Darius Kosmützky

@ic416.bsky.social @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @albinteulet.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social & Renuka Kolli

Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!

Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity at Imperial College London Apply for the Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.

Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!

A person giving a talk on a stage with purple lighting. A slide asks the question how do plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the same cell?

Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell?

The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI

A picture of the first Congress program of MPMI at Bielefeld university 1982.

Full circle moment for me at #2025ISMPMI: the Congress started out in #Bielefeld where I did my undergrad in biochemistry!

#2025ISMPMI turnout is massive!!!!

Really lovely talk with great insights into scientific mentoring. Obvs also love the puns 😂

Really cool start of a week of conference yesterday at #OMGN2025. I learned so much about oomycetes and got to present our some of our work studying its interaction with Marchantia. Looking forward a free morning in Cologne and to #2025ISMPMI starting later today!

And for oomycete-chat at #OMGN tomorrow!

First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI!
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social

What a cool day at Botanicon today! I’m excited to part of such a buzzing research community in #plantscience!
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)

Beautiful microscopy from Alex leading to exciting insights on the interface membranes between plants & pathogens/symbionts!
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions

Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!

A big thank you to my coauthors, the editors of @theplantjournal.bsky.social as well as the reviewers for making this publication possible!
I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.
#plantscience

A game of tag: A review of protein tags for the successful detection, purification and fluorescence labelling of proteins expressed in microalgae Protein tags for detection, purification and fluorescence labelling are vital in microalgal research, yet the suitability of specific tags remains largely unexplored. This review discusses the pros a....

Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae?
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.

A big thank you to my coauthors, the editors of
@theplantjournal.bsky.social as well as the reviewers for making this publication possible!

I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.

I mainly contributed to this work during my time in the HoweLab @cambiochem.bsky.social, before moving on to new ventures @slcuplants.bsky.social.

A big thank you to my coauthors, the editors of @theplantjournal.bsky.social as well as the reviewers for making this publication possible!

Had a lovely time at the #FestivalofPlants @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on Saturday showcasing our research @slcuplants.bsky.social. Spot me at the stereoscope looking at flowers and of course #Marchantia!

Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Letters and Opinion piece titled 'Cambridge brings science to politics'

Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics

Science is political.

For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.

Preprint! w/ C. Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell, G.Evans,F.Fercoq,P.Kenrick & A.Ferrari

An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging

@slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr

Cambridge University on X: "What gives petals their patterns? 🌺 May Yeo and Isaac Coven from @SLCUPlants are exploring the hidden science behind the flowers you love – from the evolution of floral traits to the microbial partnerships that help plants grow 🦠 Head to their exhibit at @The_RHS Chelsea https://t.co/bmW8xZKZwh" / X What gives petals their patterns? 🌺 May Yeo and Isaac Coven from @SLCUPlants are exploring the hidden science behind the flowers you love – from the evolution of floral traits to the microbial partnerships that help plants grow 🦠 Head to their exhibit at @The_RHS Chelsea https://t.co/bmW8xZKZwh

Some cool footage from @slcuplants.bsky.social (and some of my Marchantia plates too :p) and great explanations from May and Isaac about our exhibit at #ChelseaFlowerShow

(Unfortunately only on Twitter…)

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Caption of figure 1: “Hello, my name is Dr Darius, and I would like to share with you the most amazing science.”