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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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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Seasonal greetings from Freiburg 🌱 The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year. Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣ASPB is happy to announce the 2026 Plantae Fellows, an impressive group ready to bring their best to this resource for the global plant science community!🌱 Read more: buff.ly/CDI47lq #PlantScience

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Nibedita Priyadarshini @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Science days at Europa-Park! 🌿 Science, thunderstorm, a little bit of sunshine and curious minds with @dobrogojski.bsky.social at Europa Park! Special thanks to @elkebarbez.bsky.social for the GMO basket. #PlantScience #ScienceIsFun #Outreach #CuriosityDriven #PublicEngagement #ScienceForEveryone

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Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“AI provincializes Europe.” For Tobias Rees, #AI is a philosophical earthquake that destabilizes the very concepts on which #Europe has thought itself. What happens when AI runs diagonal to the foundations of European thought? 📍 @uni-freiburg.de | 🗓️ 28 Oct 2025, 17:00 uni-freiburg.de/frias/artifi...

Plakat für einen öffentlichen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Artificial Intelligence and the 2,500-year-old project called Europe“ von Prof. Dr. Tobias Rees am 28. Oktober 2025 um 17:00 Uhr im Anatomie-Hörsaal, Albertstraße 17, Freiburg. Freier Eintritt. Veranstaltung unterstützt von der Neuen Universitätsstiftung Freiburg und der Förderstiftung Roland Mertelsmann.

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MontanaRoots @montanaroots.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A pic from yesterday’s #hike - The pink #snow is caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis, an algae that thrives in the cold high altitude environment. These algae release pink pigment as a protective barrier against the sun throughout the summer snowmelt & then go dormant in winter.

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#JustIn on Plantae — Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Katarina K., Nibedita P., and Ann-Kathrin R. explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health. buff.ly/lI8coP3 #plantscience

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Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers | Plantae

This blog post explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health while sustaining your passion for research.

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Katarina Kurtović @katarinakurtovic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Another amazing collaboration for @plantaeofficial.bsky.social, this time with @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social and @aroessling.bsky.social 🌿 We wrote about mental health strategies for researchers, a topic close to our hearts. Check out our tips on staying sane in the lab! plantae.org/lab-tips-for...

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Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers | Plantae

This blog post explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health while sustaining your passion for research.

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Nibedita Priyadarshini @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Here’s a sneak peek from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social new poster featuring all the exciting projects we’re working on! My section explores the evolutionary role of PILS proteins in Chlamydomonas. Come join us for the intro in BIO I today at 13:50 & ur Master thesis. #plantbiology #masterthesis

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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 21/09/2025

We're almost there and growing in numbers.. but lost @advaitagashe.bsky.social 🤔 #ISPLORE2025JP

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants

Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 06/01/2025

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

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Nibedita Priyadarshini @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

260 people, 88 talks, 90 posters, Chlamy 2025 in Münster is just a whirlwind of information, but its oddly comforting being surrounded by people battling the same scientific battles. Makes me feel a little less clueless, a little more fond of my own work, and dare I say, a tad proud of myself.

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

So you think you understand everything about #Chlamydomonas photoresponses? think again! #protists #behaviour #cilia To explain how Chlamy switches handedness from swimming in CCW circles in low-light to CW in high-light... see our new preprint led by Alan Tsang (HKU) 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Everything you want to know about lateral roots Join us for our next seminar by @sophiezoe.bsky.social (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social), from auxin oscillations to gravitropic angles, dive into the plasticity of lateral root development! 📅 Fri, Jul 18 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 See you there! #PlantScience

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The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The Role of CO₂, Nutrients, & Heat in Algal Proliferation Incidences of Harmful Algal Blooms are becoming more frequent, together with their impacts on food & water security. Algal blooms act as a sink for atmospheric CO2, but can also harm biodiversity & disrupt ecosystems buff.ly/A4Y9fUH #Algae

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Schaller lab @as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy to share our latest work on the specific role of phosphatase PLL2 in phytocytokine vs MAMP signaling. Published today in Nature Plants. rdcu.be/euNse

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Félix de Carpentier @fdecarpentier.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm surprised that, with a bit of help, 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘵𝘪𝘪 can be hybridized with 𝘊. 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢! "Establishing the green algae 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢 as a platform for recombinant protein production" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Takehiro A. Ozawa @tkozawa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Great work by Li et al. (2025) on identifying the regulatory loop between #PlantTOR complex (TORC) via its RAPTOR1B subunit (Ser897) and the CBL4/CBL10–CIPK24 module in #Arabidopsis, which regulates the balance between plant growth and #SaltStress response ⚖️. #PlantScience 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Figure 1. Target of rapamycin complex (TORC) activity is rapidly repressed by salt stress.

A) Dose dependance of salt-mediated TOR repression. 35S:S6K1-HA seedlings were treated with different NaCl concentrations for 4 h. Band intensity in the immunoblots indicates the level of total protein (anti-HA in lower panel) or T449-phosphorylated form of S6K1 (anti-p-T449 in upper panel). B) Quantification of relative p-T449 intensity in A). The data represent the ratio of intensity of p-T449 over S6K1-HA, and the value for the sample “0 mM NaCl” was set as 1.

