I've got something to "TORC" about! 😅 After 4 years building this project at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, I'm so excited to share that my first independent preprint is now online! ✨ I hope you like it: doi.org/10.64898/202... A short thread... 🧵 #PlantSci #PlantScience

The TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR) kinase controls shade-mediated hypocotyl elongation responses in Arabidopsis.

Plants perceive neighboring vegetation through an enrichment of far-red light (shade) in the environment. These changes in light quality trigger molecular and physiological responses aimed at outgrowi...

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Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

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One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate. New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS: Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS

ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...

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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

Alternative splicing of PIF4 regulates plant development under heat stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694898v1

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668

The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a   Tenure Track Professors...

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Die Rapsretterinnen Dr. Kea Ille und Sarah Duveneck live auf Youtube vom Sofa aus mit spannenden Vorträgen, Videos und Q&A-Sessions erleben: Heute 17:00-18:15 Uhr Fragen zur Forschung stellen und erfahren, wie sie unseren #Winterraps nun retten wollen auf www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUM...

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A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development (Jennifer Saile, Hannah Walter, Moritz Denecke, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development

Light-responsive changes in alternative splicing and development are modulated by a subgroup of serine/arginine-rich splicing regulators in Arabidopsis tha

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Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026! eps.sites.uu.nl

EPS Summer School | Universiteit Utrecht

We would like to invite you to join the PhD Summer School that has an attractive program with many expert speakers in the field of environmental signaling in plants. In addition to the invited speaker...

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We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

Arabidopsis Group I Pumilio RNA-binding factors are vital for embryo development and balancing between growth and stress resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671196v1

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

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Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

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🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 18, we will have our first session: 🌱 BEGINNINGS - the origins of plants and the start of the plant life cycle 🌱 🎤 Invited speakers incl Steve Penfield & Kin Pan Chung ⏳ Join us! Register by Aug 19 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recycling in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha

Processing bodies (P-bodies) are conserved ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules central to RNA metabolism across eukaryotes. Although the mechanisms underlying their assembly are well understood, the path...

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The amazing @newphyt.bsky.social #NGS2025 meeting in Birmingham has ended. Unlike typical research-focused events, it brought together diverse topics and backgrounds, united by being the next generation of plant scientists. Grateful for the connections, honest conversations, and inspiring peers!

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight

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Re-join the New Phytologist next generation scientists live stream at 18:30 BST (UTC+1), when we'll be delighted to welcome Noni Franklin-Tong for a special evening lecture on 'A research career focused on investigating how self-incompatibility works' 👉 www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

Identification of RBPs if plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Protocol for capturing the RNA-binding proteome from plants using orthogonal organic phase separation

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate many processes related to RNA biogenesis, localization, half-life and function. Here, we present a protocol for the en masse isolation of RBPs cross-linked to RNA ...

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One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱 Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php... @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social

Alternative #splicing is a crucial post-transcriptional mechanism in #plants. In a new #review, Zhu et al. explore the potential of AS to provide new strategies for #crop improvement and #sustainable #agriculture. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

🍀🔬 SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei! Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

The Plant Cell@theplantcell.bsky.social · last yr.

PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE2A B′η drives spliceosome subunit dephosphorylation to mediate alternative splicing following heat stress (Seung Hee Jo , Hyun Ji Park , Haemyeong Jung , Ga Seul Lee , et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Thanks for the challenge @science-irl.bsky.social. I can't say I'm very good at reel-making, but I tried 🌱💚. It copied here without sound, but the version on Instagram has voiceover 😂. #RootingForScience

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching@plantteaching.bsky.social · last yr.

#RootingForScience www.instagram.com/reel/DLR1cgQ...

We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for gene knockdown -> trafficking of targeted mRNAs to the lysosomal, using lysosomal trafficking oligonucleotides (LyTONs)! Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Led by Disha Kashyap #chemsky 🧪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) can modulate gene expression at the mRNA level, providing the ability to tackle conventionally undruggable targets and usher in an era of personalized medicine. A key...

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Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory... Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.

@wigge.bsky.social and @christatesterink.bsky.social on heat and salt stress, two of the major challenges for plants, i.e. for agriculture, i.e. for humanity. #ICAR2025