Field work in the city: learning from plants in urban habitats! 🌱🏢 We all adore plants — but did you ever stop to look at the ones right under your nose? The 'weeds' growing between pavement cracks or under a tree down the street? These overlooked plants are actually very informative! 🧵

Yesterday I attended the @nlseb.bsky.social meeting, what a diverse, nice and inspiring community on #evolutionarybiology 🐦🦠🧬! It was also a great pleasure to (re)connect with people from the Dutch plant sciences🌱 Inspiring new ideas to implement in my own research on #plantphenotypicplasticity

✨ Women in Science Day — Today! ✨ A full day of inspiring talks, career insights, a panel discussion and Q&A sessions at Campus Golm. Looking forward to great conversations and connections! 📍 University of Potsdam, House 28 ⏰ Start: 09:00 #WomenInScience #CRC1644 #PlantScience

Oct 9-10 the PhenPlasPlants conference took place in Potsdam! Scientists from very diverse fields (genetics, to computational sciences and ecology) shared their findings in phenotypic plasticity research 🌱 Very proud to have been part of the organization committee! 👏 @crc1644.bsky.social

Advanced root system phenotyping alert! 📣Sophisticated rhizotrons with AI-based segmentation 🪴 🖥️ Very proud to have contributed to this during my PhD! Watch Thijs Stegmann and @violawillemsen.bsky.social showcase the impressive research facilities at NPEC! tinyurl.com/linkedinNPEC @npec.nl

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In this new #NPEC virtual tour video Thijs Stegmann (PhD candidate of CropXR) and Viola Willemsen share details how they use phenotyping tools to study root system adaptation to drought stress. You ca...

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DEADLINE EXTENSION! 📣 For talk & poster applications for the international conference 'Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants'! Amazing opportunity for early-career scientists to present their work in a cross-disciplinary setting 👏 (& free participation!) 🔗 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/phenplasplants-2025

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🌿 Join us for PhenPlasPlants 2025! We're thrilled to announce our International Conference on Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants! 📅 9–10 Oct 2025 📍 Potsdam, Germany We especially welcome early-career scientists to present their research! 🔗 Register: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/phenplasplants-2025

Yesterday was the science day at the Institute of Biology & Biochemistry @unipotsdam.bsky.social! An amazing variety of research, from bacteriophage treatments to ancient hippo DNA 🦠🔬🧬 Also a proud supervisor moment as my MSc student Huiyao Zhang presented her first poster! About what? Check below 👇

CRC 1644 Retreat 2025 Great minds, one mission! This year’s CRC 1644 retreat was more than just a change of scenery — it was a powerhouse of ideas, collaboration, and interdisciplinary exchange.

Plants have a fascinating display of phenotypic plasticity! 🌱✨ But what are the underlying mechanistic and evolutionary processes?! Join us in Potsdam at the International Conference on Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants! We have great opportunities for early-career scientists to give a talk! 👏

CRC1644@crc1644.bsky.social · last yr.

🌿 Join us for PhenPlasPlants 2025! We're thrilled to announce our International Conference on Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants! 📅 9–10 Oct 2025 📍 Potsdam, Germany We especially welcome early-career scientists to present their research! 🔗 Register: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/phenplasplants-2025

We are now on Bluesky! Our Collaborative Research Center 1644 “Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants” was recently established at the University of Potsdam.

The #TRR341 meeting has kicked off! A very interesting talk from @evodaveo.bsky.social about GxE interactions and how to separate them from individual G and E effects using a gene network with cliques. He also shared some important and inspiring believes that are now more relevant than ever! 👏

CRC TRR 341 "Plant Ecological Genetics"@trr341.bsky.social · last yr.

Cologne Spring Meeting continues with “When do genotype by environment interactions matter for evolution?” talk by David L. Des Marais, exploring genetic dynamics and environmental interactions. #Evolution #Genetics #DFG #TRR341

Excited to be part of the Cologne Spring Meeting 2025 on “Plant Ecological Genetics”, which starts tomorrow! I am already enjoying the flora (and the sun) in the Botanischer Garten Köln. Also spotted the first Arabidopsis thaliana plants popping up 🌱☀️

CRC TRR 341 "Plant Ecological Genetics"@trr341.bsky.social · last yr.

With an excellent panel of speakers, 200 participants and 70 poster abstracts submitted, we are in the final stage of our preparations and we are looking forward to welcoming all of you in Cologne! colognespringmeeting.uni-koeln.de

We took on the mammoth task to set up a #GWAS with 7200 A.thaliana plants to investigate #leaf phenotypes to varying N levels. Great teamwork with Subash (Lenhard lab) & Yinan (Fernie lab) Stay tuned for the harvest and lots of interesting results to come! @unipotsdam.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

New job, new platform! ✨ A month ago I started as a postdoc at Uni Potsdam, part of CRC1644 "Phenotypic plasticity in plants". It was a warm welcome in the BioDiv group of Prof Anja Lindstäter I am beyond happy to continue my interdisciplinary research (and to live in such a beautiful new place!)