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Björn Usadel
@usadellab.bsky.social
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Plant Omics, Machine Learning, Genomics, Tools, Data Managment
Labs in Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf Uni
https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ibg/ibg-4
https://www.biological-data-science.hhu.de/en/biological-data-science
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mpipz.bsky.social
📣📣Paper Alert! New paper @nature.com from the Marques group @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues on Rhynchospora tenuis - 🌿a plant that reproduces sexually but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA🧬 Congratulations! 👏 🥳 Read more👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-marques-2...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis - Nature
Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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sciplant.bsky.social
#PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJob #PlantSciJob
September 13, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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bpucker.bsky.social
Kirsten Krause is talking about plant interactions, especially parasitic plants
#BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
September 10, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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bpucker.bsky.social
Borjana Arsova is presenting insights into plant-microbe interaction under different N availabilities #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
September 10, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣...and now for something completely different: no plant pathogens, no Verticillium, but lichens! Driven by our lichen king🤴@ciarankelly.bsky.social with help of a.o. @hroevenich.bsky.social @usadellab.bsky.social @vivienrosenthal.bsky.social Watch for more in future! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
September 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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ciarankelly.bsky.social
Overall, AMP repertoire size is conserved, but its composition is highly variable. CAZyme and BGC repertoires show stronger differences between photobiont associations. Different molecular repertoires may be shaped by different evolutionary constraints.

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🍄
Decoupled evolution of antimicrobial repertoires in lichen-forming fungi
Lichens are stable multipartite symbioses in which a fungal mycobiont associates with one or more photosynthetic partners while hosting complex microbiomes. Secreted antimicrobial proteins (AMPs) have...
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September 8, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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epsoeurope.bsky.social
EPSO statement ‘Towards a Virtual Institute for AI in Plant Science’ - Members are invited to join the new ‘AI in Plant Science’ Working Group and confirm joining its meeting on 9Oct’2026. bit.ly/4AgjNRg
#AI #PlantScience #HorizonEU #EULifeScienceStrategy #FP10
September 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬

If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵

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September 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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We are getting VERY close 13,000 silhouettes! www.phylopic.org/images
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August 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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pauformosa.bsky.social
Our article “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis” is now published in @natcomms.nature.com. Link: rdcu.be/fBZ3S.
What an exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab! @mpipz.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social #PlantDevelopment #criticality
Top: Waddington/quasi-potential landscape cartoon illustrating a bistable transition. Bottom: Scheme of a simplified regulatory network underlying floral transition at the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Adapted from Rodríguez-Maroto, Wang et al. (2026). Link: https://rdcu.be/fBZ3S
August 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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somssich.bsky.social
An opportunity to work with me 👇
kwsgroup.bsky.social KWS Group @kwsgroup.bsky.social · Aug 19
📣 We are hiring a Computational Biologist – Genome Editing Trait Discovery in Einbeck, Germany.
This is an interesting role for someone with strong analytical skills and a collaborative mindset.
#PlantSciJobs #AgSciJobs

jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...
Computational Biologist (m/f/d) - Genome Editing Trait Discovery
Computational Biologist (m/f/d) - Genome Editing Trait Discovery
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August 24, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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reskilab.bsky.social
Professorship Plant Breeding. Halle, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob
www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...
W3-Professur "Pflanzenzüchtung" - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) bietet Stelle als W3-Professur "Pflanzenzüchtung" in Halle (Saale) - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
August 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W3 Professorship: Functional Plant Biology

@Uni Oldenburg, Germany

Deadline: 27 September 2026

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
August 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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mfeldbruegge.bsky.social
We proudly present
@mibinet.bsky.social, @hhu.de
July 24, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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idw-online.de
Möglicher neuer Therapieansatz zur Vorbeugung von Herzinfarkten und Schlaganfällen entdeckt
Forschenden der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) und des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf (UKD) ist es gelungen, einen neuen, körpereig...
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Prof. Dr. Amin Polzin, Erstautor Dr. Marcel Benkhoff, Dr. Philipp Mourikis (alle Klinik für Kardiologie, Pneumologie und Angiologie) - Copyright UKD / HHU
July 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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abioticstress.bsky.social
Publishing new work on #AbioticStress in plants?🌱

Tag us in your posts, and we may repost your work to help it reach the #PlantScience community

@planteditors.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @de.scientists4future.org @plantbirdwoman.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social @msriffle.bsky.social
Publishing new work on #AbioticStress in plants?🌱 Tag us in your posts, and we may repost your work to help it reach the #PlantScience community
July 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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agristok.bsky.social
Full Professor Job in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems – University of Hohenheim, Germany

The University of Hohenheim is recruiting a tenured Full Professor (W3) in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems. This prestigious…
Full Professor Job in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems – University of Hohenheim, Germany
The University of Hohenheim is recruiting a tenured Full Professor (W3) in Technologies for Sustainable Water and Energy Use in Agricultural Systems. This prestigious academic position offers an opportunity to lead innovative research in sustainable agriculture, smart farming technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, and resource-efficient agricultural engineering.
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July 23, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Please share! 🌱🤖

Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn.

Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough.

Apply by Sept. 30, 2026.

www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
July 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
usadellab.bsky.social
Join my group at @fz_juelich within the @ceplas.bsky.social excellence cluster.
#PlantJobs We’re looking for a postdoc/senior scientist in plant single-cell and spatial transcriptomics recruiting.fz-juelich.de/jobposting/8...
Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Scientist in the field of plant single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
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July 23, 2026 at 9:25 AM
usadellab.bsky.social
Within the @trr341.bsky.social JJ Szymanski has an interesting postdoc position for leading plant Ecological genetics AI recruiting.fz-juelich.de/jobposting/5...
Postdoctoral Researcher - Machine Learning for Plant Regulatory Genomics
recruiting.fz-juelich.de
July 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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dfg.de
#Fachkollegienwahl: Die Frist für Vorschläge zu Kandidat*innen läuft ab jetzt bis 6. Nov. 2026. Vorschlagsberechtigt für alle Fächer sind fachgebundene Institutionen, DFG-Mitglieder und der Stifterverband – diesmal via eNominierung. Die Wahl hat dann die Community im Herbst 2027!
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Fachkollegienwahl 2027: Frist für das Vorschlagen von Kandidierenden läuft
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July 17, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
Got a well intentioned email that ended with “I work at odd hours. My working hours are not necessarily your working hours. Please respond when you feel you comfortably can.”

Obviously that’s code for they don’t expect a response from me. Ever.
July 14, 2026 at 5:20 AM
usadellab.bsky.social
Only 17% of 307 million publicly available sequences include geographical provenance.Yet benefit-sharing from digital sequence information depends on knowing where genetic resources came from.Can databases close this gap without making open data harder to submit&reuse? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information? - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?
www.nature.com
July 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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reskilab.bsky.social
Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Bielefeld, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob
www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...
www.uni-bielefeld.de
July 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Happy to share our latest finding on ComFB, a new #cdiGMP receptor in bacteria
Team effort w/ @freecyano.bsky.social at @sfb1381.bsky.social

ComFB regulates type IV pilus-dependent functions via sequestering TFs (CRP1/2)
@hhu.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

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July 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM