Department of plant and environmental sciences @HUJI

Carving out the microbiota of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent is…

Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New from the Keren lab! This study identifies a conserved regulatory program in cyanobacteria that links nutrient limitation to coordinated shifts in metabolism and photosynthesis. Congrats @nir-keren.bsky.social and all authors!

🔬 New from our faculty: A must-read review on how root development is shaped by microbial interactions. Great work by @finkel-lab.bsky.social, @fdiniandreote.bsky.social & Gabriel Castrillo! 🌱🧬

This Thursday!

Amazing and insightful seminar by @finkel-lab.bsky.social that is visiting Agricultural University of Athens this week as part of an Erasmus Staff Exchange program #microbiome #planthealth

This Thursday!

This week in our departmental seminar:

This week in our departmental seminar:

This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social

Departmental Retreat Spring 2025. Thanks to Meni Neuman and all at the Botanical Garden of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus for providing not only a great tour of the gardens but also a wonderful venue for our lecture sessions.

This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social

🌱 Two More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025 🌱

🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO

Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.

📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com

#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience

Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar:

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

Well our Otto didn’t win a Nobel but we won’t hold it against him.

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies.
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heat stress drives rapid viral and antiviral innate immunity activation in Hexacorallia The cnidarian class Hexacorallia, encompassing stony corals and sea anemones, plays a critical role in marine ecosystems. Coral bleaching, the disruption of the symbiosis between stony corals and zoox...

1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸
We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Phytologist Stomata Seminar Video available (by Sally Assmann and myself). Thanks again for this fantastic opportunity to share our work and perspectives 🌱🥰!
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...

הגדלת שינוע הנפט באילת תשחרר את הרוצח של המערכות האקולוגיות הימיות הארץ

www.haaretz.co.il/nature/2024-...

And here is the manuscript:

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

Congratulations Sahar et al, great job!

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar, we will listen to Sahar Magen from @taw-lab.bsky.social defend her PhD thesis!

Quick reminder: we don't have algorithm on here, so if you see something interesting, please not only like, but also repost. We have agency over what our network can see on their timelines by simply reposting, and I think that's a good thing. It's great.

About our header photo: the first members of the department, then known as the 'Systematic Botany Branch' Alexander Eig, Naomi Feinbrun and Michael Zohary getting some work done at the herbarium. Missing from the photo is Otto Warburg, department founder and director at the time.