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Sascha Laubinger

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Plant biologist, interested in science and politics, music lover. Retweets are not endorsements

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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...
Text of the job addRecruitment poster for a Junior Group Leader (f) position in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. The position is associated with CRC 1664 “Plant Proteoform Diversity (SNP2Prot)” and funded through the FEM POWER programme. The poster highlights opportunities for an independent research programme, own budget, funded PhD position, and access to advanced research infrastructure. Research areas include protein biochemistry, structural biology, computational protein science, and RNA biology. Application deadline: 7 July 2026. Contact information and a QR code linking to further details are provided. All information: https://snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/job-opportunity-junior-group-leader-in-protein-science/
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Martina Ried-Lasi @martinaried.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Excited to share that our work on VIH2-dependent inositol pyrophosphate signaling and arbuscular mycorrhiza is now out in Science Advances! In this study, we explore how VIH2 contributes to the regulation of AM in Lotus japonicus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lotus japonicus VIH2 is an inositol pyrophosphate synthase that regulates arbuscular mycorrhiza
Inositol pyrophosphate messengers regulate arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and phosphate uptake in Lotus japonicus.
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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The May Special Issue celebrates 30 years of Trends in Plant Science with “Big concepts – shaping the future of plant science”.Also introducing a new series on “Women in plant science around the world” featuring 30 women scientists from 30 countries www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Back in the field: Eneza @enezer.bsky.social, Maria, and this year’s students are on Spiekeroog again in 2026, continuing to phenotype wild Arabidopsis in 2026. The dataset grows, and the story continues: Watching climate shape plants - in real time, in real environments.
Photo of Maria and Eneza during field workPhoto of Eneza measuring Arabidopsis plants in the fieldStudents phenotype wild Arabidopsis plants.A typical Arabidopsis thaliana plant growing in the dunes of Spiekeroog
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Really cool work from @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues! In Montalvão et al., they show that native Arabidopsis transcriptomes are strongly shaped by interactions with biotic stressors.
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?
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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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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Wow, we received 10 times more applications than places for the ECR Network Meeting! The applications are fantastic and we’re already very much looking forward to the event. We’ll screen applications as quickly as possible. Thanks to everyone who applied!
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ECR’s hurry up, only 2 days left, if you want to take part in 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 ⏱️Application deadline is 23rd Jan 2026 #PlantSci ➡️ www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ECR's: if you want to take part in the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting remind the deadline, which is on 23rd January www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
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Plant ECR networking
Join us at the Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting! Calling all experienced PhD students and postdocs in plant research.
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.
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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 04/12/2025
Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! 🌱🌾🫛🇪🇺🧬 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
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EU einigt sich auf Lockerungen für gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel
Für viele gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel soll es künftig keine Hinweispflicht mehr in Supermärkten geben. Darauf einigten sich Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der EU-Länder.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues
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CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
👀 Early Career Researchers in #PlantSci: There are only 4 days left ... if you want to join Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef, Germany Registration + abstract submission end on 🗓️ 23rd November 2025 www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
The logo of the conference symbolises a plant cell, plant leaves, plant cell's organelles, and a bug. It also offers the details of the 39th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) taking place from 16th to 19th March 2026 in Hennef, Germany
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Cristina Barragan @cbarragan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊
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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494
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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob
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Carolin Delker @carolindelker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New Review from our fellow @snp2prot.bsky.social members @saschalaubinger.bsky.social, Clara Schöder, Panos Kastritis and the excellent ECRs Cecille Scholl, Lars Grosch and Jana Baradei! Check it out: www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) guide post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants and shape developmental outcomes and environmental responses by precisely tuning gene expression. miRNAs originate from primary t...
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝
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Wolfgang Dröge-Laser @wdl1.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience
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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...
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W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lab to field: Challenges and opportunities for plant biology
Plant-microbe research offers many choices of model and strain and whether a field-first or lab-first approach is best. However, differences between l…
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
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Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions
In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...
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Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The report identifies factors that limit innovation in Europe: fragmentation, both of markets and of regulatory frameworks, incl different national implementations of EU legislation, no true financial union, incompatible standards, insufficient R&D funding, risk-averse regulatory culture.
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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚
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Vandepoele lab @vandepoelelab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
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Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Someone asked if they could use this recording in their teaching. #PlantSci YES! 😁 Please share this with students - the topics raised are so important. Let's teach students (and colleagues?) to think critically about expectations for basic research, & be realistic about applications! 🌱🌾🌽
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱 Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php... @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants (Tobias Jores , Nicholas A Mueth , Jackson Tonnies , Si Nian Char , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
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Eneza Mjema @enezer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great session with amazing talks! Using single-plant omics on naturally occurring (Wild) Arabidopsis populations is a powerful and underutilized approach for uncovering gene-phenotype relationships in an ecological context. #icar2025
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Concurrent session 14: gene to phenotype prediction: Eneza Yoeli Mjema: approach: collect data from plants growing in natural habitats to find missing gene functions, use machine learning to look for gene-phenotype relationships @enezer.bsky.social #icar2025
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Genes influential in controlling petiole length ratio identified using LASSO model (some well studied and some 🆕 )- lab validated 👍🏼
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A new study in Cell finds claims that when a variety of rice is subjected to cold stress, it generates adaptive cold tolerance. This tolerance is epigenetically mediated and is heritable for at least three generations. 🐋🌱🧠🗃🦋🦫🧪 #EvoBio
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Inheritance of acquired adaptive cold tolerance in rice through DNA methylation
Multigenerational cold stress induces heritable ACT1 promoter hypomethylation, enabling rice to acquire cold tolerance for high-latitude adaptation.
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇
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Corina Brussaard @brussaard7.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Latest findings on cryptic infection of giant viruses published in @ScienceMagazine. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga
Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant viruses remains unknown. Here we describe a 617 kbp integrated giant viral element in the model green alga C...
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IPB Halle @ipbhalle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📣 We offer a #PhDposition within the @dfg.de-funded @rtg2498.bsky.social on "Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments" in Debora Gasperini's lab at the IPB. 🔗All information: www.ipb-halle.de/karriere/ste... 📅Apply now until: March 21, 2025! #plantsci #plantscijobs #phd
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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus
Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...
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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇
Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte
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Jenny Saile @jennysaile.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What a super cool story: New role of CBFs in alternative splicing by interacting with spliceosome-associated proteins like SKIP. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Regulation of alternative splicing by CBF-mediated protein condensation in plant response to cold stress - Nature Plants
CBF transcription factors facilitate the formation of SKIP nuclear condensates to increase the splicing efficiency of cold-responsive transcripts, bridging transcriptional and post-transcriptional reg...
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am happy to share my last #InBrief. I thoroughly enjoyed being an assistant feature editor for @theplantcell.bsky.social the last two years. I am very grateful for the opportunity which I would highly recommend to all ECRs that like to write. Special thanks to Nan Eckardt for all her support!
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From the archives: Plasmodesmata – regulation of function, targeting by pathogenic bacteria, and plasmodesmal-associated proteins
Mariana Schuster; From the archives: Plasmodesmata – regulation of function, targeting by pathogenic bacteria, and plasmodesmal-associated proteins, The Pl
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Looking for bright spots in 2025: it's the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Arabidopsis genome! We're celebrating in @theplantcell.bsky.social in May with a Focus Issue, but you can have some love here too www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... & here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
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Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era | Annual Reviews
The genetics model system Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. lives across a vast geographic range with contrasting climates, in response to which it has evolved diverse life histories and phenotypic ada...
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Sascha Laubinger @saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities
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