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for ECRs @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

A true giant has left us. Widmar Tanner, a pioneer of plant transporter research, has passed away. He was a brilliant scientist, an outstanding mentor, and simply one of the kindest people one could meet. Rest in peace Widmar, and thank you for everything.

Huge congrats to Dr. Eliza Loo! The associated MibiNet researcher has secured a "Klaus Tschira Boost Fund" grant to explore targeted programming of plant microbiomes. Fantastic news for @hhu.de and the MibiNet team! #MibiNet #HHU @elizaloopi.bsky.social www.hhu.de/en/detail-re...

Nutzpflanzenforscherin aus dem „Klaus Tschira Boost-Fund“ gefördert

Die Pflanzenforscherin Dr. Eliza Loo, Arbeitsgruppenleiterin am Institut für Molekulare Physiologie an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), wird für die kommenden zwei Jahre für ein Projek...

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True single-molecule peptide sequencing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA - Nature Biotechnology

Peptides are sequenced by converting each amino acid into amplifiable DNA barcodes.

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Josephine Herbst from Ghent University on the lncRNA LINDA which watches over meristematic integrity after the loss of stem cells

🚨Job Alert – Please RT! We’re looking for bright minds to join our community! We are looking for 12 postdocs and 7 PhD students! Details on all projects and application: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-... @leibnizipk.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social

🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬 Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application. Thread 🧵👇

Announcing a Transformation Lead role (level B) at the Adelaide University node of Plant Synthetic Biology Australia (international applicants welcome)! For more information on PSBA, see plantsynbio.au More details on the position: lnkd.in/g3GZSRT8

Plz read our study by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social PhD cand. Lorenz. He describes chloroplast ionomes for several 🌱species & shows how plastid iron can be massively increased. Terrific help by peers from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, @mizzouid.bsky.social and @uni-saarland.de academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

The chloroplast ionome shines light on the dynamics of organellar iron homeostasis

Loss of chloroplast iron (Fe) ferritin storage leads to Fe re-shuttling into the vacuole and reduced leaf tissue Fe content.

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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...

Mitochondrial formate dehydrogenase links mitochondrial and cytosolic one carbon metabolism via a one-carbon shunt (Marc-Sven Roell , Franziska Kuhnert , Philipp Westhoff , Sompop Saeheng , Sanja Roje , Andreas P M Weber) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @franzikuhnert

Mitochondrial formate dehydrogenase links mitochondrial and cytosolic one carbon metabolism via a one-carbon shunt

Mitochondrial formate dehydrogenase regulates the metabolic flux within the one-carbon shunt to connect cytosolic and mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism.

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Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu