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

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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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

AI-generated illustration of the soma-to-germline transmission of retrotransposons described in our work

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Virginia Busetto @virginiabusetto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very excited to share our new preprint: “A pseudohelicase-centered complex couples assembly-dependent RNA cleavage to poly(UG)ylation”! 🎉 Want to know more? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So excited and incredibly grateful for this opportunity! 🦠🌱🧬

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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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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has been awarded a highly competitive @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his new project ImmuneCellStates, which will allow him and his team to study immune cell states as the fundamental building blocks of plant immunity 🧬🌱 buff.ly/77g56nV

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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Congrats @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social !!! Looking forward to see all the cool things your lab will discover!

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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New paper! A study led by Pamela Vetrano and @sramundo.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social revealed novel factors involved in maintaining chloroplast membrane integrity following exposure to stress. Read the study published in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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VIA1 is a conserved regulator of thylakoid membrane integrity that acts through VIPP1 | PNAS

Thylakoid membranes are indispensable for oxygenic photosynthesis, yet the mechanisms that protect these membranes from photooxidative damage remai...

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🌱 We are hiring! I’m looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Julian Lab at BOKU University Vienna as part of our FWF ASTRA-funded VITAL project. 🔬 Plant cell biology & vacuolar remodeling 📅 2 years, starting early 2027 ⏳ Apply by 30 September

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Marco Incarbone @incavirus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What wonderful news! 🥳 Such a great catch for the MPG and a huge boost for plant virology. Congratulations @geminiteamlab.bsky.social on this tremendous achievement, very well deserved! Looking forward to seeing the science coming out of MPIPZ :)

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

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The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If I were an Early Career Researcher (#ECR) today, I wouldn’t join a lab that doesn’t #preprint (the PI agreed to keep paying me until my paper is finally published). It now takes ages to get papers through peer review, and without preprints you’re putting your future in someone else’s hands.

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Hua Jiang @huajiang1981.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

*PhD position in Plant Physiology at Stockholm University* We are looking for a new PhD candidate to join our new lab at Stockholm University! The project will focus on epigenetic regulation of reproductive thermotolerance. Please share🙏 More information: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF

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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@ohadroth.bsky.social and @soreklab.bsky.social discover bacterial enzymes that cleave the immune signal 2'cADPR explaining the mystery of XopQ virulence proteins in plant pathogens. Beautiful results mirroring phage inhibition of 2'- and 3'cADPR in bacteria! 🌱✂️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Congratulations David! It's absolutely great to see a Plant Scientist leading a college with such a remarkable contribution for the history of Science. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/new-mas...

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Trinity College's next Master: Sir David Baulcombe

His Majesty King Charles III has appointed the plant scientist and geneticist Professor Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci to succeed Professor Dame

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Interested to join us to study plant proteostasis? We study host translation controlled by condensates 🧬, cell-type specific proteostasis ♻️, proteotoxic stress in the context of biotic and abiotic stress 🦠🔥🧂 👉 Build your own project in @theustunlab.bsky.social ⏳ Sept 9 #MSCA #Postdoc

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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

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Marco Incarbone @incavirus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's out! A tour-de-force in plant-virus interactions by @thevirusmc.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social and many others @gmivienna.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. It turns out autophagy prevents virus-induced cell death, allowing plants to tolerate viral infection! A must-read 🌱

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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I am thrilled to share our last work on the evolution of plant antiviral immunity @cragenomica.bsky.social !. Please, let us know what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.648 98/2026.05.18.725958v1 🧵

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manavellalab.bsky.social @manavellalab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Sucha fantastic visit!!!! Thanks Marco for hosting! Going back to an MPI always feels like home!

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SeedCon2026 @seed-con.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We thank @incavirus.bsky.social for his excellent work at #SeedCon2026! 🛡️🦠 A deep dive into virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes! Essential research for plant health and inheritance! #MicrobiomeResearch #SustainableAgriculture

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

See my new post on our homepage ✍️ The journey to our newest publication on how plants cope with proteotoxic stress ♻️ www.cell.com/molecular-ce... From Doubt to Discovery: A 15-Year Journey into Proteostasis, Pathogens, and Persistence

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From Doubt to Discovery: A 15-Year Journey into Proteostasis, Pathogens, and Persistence

More than 15 years ago, during my PhD, we stumbled upon something unexpected. In a yeast two-hybrid screen, bacterial effector proteins from Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas interacted with a subunit of…

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Next stop Spain/Málaga 😍 Excited to talk about cell-type specificity,spatial immunity, heterogeneity & then in one of my favorite countries 🤩 I will mainly present our work on how „Autophagy acts as spatial organizer of cell-type specific 🌱 immunity“ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fantastic paper led by Matthew Davis from @grey-monroe.bsky.social, on genome degradation in long-term walnut tissue culture: Somatic embryogenesis increases mutation rates >30x, with aneuploidy, large deletions, somatic recombination, and elevated #TE activity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Here’s the press release by @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for our newest publication 🧬✨ “Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection” How pathogens rewire host translation via condensates 🔄🌱 #plantscience #proteostasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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How Bacteria Circumvent Plants’ Immune System

Bacteria deactivate the protein synthesis of host cells to hamper immune reactions. This insight could aid in the development of more resistant plants.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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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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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Really cool story on spatial dynamics of #immunity & #autophagy!!! Congrats @suaybuestuen.bsky.social and everyone involved!!!

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Michael Borg @borglab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Elwira Smakowska-Luzan @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Preprint alert! I am extremely happy to finally (!) share our work on the redox-dependent regulation of the CRKs in plants! We integrated high-throughput interactomics, redox proteomics, structural modelling, and genetics to map a ROS-dependent CRK interaction landscape in Arabidopsis.

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Next speaker is @incavirus.bsky.social who will talk about virus vertical transmission in plant stem cells and gametes #MBP2026

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Securing two group leader positions at the same institute is no small feat. From IMP postdocs to group leaders: Laura Lorenzo-Orts and Ulrich Hohmann started their labs at IMB Mainz this year:

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 12/03/2026

New OA Brief Comm: "Cross-kingdom RNA interference promotes arbuscular mycorrhiza development" rdcu.be/e72nc Symbiotic fungi forming widespread arbuscular mycorrhiza symbioses use cross-kingdom RNAi to silence plant genes and promote their colonization of host roots.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social

Two scientists in lab coats analyzing plant samples in a greenhouse filled with yellow flowers.

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026 We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch! #teamtomo

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SeedCon2026 @seed-con.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome @incavirus.bsky.social to #SeedCon2026! 🌿 From PhD work at IBMP to the Gregor Mendel Institute, Marco now leads his own lab at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. He’ll be sharing his research on antiviral immunity in plant stem cells and germlines! seedcon.org #SeedCon #Virology

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social - PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit... - Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto... Earliest start date: 01/05/2026. We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!

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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I really enjoyed the very nice and interesting day @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks again to everyone for the great discussions and special thanks to @incavirus.bsky.social for inviting me!

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

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Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome! Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins. bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected! 1/n 🧵

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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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Marco Incarbone @incavirus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It was a great pleasure to host Nick Irwin from @gmivienna.bsky.social here at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social, where he talked about their work on horizontal gene transfer, its effect on evolution and on the development of new molecular pathways. Looking forward to follow future developments!

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