IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes

🎄✨ Last Friday at #IBMP: a cozy Christmas celebration with homemade vin chaud and delicious mannele 🥨🍷 A perfect moment to share, laugh, and wrap up the year together. Science also means community!

🌱Great momentum at the TYPEX Days 2025 in Strasbourg: new Prime Editing tools, progress across crop species, and a growing shared cloning platform. More here 👉 www.pepr-selection-vegetale.fr/actualites/j...

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

If you are interested, please visit the following link (PhD-2026-30):
imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr

Reinforcing the 🇫🇷France–Japan🇯🇵 collaboration in plant biology🌱

Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social

So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social
Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨

🎓 Spotlight on Judith Estefanía López Ponce, PhD student in Manfred Heinlein’s group (IBMP), within the ViroiDoc MSCA network!
🔗 linkedin.com/posts/viroid...
#ViroiDoc #MSCA #PlantScience

How plant mitochondria make their own proteins 🌱🔬
A new study published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals the structure of the cauliflower mitoribosome and a unique RsgA mechanism that blocks premature translation.
▶️https://nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65864-z
#PlantBiology #CryoEM #Ribosome

➡️ #PhDPosition #PhDOpportunity #PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantMolecularBiology #Genetics #Epigenetics #CRISPR #Arabidopsis #ResearchJobs #WeAreHiring #JoinOurLab

🚀 IMCBio PhD Fellowships 2026 - 5 PhD in plant biology open at IBMP :
🌱 RNA biology
🧬 Translation
🔬 Chloroplast & mitochondria
🧫 Antiviral defence
🌾 Seed biology
📅 Apply before 25 Jan 2026
🔗 imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr
Join us and push the boundaries of plant science! 🌿

🦠PhD Defense🎓
👏Congrats to Lucas Schalck, who defended his PhD “Exploration fonctionnelle de la protéine P3a du Turnip yellows virus” supervised by Véronique Ziegler-Graff

Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.

Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏

Interreg KliwiResse project project completed :
➡️New resources generated, including metabolic stress markers identified at IBMP.
➡️Strong partner network built for future UpperRhine collaborations.
🔗 More info: kliwiresse.wine-science.eu/news_en.htm

Cool bonus from participating on the IMCBio event today @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social is to attend to an amazing seminar by the one and only @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social !, what an awesome coincidence!

Genomics course announcement. Please find details here: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#denbi2025

Curious about plant genomics? 🌿

Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated.

Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience
@denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social

Guillaume Hummel, David Pflieger, Alexandre Berr, Laurence Drouard: From the RNA world to land plants: Evolutionary insights from tRNA genes https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01943 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.01943

🦠PhD Defense🎓
Congrats to Amélie Janzam, who defended her PhD “Role of the non-coding RNA3 and the p14 protein in long-distance viral movement and RNA interference suppression of BNYVV.” Supervised by David Gilmer
#PhDDefense #PlantVirology #PlantBiology

🧬PhD Defense🎓
👏Congrats to Margaux Cheminat, who defended her PhD on “Deciphering the molecular interaction between Streptomyces and barley: influence of the brassinosteroid signaling pathway.”
Supervised by Florence Arsène-Ploetze & Hubert Schaller
#PlantBiology #Microbiology #PhDDefense

From the RNA world to land plants: Evolutionary insights from tRNA genes Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are universal adaptors of the genetic code, yet their evolutionary dynamics across photosynthetic eukaryotes remain underexplored. Here, we present the largest comparative re-ana...

Thrilled to share our new preprint on the evolution of transfer RNA (tRNA) genes in photosynthetic organisms, together with David Pflieger, Alexandre Berr, and Laurence Drouard!
#PlantGenomics #Evolution #tRNA

@ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943

DNA methylome responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: A multi-study analysis Plants have evolved complex physiological and morphological strategies to cope with biotic and abiotic stress. At the molecular level, these responses are partly mediated by epigenetic mechanisms such...

The 1st chapter of the PhD project of
@rachnabehl.bsky.social became online as pre-print. A meta-analysis of epigenomic changes in plants under environmental stresses…

#PlantScience #Epigenetics

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

Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management Abstract. Light is a central environmental signal that coordinates plant development, metabolism, and stress responses. By integrating external cues with i

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

🌱 Light does more than fuel photosynthesis, it guides plant growth and survival. Discover how the TOR kinase connects light signals to metabolism and stress responses in a new
@jxbotany.bsky.social review featuring Mikhail Schepetilnikov

#TEsky #PlantScience 🌾🧪

A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat Circadian clocks control daily and seasonal timing of physiology and development. Because of their influence on photoperiodic flowering, variants in circadian clock genes have been selected for ph...

I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Congratulations to Jean-Michel Davière and Stefan Grob, laureates of the 2025 IDEX call from the @unistra.fr 🎉
A great recognition of their innovative projects and the excellence of research at IBMP! 🌱🔬

On Oct 7, IBMP group leaders visited the Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter Institute (JKIP) at @kit.edu. A great day of science, discussions, and new connections — from inspiring talks by Holger Puchta & Natalia Requena to a visit of the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden and greenhouses. 🌱

A great day at #Mifobio2025! 🌱🔬
From seed germination to Arabidopsis leaves and zebrafish hearts, our team explored the fascinating diversity of living systems with the EnderScope, pushing the limits of live imaging during this inspiring edition !
@cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @igbmc.bsky.social

🧪 Journée de cohésion des personnels des plateformes de l’IBMP à l'IS2M ! Une journée enrichissante autour des savoir-faire techniques et scientifiques de nos plateformes respectives.
Un grand merci à l’équipe de l’IS2M pour son accueil 👏
@cnrs-alsace.bsky.social #ScienceEnPartage

Avec le CNRS en Alsace 2023-2024

Le rapport d'activité 2023-2024 du CNRS Alsace est paru !
Partage des savoirs, innovation, sciences & recherche, témoignages, Europe & international... Un contenu à picorer ou à lire de bout en bout. Bonne lecture !
➡️ www.alsace.cnrs.fr/fr/rapport-d...
@cnrs.fr

🔎 “Tolerance: the plants that make peace with viruses” 🌿 🦠

An activity presented by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social, as part of the Science with and for Society program of the French National Research Agency (ANR). Visual support produced by CNRS Alsace.

#BDécouvrons SynPPR
Un "scratch" à ARN pour bloquer la production de protéines indésirables en #agriculture et #santé humaine ? 🌽🩺
C'est le défi que relèvent Kamel Hammani et son équipe de l'IBMP.
BD par Camille Van Belle 👉 bit.ly/synppr-infos
#SAPS_CNRS @agencerecherche.bsky.social

🥇 Félicitations à Lali Sakvarelidze-Achard, lauréate du #Photowalk de l' @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social ! Sa photo «Télescope à micro-alignement : aux frontières de la physique nucléaire», avec 17 autres, représentera le
@cnrs.fr au Global Physics Photowalk 2025 🌍📸