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@marcknightcalcium.bsky.social

Calcium signalling, abiotic and biotic stress responses and plant hormone interactions. Personal Chair in Plant Cell Signalling, Durham University, UK & Professorship, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Posts by Marc.

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My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

03.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another day, another field trip, this time ably assisted by Drs Jakub Rzemieniewski and Boye Zhu in Yorkshire

23.09.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phosphorylation as a switch: How plants fine-tune eATP-induced calcium signaling #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

09.09.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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last of the summer sun here at @camplantsci.bsky.social

19.09.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨

Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

22.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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How amino acids are transported in plants Plants produce all amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialised cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (H...

How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social

22.08.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to see our work finally published!
#PlantScience
@natplants.nature.com

22.08.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A focus on the microalgae β€˜Chlamy’ About 250 scientists from all over the world will meet at the University of MΓΌnster from 24 to 29 August for the "Chlamy 2025" conference to discuss the latest research findings on microalgae.

About 250 scientists from all over the world will meet at the University of MΓΌnster from 24 to 29 August for the "Chlamy 2025" conference to discuss the latest research findings on microalgae.

22.08.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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So lucky to spend a great evening with Prof. Dr Markus SchwarzlΓ€nder in MΓΌnster: a fantastic scientist and amazing human. Thanks for making me feel so welcome @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social

20.08.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!

Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.08.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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Working on maize field trial in rural Dorset has its benefits: getting to see the lovely city of Salisbury! #accidentaltourist

08.08.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The glutamate receptor‐like GLR2.7 modulates insect egg‐induced defense responses in Arabidopsis Upon perception of insect eggs, Arabidopsis thaliana activates a generic immune response that culminates in cell death (hypersensitive-like response (HR-like)). While this response can subsequently .....

How do plants detect insect eggs ? πŸŒ±πŸ¦‹
Our new paper on GLR2.7 and its role in plant defense responses to insect eggs is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social
Big thanks to the Reymond Lab @unil.bsky.social and our collaborators !

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

27.07.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Very happy to get started at Halle: such a warm welcome! So grateful to Dr Jakub Rzemieniewski for great work getting the project up and flying. Massive thanks also to Vanessa GΓΌnther for all matters plant! Great to meet Vincent Preuß hoping your master’s with us is a big success.

25.07.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a really good idea! How are you getting on in Cambridge?

22.07.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lettuce is a new one for us, but what a lovely plant!

22.07.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sincere thanks to @niab-uk.bsky.social and @camplantsci.bsky.social (especially @bryonyjacobs.bsky.social for arranging me a great program) for fantastic discussions, meeting new people, bright young minds and Fv/Fm of my spring wheat field trial! I had a great, fulfilling and fun time THANK YOU!

29.06.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi all!!! πŸ‘‹

New to Bluesky, but...

I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg...
www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...

Please repost if you can!!
Thank you!!!

14.02.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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