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Eli Thynne

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PI at the University of Oxford, studying plant-fungal interactions.

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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV
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Bentham Lab — Durham University
Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!
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Graeme Kettles @graemekettles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our group's latest preprint shows TurboID can be adapted for studying extracellular elicitor-receptor interactions in plants. Hopefully useful for the apoplastic MPMI community www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by former PhD @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social
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A TurboID-based proximity labelling method for detecting extracellular protein interactions in plants
The apoplast is a primary location for interactions between plants and invasive pathogens and is the site where many pathogen-secreted effectors are perceived by cell surface immune receptors to activ...
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IPB Halle @ipbhalle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will focus on Plant Membrane Biochemistry and Chemoproteomics (m/f/d) (10/2026) ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/34-postdocto...
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Botany One @botany.one · 05/09/2026
Research Assistant // University of Oxford www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU198/r... We are looking for a motivated graduate research assistant for a one-year project aimed at exploring the interactions of a conserved class of small, secreted proteins that are involved in virulence. #BotanyJobs
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Research Assistant at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...
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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📣 New preprint! 🧵 Fantastic work led by @antonkraege.bsky.social Fact: Cerato-platanins are everywhere in fungi. Found across the fungal kingdom, implicated in everything from development to virulence to immune activation. But what do they *actually* do? We finally found the answer 👇
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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Excited to see our new preprint on bioRxiv! 🌱🤖 We used AI protein design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN) to build brand-new sensor domains from scratch and installed them in a rice NLR immune receptor engineering recognition of a Fusarium effector FoSSP17
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Computational design of de novo integrated domains enables rational control of pathogen effector recognition in plant NLR immune receptors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🌱🧬Pathogens manipulate the apoplast by controlling pH, water & nutrients. Plants fight back with oxidative bursts, toxins & hydrolases. Adapted pathogens disarm these defenses & hide from detection Molecular arms race outside the cell @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Extracellular Antagonists: Offense and Counter-Defense in the Apoplast
Extracellular interactions are pivotal in the plant–pathogen arms race. Fungal, bacterial, and oomycete pathogens manipulate the apoplast to control pH, water soaking, sugar levels, and nutrient avail...
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Jiorgos Kourelis @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible) 🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics 📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded) 📍 South Kensington, on site ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk 🔗 kourelislab.com #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!
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Isabel saur @izzysaurlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Development of a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated transformation procedure for the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina. Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-... #EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
PhD or Postdoc from the US and interested in expanding experience with quantitative disease resistance? The German State Ministry of Research now offers "hop-on" fellowships. These can add extra expertise to some ongoing projects, by supporting fellowships for up to 3 years. Interested? DM!
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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So diverse and yet conserved. Check out opinion paper by Leonhard Pachinger @leopach.bsky.social on antimicrobial effectors produced by fungal pathogens: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Antimicrobial effectors of plant-associated fungi: multipurpose proteins with fast-evolving surfaces and structurally conserved cores
Plants are exposed to a variety of devastating pathogens, causing significant yearly yield losses. In order to facilitate infections, plant pathogens …
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Michael Habig @michaelhabig.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oggenfussursula.bsky.social #TEsky
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Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes - Nature Communications
Large mobile genetic elements known as Starships act as vehicles for transferring transposable elements (TEs) between fungi. Here, Griem-Krey et al. show that these ‘hitchhiking’ TEs can drive rapid e...
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ECRs, one week to go! Please join us for an exciting event: The Sainsbury Laboratory Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions for Early Career Researchers 20th – 31st July 2026 Norwich, UK Application deadline: 12:00 BST (UTC +1) Monday 30th March 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Early bird registration closing soon (31st March) for this years International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights ISCLB2026 to be held in Banff. I am devastated to miss out due to schedule conflicts but it's sure to be an amazing meeting!
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Registration — International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights 2026 — International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights 2026
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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@thaisdalsasso.bsky.social is applying new tools to address the evolution and functional diversification of secreted proteins of fungal plant pathogen. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
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Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026)
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology
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Thaís Dal’Sasso @thaisdalsasso.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Congrats @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social. @estukenbrock.bsky.social and colleagues on this exciting study linking codon optimization and adaptive translation to lifestyle transitions in a group of fungi.
