VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. https://okt.to/ewfnRI Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

A collection of perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology is now published in @ThePlantCell . academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... Happy to have contributed the chapter, “Spatial transcriptomics in plants: where next?”

Apparently the midpoint between Berkeley and Nashville is Munich, Germany! So good to see @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social even if we’re half way across the world! Running into her is always worth the travels. 🤩😃

Cheeky selfie with @plantteaching.bsky.social at @aspbofficial.bsky.social #PlantBiology2026 at the Plant Cell editorial board meeting. Thank you so much for everything you have done for the AFE program all these years!

The universal symbol of a fellow scientist! Poster tubes make human connections so much easier at airports. On my way to my favorite meeting in Ottawa! #Plantbio26 #PlantBiology2026 #PlantBiology26

🍅🧬Cold induced peptides SlRGF9 and SlRGF10 protect tomato pollen. Upregulation prevents cold induced yield loss by up to 52 percent. The pathway is conserved in rice, recovering 18 percent of grain yield loss. A core cold resilience axis for crop protection #plantsci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield - Nature

A small-peptide signalling axis involving RGF family members controls resilience to cold stress in tomatoes and rice; modulating this pathway prevents cold-induced yield losses.

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SAVE THE DATE! #Botany2027 is heading to Buffalo, NY, July 31-August 4, 2027! Lake Erie shoreline, Niagara Falls nearby, and a rich variety of native flora await. Get ready to shuffle off to Buffalo with your botanical science community! More details soon. #IamaBotanist #BotanistsinBuffalo

My lab has received an NSF CAREER Award funding for the next 5 years! Grateful to the NSF for continuing to support my lab's research and training (Award #2544620). The project asks the question: how do legumes differentiate between and select the best symbionts? Positions coming soon!

The Power of Symbiosis in Life and Science

The Power of Symbiosis in Life and Science

This article traces more than four decades of Eva Kondorosi's personal life and scientific journey in symbiotic nitrogen fixation, from early insights into nitrogenase structure to the molecular mechanisms governing root nodule development and symbiotic cell differentiation in the Medicago–Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis. Effective symbiosis depends on precise molecular communication between the partners, beginning in the soil and continuing through a highly coordinated, progressive differentiation program. A defining feature of symbiotic cell development is endoreduplication in both host plant cells and their Rhizobium partners. Host-induced bacterial endoreduplication results in the formation of large, polyploid, noncultivable nitrogen-fixing bacteroids. This terminal differentiation is orchestrated by plant-derived effector peptides, notably nodule-specific cysteine-rich (NCR) and nodulin glycine-rich (nodGRP) peptides, which act sequentially to reprogram bacterial physiology. Together, these findings establish symbiotic nitrogen fixation as a model for cross-kingdom cellular differentiation and highlight NCR and nodGRP peptides as a vast, largely unexplored resource with promising applications in agriculture and medicine.

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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...

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

If there ever was a prize for academic with deep aversion to paperwork for administrative tasks, I would win hands down.

#IS-MPMI Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time. www.youtube.com/@is-mpmi3587

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How is gene editing in agriculture actually regulated across the world, and how are those rules changing? Join us for a guest seminar by Dr. Matthew Heaton (University of East Anglia/JIC). Please comment/email me for the Zoom link.

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations

American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Join us for the upcoming ASPB Member webinar on Thursday, April 9, at 2 pm Eastern time, organized by ASPB’s Women in Plant Biology Committee. 👉 Learn more and register at buff.ly/J4OKsTV. #PlantScience

Do you know how to get your data AI-ready? Just upload to Zenodo.org with as good a description as you can muster and call it a day. Simply sharing has always been the most important part of open science. #GenesisMission #OpenScience

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants

Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

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Paging senior graduate students! Apply to present your research during the Salk Discover symposium and network with potential collaborators or faculty advisors. Application deadline extended to March 16. More info: www.salk.edu/about/our-co...

Thank you @sonaliroy.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk in the Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering at Tennessee State University Even though it was 9pm for me, I enjoyed my time, the interesting questions and the fact that I was up on so many screens at once 😊🌾

🌱📊 RESEARCH 📊🌱 GOLVEN10 increases Medicago lateral root branch angle and reduces the gravity setpoint angle. A GWAS identified causal SNPs and that GOLVEN10 signaling interacts with ethylene to control root waving – Parmar et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)@tairnews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Peptide-based biostimulants in sustainable agriculture: opportunities and innovations (Journal of Integrative Plant Biology) (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social) buff.ly/qyOLKYm #PlantaePSRW

Commentary. Peptide-based biostimulants in sustainable agriculture: opportunities and innovations | Plantae

Naturally occurring biostimulants have emerged as promising tools for promoting sustainable agriculture and horticulture by enhancing plant performance while reducing reliance on chemical inputs.

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Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... "Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social @goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚

And publish in society owned journals like @theplantcell.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social Plant Biotechnology Journal, @jxbotany.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social and many others!

The Global Plant Council@globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why do scientific societies matter now more than ever? Scientists board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍 🔗 buff.ly/YW2XUN3 #plantscience #science

What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!) Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV

Registration open for 87th Annual Southern ASPB conference March 13-15th in Lafayette LA. Travel awards available. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @aspb-pui.bsky.social @ecps.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social southern.aspb.org/2026-annual-...

🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27! #PlantScience

An AI-driven pipeline for the discovery of hidden peptides in plant proteomes: the CLE family as a case study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703007v1

BSPP MSc/MRes Bursary, up to £4,000 to support postgraduate study in plant pathology. www.bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres/ #PlantPathology #PostgradFunding #BSPP