Xander Zuijdgeest

Farid El Kasmi, the coordinator of the ZMBP PhD program, opening the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium

Theresa, from Jessica Erickson's lab, drawing how (a smiling) Xanthomonas employs type 2 and 3 secretion systems to infect tomato during her chalk talk at the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium. The chalk talk was projected onto a large screen

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

20.09.2025 08:09 — 👍 24    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2

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

📢 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/...

09.09.2025 10:38 — 👍 37    🔁 42    💬 0    📌 0

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

09.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 34    🔁 51    💬 0    📌 0

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).

Please share!

07.09.2025 08:44 — 👍 34    🔁 38    💬 1    📌 1

Full house for today’s @TheSainsburyLab seminar with Farid @Farid_El_Kasmi on #NLRbiology

03.09.2025 12:36 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Special Issue Alert for August!
Plants & Microbes: Growing Insight
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

13.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Redirecting

Find the original article here:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

13.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Breaking open the taxonomic boundaries of plant NLR immunity Transfer of NLR-type immune receptors to distantly related plant species to expand pathogen recognition has often been difficult due to restricted taxonomic functionality (RTF). In a recent Cell publi...

We were invited to write a short Preview article for @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social on the recent @cp-cell.bsky.social publication from Du & Alam et al. on overcoming Restricted Taxonomic Functionality of NLRs

Read our Preview here:
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

13.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Grateful to all that came to my poster at #2025ISMPMI this week 🌱

This was not an easy story to present, but the support and discussions were great and made this a journey worth telling!

17.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

17.07.2025 05:39 — 👍 27    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 0

My first MPMI #2025ISMPMI 😎😍@GeminiTeam
Excited to hear all the amazing science, have great discussions, and connect with friends!

If you’re interested in plant-(Gemini)virus interactions and scRNA-seq, let’s meet on Wednesday, July 16 at poster P-437. #scRNA-seq
(bring me to your poster as well!

14.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I will be there present my poster at tomorrow’s poster session. Find me at P-011 where I will tell you about the story of Marchantia BIR protein and how may it help plant fighting against evil bacteria.
#2025ISMPMI

13.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Excited to present at @mpmijournal.bsky.social

Can BIR proteins link PTI and ETI?

Using AlphaFold & evolutionary insights, we dive into how BIRs balance immunity with CSA1 as a key regulator of cell death & receptor complex homeostasis.

P-441 | Mon 14 July | 13:30–15:15

#2025ISMPMI

14.07.2025 04:11 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Viral genomes might encode more proteins than we initially thought!

Intrigued? Come see my poster on the identification of potentially new ORFs in the potato virus X genome.

Tuesday 9:55-11:30, P-266
@geminiteamlab.bsky.social
#2025ISMPMI

14.07.2025 05:30 — 👍 59    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱
We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science!
However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories..
So let's change that!
Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!

13.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Niels, Chia-Nan, Pin-Jou, Yujing, Isa, Farid, Raphael and Jessica arriving in Cologne Messe by train

And another @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social delegation just arrived in Cologne for the #2025MPMI

Niels (P-041), @chia-nan.bsky.social (P-011), Pin-Jou (P-438), Yujing (P-027), Farid (P-063), @raphaelschaal.bsky.social (P-094) and @ericksonlab.bsky.social (P-169)

13.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 42    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

2025 Congress ​​...​​...​2025 IS-MPMI Congress​...​​​Save the Date! Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025 Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre, Cologne, Germany​ ​ Mark your calendars for the 2025 IS-MPMI Co...

I am presenting my work as a poster @ISMPMI #2025ISMPMI on monday 14.07 ! :) Join me and learn more about HIR2 oligomeric rings - a novel perspective on membrane organization (Poster number 39) Head here to see more: ismpmi.org/congress

13.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

05.06.2025 05:37 — 👍 82    🔁 124    💬 3    📌 5

Congratulations to the #GreenRobust team for securing @dfg.de funding for the next 7 years to investigate plant robustness! 🌱
Special thanks to our very own Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social and the co-spokespersons @thomasgreb.bsky.social and @kjschmid.bsky.social. Exciting times ahead!

23.05.2025 05:37 — 👍 50    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 1

Arabidopsis genetics. 6 stages of Arabidopsis rosettes arranged into 2 helices. Hand printed Spring 2024.

Young leaf. Print based on a microscopy image of a 3-day old Arabidopsis leaf. Press printed August 2022.

Mushrooms. 3 of 5 total mushrooms. Press printed March 2023.

Bees and hexagons. Two-layer print of blue bees on a gradient of hexagons. Press printed March 2022.

In this new #SciArt profile, we meet Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social, a plant developmental biologists @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. Margot enjoys linocut printmaking. Her designs are often inspired by images from the lab and scenes from nature 🌱

thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

30.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 47    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

A man is standing on a Stocherkahn in the Neckar river in Tübingen on a sunny day

We are happy to join the #plantscience community here in BlueSky!
Follow us to know more about our research at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social in beautiful Tübingen

03.04.2025 10:22 — 👍 72    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1

here depicted in (one of) her natural habitats 😄

19.11.2024 10:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

now on BlueSky!

#phd
#science
#plantscience
#plantimmunity
#plantmicrobeinteraction
#photography
#naturephotography

19.11.2024 09:23 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0