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Jiorgos Kourelis @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!
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PhD Opportunities | Faculty of Natural Sciences | Imperial College London
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our latest pre-print on TE-mediated tandem duplication of the ToxB effector is now online...still a puzzle for us but we think it is in a Helitron! Together with amazing collaborators, Reem Aboukhaddour and Ryan Gourlie #TE #fungi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The virulence gene ToxB is both amplified and disrupted by transposons in the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis
### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, https://ror.org/051dzs374 Alberta Grain Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commissio...
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Two really cool PhD positions available with Christina Barragan on Plant Pathogen evolution! Our dept. just moved to a brand new building with great facilities and we have an absolutely amazing team!
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱 Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
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Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Registrations for the Stromlo Plant Pathogen Conference #StromPath25 are rolling in fast and the program is now full! Exciting lineup from Japan, Korea, USA, UK, NZ + strong local crew. Join us in Canberra — rego open until Nov 13. Program available here tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2
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10th Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference | wheatbiosecurity
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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📣 Applications are now OPEN for the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme This 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant & Microbial Sciences at The Sainsbury Laboratory, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply before 13 Nov '25 ➡️ okt.to/qjy60T
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@arc-pbtc.bsky.social is seeking a #PhD student to explore how Australian growers engage with biosecurity preparedness and design strategies to boost on-farm readiness. Work with industry, growers & government on impactful research. Generous stipend + national network. tinyurl.com/ykwj97th
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Join a PhD in Biosecurity: Protecting Australia's Future
Join a pioneering PhD project in Plant Biosecurity, explore socio-cultural impacts on biosecurity practices, and secure your career.
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very happy to see this work finally online! Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!
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Eli Thynne @elithynne.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Molecular mimicry of plant cell-surface immune receptors by fungal secreted leucine-rich repeat proteins
Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs) are important plant immunity proteins. The wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici produces many virulence effectors during infection; however, m...
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Registrations are rolling in for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology meeting in Canberra (Nov 27–28)! Secure your spot! Speakers: @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecille Segonzac, @thamlab.bsky.social, @yichangsung.bsky.social, Tek Tay & @danielsyu.bsky.social. Register at tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2 #strompath25
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10th Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference | wheatbiosecurity
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!
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Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...
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Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity at Imperial College London
Apply for the Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197 ⁩ For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Are you considering applying for a postdoc fellowship to come to Germany? Check this out.
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecile Segonzac and@thamlab.bsky.social. Please go to tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3 to register - all are welcome!
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Michael Seidl @mfseidl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Are you interested in molecular plant microbe interactions and would like to study effector biology in Fusarium-lettuce patho-system? Consider this PhD position @uva.nl in the lab of Martijn Rep as part of our recently funded joint TKI project werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Plant-pathogenic Fungus Interaction
Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for molecular plant or microbial science? Would you like to take on a highly relevant project in the field of plant-pathogen interactions? Then we hav...
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We're officially launching the ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity on the International Day of Plant Health, May 12. This is a 5yr, $10M investment into postgrad research training funded by Australian Research Council, 3 unis (ANU, JCU & UC) and 27 partner organisations @arc-pbtc.bsky.social
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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular, and Genomic details of crop diseases t.co/1bk6cdL9mc special issue 📜 in @mpmijournal.bsky.social
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel
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PlantsCoChallenge @plantscochallenge.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are exploring the physiological and evolutionary adaptations of plants to various stress factors in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. A key focus is understanding the central role of the microbiome—the microorganisms residing in/on plants—in the development of plant stress defense mechanisms.
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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA) Excited by fungi, genomes, transposons, sustainable agriculture, microbiomes or other topics? Looking for a friendly and interactive lab located in one of the most beautiful towns in Switzerland? 🇨🇭⛰️⛵ Get in touch and please share! pathogen-genomics.org
Lake Neuchatel and the Swiss Alps
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Looking for a MSc programme @uni-kiel.de that combines agriculture and genomics (with options to specialize in plant or animals, molecular or computational techniques, or a bit of all?) Our MSc programme Agrigenomics is open for applications for next fall! www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en
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AgriGenomics - An international Master`s Program for agricultural genomics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
AgriGenomics - An international Master`s Program for agricultural genomics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
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