@dompsfr.bsky.social
Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg → http://www.plantphotobiology.org/DOMPS/Plant_Science_Seminar.php → https://uni-freiburg.de/bio-en/research/plant/ (posts by @sophiezoe.bsky.social)
“Every calorie we consume has passed through the phloem." @lkalmbach.bsky.social, now at the University of Neuchâtel, returned to share how pectate lyases and callose synthases and remorins shape sieve pore formation in developing sieve elements in the phloem.
📅 Feb 13 #PlantScience
PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
From water to land and back again, a fascinating reverse evolution. Today Jathish Ponnu (from JKIP at @kit.edu) showed how Hygrophila remodels leaf form through heterophylly, revealing how light and internal signals drive extreme developmental plasticity.
📅 Feb 6 #PlantScience
Poster made by @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and AI.
06.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg
Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms.
Be quick - deadline is tomorrow!
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
In just two months, we’ll host our 4th yearly departmental symposium! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Malcolm Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and Margot Smit (from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social), alongside hands-on workshops, poster speed dating, and group talks.
👥🌱👥Can’t wait! 🎉
How conserved are plant immune receptors across evolution?
Last week, Khong-Sam Chia (from @thenisd.bsky.social and @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) showed us the deep functional conservation of NLR immune receptors across land plants, from algae to angiosperms.
📅 Jan 29
#PlantScience
From root death to repatterning.
Today we heard @kevindaniel.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) talk about Arabidopsis root shape plasticity under waterlogging stress.
Curious to hear more? You’ll have another chance next week at the ISRR Symposium.
📅 Jan 23 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
This week we will hear @federicalocci.bsky.social (from @parkergroup.bsky.social, @mpipz.bsky.social) talk about "How not to die", workings of TIR-networks in damage and systemic resistance.
📅 Jan 16 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
If you want to know more, check out their review below. 👇🏼
Check out this exciting online and FREE mini symposium on roots, featuring not one but two Freiburg-based @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social talks by @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social and @kevindaniel.bsky.social 🌱
08.01.2026 15:24 — 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Seasonal greetings from Freiburg 🌱
The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year.
Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!
📣 The CIBSS Team is hiring! We are looking for someone who is passionate about helping early-career researchers develop their skills, qualifications and career prospects🧑🏽🔬🔬🫱🏽🫲🏾
➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management
🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
👉iGEM Freiburg is recruiting motivated members for its 2026 team! 🧬🚀 Don't miss out and apply by Dec 30: kurzlinks.de/op05
🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr
#iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social
🌱 Spotlight on #CIBSS #NextGenSignallingScientists!
Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate.
📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v
#PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience
ReskiLab at the Freiburg Christmas market.
17.12.2025 08:08 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Team Xmas lunch with the traditional cookie decoration competition. Which is your favorite?
16.12.2025 15:11 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Happy to share our latest preprint:
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
#sphagnum #moss #moosstart #paludifarming
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
End of the year celebrations with lab 🎄🎊
13.12.2025 09:19 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Now out: The expansin EXPA1 is required for both inter- and intracellular infections of Lotus roots. The study was led by Jesús Montiel (UNAM, Mexico) and Jens Stougaard (Aarhus, Denmark) with @blace.bsky.social from our team doing lots of the imaging.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Working with an international team means being invited into new worlds — including Christmas traditions I’d never encountered before.
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍
Can you guess what this is?
Celebration season is here — time for the traditional DOMPS PI Apéro! ✨
Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚
@dompsfr.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Christmas Brunch with the group.
09.12.2025 11:04 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Nico van Gessel on your excellent PhD defense.
Nico is the 58th PhD student I had the pleasure and honor to supervise.
Less is bad and more is bad! This is how @jennyrussinova.bsky.social (from @viblifesciences.bsky.social) started her talk, illustrating how roots tightly control brassinosteroid synthesis and signaling to balance cell division and elongation.
📅 Dec 1 | 🕥10:15
#PlantScience
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
How do root stem cell niches change with age? Yanling Yu (from Thomas Laux's group) mapped the Arabidopsis columella stem cell niche using single-nucleus transcriptomics, revealing early niche reorganization and new gene functions.
Stay tuned for their manuscript!
📅 Nov 28 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
Universität Freiburg erfolgreich im ShanghaiRanking GRAS 2025 / Foto: Jürgen Gocke
Die #UniFreiburg wird in 31 von 57 Fächern in den „Global Rankings of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2025” der #ShanghaiRanking Consultancy geführt. Weltweit wird sie in fünf Fächern in den Top 100 geführt, in drei Fächern zählt sie international zu den 50 besten Institutionen. ufr.link/shanghairanking-25
20.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
You can read more about her research here: elifesciences.org/articles/96943
And about her current side project here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Today we heard the PhD progress update of @aroessling.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social). She is undoubtedly the best illustrator within DOMPS, making her talk on vacuoles, cell walls and FERONIA’s role in cell expansion very engaging.
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences