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Division of Molecular Plant Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de (posts by @sophiezoe.bsky.social, @hengqi.bsky.social, @isabellembke.bsky.social, @dobrogojski.bsky.social, @schmid-laura.bsky.social, @magda-tsitsikli.bsky.social)

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The @uni-freiburg.de is once again a University of Excellence!✨ This is a tremendous success for the entire University! At CIBSS, we are proud to have helped lay the foundations for this achievement together with #FutureForests. But something important has already emerged along the way:
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wood reflects environmental change. Today, visitors from the Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology showed how quantitative wood anatomy and image analysis can reveal how trees form wood and adapt their architecture to environmental stress. 📆 Sep 25 #PlantScience
Speaker: Mareike HirschSpeaker: Melchior SchliephackSpeaker: Elena Larysch
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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last Friday was a great opportunity to celebrate how fantastic are the @domps-ufr.bsky.social postdoc! Plus I had the privilege to introduce the new DOMPS logo.
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are so lucky -> 24 !!! outstanding and inspiring postdocs in our Division of Molecular Plant Science #DOMPS in #Freiburg
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🎉 We are celebrating the postdocs who bring new ideas, expertise, and great energy to our DOMPS community! Next to that, let us take this opportunity to introduce our new logo. 💚🧬💙
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Elke Barbez @elkebarbez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How is CRISPR embedded in society—and how can it change agriculture? 🌱🧬 Ursula Franklin argued long before CRISPR-Cas that technologies are shaped by the systems around them: regulation, access and trust! rdcu.be/xuiHDM7EB5Ka #NGT @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CRISPR can change plants—but will it change agriculture? 🌱🧬 In a new Nature Plants Correspondence, #CIBSS researchers discuss how regulation, access, commercialisation and public trust shape the real-world impact of genome editing 🚜. 🔗Read more: rdcu.be/xuiHDM7EB5Ka
Female researcher looking at plants. Quote: "We know that CRISPR can change plants. The question is how it will change agriculture."
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 Paper alert! #CIBSS researchers examined the role of mitochondrial protease ICP55, an enzyme that removes a single amino acid from proteins imported into mitochondria – and showed how important this is for the stability of protein complexes. @voegtlelab.bsky.social @degradomics.bsky.social
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A single-amino-acid cleavage controls global mitochondrial complex integrity - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Kücükköse, Luzarowski and colleagues show that removing a single N-terminal amino acid during the maturation of newly imported mitochondrial proteins globally stabilizes mitochondrial protein complexe...
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#SaveTheDate: Upcoming CIBSS Seminars 📅 The CIBSS Seminar Series is currently on a summer break—but the next dates for autumn are set already! More info will follow closer to the respective date. Stay up-to-date with all #CIBSS events: 🔗 kurzlinks.de/x3bz #Seminar #SignalsOfLife #Events
Upcoming seminars: September 29 with Prof. Dr. Teva Vernoux and October 20 with Dr. Julia Kolter.
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Faculty of Biology - University of Freiburg @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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“The Botanical Garden’s appearance is going to change dramatically” – University of Freiburg
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📣 #JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a position as Head of the Life Imaging Center (LIC) – the core facility for light microscopy. ❗ Application Deadline: 6 September, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/2126 #Biology #LightMicroscopy #Imaging
Job alert for Head of Life Imaging Center with the application deadline (6 September).
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Pitter Huesgen @degradomics.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy and proud to see this story published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🌱 Plant roots decide which way to grow much earlier than expected. #CIBSS researchers revealed how the SGR9 protein helps young lateral roots sense gravity & set their growth angle at a surprisingly early phase of development. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/yi3a #PlantScience #RootArchitecture
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henrietteruebsam.bsky.social @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It was great fun seeing our research featured both on national TV, the radio and in a news article this week! Check out how we are hopefully contributing to reducing CO2 emissions in the future. @ottlab.bsky.social
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Gestern Dreh, heute online. Ein kurzer Bericht über unsere Arbeit hier in Freiburg im Rahmen des @ensa-research.bsky.social Projekts und in Kooperation mit @cibss.bsky.social. Danke an @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social und das ganze Team für die Koordination und Mithilfe. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
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Weniger Erdgas und CO2: Wissenschaftler forschen an Bakterien-Pflanzen-Symbiosen
Kunstdünger braucht viel Erdgas und schadet Klima und Gewässern. Forschende in Freiburg wollen, dass Nutzpflanzen sich mithilfe von Bakterien selbst mit Stickstoff versorgen.
