Eirini Kaiserli

This is the most generalizable work I think I have every done. RNAseq is everywhere these days, and most analysis pipelines have a step for filtering out genes that are expected to be too noisy to interpret. We came up with a strategy to filter based on variance, rather than expression level.

📢Job alert📢

@uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call

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and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃

Drum roll please..
Introducing our fantastic line-up of Plenary Speakers for Photosynthesis 2026!
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Join us! 👉 photosynthesis2026.com
✍️ Abstract submission is open!

#plantscience 🧪 #ICPR26 #photosynthesis

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD position available in my group at Durham! So exciting! PLEASE do email me if you're thinking of applying for tips on cover letters and to find out more about the lab, the uni and the project. #phd #plantphd #plantscijobs #plantsci #crops #climate

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience

Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated!

jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

🚨 CLOSING TODAY 🚨

Abstract submission for MONOGRAM 2026 closes today!

🌾 Don't miss your chance to present at the annual Monogram UK meeting 🌾
Register now 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo

#plantscience @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Exciting PhD positions on plant immunity and engineering plant disease resistance with an excellent supervisor @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social. Strongly recommend.👇

Directors

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Data-driven mathematical modelling explains altered timing of EARLY FLOWERING 3 in the wheat circadian oscillator Abstract. Circadian rhythms are endogenous 24 h cycles that allow organisms to anticipate daily environmental changes. In plants, circadian timing is maint

Our model of wheat circadian clock based on our finding that orthlogues of ELF3 (Arabidopsis evening complex gene) peak at dawn in the cereals. TOC1 repression of ELF3 explains the different behaviours of Arabidopsis & wheat circadian clocks doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
#plantresearch 🧪

Last day to register! www.grc.org/photosensory...

Assistant professor in botany job description for University of Northern British Columbia

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions.

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🧪🌱 #botany

New Ways to Target Hard-to-Treat Cancers | HHMI HHMI Investigator Kevan Shokat is advancing Ras-targeted cancer therapies, overcoming drug resistance, and exploring preventive strategies.

12 years after unlocking the famously "undruggable" K-Ras protein — a discovery still driving treatments for cancers with notoriously poor survival rates — HHMI Investigator Kevan Shokat & team are charting new therapies to outmaneuver drug resistance: hhmi.news/3LwWaz5

@ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Deadline for applications to the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social extended to 30 January 2026! Details on how to apply are below 🔬 #microscope #ECRchat #Glasgow

We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @ www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant cultivation, imaging, and research support.

Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland

The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…

@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word!
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Complexity of gynoecium development shown with confocal microscopy imaging. (A) Meristematic stages of floral development in which the inflorescence meristem (IM) is observed; from stage 3, the sepal primordia (asterisks) are observed; in stage 4, the developing sepals (asterisks) partially cover the floral meristem (FM); and in stage 5, the FM is completely covered by the sepals. (B) Stage 6 in which the gynoecium is established with the appearance of the primordium of the gynoecium. (C) In stage 7, the middle and lateral domains can be differentiated (marked by dotted lines). (D–H) Longitudinal view of the gynoecium from stage 8 to 12. At stages 8 and 9, the gynoecium grows as a hollow tube and the valves and young replum can be seen. (F and G) Longitudinal view of stage 10 and 11 gynoecia showing the replum and valves. (H) Mature stage 12 gynoecium showing the stigma, style, and ovary, the latter formed by the valves and replum.

🌸 Flowering Newsletter Review 🌸

López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social

Fig. 4.Effect of the lack of SlSPT function on pollen tube growth and ovary characteristics in slspt mutants and wild-type (WT; Micro-Tom) plants. (A) Pollen tube growth in the gynoecium. (B) Pollen tube staining measured as relative intensity units. (C) Micrographs of transverse sections of the ovary at anthesis, with a magnified view of the pericarp of the ovary at anthesis. (D, E) Comparison of cell layers and pericarp thickness between WT and slspt mutants. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences [ANOVA followed by Fisher's LSD test, P≤0.05, n=10, for (B), Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn’s test, P≤0.05, n=15, for (D); Tukey’s range test, P≤0.05, n=15, for (E)]. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.4 mm (C left); 50 µm (C right).

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🧬

🍅 Genome-edited tomato mutants for the SPATULA gene elucidated conserved functions during gynoecium development, improving our understanding of the SPT gene in fleshy fruits- Martínez-Estrada et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social

Promoter and domain swap analysis delineates heat stress memory-specific determinants of heat shock factor HSFA2 The function of the transcription factor HSFA2 in heat-stress-induced transcriptional memory maps to functional domains within the protein.

Promoter and domain swap analysis delineates heat stress memory-specific determinants of heat shock factor HSFA2 (Vicky Oberkofler , Joan Baltzer , Witold Szymanski , Isabel Bäurle) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🚨JOB ALERT!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
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If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!

PhD position in the RNA Biology of trees | slu.se SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in RNA biology and how it shapes tree growth and adaptation?🧬

Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.

Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs

Join us! We are going to have a ton of fun this summer with 2 week projects on plant and animal morphogenesis! @maizel-lab.org is leading a module. For my section we are going to live image developing leaves.

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.

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

3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Network Meeting

Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.

Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!