C) Time course of salt-mediated TOR repression. 35S:S6K1-HA seedlings were treated with 200 mM NaCl for indicated times. D) Quantification of relative p-T449 intensity in C). The value at 0 min was set as 1.

E) TORC activity was restored following salt recovery treatment. 35S:S6K1-HA seedlings were treated with 200 mM NaCl for 15 min, and then transferred to the recovery medium for indicated times. Rec, recovery. F) Quantification of relative p-T449 intensity in E).

In B), D), and F), the data represent the ratio of intensity of p-T449 over S6K1-HA, data are means±SEM, n=3 (biologically independent experiments). Different letters in B) and D) represent significant difference between samples by one-way ANOVA (P<0.05, Supplementary Data Set 1). In F), *P<0.05 (one-way ANOVA, Supplementary Data Set 1)

Figure 6.The salt-tolerant phenotype shown in raptor1b mutant is abolished in the absence of SOS2/Calcineurin B-Like (CBL)-Interacting Protein Kinase 24 (CIPK24).

A) Representative images of Col-0, cipk24, raptor1-2, and raptor1-2cipk24 mutant under normal or salt conditions in post-germination assays. Scale bar: 1 cm.

B) Chlorophyll content per 4 seedlings measured at the end of the assay shown in A). Quantitative data are mean±SD of three biological repeats. Statistical analyses were performed by one-way ANOVA. (***P<0.001, ****P<0.0001, n.s., not significant).

C) Working model for target of rapamycin complex (TORC), abscisic acid (ABA), and CBL–CIPK signaling pathways to orchestrate growth and salt stress response under changing salinity status. In response to salt stress, ABA pathway and CBL–CIPK pathway dominate, suppressing TORC by phosphorylating RAPTOR1B and slowing down the growth to facilitate stress adaptation. Upon the removal of salt stress, TORC rapidly activates to suppress the ABA- and CBL–CIPK-mediated salt stress response network and promotes plant growth.

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature

A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

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MolPlantSci @molplantsci.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🌿🏆 Congratulations to Marc Somssich! 🏆🌿 @somssich.bsky.social He receives the 2025 SciComm Award for outstanding social media contributions bringing scientific discoveries and plant scientists to life through engaging storytelling and historical context. Well deserved! 👏 #SciComm #PlantSci #MBP2025

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

in artificial #photosynthesis, #CarbonNitrides use light to break 💧 into oxygen and #hydrogen = a promising renewable energy source But how exactly does #WaterSplitting work? @paologiusto.bsky.social & co. solved this long-standing puzzle @naturecomms.bsky.social #chemsky tinyurl.com/ycv5fezh

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Artificial Photosynthesis Decoded:How Carbon Nitride Splits Water (and Enables Green Hydrogen)

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Full house on our first departmental seminar this year. Which biopolymer is your favorite? If you ask @lauraragni.bsky.social it's suberin and lignin, if you ask @reskilab.bsky.social he will say sporopollenin and cutin, but in the opinion of @huguesrenault.bsky.social all four of them!

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Botany One @botany.one · 13/01/2025

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Plant Science Research Weekly: December 20, 2024 plantae.org/plant-scienc... . Enjoy the last PSRW of 2024, out one day before the solstice (“maximum tilt day”). We highlight root development (form fitting function / cambium positioning / exodermis / root cap shedding) (1/2)

Diagram showing how root anatomy and morphology corresponds to the plant's environment, through adaptations to dryness, submergence, salt water, limited nutrients, and symbioses.

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Martin Jonikas @mjonikas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We are excited to share 71,700 new #Chlamy mutants from the CLiP2 collection pre-publication! Nearly-saturating genome coverage. Please note: new background strain, mating type, and antibiotic resistance. Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Search and order: www.chlamylibrary.org

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Geert De Jaeger’s lab @dejaegerlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Check out our latest pre-print where we used our ASP-#SPARK #sensor to unveil #SnRK1's multifaceted role during #plant growth and #development! bit.ly/49JVZrY Including real-time #spatiotemporal visualization of SnRK1 activity in a growing #Arabidopsis root! 😀

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Join us for tomorrow’s #CIBSS Seminar by Prof. Gert Bange from #SYNMIKRO Marburg! He will explore the role of Ap4A: a conserved signalling molecule involved in stress responses across diverse organisms, from bacteria to humans. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/aipi

Seminar announcement for Thursday, December 19, 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00, in Freiburg, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, and online via Zoom. Prof. Gert Bange from SYNMIKRO Research Center & Philipps University Marburg will present his research on "Stressed out? The mysterious Di-adenosinetetraphosphate (Ap4A)". The seminar will be held in a hybrid format.

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CLiP2 mutant collection expands genome coverage with high-confidence disrupting alleles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 19/11/2024

Beautiful study by Martin, Alistair, and crew on the membrane tubules that traverse the Chlamydomonas pyrenoid and help deliver a high concentration of #CO2 to Rubisco 🧪🌾

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 16/12/2024

It's tomorrow!! Don't It's out!!

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

At this week's Plant Science Seminar @aidamaric.bsky.social (@sjonhartman.bsky.social lab) will talk about epigenetic factors regulating flood stress memory in plants. Bring your own mug, we will provide ☕ and 🍪. See you tomorrow at 10:15 in KS 00.009.

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