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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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@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

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@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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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The global Plant Proteostasis community is gathering in Strasbourg for the 5th International Conference on Plant Proteostasis 2026 (Oct 14-16) at @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social ! 🌍🌱 🔗 proteostasis-26.sciencesconf.org #PlantScience #Proteostasis

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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

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@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

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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

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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

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We’re kicking off the session with our next guest speaker, Elvira Hörandl, who is sharing her insights into The Paradox of Sex in Plants 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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Next, we’re delighted to welcome Miguel Blanquez from Valencia. He is taking us back in time with his talk Before Gibberellins: The Ancestral Environmental Regulation of DELLA Activity ⏳ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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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

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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

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We’re very delighted to welcome our first invited speaker, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, from Japan! He is taking us into the fascinating world of the unicellular zygnematophycean alga Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex. 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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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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Christin Naumann @cnaumann123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Next up is @c-apel.bsky.social from @cnaumann123.bsky.social & Abel lab at the IPB in Halle, taking us into the world of Terraphos – Exploring the Evolution of Phosphate Scouting During Plant Terrestrialization #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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@c-apel.bsky.social from our lab is now presenting her progress in the Project Terraphos, where we study the evolution of Phosphate sensing. #MadLand2026

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Daniel Heß from @cyanolab.bsky.social in Freiburg is sharing his insights on Inositol phosphates, pyrophosphates and the genes involved in their turnover in the streptophyte green alga Chara braunii #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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Starting our short talk sessions with James Walker from San Diego, telling us more about linking live-cell dynamics to single- cell molecular states across plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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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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We are going into the next session with Maria Dolores Lopez Bueno from the @philipp-denninger.bsky.social lab in Munich, sharing insights into the Evolution of novel RHO OF PLANTS signaling activators during the adaptation from water to land #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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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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