Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Roland Gromes @gromesroland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just spontaneously, big plant questions: * How to adapt agriculture to climate change? * Can climate change and biodiversity loss be mitigated in ecosystems? * Can photosynthesis be optimized? * How did the mosses/tracheophytes split evolve (e.g. what did early land plants do with their stomata)? 1105
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 16120
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Congratulations to biophysicist Peter Hegemann @humboldtuni.bsky.social, plant physiologist Georg Nagel @uni-wuerzburg.de, and @deisseroth.bsky.social! …. it all started with a basic research question: how tiny alga sense light 1389
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Here a W3 professorship at Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. The university had the first Nobel Prize winner and since today also one of the most recent ones. 097
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Asgard archaea can actively crawl, using protrusions that are filled with an actin-based "cytoskeleton". Speed in the range of µm / s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea - NatureAnoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti... 0199
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Schneeberger Lab @labschneeberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper from Xiao Dong on the mutational dynamics of centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana! 🌱 A quick thread on what we found... 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgThe mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres - NatureCentromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana evolve through frequent insertions and deletions of repeat units and increased rates of point mutations driven by homology-directed repair, a mutation spectrum that... 14413
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Lawrence Rudy Cadena @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Our paper on the subcellular proteome of Paulinella is finally out! A possible oxygen-scavenging mechanism to enhance RuBisCO carboxylation highlights how protists can reveal unexpected solutions to challenges in photosynthesis. Big kudos to everyone involved! @evanowack.bsky.social 12313
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 23/09/2026Ancient genome function persists despite frequent mutations Biology: Publication in Nature Centromeres are crucial for cell division and emerged early in evolution. A research team led by Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the Max ... weiterlesen 011
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Congratulations Antonio, this is well deserved! 010
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de 34527
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Nature @nature.com · 16/09/2026Asgard archaea, named for the realm of the Norse gods, changed scientists' views on the origins of eukaryotes go.nature.com/4h8rgZPgo.nature.comThese bizarre, much-coveted microbes are revealing the origins of complex lifeResearchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way. 05717
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 14/09/2026💻 🍃 A mathematical #model of photoinhibition: exploring the impact of quenching processes by Tim Nies, Shizue Matsubara, Oliver Ebenhoeh doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantSciencedoi.orgA mathematical model of photoinhibition: exploring the impact of quenching processesAbstract. Plants are constantly exposed to changing environments, sometimes leading to extreme conditions and stress. For example, sudden exposure to high 033
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Natalie Laibach @natabolite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026and many thanks to @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social and the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de team for the organisation and making it a great space for ECRs 052
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Natalie Laibach @natabolite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Last week ended #BotanikTagung2026 & I really enjoyed my time there meeting known & new people and especially to be there with my small though growing group of amazing researchers 💚🌾 161
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Mark your calendars: The next Botanik-Tagung #BT2028, the international Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 📍will take place at Göttingen, Germany organised by @jandevries.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 - 21 September 2028 0188
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Kirsten Krause is talking about plant interactions, especially parasitic plants #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 173
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Strasburger Award 2026 goes to Michelle Rönspies for her outstanding work on CRISPR-Cas-mediated chromosome fusion in A. thaliana #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 0103
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Best Paper Prize 2025 by the Wilhelm Pfeffer foundation is awarded to Sara Leite Dias, Ling Chuang, and Shenyu Liu #BT2026 033
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A big congrats to @jaccolinezegers.bsky.social again for receiving the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for her amazing PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de 2186
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de at #BT2026 receives the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize from DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago. 1113
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026So happy to see @michaelraissig.bsky.social speaking at #BT2026 about his fascinating work on stomatal development 🌱 1326
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 0104
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Second day of #Botanik-Tagung2026 starts with a talk by Katie Field about mycorrhiza #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 0103
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ute Krämer is wrapping up the first day of the conference with a lecture about plant adaption to heavy metal #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 0184
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Curated to support #Botanik-Tagung2026, our latest subject collection showcases recent research and review-type articles on plant development that have been published in the journal, curated by Development Editor @stanfordstomata.bsky.social . journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...journals.biologists.comFocus on plant development | Development | The Company of BiologistsDevelopment routinely publishes research and review-type articles spanning the broad spectrum of plant developmental biology. The journal features studies 011
