Next, Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen will share her insights into core transcriptomic responses of Zygnematophyceae to a gradient of terrestrial stressors. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Elisa is up on core transcriptomic responses of three divergent genome sequenced Zygnematophyceae to a bifactorial gradient of stressors And the Spirogyra genome published @theplantcell.bsky.social #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Beautiful talk by Jan @jandevries.bsky.social on evolution of stress response networks. Establishing Zygnematophyceae as models is key for understanding plant terrestrialization. @watertoland.bsky.social

Wednesday seminar series @mpipz.bsky.social

Thanks for the visit and fruitful discussions!

And we’ve arrived at the final talk of the day! Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab is taking us on a journey through cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia, exploring what they can tell us about early land plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Studying Zygnematophyceae (land plants’ closest algal relative) helps scientists understand how plants transitioned to land. JGI partner scientists recently sequenced the genomes of four Zygnematophyceae freshwater algae

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@berkeleylab.bsky.social @jgi.doe.gov

Next up is Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab in Rostock, tracing cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia #MAdLand2025

Extremely thrilled to share that the Zygnema #genomes paper is now out @natureportfolio.bsky.social We hope that this will be a great resource for all #plantsci #algae #evolution rdcu.be/dGnWJ

Congratulations to bioinformatician Dr Jaccoline Zegers for the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize, German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG), awarded for her PhD thesis. The prize recognises outstanding achievements in plant research: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#AppliedBioinformatics #Genomics #Algae

Nice new article by @Klebsormidium and colleagues! Temperature- and light stress #adaptations in #Zygnematophyceae: The challenges of a semi-terrestrial lifestyle | #algae #plantsci @watertoland https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.945394

Origin of Zygnematophyceae algae from mitotically dividing anydrophyte zygotes

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#Genomes of #Zygnematophyceae enter the stage. A wonderful resource for the community & also great to see previous findings confirmed! #plantsci #evolution #charophytes #algae #genomics | https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)31169-9#.Xc5qXvDWrr4.twitter

Super nice talk on #Zygnematophyceae & min blowing FIB SEM data by Charlotte Permann form @Klebsormidium lab at the #phycology @SekPhykologie meeting in @UniJena

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: The correct name for Staurastrum inconspicuum Nordstedt (Staurastrum minutissimum Averswald pro parte) (Desmidiaceae, Zygnematophyceae) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3c6d36cc-c28d-4341-b616-015051c4f764

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Taxonomy and nomenclature of some Penium (Peniaceae, Zygnematophyceae) taxa from South Africa and Mozambique https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5f4b21b0-45bf-43e0-8402-58a04c38748a

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Revaluation of some desmid taxa and the description of Staurastrum bicudoi sp. nov. (Desmidiaceae, Zygnematophyceae) (1 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/add3ca47-4df0-4af3-b797-5057acc10825

Genetic and morphological variation in the genus Zygogonium (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta) from localities in Europe and North America and description of Z. angustum, sp. nov https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40203186/