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Rosa Lozano-Durán’s research team — at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ)

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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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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Proteome profiling of plant Cajal bodies uncovers kingdom-specific components
Abstract. Membraneless organelles (MLOs) in eukaryotic cells, such as the nuclear Cajal body (CB), have been notoriously difficult to biochemically isolate
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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣📣Paper Alert! New paper @nature.com from the Marques group @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues on Rhynchospora tenuis - 🌿a plant that reproduces sexually but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA🧬 Congratulations! 👏 🥳 Read more👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-marques-2... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis - Nature
Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.
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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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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob
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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369
Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So excited and incredibly grateful for this opportunity! 🦠🌱🧬
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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity An honor to highlight remarkable discoveries from many labs over the past 12 years that unite previously disparate fields of how animal cells and prokaryotes defend against viruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fzwyB
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Shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity - Nature
The Review describes shared ancient, conserved mechanisms between human antiviral immunity and bacterial anti-phage systems, outlining universal principles of pathogen sensing, signalling and effector...
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Lorenz Oberkofler @oberkoflerlorenz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Super happy to finally share our preprint with the community! 🎉 Fungal extracellular vesicles deliver RNA cargo into host cells - but how do they get through the plant cell wall? This question puzzled us and the field for years… 🧵 1/6
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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fresh preprint online from our group! We find that stomatal maturation IS possible in the embryo, when they lack ERECTA signaling, but then still, only at the cotyledon tip. A thread. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ERECTA signaling controls the timing of Arabidopsis Guard Cell maturation at the embryonic leaf tip
While cell identities are established early during embryogenesis, these cells remain immature until germination, and the mechanisms enforcing this developmental pause are poorly understood. Embryonic ...
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 29/07/2026
New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications
Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...
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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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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How does a geminivirus replicate its genome using a pick&mix strategy with host proteins? 🦠🦠🌱🧬 Our new preprint identifies plant proteins repurposed by geminiviruses to carry out rolling-circle replication. Congrats @chaonan123.bsky.social , who spearheaded this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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American Phytopathological Society (APS) @plantdisease.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Join us on July 21 to discover how single-cell approaches have uncovered division of labor within 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘦 populations during the next Advances in Phytobacteriology webinar. Register: www.apsnet.org/edcenter/resources/W… #apswebinar
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This week we had Rosa Lozano-Durán from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social here at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Einbeck Headquarter. A fantastic opportunity to hear about her research & discuss future cooperation to tackle virus diseases of our crops. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Marc Somssich and Rosa Lozano-Durán standing next to a sign in front of the glass facade of the KWS headquarter cantine. The sign has the KWS logo on the right side, and the text "Seeding the Future - since 1856" on the left side.
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Jessica Lee Erickson @ericksonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity
The type II secretion (T2S) system is conserved across the Xanthomonas lineage, yet its contributions to pathogenicity and secreted protein repertoires are poorly defined. We demonstrate that T2S syst...
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Huang Tan @huangtan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My very first #IS3DV conference, amazing place, exciting science, and fantastic people. Looking forward to the next one already!
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Laura Medina-Puche @lauramepul.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Obrigado Brasil!! Grateful to be part of such an inspiring global #IS3DV community. Thank you all for making these days so special and unforgettable. See you in 2029 in Málaga! 🦠💚
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What an amazing #IS3DV conference (isdv2026.com) in Ilhéus, Brazil! A big thanks to Murilo Zerbini&team for the fantastic organization — we’re looking forward to IS3DV 2029 in Málaga! (ssDNA virus enthusiasts, stay tuned!) @lauramepul.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 17/06/2026
A highly significant step for European plant sciences: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/pres...
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Neue genomische Techniken für Innovationen in nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft | Aktuelles | Europäisches Parlament
Das Parlament nahm heute neue Vorschriften an, die den Zugang zu neuen, klima- und schädlingsresistenten Pflanzen erleichtern.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/05/2026
Key human defenses against pathogens were forged billions of years ago in microbial battles with viruses. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/3RTyCap
This depiction of viral threats confronting both bacteria and people, and the protein and cellular defenses arrayed against them, illustrates how human immunity traces part of its antiviral arsenal to ancient microbial predecessors. This shared defensive heritage is already suggesting novel tools for molecular biology and new approaches to medicine.
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/05/2026
An Indiana University biology professor has been kicked out of his university lab after speaking up in defense of international postdocs who were targeted for deportation. www.science.org/content/arti...
After USDA request, Indiana
plant biologist locked out of
lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes
complained about the government's
prosecution of Chinese postdocs
9 MAY 2026 . 1:55 PM ET . BY JEFFREY MERVIS
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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We are all Roger. This is a despicable attack on the very essence of what academic science is about. Reason. Humanity. International collaboration.
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
'Scientific advancement depends on freedom, openness, and truth - the very values fascism eventually destroys. Our collective response will shape the future.'
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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Sharing for no reason www.nasonline.org/directory-en...
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Roger W. Innes – NAS
Roger Innes holds the Class of 1954 Professorship in Biology and is former Chair of the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington. He earned his B.A. in Biology at Humboldt State Univers...
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Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Final version of our NRG1 MS is out! We uncover a surprising mechanism: the helper NLR NRG1 targets organellar membranes to trigger immunity Great collaborations with @KamounLab, @JiorgosKourelis, @jonathandgjones, @AdamWu9527, and the @Phil_Carella labs! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Stèf Blanc @steffffff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
VIRUS on the BEACH made the buzzzz We therefore extended the deadline for abstract submission till April 30th Come join us and remember “Fun Science & Cool Ambiance” isdv2026.com/submissions
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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In our recent review, we explore how the spliceosome is targeted by effectors from diverse plant-interacting organisms—and how these effectors can serve as powerful molecular probes to uncover the mechanisms of splicing regulation in plants. @geminiteamlab.bsky.social #PlantScience #RNA #Splicing
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New insights into microbial manipulation of the plant spliceosome
Abstract. Alternative splicing (AS) has emerged as a regulatory layer in plant adaptation to the environment. In particular, biotic stresses trigger a dras
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 05/03/2026
Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 27/02/2026
our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
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Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim
Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Pls RT‼️ @hanhtkvu.bsky.social lab @embl.org & we @cosheidelberg.bsky.social are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested.
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HEALTH + LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE | Interinstitutional Postdocs
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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job
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PhD Projects | Photobodies
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
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Thomas Spallek @thomas-spallek.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Characterization of the C4 proteins encoded by okra-infecting geminiviruses in India www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 06/02/2026
Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word! www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...
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Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg
Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!
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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We are looking for a scientific coordinator in Heidelberg for the Greenrobust excellence cluster www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...
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Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg
Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!
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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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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...
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PhD position in biology (m/f/d) (1/2026)
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a PhD position in Biology
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
GT Lab (median) New Year dinner 🎉 + Clem’s farewell 😊🥲😔 at Chin-Thai Restaurant/天富楼 in Tübingen — amazing food and better company! All the best for your PI life (!) @clemmar.bsky.social — so much fun lies ahead! (but we will miss you!!)
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Laura Medina-Puche @lauramepul.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🚀 Calling all ssDNA virologists! 🔬✨ Join the International Symposium on ssDNA Viruses (IS³DV 2026) isdv2026.com 📅 15–19 June 2026 📍 Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil 🇧🇷 Whether you’re a P.I., postdoc, ECR, or student, this is your stage to connect, share, debate and push the frontiers of ssDNA virology.
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
What could be better than discussing single-stranded DNA viruses with an international community of experts and a trans-kingdom perspective — at an affordable prize? Doing it in Bahia, Brazil! 🌴🌊☀️ Join us for IS3DV, June 15-19! isdv2026.com
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