Sensing pectin damage: Rhamnogalacturonan-I as a ligand for receptor kinases and an immune elicitor #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
Leon-Samuel Icking
@lsi.bsky.social
PhD student from the Kalmbach Lab in Neuchâtel flowerpunk 🏵️ + solarpunk ☀ Anything SynBio (and Plants 👀)! iGEM Freiburg Ultra🤘 Chaotic neutral
Man, this stuff is amazing! Check out DABEST2.0 for multi-group comparisons. I was just struggling with how to best account for the block-type set up of my microplate growth experiments and here it is! Sorry, for the censored data. #microsky 🧪
DABEST2.0 paper is live! #statistics #reproduciblescience #estimation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
Join us for the next 📢 #CIBSS Seminar! 🗓 21 Jul 2026 | 12:00–13:00 👉 Prof. Dr. Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK @johninnescentre.bsky.social) 📍 BIO II/III, KS 00 009, Schänzlestr. 1 🔗More info: kurzlinks.de/fkvz #Seminar #PlantScience
A new "Dr." on the office door. Congratulations, Dr. @seinabnoura.bsky.social 🎉🌱 A proud day for our community @dompsfr.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de
Join us for the next 📢 #CIBSS Seminar! 🗓 21 Jul 2026 | 12:00–13:00 👉 Prof. Dr. Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK @johninnescentre.bsky.social) 📍 BIO II/III, KS 00 009, Schänzlestr. 1 🔗More info: kurzlinks.de/fkvz #Seminar #PlantScience
We have just launched our newest self-paced tutorial! Protein domains: structure, classification and evolution: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Learning time: 3 hours Free via EMBL-EBI Training on-demand. @pdbeurope.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org 🧬🖥️
Protein domains: structure, classification, and evolution - An introductory tutorial for protein domains
Protein domains: structure, classification, and evolution - An introductory tutorial for protein domains
ebi.ac.uk
📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics
Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be blocked immediately.
Got some of the neuchâtelouse visiting Freiburg for the biology faculty day. I have the impression they liked it
The SynBio team’s plasmid collection is one of the coolest aspects of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social What’s even cooler is their vision of sharing it with everyone and the partners who are helping make it happen 💪 🧬
Just published: Community Spirit: Plasmids for All How a decade of plasmid-wrangling at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social grew into a movement — and the unexpected friends now helping us open the doors wider. medium.com/p/community-...
Great summary of #SpudCell from @dereklowe.bsky.social. I had only read a secondary article (heavily based on the press release) on it, and despite the enormous hype inside could not figure out from that article whether it was even a top-down or bottom-up approach! www.science.org/content/blog...
Behold the SpudCell
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We are looking for someone to lead the new Facility for Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg — please spread the word and apply if you are interested!
🚀 Job alert: We’re starting a new Facility – and you can lead it! The MPI-IE & @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social are hiring a Head of Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics to launch and lead a brand-new Core Facility in Freiburg 🇩🇪. Once-in-lifetime-chance. Details ⬇️ jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/b...
We often talk about complex protein folds but what does that really mean? Turns out we don't have a good metric for it. So we made a game to make one! Head over to our website to vote on which fold you think is more complex and why! pacesalab.com/foldcomplexi...
The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026
United States of Science 2026
By Skype a Scientist
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Few days left to apply!!!
Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Apply until Friday!
Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
New paper! 🚀 A high-affinity anti- #mNeonGreen #nanobody turns #mNG into a #multifunctional Tag. @nanotag.bsky.social decided to openly share the #nanobody for research use. Not common, but we strongly believe well-defined reagents are key for reproducible science. We hope you find it useful! 💚
The paper is out which means the MD trajectories are finally available! #MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes
New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇
Development of approaches and identifying limitations towards functional yeast surface display of FLS2 by Daniel R. Woldring and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Cool idea to make FLS2 assays quicker and fantastic honesty reporting that it does not work well yet. Kudos to the authors!
Development of approaches and identifying limitations towards functional yeast surface display of FLS2
Pattern recognition receptors such as FLAGELLIN SENSING 2 (FLS2) are central to plant immunity and attractive targets for engineering broader detection of bacterial phytopathogens for application in p...
biorxiv.org
Chemistry professor switches jobs to one that comes with less criticism and a healthier attitude toward women in the profession
With Kathryn Nesbitt, PhD again joining the FIFA World Cup stage as an assistant referee, we look back at the insights she shared in 2021 the journey from chemist to referee. Read here 👇 @rebeccatrager.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/careers/from...
Glad to see Anna's final PhD paper as a pre-print. Marchantia as a bioproduction chassis not only for markers but also for useful proteins. #PlantScience #SynBio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Marchantia polymorpha as a simple platform for plant-based production of functional nanobodies
Recombinant proteins have transformative potential in biomedicine, but their production is often costly and carries contamination risks. Plants offer an attractive alternative, with low growth costs a...
biorxiv.org
Does anyone has long-reads genome for the Van-0 accession of Arabidopsis? Thanks
Are cells worth having? Royal Society President Paul Nurse answers the hard questions youtu.be/7B4jko1VFP8?...
Philomena Cunk vs Sir Paul Nurse
YouTube video by Philomena Cunk
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Out Now! Phages tame plant pathogens #MicroSky
Phages tame plant pathogens
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02395-3Predicting infection heterogeneity requires looking beyond the host. Phage–bacteria coevolution in tomato fields maintains diverse bacterial strategies and explains uneven disease occurrence across plant populations.
go.nature.com