Structure of the far-red photosystem I from cyanobacteria that indicates the position of the chlorophyll f molecules that enable the cells to use far-red light for photosynthesis.

Plant Science Research Weekly Oct 31, 2025. plantae.org/plant-scienc... What makes a tree a tree? Secret strategy of far-red photosynthesis; Unwinding the Spirogyra genome; H2O2 role in P starvation response; Viral evasion of cap-independent translation defense (1/2)

Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae Bierenbroodspot et al. use phylogenomic analyses to study Coleochaetophyceae, phragmoplastophytic streptophyte algae that are well-known for their complex bodies. They trace that the famous discoidal ...

Sudden complexity just 65 million years ago discovered by team around @jandevries.bsky.social by analysis of the green alga Coleochaete, an ancestor and an intriguing group, which has evolved elaborate disc-shaped bodies. The team reports about it in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Only two days left to apply for the open tenure track professorship in Computational Biology here in @uni-goettingen.de
uni-goettingen.de/en/700631.html

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet the winners of the 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at the 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 consortium meeting

🟢 PhD student 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 @hannahlepper.bsky.social
@franzificht.bsky.social lab
🟢Postdoc 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐡 @physcomitr_ella from the Ischebeck lab

CONGRATULATIONS!
@watertoland.bsky.social

Next is Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing updates about the Spirogyra genome project #MAdLand2025

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Next up, Hengchi Chen from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is revisiting the deep divergence of land plants with us #MAdLand2025

And we are wrapping up the session with Zahin Bin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, discussing his findings on phytochrome-mediated light signalling of Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2025

This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre General Information Established thanks to the support of the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using…

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025

🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏰ From 9:30 am
📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF

For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...

💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6

@philcarella.bsky.social

Thanks a lot for having me! :) I had a great time discussing science (and eating the best Japanese food in Cologne ;) )

Just 4 days left to apply! Pls repost!

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout:
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html
Apply here:
obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

W1-TT-W2 Microbial Genetics - Georg-August-University Göttingen Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :)
uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html

Registrations are Open for the Rigi Workshop 2026, which I'm happy to co-organise with @michaelraissig.bsky.social

"Endless Forms Most Beautiful"

This is primarily intended for PhDs & Postdocs.
Only 30 spots available! So think fast !

#Cell #Biology #ProtistsOnSky

LINK: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/aa...

So for a couple of days on top of a Snowy #Swiss Mountain with a #Lake View

We will talk #Cell Biology, #Development & #Evolution.
We will also go #Sampling

With:

@gautamdey.bsky.social
@Susana Coelho
@jandevries.bsky.social
@lsaunders.bsky.social
@annikaguse.bsky.social
@Edwige Moyroud

🌿 Excited to share our new editorial on streptophyte trait evolution in the latest virtual issue from @newphyt.bsky.social, with @jandevries.bsky.social & @Ralph_Panstruga. The issue features several articles from MAdLand collaborations @watertoland.bsky.social
Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2025 is now open!
Join us from 30.09 – 02.10 in the beautiful city of Osnabrück to discuss latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2025 #Evolution
🌱 Learn more and register here:
madland-meeting.de/2025/

Rigi Workshop 2026: Endless Forms Most Beautiful PhD-students and Post-docs: From 25 to 27th January 2026, join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary workshop at the top of Rigi Mountain to discuss and embrace curiosity-driven approaches, beyond the tra...

Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social
speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud
Jan 25-27 2026
biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...

YouTube video by Concerto Köln - Topic Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 156: I. Allegro

The recording of my heart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xL...

Fun little Q&A! Thank you for the opportunity Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Really happy to see this piece of my PhD out. Thank you to everyone involved. It's being a steep learning journey.

Very cool! Big congrats @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social and team! This will be a reading theme for this year's master's class (The Wageningen guide to ARF evolution)

ARF degradation defines a deeply conserved step in auxin response - Nature Plants De Roij et al. map a minimal region for auxin response factor (ARF) degradation in Marchantia and reveal that ARF instability predates the emergence of the auxin response. This identifies ARF degradat...

In a few months @dolfweijers.bsky.social and team has provided an unbelievable amount of details on ARF/auxin evolution 😯

Trying to keep track here

doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

And the latest @natplants.nature.com 🔽

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

2nd phase for EU students: You have a degree in #Biology, #Biochemistry, Appl. Computer Sci. (+related) & want to delve into Computational Biology & #Bioinformatics for your Master's? Apply for our program
@uniGoettingen
with a broad range of topics—go to: uni-goettingen.de/de/657628.html

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureplants.bsky.social
#PlantScience

Distribution of key glucosinolates with known causal enzymes across the Brassicaceae. Shows rampant presence absence variation that doesn't track phylogeny closely. Suggests lots of independent events.

Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet

Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization Plant evolutionary research has made leaps in exploring the deep evolutionary roots of embryophytes. A solid phylogenomic framework was established, a…

Our review on “Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization” in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social is out now! Check it out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#terrestrialization
#Algae
#Evolution
@watertoland.bsky.social
@jandevries.bsky.social