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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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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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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Congratulations @guofengzhang.bsky.social for successfully defending your PhD today @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social. Very proud of you. Symbiosis lovers stay tuned, there is a nice study to come from him hopefully soon.

Guofeng Zhang successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The picture shows him and his supervisor Thomas Ott.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy to be selected again for this years teaching prize awarded by the students at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social for the best teaching in the past winter term. Congratulations also to @chrisvanderdoes.bsky.social who received the same prize for the winter term. A motivating reward.

Thomas Ott and Chris van der Does winning the teaching prize at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Great moment yesterday afternoon for signalling research in Freiburg, when we learned that our Cluster of Excellence @cibss.bsky.social was funded for another seven years! Happy to be part of it. Many thanks to the speaker team and rectorate of @uni-freiburg.de!

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Recording part #1 for a documentary on nitrogen in agriculture has started yesterday. Happy, that our team has been selected to report on symbiotic nitrogen fixation and how research searches for long-term and sustainable solutions. Thanks Magda and Casandra from our team to be part of it.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Toller Vortrag des Wiener Philosophen Christian Dürnberger @dyrnberg.bsky.social im Rahmen unserer Vortragsreihe zur Grünen Gentechnik. Danke, Christian. Ein gelungenes Wiedersehen nach 10 Jahren!

Einführung des Referenten Dr. Christian Dürnberger kurz vor seinem Vortrag

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just left X and deactivated my account there after 12 years. A first personal task achieved in 2025. Feels good. 😀

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Happy to host today's imaging workshop as part of @sfb1381.bsky.social. Great introductions by Beatrice Lace (organizer) and Marta Rodriguez-Franco from our team, Angela Naumann (LIC), Franck Ditengou (IMITATE) and Thorsten Hugel (Chemistry).

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

I received the teaching award of our undergraduate students for the 1st semester cell biology lecture (23 lectures of 45 min each) here @uni-freiburg.de, which I am really grateful for. Happy to continue with the same engagement.

Thomas Ott receives teaching award by undergraduate students.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

It was my great pleasure and honor to chair the open and informal discussion between our early career researchers and the Noble Laureate Prof. Joachim Frank here at the Faculty of Biology him the honorary doctorate of the Faculty.

Discussion between Prof. Frank and our ECRs. Picture taken by Klaus Polkowski.

Our dean Prof. Sonja Albers awards the honorary doctorate to Noble Laureate Prof. Joachim Frank. Picture taken by Klaus Polkowski.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

The plant science community at Freiburg University hopes for a fact- and science-driven decision on NGT-1 plants in the EU parliament this week. We should not ignore technological progress but rather take these opportunities as one possibility towards a more resilient agriculture.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

A warm welcome to Bikash Raul who joined our lab yesterday as a new PostDoc on the ENSA programme. We are very much looking forward working with you the next years.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

After having great food, our Christmas dinner continued with a group tattoo for everyone. Love it.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Want to join our team as a lab technician? Than consider to apply for the position and join the marvelous ENSA project. Find more information on our lab website. plantcellbiology.net/jobs/

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I never found RG particularly useful and certainly never used it, but this "partnership" finally pushed my to delete my RG account. As we publish everything OA anyway, no work from our lab requires RG to be accessible for all researchers. And if so, there are better and more courageous platforms ...

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Happy to announce that the OttLab Freiburg is finally also moving to bluesky. Will be a progressive process, but the first step is made. Looking forward to advert-free and no payment-ranked posts.

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