Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina.
Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-...
#EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina
Big congratulations to Thorsten Langner who recently moved to Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), where he now heads the Department of Phytopathology and Plant Protection #plantsi #ecr #tenure
We proudly support this Edard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for #ECR s
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 🧵
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
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Hurry up, if you want to save on registration fees to take part in our international conference, the Botanik-Tagung #BT2026
📍 in Bochum, Germany
📆 6 - 10 September 2026
Early bird rates end this Thursday, 30th April
botanik-tagung.de/registration...
MolPlantSci
New lab, similar setup - still working… kind of 😅
First barley–mycorrhiza experiment for me in Freising. Colonization isn’t quite where I want it yet, but found some really nice arbuscules 🔬 Here, a barley root cell with F. mosseae arbuscule, stained with WGA-Fluorescein #Microscopyfriday
German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
#PlantScience Research Weekly, June 5 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issues: Crop resilience, also AI in plant science;
Review: walls of streptophyte algae and land plants,
Review of SCOOP signaling;
Plant OpenCRISPR1 in rice (1/2) @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social
Yasin Dagdas
Team effort from @fxrico.bsky.social, Oded, Pierre, Andrea, @hmchen93.bsky.social, Larissa now out in @pnas.org The Kelch phosphatase BSU1 is a PP1-like serine/threonine phosphatase involved in cell cycle regulation, not a tyrosine phosphatase in brassinosteroid signaling 👍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
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...
Sabine Brumm
Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
Michael Hothorn
🚨 Paper out now in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 🌱🦠
Pathogens don’t just target protein degradation—they also hijack host translation.
"Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" ⚖️♻️
led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Complexome Profiling in Plants: Exploring Organellar Protein Networks 🌱🧪
Amazing opportunity to learn on-site from the leading experts!!
FREE Eduard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for ECRs @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...
It’s time to say farewell to ERC Research Group Leader Thorsten Langner after nearly 3 years at the institute. He reflects on his time here, key milestones, and what’s next: tinyurl.com/2vce2d6k
Congratulations on your new position—we wish you and your team all the best for the future!
MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
Plant Energy Biology Lab
Eduard Strasburger-Workshop: From young plant scientits for young plant scientists exclusively - supported by the DBG
