TheUstunLab

We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!

7 years ago,I sat outside @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social,gathering the courage to begin a new chapter as a group leader. Now in Bochum, I still need that courage to face challenges—both inside & outside the lab—but after all I’m grateful that I still find joy in what I do. #happybirthday #theustunlab

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!

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Tired of what‘s happening in the world and surrounding - I guess I‘ll just stay here for awhile and disappear #offline

We (@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social @margotraffeiner.bsky.social @shanshuo.bsky.social) had a fantastic #2025ISMPMI in Cologne with lots of amazing science and great networking meeting old friends and new ones. Hope to see you all next time in Jeju/South Korea #2027ISMPMI

Next in the concurrent session “spatial and temporal session” is @type3lab.bsky.social who will talk about their amazing findings on distinct pseudomonas subpopulations that cooperate to colonize plants #2025ISMPMI

Last day of #2025ISMPMI, last poster session: dont miss @shanshuo.bsky.social fantastic poster about how we used a combination of scRNAseq and cell-type specific approaches to reveal the role of autophagy in stomatal & mesophyll immunity during Pseudomonas infection - more info ➡️ P-432 #proteostasis

Last day of #2025ISMPMI, last poster session: dont miss @shanshuo.bsky.social fantastic poster about how we used a combination of scRNAseq and cell-type specific approaches to reveal the role of autophagy in stomatal & mesophyll immunity during Pseudomonas infection - more info ➡️ P-432 #proteostasis

Happy to meet you at poster no. P-405 and to talk about my project at #2025ISMPMI this afternoon! 🌿

If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI

Enjoying the free afternoon in Cologne at #2025ISMPMI with @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social @margotraffeiner.bsky.social and Christa 🥂

Now @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social is on stage presenting his exciting project on p-bodies, and how bacteria utilize them to attenuate host translation #proteostasis #2025ISMPMI

A person presenting a scientific talk showing a slide quantifying P bodies through microscopy

@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social explains that eukaryote P bodies contain translationally inactive RNAs.

Do pathogens induce the formation of these? Yes!

How? Effectors!… that repress ER stress response.

Why? Make plants susceptible by reducing translation of immunity genes.
#2025ISMPMI

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

We start with the concurrent session: @lauramepul.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social is introducing the plant-virus interactions session - looking forward to some exciting talks #2025ISMPMI

Next in the plenary session of #ISMPMI is @geminiteamlab.bsky.social who will take us in the virus world 🤩 Looking forward to a fantastic talk!

@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social will talk about how bacteria exploit P-bodies to attenuate host translation

@margotraffeiner.bsky.social presents a novel proteotoxicity regulator and its role in plant immunty

@shanshuo.bsky.social will emphasize the role of autophagy in stomatal immunity

If you’re interested in the role of #proteostasis in plant immunity and how pathogens manipulate it visit our contributions at #2025ISMPMI

@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social will talk on Tuesday in the effector interference session

@shanshuo.bsky.social (P-432)

@margotraffeiner.bsky.social (P-405)

We made it to cologne (shortest trip to an MPMI ever 😆) looking forward to some great science! #2025ISMPMI #theustunlab

Another amazing conference ended - was great to attend two amazing sessions on #proteostasis and #condensates - with @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social having a double feature and winning the Yound Scientist Award in the cell section of @sebiology.bsky.social next stop: IS- MPMI in Cologne! #2025ISMPMI

I’m so happy and proud - what an incredible achievement and so richly deserved! Huge congratulations
@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social Will never forget this moment!

Another amazing conference ended - was great to attend two amazing sessions on #proteostasis and #condensates - with @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social having a double feature and winning the Yound Scientist Award in the cell section of @sebiology.bsky.social next stop: IS- MPMI in Cologne! #2025ISMPMI

Honoured to receive the #YoungScientistAward from the @sebiology.bsky.social in the Cell section at the Antwerp conference. Thank you for this amazing recognition — I’m truly grateful!

We‘re ready for the #SEBconference Award Dinner 🤩 @sebiology.bsky.social @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social

And another feature from @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social in the young scientist award session - super proud moment for @theustunlab.bsky.social 🥳

Next in the condensation session is our own from @theustunlab.bsky.social @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social who talks how bacteria exploit p-body condensation to suppress protein translation #proteostasis #immunity - see also our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's happening now! @suaybuestuen.bsky.social is presenting now at @sebiology.bsky.social such an amazing work on how plants cope with proteotoxicity!! 🌱#proteostasis

Heading to Antwerp to attend the #SEBconference ‪ @sebiology.bsky.social ‬to present our latest findings (see latest version of our paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) how 🌱 cope with proteotoxicity in the #proteostasis session (C1.11). Hope to see you all there!

An amazing #ICAR2025 ended - was so great to catch up with old friends and to find new ones! so many highlights! Great science, people and an awesome place 🤗 see you in Singapur #ICAR2026

Was super fun to present our recent work on protein translation and bacterial infection in the proteostasis session at #ICAR2025 Thanks to the organizers again!