@jandevries.bsky.social is wrapping up the final MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social meeting. It was a blast! Excited what’s to come next. #plantsci #evolution

Thank you all for coming! It was a wonderful final meeting, filled with great science and an even greater community 🌱. We hope to see many of you again somewhere down the road. Safe travels home today, everyone! #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Plants transformed the Earth’s atmosphere and surface. @watertoland.bsky.social transformed my research life here in Germany. Thanks to the community and @dfg.de for their supports over the years! My special thanks to @rensingstefan.bsky.social and @jandevries.bsky.social.

The last talk of the meeting! We’re a little sad that #MAdLand2026 is coming to an end, but very happy to welcome our guest speaker, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social from Toulouse. He will talk about the evolution of plant–microbe interactions at the water-to-land transition. 🌱 #plantsci

We are very happy to welcome our next guest speaker, Liam Dolan @liamdolanlab.bsky.social from the GMI in Vienna. He is telling us more about the development of the Marchantia polymorpha sporeling #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk before the coffee break and already the final short talk of the meeting is given by @thanahartmann.bsky.social from the Schuller Lab in Marburg, taking us into the world of Cryo-Electron Tomography of streptophyte algae #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Chiara Kuhlmann from the Schünemann Lab in Bochum will take us into the fascinating world of chloroplast protein transport, exploring how these mechanisms have adapted throughout land plant evolution. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Aniya Azam Rakhi from the Theissen Lab in Jena will share her work on how tetramerization of the Marchantia polymorpha MADS-domain transcription factor MpMADS2 impacts DNA-binding site recognition #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next we have Nora Gutsche from the Zachgo lab in Osnabrück sharing her insights on the analysis of developmental TGA transcription factor functions in Riccia fluitans, a reductively evolved liverwort and how it unveils divergent evolutionary TGA trajectories #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now we'll hear from Norina Noor from the Frank Lab in Munich, who will present her work on the functional analysis of small RNA pathways in bryophytes. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Tim Ruder from the Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover will share his latest discoveries on a conserved geometric core that defines the RNA polymerase ω-subunit family. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen will share her insights into core transcriptomic responses of Zygnematophyceae to a gradient of terrestrial stressors. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Our first talk after lunch will be given by Haruna Nomizo from the Uchida lab in Japan, who will share her insights into Cell division behavior of proliferative outermost cells during discoid thallus morphogenesis in Coleochaete scutata. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

And we’ve reached the final talk of the session! Mina Kazemianrouhi from the Reumann lab in Hamburg is exploring how peroxisome functions evolved and assembled during plant terrestrialization. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social in Düsseldorf is telling us more about Trehalose 6-phosphate as an ancient sucrose-specific signal shaping (land) plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@linusboernke.eurosky.social from the @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is sharing his latest insights on sugar signaling and metabolism in Marchantia polymorpha. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Christine Kühn from the Richter lab in Rostock is taking us across the streptophyte lineage to explore metabolic sensing and high-light acclimation. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, @clinton-sa.bsky.social from @grandpahiro.bsky.social lab is exploring the evolution of SA signalling and NPR protein function using Marchantia polymorpha and Physcomitrium patens as research models. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

The new session starts with Lea Marie Preuß from the Ischebeck lab in Münster sharing her insights on the Evolution of lipid droplet- associated proteins and their role in drought resistance #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk of the session: @shiltemann.bsky.social is introducing @nfdi4plants.bsky.social ARCs and exploring the path towards FAIR data publications. Find all published MAdLand ARCs here: archive.nfdi4plants.org/communities/... #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Elena Sturm from the Bucher & Becker lab in Cologne is exploring the evolutionary links between nutrient starvation responses and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis during plant terrestrialization. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, @nidabasturk.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is exploring endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes, from Archaeplastida and secondary algae to Paulinella. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Our first short talk of the day 🌱 @dvarshney.bsky.social from @rensingstefan.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is exploring the origins of land plants through gene family evolution and a reproducible Galaxy workflow. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Starting fresh into a new day! 🌱 We’re very happy to welcome @moodytomato.bsky.social from Oxford as our next guest speaker, who will be unravelling the origins of multidimensional growth in plants with us. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

And we’ve arrived at the final talk of the day! Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab is taking us on a journey through cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia, exploring what they can tell us about early land plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re excited to welcome Takashi Murata, joining us all the way from Japan, to tell us how microtubules mediate post-cytokinetic cell wall synthesis in Closterium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Kim-Kristine Müller from the Classen Lab in Kiel is exploring the evolution of pectins in streptophyte cell walls: highly diverse or strongly conserved polysaccharides? #MAdLand2026 #plantsci#MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@fernway.bsky.social from @duke-university.bsky.social in North Carolina is sharing his latest discoveries on how a plant-derived diterpenoid initiates symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, @derenbuyuktas.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is sharing her latest insights on Hornwort Abiotic Stress Responses and their Evolutionary Link to Cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are starting the short talks with @peterszovenyi.bsky.social from Zurich, telling us about the functional evidence suggesting that the algal and hornwort carbon-concentrating mechanisms rely on functionally homologous set of genes #MAdLand2026 #plantsci