Almost ready for the PEM 2026 "Integrating Energy and Nutrition in Plant Biology" at the beatiful Montpellier France 12-15 July 2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions #TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Die Hater u Idioten sind zunehmend auch auf Bluesky unterwegs. Die Folge: Einer der für mich interessantesten Intellektuellen @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social hört hier auf. Extrem schade! Leider bleiben zu viele auf den Tech-Bro-Plattformen. Aber zumindest an der Diskursqualität sollten wir arbeiten.

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk@ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/Ich habe gestern auf Bluesky erklärt, dass ich auch auf dieser Plattform meine Aktivitäten einstelle. Zuvor hatte ich das bereits Mitte Dezember auf X/Twitter getan. Auf Twitter und Facebook war ich seit April 2021, wenig später ging ich auch auf Insta, als Bluesky startete, war ich relativ

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...

Save the date: "Plant Energy Management, Molecular mecanisms of growth ans stress responses" will take place in Montpellier next year july 12-15 @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @ccf-claire.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social

Now online in PLANT CELL: unexpected functions of S1 bZIPs in starvation response: Congrats to Theresa and Christoph and all others involved. Thanks to Cezary Smaczniak and Kerstin Kaufmann for a Great collaboration! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

A subset of group S1 bZIP transcription factors controls resource management during starvation and recovery in Arabidopsis

Specific S1 bZIP transcription factors coordinate amino acid catabolism, gluconeogenesis and C/N-balance to support plant survival during starvation.

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Great preprint from Xinnian Dong‘s lab: linking SnRK1/TOR signalling to SA/NPR1 in plant pathogen defence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you can, do something, speak up and act up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

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We’re looking for a PhD student to join our group at Würzburg University and study the relationship between carbohydrate metabolism and thermotolerance in Arabidopsis. If you are interested please apply by Feb 14th!

Check out our latest pre-print where we used our ASP-#SPARK #sensor to unveil #SnRK1's multifaceted role during #plant growth and #development! bit.ly/49JVZrY Including real-time #spatiotemporal visualization of SnRK1 activity in a growing #Arabidopsis root! 😀