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/5 Every paper has a story. Ours started with a dataset and ended with a conceptual advance. But what I'm most proud of is the development of the people behind it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS
Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hey plant colleagues out there! 3 days to go to apply for the plant biotechnology professorship. Great colleagues @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, amazing atmosphere @dompsfr.bsky.social, lovely city to settle. And great support by @cibss.bsky.social. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | 12859402
The future position holder will lead an internationally recognized research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
How do roots choose their angle? Steep, deep, and cheap! @gwenkirschner.bsky.social (from @hutton.ac.uk) explored the molecular control of root angle in barley, revealing how cytokinin and other regulators determine root growth angle and shape root system architecture. 📅 Jun 26 #PlantScience
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 16/06/2026
It worked! Our Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social community supports the approval of NGTs (see the small bottom image from 2 years ago) 🌱
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 02/06/2026
Excited to see our #plantscience review published in @jxbotany.bsky.social! It really captures our lab’s perspective on how plants use spatiotemporal signaling under environmental contexts when floods occur, to coordinate acclimation responses and achieve stress tolerance. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Anticipate, acclimate, recuperate and remember: How spatiotemporal signal integration controls flooding stress resilience in plants
Abstract. Flooding is a major abiotic stress that restricts terrestrial plant growth and survival. A plant tissue’s ability to avoid or sustain critical ox
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Many thanks to Yue Rui and @josedinneny.bsky.social for generously involving us into this great story. Amazing appreciation of the work of @nikolajabel.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors.
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 22/05/2026
Come join us to uncover epigenetic memory in trees 🎄 #plantscience
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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Come to join us in beautiful Freiburg #PlantSciJob #Plantscience. 🌱
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 30/05/2026
Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 06/05/2026
It's a special week of firsts. I never really imagined doing this until last year, but we also started our first field trial with a local farmer and consortium, supported by @mwk-bw.bsky.social 🌽🌾 Super exciting! #plantscience
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 05/05/2026
So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Such a pleasure to host @christatesterink.bsky.social and @ronaldpierik.bsky.social in Freiburg this week! ✨ Beautiful talks, sunny weather, great discussions and plenty of time to catch up. Big thanks to @cibss.bsky.social for sponsoring their visit! 🎉 🌱
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 13/04/2026
Check out this cool #plantscience work by @guofengzhang.bsky.social & @ottlab.bsky.social on symbiosome stabilization and the HUNTER tool 🌱
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New pre-print from the lab! We show that the subtilase SBT12a is essential for symbiosome stabilization in Medicago. Using HUNTER proteomics, we even got some of its substrates. Have a look. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Development is something that happens over time." Today @augustinsvenja.bsky.social (from @simonrdg.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social) showed how CLE40 coordinates developmental timing in the shoot apical meristem, linking WUS regulation and auxin-mediated differentiation. 📅 May 22 #PlantScience
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Did auxin signalling exist before plants? @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social) studies auxin responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, where auxin affects growth and gene networks linked to ROS metabolism, transport, and the cell cycle. 📅 May 8 #PlantScience
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From herbicides to tomato breeding: Philipp Johnen (from @basfde.bsky.social) showed how molecular plant science translates into agriculture. From identifying herbicide modes of action to breeding resistant tomatoes, and how basic research supports farmers and crop resilience. 📅Apr 24 #PlantScience
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How do plants sense competition? Ronald Pierik (from @w-u-r.bsky.social) explored how far-red light drives shade avoidance, showing how vascular bundle structure determines auxin routes within leaves to coordinate growth. Check out their fun lockdown project: plantmoves.nl 🌱
