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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz

@caeciliafkunz.bsky.social
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Interested in #evolution, studying phenolics and UV-B response in the closest algal relatives of land plants. PhD student in @jandevries.bsky.social Lab at @uni-goettingen.de

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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@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
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last talk of the session by @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing her latest insights into the conserved and divergent UV responses in Mesotaenium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up, Zahin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is sharing his latest discoveries on phytochrome-mediated light signalling in Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up is @heche.bsky.social from the @jandevries.bsky.social lab, talking about Polyploid cycle in land plants: an exaptation of the alternation of dimorphic multicellular generations #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The final MAdLand Meeting @watertoland.bsky.social starts with @jandevries.bsky.social welcome in Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de #plantsci #evolution
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mark 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
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The next Botanik-Tagung will take place in Göttingen, Germany, from 17th to 21st September 2028. Hope to see you all there!
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations! 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.
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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A big congrats to @jaccolinezegers.bsky.social again for receiving the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for her amazing PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In our general assembly today Sophie de Vries introduced & launched YongDBG, the network for early career researchers (ECR) from undergraduate level to first junior group leader position for members of our DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/sections/...
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YoungDBG
YoungDBG is DBG's member network for early career researchers in the plant sciences.
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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Sophie de Vries to be re-elected to be the YoungDBG representative and creating the #ECR #YoungDBG network - I’m excited to join and see what will grow from this. It is open to any ECR until junior group leaders @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 04/09/2026
Congratulations to bioinformatician Dr Jaccoline Zegers for the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize, German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG), awarded for her PhD thesis. The prize recognises outstanding achievements in plant research: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #AppliedBioinformatics #Genomics #Algae
Close up photograph of one of Dr Jaccoline Zeger's analysed algae from the group of Zygnematophyceae named Zygnema circumcarinatum. It shows a close up of a strand which has transparent compartments with packs of green in the middle. The photo is by Jaccoline Zegers, University of GöttingenPhoto shows Dr Jaccoline Zegers. She is sitting in a field of wheat-coloured crop with mountains and forests behind her. Photo thanks to Amra Ashok, University of Göttingen
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Sophie de Vries at @uni-goettingen.de for receiving her @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "Plant Immune Responses in Perpetual symbiosis (PIRPetum)" focusing on the #evolution of the #symbiosis between the water fern #Azolla and #cyanobacteria www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
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Presseinformationen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#TansleyReview: The evolutionary origins of streptophyte multicellularity de Vries et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social
Fig. 1 Phylogeny of streptophytes and the deep origin of branching filamentous growth.
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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Learn about the UV response of the earliest land plants #evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway—& its divergence in zygnematophyte #algae at Cece's @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social poster 100-042 #PlantBio2026 @aspbofficial.bsky.social & checkout @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy to be at my first #ASPB meeting in Ottawa. If you’re interested in #evolution & phenolics in the closest algal relatives of land #plants, come to my poster #100-042 today from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm and tomorrow (Monday) from 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm #PlantBio2026 #algae
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The evolutionary origins of #streptophyte multicellularity #TansleyReview by Tatyana Darienko, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social Summary also available in German. #PlantScience
The phylogeny of streptophytes and the deep origin of branching filamentous growth.
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🌱 We are very thrilled to announce our Invited Speakers for this year's MAdLand Meeting. Join us in Göttingen, Germany, from September 29 to October 2, 2026, if you are interested in #plantsci & #evolution, and (re-)connect with an amazing scientific community. Register here: madland-meeting.de
Poster announcing the invited speakers for the MAdLand meeting 2026, taking place in Göttingen from 29 September to 2 October 2026. The list includes the following speakers: Miguel A. Blázquez, Pierre-Marc Delaux, Liam Dolan, Elvira Hörandl, Laura Moody, Hiroyuki Sekimoto
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Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 15/06/2026
Als die ersten Pflanzen ihren Lebensraum im Wasser verließen und an Land siedelten, waren sie völlig neuen Gefahren ausgesetzt. Besonders bedrohlich war UV-Strahlung. Wie haben sie das überlebt? Eine winzige Alge gibt darüber nun Aufschluss. Mehr erfahren: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Zellen der Grünalge nach UV-Bestrahlung unter dem Mikroskop: Die Chloroplasten leuchten durch Autofluoreszenz rot, die Zellwand wurde in Cyan angefärbt. © Cäcilia Kunz, Tatyana Darienko, Jan de Vries
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When a protist engulfed a cynaobacterium, Earth changed forever! @jandevries.bsky.social, @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social, @heche.bsky.social & colleagues review the origins and evolution of archaeoplastids, the lineage that arose from this event, including plants & co www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Merve Nida Baştürk (she/her) @nidabasturk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy to be part of the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social on #plant #evolution with @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social @heche.bsky.social! Check out our review on the evolution of Archaeplastida:
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Phylogenomic frameworks from deep archaeplastid evolution to embryophyte diversification
Baştürk et al. review the major progress that has been made in our understanding of Archaeplastida, the primary plastid-bearing photosynthetic eukaryotes that include the land plants, highlighting lon...
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very excited to be presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen. I'll be talking about evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in UV acclimation in the context of plant terrestrialization. Looking forward to connecting with other researchers interested in #evolution. #SMBE2026
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Honoured to present my latest paper at the Mendel Early Career Symposium at the @gmivienna.bsky.social! It's been two days of engaging talks, posters and very diverse science. #PlantBiology #Mendel_ECR_26 #plantsci #algae #evolution #PlantTerrestrialization #transcriptomics #metabolomics
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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Day 1 of the Mendel Early Career Symposium! 100 international researchers gathered for networking, engaging talks & posters, keynote by @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social, & workshop on ChimeraX/AlphaFold. Thanks to the sponsors for supporting expanding horizons in #PlantBiology. #Mendel_ECR_26
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EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · 15/05/2026
Well done to everyone involved in this week's systems biology course; we cannot wait to see what you do with your new skills and the community you've created. Looking for your own systems bioinformatics training? Why not start with our free on-demand related training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...
Course at EMBL-EBI. Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight. 11 - 15 May 2026. Hinxton, UK. EMBL-EBI logo. A group of people stand and look up to a camera whilst posing for a group photo at the systems biology course.
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Hengchi Chen @heche.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thrilled to see the final chapter of my thesis now publish on Cell! It's been a long journey. @yvdp.bsky.social @almeidasilvaf.bsky.social @stevenmaere.bsky.social In this study, we try to tackle a "polyploid paradox".
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The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval
From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the...
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excited to present my poster today at @training.ebi.embl.org's course “Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight”! I’ve learned a lot throughout the course — the trainers are excellent at making complex concepts approachable and combining them with hands-on training. #bioinformatics
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very happy to share our recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showcasing the cell systems response of a close relative of land plants to UV-B light by utilising a multi-omics approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social
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Chemodiverse cell system responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants
Plant terrestrialization necessitated overcoming a barrage of stressors.1 Embryophytes (land plants) use an integrated response network to adjust thei…
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MolPlantSci @molplantsci.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Cäcilia Felicitas Kunz from the University Göttingen will report on Plant Terrestrialization: Phenolics in Stress Response in the Closest Algal Relatives of Land Plants #MBP2026
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Cece (Cäcilia F.) Kunz @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our review on “Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization” in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social is out now! Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #terrestrialization #Algae #Evolution @watertoland.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social
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Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization
Plant evolutionary research has made leaps in exploring the deep evolutionary roots of embryophytes. A solid phylogenomic framework was established, a…
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