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Sanja Zenker

@sanjaze.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Bielefeld University, interested in regulation, photosynthesis and computational biology 🌱🧬 she/her

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The next Botanik-Tagung will take place in Göttingen, Germany, from 17th to 21st September 2028. Hope to see you all there!
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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For the first time, researchers in the @kunzlab.bsky.social directly recorded rapid cation fluxes into isolated chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana in realtime, connection cation flux to jasmonic acid biosynthesis. 🌿⚡️
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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New PEC story 🌱 led by PhD cand Susi with amazing collabs Grimm, Hause & Robatzek labs! We patch-clamped isolated plastids to show that PECs mediate rapid cation flux across the IE. PECs relay Ca²⁺ signals into plastids & link Ca²⁺ to JA-mediated defense. #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Model of chloroplast Ca²⁺-mediated priming: after a stress trigger, plants show a larger stromal Ca²⁺ signal via PEC1, boosting OPDA and JA production and enhancing defense gene expression compared to baseline
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A major advice I try to pass on: science is only worth it if you can delight in the discoveries of others. It’s great to make your own discoveries but they are too few to sustain you over the long haul.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵
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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Bielefeld, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantscienjob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...
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Professur für Biochemie der Pflanzen (W2 TT W3 oder W3) - Universität Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld bietet Stelle als Professur für Biochemie der Pflanzen (W2 TT W3 oder W3) in Bielefeld - jetzt bewerben!
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Sanja Zenker @sanjaze.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! 🥂
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Tobias Jores @tobiasjores.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📢Out now on bioRxiv: We used Plant STARR-seq to characterize the species- and condition-specific enhancer activity of over 350,000 sequences derived from four plant species. For more, see below and read the paper at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Miguel Branco @brancolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
scRNA-seq has partly ruined murmurations for me...
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Sanja Zenker @sanjaze.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Save the date for next year! February 8 - 12, 2027 🌱🧬 #MBP2027
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Sanja Zenker @sanjaze.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Had the best time at #MBP2026 this week listening to amazing talks and poster presentations, presenting my own work, discussing science and networking! Left with many new ideas and am already looking forward to next year! 🌱🧬
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Carolin Delker @carolindelker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Very nice talk from Sanja Zenker (Bielefeld university) on the dissection of specificities in transriptional Regulation!
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Sanja Zenker @sanjaze.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Excited to share our new publication! We show how regulators are dynamically expressed in time and space in Arabidopsis. doi.org/10.1111/plb....
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Time‐ and space‐resolved transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Transcript abundance patterns in time and space of kinases, E3 ligases and transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana demonstrate ample room for dynamic and specific regulation of metabolism and s...
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Lennart Sielmann @sielmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Happy to share a new paper by the Computational Biology group from Bielefeld University and myself!🌾🧪🧬🖥 #PlantScience academic.oup.com/biomethods/a...
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Optimized DNA affinity purification sequencing determines relative binding affinity of transcription factors
Abstract. DAP-seq is an in vitro method to analyze the relative binding affinity of transcription factors to DNA. It is a fast and scalable method and its
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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Catch & Release—rapid cost‐effective protein purification from plants using a DIY GFP‐Trap‐protease approach
‘Catch & Release’ represents a cost-effective, rapid, and reliable one-step protein purification workflow that accelerates plant research. It offers a functionality-confirmed and versatile binary vec...
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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄‍♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Conference
Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants", annual meeting of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Time- and space-resolved regulatory circuits in Arabidopsis thaliana www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
How conserved are plant transcription factor binding sites? academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... Great study by @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social lab shows a mixed pattern. Thanks for making good use of #TAPscan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... also. C2H2 neofunctionalization fits ny thoughts.
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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism at the protein level in Kalanchoë laxiflora (Katharina Schiller , Saskia Janshoff , Sanja Zenker , Prisca Viehöver , James Hartwell , Jürgen Eirich , Iris Finkemeier , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
TAPscan v4, final verson available: dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Annotate TF families yourself or access web-UI online. Thanks to @petrollromy.bsky.social @shiltemann.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social
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Tobias Jores @tobiasjores.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
📢Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...). Please share!
artwork by Sayeh Gorjifard (@lampoona.bsky.social)
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.31.621407v1
Transcription factors control gene expression during development and in response to a broad range of
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
📜 Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants 🧑‍🔬 @sanjaze.bsky.social, @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #PlantGenetics #PlantGenomics #PlantEvolution
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Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants
Transcription factors control gene expression during development and in response to a broad range of internal and external stimuli. They regulate promoter activity by directly binding cis-regulatory e...
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Andrea Bräutigam @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I'd be grateful for some critique - the reviewers were not kind exactly.
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