Björn Usadel
@usadellab.bsky.social
Plant Omics, Machine Learning, Genomics, Tools, Data Managment Labs in Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf Uni https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ibg/ibg-4 https://www.biological-data-science.hhu.de/en/biological-data-science
Möglicher neuer Therapieansatz zur Vorbeugung von Herzinfarkten und Schlaganfällen entdeckt Forschenden der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) und des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf (UKD) ist es gelungen, einen neuen, körpereig... weiterlesen
Publishing new work on #AbioticStress in plants?🌱 Tag us in your posts, and we may repost your work to help it reach the #PlantScience community @planteditors.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @de.scientists4future.org @plantbirdwoman.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social @msriffle.bsky.social
Full Professor Job in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems – University of Hohenheim, Germany The University of Hohenheim is recruiting a tenured Full Professor (W3) in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems. This prestigious…
Full Professor Job in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems – University of Hohenheim, Germany
The University of Hohenheim is recruiting a tenured Full Professor (W3) in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems. This prestigious academic position offers an opportunity to lead innovative research in sustainable agriculture, smart farming technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, and resource-efficient agricultural engineering.
agristok.net
Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
Join my group at @fz_juelich within the @ceplas.bsky.social excellence cluster. #PlantJobs We’re looking for a postdoc/senior scientist in plant single-cell and spatial transcriptomics recruiting.fz-juelich.de/jobposting/8...
Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Scientist in the field of plant single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
recruiting.fz-juelich.de
Within the @trr341.bsky.social JJ Szymanski has an interesting postdoc position for leading plant Ecological genetics AI recruiting.fz-juelich.de/jobposting/5...
Postdoctoral Researcher - Machine Learning for Plant Regulatory Genomics
recruiting.fz-juelich.de
#Fachkollegienwahl: Die Frist für Vorschläge zu Kandidat*innen läuft ab jetzt bis 6. Nov. 2026. Vorschlagsberechtigt für alle Fächer sind fachgebundene Institutionen, DFG-Mitglieder und der Stifterverband – diesmal via eNominierung. Die Wahl hat dann die Community im Herbst 2027! sohub.io/ep37
Fachkollegienwahl 2027: Frist für das Vorschlagen von Kandidierenden läuft
dfg.de
Got a well intentioned email that ended with “I work at odd hours. My working hours are not necessarily your working hours. Please respond when you feel you comfortably can.” Obviously that’s code for they don’t expect a response from me. Ever.
Only 17% of 307 million publicly available sequences include geographical provenance.Yet benefit-sharing from digital sequence information depends on knowing where genetic resources came from.Can databases close this gap without making open data harder to submit&reuse? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information? - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?
nature.com
Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Bielefeld, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...
uni-bielefeld.de
Happy to share our latest finding on ComFB, a new #cdiGMP receptor in bacteria Team effort w/ @freecyano.bsky.social at @sfb1381.bsky.social ComFB regulates type IV pilus-dependent functions via sequestering TFs (CRP1/2) @hhu.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sebastianbeier.bsky.social has fixed some minor issues in our read trimmer Trimmomatic for R0.41 since the latest release just a few months ago academic.oup.com/bioinformati.... github.com/usadellab/Tr.... Please note, that the website trimmomatic.com is not ours and send you to commercials.
Trimmomatic: a decade of feature-rich, high-performance NGS read preprocessing
AbstractMotivation. Trimmomatic is a widely adopted tool for preprocessing high-throughput sequencing data, particularly from Illumina platforms. Since its
academic.oup.com
Hey plant colleagues out there! 3 days to go to apply for the plant biotechnology professorship. Great colleagues @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, amazing atmosphere @dompsfr.bsky.social, lovely city to settle. And great support by @cibss.bsky.social. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | 12859402
The future position holder will lead an internationally recognized research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for
nature.com
Was so great to be part of this study, which explores iron exchange as one of the aspects of #lichen #symbiosis, a first study of its sort. Big thanks to Isidor Happacher and Hubertus Haas for putting this together! #SymbioSky 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫
Nick Talbot@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · last mo.The mycobiont of the lichen Xanthoria parietina produces the siderophore ferrichrome which enables iron acquisition and nutrient exchange with its algal photobiont. Great collaboration with my group & @metalichen.bsky.social led by Hubertus Haas 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🆕📃: #Pseudomonas🦠 helps #plants🌾 grow better under #Nitrogen limitation by stimulating mild protein changes, in the #root, only @⬇️#N. #phenomics #PlantSci #Botany #proteomics #lipidomics #phenotyping #PlantMicrobeInteractions #PMI 🧪 #Brachypodium #PlantCellEnvir #PCE doi.org/10.1111/pce....
