Marco Incarbone

I really enjoyed the very nice and interesting day @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks again to everyone for the great discussions and special thanks to @incavirus.bsky.social for inviting me!

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Wooohooo felicitations Pierre! Fantastic!

Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome!
Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins.
bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG
This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected!
1/n 🧵

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.

Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

It was a great pleasure to host Nick Irwin from @gmivienna.bsky.social here at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social, where he talked about their work on horizontal gene transfer, its effect on evolution and on the development of new molecular pathways. Looking forward to follow future developments!

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...

One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate.

New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New OA Article: "Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development" rdcu.be/e1pxk

...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.

Thank you @zivirus.bsky.social for visiting and sharing your lab's science!

Ziv Spiegelmann (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing outside near an office building in snowy weather. They are both smiling in the camera.

Thanks a lot to @zivirus.bsky.social visiting us from @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social to talk about the #tobamovirus revealing a crossroad between viral movement and #PlantImmunity 🍅🦠

Thanks as well to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting! 🙏

Here we go again! Join us in Vienna, May 21–22, for two days of plant science—talks, discussions, and celebration of what makes plants both beautiful and essential 💚Full program + registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Come be part of it — each of you counts!

A warm welcome goes to
@miyapan.bsky.social
who has joined the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen as a new Max Planck Research Group Leader! Read more about her "Insect Sex Determination and Development" group here:
tinyurl.com/9sbj5b3u
We wish you a great start Miya!
#MaxPlanck #Biology

All the best JC, it will be a terrific lab!

With the new year, is my time to say bye to @gmivienna.bsky.social as I move to @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social in Tuebingen. I will start my solo Group Leader career as a Emmy Norther fellow. Thanks to everyone that helped on the way. I will be advertising PhD and Postdoc positions soon, stay tuned!

We are seeking a PhD student to investigate the deadenylation machinery in Arabidopsis as part of the IMCBio program.
@ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
@igbmc.bsky.social

Please visit the following link (PhD-2026-30):
imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr

#PhDOpportunity #PlantScience #PlantMolecularBiology

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to those who already shared the link!

Congratulations Florent! 🥳

Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social

Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools.

Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c
#CryoEM #CryoET

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

📣 Save the date!
The GfE Meeting 2026 is coming to Potsdam 🇩🇪🌱

✨ Four outstanding keynote speakers
(Hans Clevers, Isabel Fariñas, Thomas Bosch, Frank Bradke) ✨

🏅 Celebration of the Klaus Sander, Hilde Mangold, and José Campos-Ortega Awards 🏅

👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

Two people stand side by side indoors against a light blue wall, smiling at the camera. Left: Luis Lopez Molina, right: Claudia Köhler. A glass door and hallway are visible in the background.

We were delighted to welcome Luis Lopez Molina today! Many thanks for the excellent talk on how endospermic ARFs regulate #seed dormancy, seed #development and #cold adaptation ❄️
We had a great time listening and discussing! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting ✨

We are looking far and wide for this position! So if you are motivated, interested in academia, and want to explore the world of plant-virus interaction, we are ALSO happy to host you for a PhD! More detail below🔽☘️🦠

Thank you @scienceslam.de for this wonderful night in Hamburg! 👩‍🔬🎤
I had a blast, learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed slamming about vertical transmission of plant viruses 🦠💚

RNA decay via the nuclear exosome is essential for piwi-mediated transposon silencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694471v1

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

How lucky are we?! 🤩 Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social will be here!
So looking forward to hearing you, my friend!
🌱🦠

‘Anyone hired a student before?’ How a group of novice lab leaders are supporting each other By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, my colleagues and I have enacted change and battled bureaucracy.

Check out the incredible initiative from the Junior Faculty at Charles University that I'm proud to be part of (also photographically featured ;) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨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