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

Welcome to Bluesky! @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social

Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies

If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10).
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany

Super cool! Biiiiig congrats y'all — quest completed!

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Sternalge „Zygnema circumcarinatum“ zeigt ähnliche Stressreaktionen wie die untersuchten Moosproben (Lichtmikroskopische Aufnahme) Foto: Tatyana Darienko

#Pflanzen haben bei neuen Umweltbedingungen Stress. Forschende unter Leitung unserer Uni (@jandevries.bsky.social) entdeckten, dass #Algen und Landpflanzen ähnlich auf Stress reagieren. Grund sind genetische Knotenpunkte, die seit über 600 Millionen Jahren bestehen:
buff.ly/BZeAHfm;
buff.ly/dgeHjIY

🔬 Systems acclimation to osmotic stress in zygnematophyte cells is now on bioRxiv! 🚀 Huge thanks to @jandevries.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social. Check it out here: [https://doi.org/xxx]
Or keep reading this thread for key highlights!👇😉 #Evolution #Algae #PlantScience @watertoland.bsky.social

Pulse - Application Application PULSE postdoc applicants have the opportunity to choose between an academic or an entrepreneurial track. Both fellowship tracks will include advanced training in research and transferable ...

Post-doc opportunities! Wet/dry/hybrid projects available in my group. Drop me an email with CV if interested.
www.scilifelab.se/research/pul...

Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation - Nature This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...

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

- Glad we finally start to see, how sodium gets into the vacuole, congrats to all involved!

Extremely thrilled to share that our
@annualreviews.bsky.social
went online. We discuss advancements in the field and why streptophyte algae are not only evolutionary giants but offer unique opportunities for plant science.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
@watertoland.bsky.social

TAPscan v4, final verson available:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Annotate TF families yourself or access web-UI online. Thanks to @petrollromy.bsky.social @shiltemann.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Hallo Bluesky-Community! Ab heute berichten wir hier über die Uni Göttingen und freuen uns auf den Austausch. Wer ist auch noch hier?

Hello to everyone on Bluesky! You’ll find the University of Göttingen’s news here. We’re looking forward to the exchange! Who else is here?

Here we go again!: You have a degree in #Biology, #Biochemistry, Appl. Computer Sci. (+related) & want to delve into Computational Biology & #Bioinformatics for your Master's? 1 month left to apply for our program
@uniGoettingen
with a broad range of topics—go to: uni-goettingen.de/de/657628.html

Big thanks to our team members, collaborators, and reviewers!! @peterwschafran.com @tarobison.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social (sorry if I missed someone here - tagging in bluesky is not the easiest...)

WOW! "Subtomogram averaging Soluble and membrane-bound complexes ranging in size from >3 MDa to ~200 kDa, including 80S ribosomes, Rubisco, nucleosomes, microtubules, clathrin, photosystem II, and mitochondrial ATP synthase. The majority of these density maps reached sub-nanometer resolution..." 🧪

Horizontal gene transfers and terpene metabolism drive plant-fungal interaction in Marchantia polymorpha The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has emerged as a model for studying plant immunity in bryophytes, providing unique insights into conserved defense mechanisms across land plants. By contrast, March...

It's my pleasure to share with you a chapter of the project I fell with five years ago 🍀🦠

Here is a thread 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...