Systems‐Level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas‐Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation
The plant growth–promoting bacterium Pseudomonas koreensis improves Brachypodium distachyon growth under limited nitrogen by modulating plant-encoded N acquisition and metabolic organization within a....
doi.org
In meiosis homologous chromosomes pair and exchange DNA non-randomly. How does reproductive gender and chromosome sequence shape recombination landscapes? To answer this we generated new wild tomato genomes and many reciprocal crosses with @usadellab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wild tomato genome assemblies reveal structural variants and repeat content act as recombination barriers - Nature Communications
Introgression of genes from wild tomato species can enhance the robustness of modern tomatoes. Here van Rengs et al. describe the genomes of wild tomato species and show how reproductive gender and st...
nature.com
1/ In 2014, we published the genome of the stress resilient wild tomato Solanum pennellii. It showed many new transposable elements – non randomly inserted. Now, a new chapter begins (and more is yet to come) with Willem Rengs and @charlieunderwood.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration with @usadellab.bsky.social & @faltegoer.bsky.social groups in the @mibinet.bsky.social framework to characterize Peltigera lichen symbioses with major contributions from @ciarankelly.bsky.social & @yukiyosato.bsky.social
Björn Usadel@usadellab.bsky.social · last mo.1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen
1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen
A chromosome-scale super-pangenome of the lichen genus Peltigera reveals genome architecture and expanded interaction repertoires shared across pathogenic and mutualistic fungi
Fungi engage in associations with other organisms across a continuum from pathogenic to mutualistic lifestyles. Hence, they require a compendium of molecular capacities, including partner recognition,...
doi.org
Wong, Otte & Schmitt present over 30 new chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Trebouxia species, extracted from PacBio metagenomes of diverse Umbilicaria lichens from multiple climate zones. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag129 #genome #evolution
New Preprint out. Great collaboration with colleagues from @awi.de, @GFZ.bsky.social, agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social, and @ufz.de Herzschuh et al.: Earth-positive futures: adaptive steering of trajectories for Earth-system functions at the wicked intermediate scale. [1/2]
Our @denbi.bsky.social NGS trimmer/preprocessor Trimmomatic has some additional speed ups using parallel (de)compression and some more developments upcoming. academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #NGS #bioinformatics #genomics
Trimmomatic: a decade of feature-rich, high-performance NGS read preprocessing
AbstractMotivation. Trimmomatic is a widely adopted tool for preprocessing high-throughput sequencing data, particularly from Illumina platforms. Since its
academic.oup.com
Congratulations Florian!! @mibinet.bsky.social
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf@hhu.de · 4mo agoDer Biologe Dr. Florian Altegoer vom Institut für Mikrobiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) erhält einen mit 210.000 Euro dotierten „Exploration Grant“ der Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung (BIS).
Galaxy is really smashing it -with their training material. Here for helixer gene finding.
ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas@ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Genome annotation with Helixer - @galaxyproject.bsky.social tutorial 🔗 training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat... Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu #genome #annotation #helixer
FORGET SILICON: de.NBI Switches to 100% Organic Server Racks! 🧬🌿 We are phasing out traditional GPUs in favor of our new chlorophyll-powered compute clusters. Please remember to water your allocated cloud partition every Tuesday. #GreenIT #Bioinformatics #SustainableScience #DNAstorage #AprilFools
True green computing:-)
de.NBI & ELIXIR Germany@denbi.bsky.social · 4mo agoFORGET SILICON: de.NBI Switches to 100% Organic Server Racks! 🧬🌿 We are phasing out traditional GPUs in favor of our new chlorophyll-powered compute clusters. Please remember to water your allocated cloud partition every Tuesday. #GreenIT #Bioinformatics #SustainableScience #DNAstorage #AprilFools
Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.
What an amazing development here! @hhu.de 🤝@fz-juelich.de Best wishes for great science - and the highest hopes for future collaborations!
Johannes Rebelein@rebeleinlab.bsky.social · 5mo agoA childhood dream has come true – I was appointed Full Professor for Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Düsseldorf @hhu.de : tinyurl.com/f43s74hp and as Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET, www.iet.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/) at FZ Jülich @fz-juelich.de .
📢 #CIBSS research highlight! Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social helped identify SYFO2, a protein that lets legumes 🫛☘️“open the door” to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 🦠 The team even activated it in tomato 🍅 — suggesting this symbiosis could be engineered in new crops. 🌱 🔗 kurzlinks.de/v7bi
A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes
CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.
kurzlinks.de