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Andreas Weber is kicking off #BT2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with very important messages about the roles of communities for excellent science @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 1248
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026pretty cool, a special brew for #Botanik-Tagung2026 🍺 0341
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky 26523
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Countdown: 24 hrs #Botanik-Tagung2026 Sunday, 6 September, 4:00 pm Welcome Reception Icebreaker Location: Mensa All welcome! botanik-tagung.de/index.html 0133
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Another #PlantScience job here @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We need a seed physiology expert in our seed research team. This is a full-time, permanent position here at our headquarters in Einbeck. Expertise in Seed Physiology and Germination are needed. #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobsjobs.kws.comScientist Seed Research (m/f/d)Scientist Seed Research (m/f/d) 01827
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026www.nature.com/articles/d41.... If you are eligible, vote this fall for candidates that support the US scientific enterprisenature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 043
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026www.spiegel.de/politik/klim...spiegel.de(S+) Meinung: Klimakrise: Wer die Erde retten will, muss mehr anbieten als Daueralarm und VorwürfeDie Erderwärmung braucht keine neue Schulddebatte, sondern eine positive Vision. Eine französische Forscherin sagt jetzt, wie diese aussieht. 000
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today is the day! Your chance to learn about synthetic biology (iGEM). We will be sharing our experiences at 6 pm in SR2.007 (IZMB, Kirschallee 1). Interested students from the University of Bonn are invited! Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/igem @puckerlab.bsky.social @igembonn.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Michael Feldbrügge @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Two PhD positions in the Feldbrügge Lab at HHU Düsseldorf within nEXt-RNA: 🔬 DC1: Live-cell imaging of RNA transfer and function 📦 DC10: Mechanisms and applications of RNA delivery RNA biology, fungi, extracellular vesicles and advanced imaging. www.mikrobiologie.hhu.de/en/ 01423
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For the first time, researchers in the @kunzlab.bsky.social directly recorded rapid cation fluxes into isolated chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana in realtime, connection cation flux to jasmonic acid biosynthesis. 🌿⚡️ 092
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Congratulations! Dr Michelle Rönspies from @kit.edu will receive this year’s Eduard Strasburger Prize. She has demonstrated for the first time that the gene scissors CRISPR/Cas can be used to restructure even large fragments of plants’ genomes without impairing growth or development. 172
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 31/08/2026LAST WEEK TO APPLY!!! 🧪 @biozentrum.unibas.ch seeks a new group👩🔬 exploring molecular questions relevant to climate 🌍, including biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon, nitrogen) ♻️, bioenergetic energy conversion (e.g., photosynthesis, chemosynthesis) ☀️⚗️, and the adaptation to environmental change 🌊🌡️🦠🌾 01211
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Congratulations! Dr Paul Grünhofer from @unibonn.bsky.social will receive one of this year’s Horst Wiehe Prizes from DBG’s own Horst Wiehe-Stiftung for his excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis. He had questioned long-standing assumptions about the protecting surfaces of poplars. 151
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Congratulations! Dr Sarina Niedzwiedz from @unibremen.bsky.social will receive one of this year’s Horst Wiehe Prizes from DBG’s own Horst Wiehe-Stiftung for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis in which she analysed how #ClimateChange menaces arctic kelp forests. 1124
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de will receive this year’s Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize of DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago. 1185
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026📣 Metabolomics expert position at @ceplas.bsky.social part part of the CEPLAS Academic Expert Career Programme (tenure-track). karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... 01928
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob W3-Professorship in Plant Breeding @unihalle.bsky.social wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...wcms.itz.uni-halle.de 0916
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Johanna Romberg @johromberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026„Vielleicht blicken wir (in 20 Jahren) zurück und sagen: Das war der Moment, in dem Europa es doch noch geschafft hat, das Steuer herumzureißen und ein Standort für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit in Landwirtschaft und Ernährung zu sein.“ Sehr lesenswertes Interview mit @martinreich.bsky.socialsaatgut-kann-mehr.deMartin Reich Interview: Neue Züchtungstechniken in EuropaDr. Martin Reich über die Neuregelung von Neuen genomischen Techniken, Europas Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Innovationen in der Biotechnologie 32212
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Khaled_Selim Lab @selimlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026🧵 #Bacterial #Multicellularity: We discovered that Ca2+ signaling controls cellular junctions in #cyanobacteria, similar to Euks @embojournal.org A great collab. w/ @weiss-lab.bsky.social #TeamTomo @hhu.de @spp2389.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comThe calcium-binding protein CSE links Ca2+ signaling with cell-cell communication in cyanobacteria - The EMBO JournalMulticellular cyanobacteria have evolved sophisticated cell–cell communication machinery to exchange, synchronize, and coordinate the efforts of individual cells. Analogous to gap junctions that have ... 44512
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Das @leibnizipk.bsky.social betreibt eine der größten Genbanken weltweit. Für unsere Gruppe "Genbankdokumentation" suchen wir einen erfahrenen Wissenschaftler (m/w/d), der uns bei der Erschließung, Aufbereitung und Auswertung von Daten unterstützt. Neugierig? ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/8ysku9k7 022
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Assistant/Associate Professor in Climate Biophysics @ Uni Basel, CH🇨🇭 Applicants should explore fundamental molecular questions in climate-relevant fields, including biogeochemical cycles, bioenergetic energy conversion, adaptation to environmental change. biped.biozentrum.unibas.ch/application/...biped.biozentrum.unibas.chBIPED 011