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Plant Moves
Time-lapse videos of plants
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How do plants reprogram growth under stress? @christatesterink.bsky.social (from @w-u-r.bsky.social) showed how salinity reshapes root branching and flowering through auxin, transcriptional regulation, and epigenetics, revealing latent pathways and developmental flexibility. 📅 Apr 20 #PlantScience
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Frauke Garbsch (from Laux group) explored how the shoot apical meristem is established in Arabidopsis. We learned about the WOX2 module and how it initiates stem cell formation, together with newly identified downstream genes involved in shoot stem cell niche establishment. 📅 Apr 17 #PlantScience
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#TODAY Join us for two joint CIBSS and @dompsfr.bsky.social seminars on 20 April: 1) Prof. Dr. @christatesterink.bsky.social (@w-u-r.bsky.social, Netherlands) | 10:00 - 11:00 2) Prof. Dr. Ronad Pierik (@w-u-r.bsky.social, Netherlands) | 12:00 - 13:00 📍 KHS, Bio II/III (Schänzlestr. 1, Freiburg)
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Katrin Heer @katrinheer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🌿 PhD opportunity in forest molecular ecology! Study how trees and their microbiome respond to climate stress in the ECOSENSE forest 🌳 🧬 RNAseq | qPCR | Fieldwork | Interdisciplinary research 📅 Deadline: April 20, 2026 @uni-freiburg.de
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Looking forward to this new @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series! Our microscopy expert @blace.bsky.social will be one of the speakers in the first session.
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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Thanks for this initiative! Great idea. Happy to see @blace.bsky.social from our lab @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social and involved in imaging approaches @sfb1381.bsky.social kicks it off. Hope to see many people online.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...
FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales
Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1)
Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna 
Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg)
Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants
Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale.
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Image of a segmented root
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 30/03/2026
Super proud of this gang! #proudPI #plantscience
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Last but not least, a huge thank you to our amazing organizers @hengqi.bsky.social, @carlos-rc.bsky.social, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social, @advaitagashe.bsky.social, and @kevindaniel.bsky.social for making the symposium inspiring and full of great #PlantScience! 🙌 And thank you all for joining!
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Celebrating excellence at our 4th DOMPS Symposium! 🎉 Best Paper of the Year went to @seinabnoura.bsky.social, and Best Poster prizes were awarded to @jsalfeld.bsky.social, @aroessling.bsky.social, and @sophiezoe.bsky.social. Incredible work by all! 👏👏👏
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social) reflected on how big ideas start small, something puzzling, recurring, or arising by chance. That the right conditions, such as time, tools, environment, and people, are key. So he would invest in creating conditions where ideas can likely grow big.
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pitter Huesgen (@degradomics.bsky.social) joked that €100M would disappear quickly, if he would just buy mass spectrometers. So he spoke about what fascinates him: proteases. His favorite, ICP55, trims destabilizing N-terminal residues, helping stabilize the mitochondrial proteome.
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Andreas Hiltbrunner (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social) would explore how life adapts to extreme environments, from ecological colonization of harsh habitats to the evolution and possible emergence of life. Many of his ideas were tied to one specific landscape, the beautiful glaciers.
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Ralf Reski (@reskilab.bsky.social) would invest in moss bioreactors to produce biopharmaceuticals. Using moss as a scalable platform, his vision focuses on manufacturing human proteins (such as factor H) for medical applications, combining plant biotechnology with drug production.
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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Sjon Hartman (@hartman-plantlab.com) would keep studying flooding resilience in plants. He would spend 5M on better lab facilities, a puppy room, and 5M on a DOMPS villa. The remaining 90M would fund a collaborative Molecular Plant Science hub with shared growth and phenotyping facilities.
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