Caroline Gutjahr

3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Network Meeting

Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.

Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

📢📢 We are hiring!! We are looking for a coordinator for science communication and a project manager! www.ceplas.eu/de/nachwuchs...

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

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...

The GRAS protein RAM1 interacts with WRI transcription factors to regulate plant genes required for arbuscule development and function | PNAS During arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis AM fungi form tree-shaped structures called arbuscules in root cortex cells of host plants. Arbuscules ...

🌱 New discovery in plant-fungi symbiosis:
@carogutj.bsky.social and team have identified the Gene Activator Complex that promotes the exchange of nutrients between plants & fungi.
📖 Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Proud to have contributed to this during my MSc thesis @carogutj.bsky.social lab. Thanks to Michi Paries and congrats to all involved!

Pflanzen und ihr Mikrokosmos Willkommen in der faszinierenden Welt von Pflanzen und Mikroorganismen! In diesem Podcast beleuchten wir die neuesten Forschungserkenntnisse rund um das Wechselspiel von Pflanzen mit ihren mikroskopis...

Podcast: letscast.fm/sites/pflanz...

Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants Strigolactones (SLs) are methylbutenolide molecules derived from β-carotene through an intermediate carlactonoic acid (CLA). Canonical SLs act as signals to microbes and plants, whereas noncanonical S...

Super excited to contribute to this amazing work on the evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

excited to be part of this study published @pnas.org led by the wonderful Caroline Gutjahr 👏revealing how the GRAS protein RAM1 partners with WRI transcription factors to regulate genes essential for arbuscule formation & nutrient exchange in plant-fungal symbiosis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations Michael and the entire team!👏Cool work from the @carogutj.bsky.social lab and a testament to all the long hard work behind it @pnas.org . Grateful to have contributed to this story✌️. Checkout the mechanisms by which the RAM1 functions.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

🌍 International Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting 2025!
#IMMM2025
🏨 Book your hotel at our discounted group rate: genetik.bio.lmu.de/immm-2025/lo...
⚠️ Discounted rate only available until May 16th – act fast!

Thanks Potsdam #CRC1644 for the invite and inspiring discussions on plasticity in plants @duartedf.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social Michi Sauer, Markus Grebe, Rene Schneider, Michael Lenhard, Arun Sampathkumar & all @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social

Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis - Nature Communications The authors provide a molecular explanation for how a plant stress hormone called ethylene suppresses root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi. These fungi form symbioses with most land plants...

New #PlantSci paper by team around @carogutj.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in @naturecomms.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis - Nature Communications The authors provide a molecular explanation for how a plant stress hormone called ethylene suppresses root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi. These fungi form symbioses with most land plants...

Did you know that plant hormones determine whether a symbiosis with a fungus will be formed? 🍄 The lab of @carogutj.bsky.social was able to decipher how plants control symbioses and what exactly happens when stressors like flooding inhibit these.

🔗 More on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025 Congress ​​...​​...​2025 IS-MPMI Congress​...​​​Save the Date! Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025 Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre, Cologne, Germany​ ​ Mark your calendars for the 2025 IS-MPMI Co...

The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join 1,400+ experts! More info: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C... #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe

Many thanks Uli, and to Kartikye who is also a first author.

Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis - Nature Communications The authors provide a molecular explanation for how a plant stress hormone called ethylene suppresses root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi. These fungi form symbioses with most land plants...

Ethylene suppresses arbuscular mycorrhiza by promoting SMAX1 accumulation. Big congrats to Debatosh Das, @kartikyev.bsky.social. And big thanks to @karrikins.bsky.social, Satoshi Ogawa, Salar Torabi and Regine Hüttl for their contributions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Don't forget! You can still apply for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience with our #IMPRS at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and Uni Potsdam! The deadline is ending on Friday 📅
Apply now 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD
#PlantSciJobs #PhDjobs #PlantPhysiology #CompBio #PlantBiology #PlantSci #plantPhD

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, Geneva, Switzerland - Applications are invited for a postdoc position to study UV-B perception and signalling in plants. Please apply, forward to suitable candidates, and/or repost; many thanks!
Deadline February 24, 2025.
See www.ulm-lab.ch for more information.

👋Say hi to our research group Receptor Structures at the Plant-Microbe Interface! Led by Alexander Förderer, this group delves into plant immune responses at the molecular level. Understanding plant immune systems is key to enhancing plant health and crop security 🌱 @o-sulkowski.bsky.social

A postdoctoral position is available in the team of Gwyneth Ingram @rdplab.bsky.social as part of a collaborative project with our group @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social

#plantscience

📣 NEW VACANCY: Postdoctoral Scientist in the Cyril Zipfel group.
🌿 Decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying plant immunity
🌱 Identify & characterise pattern recognition receptors

⏳ Apply soon! Application review already starts 6 Jan '25

www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

🎉 Congrats to @duartedf.bsky.social on receiving an ERC grant for his project NoSexSeed! 🌱 His goal? Enabling crops to reproduce pollen-free 🌍 #ERCCoG

More on this: www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2778892/

Big congrats to both Yasin and COS!

Assistant Professor of Plant Genetics and Director of the C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Davis plant community is recruiting for a new head of the Charles M. Rick Tomato Genetic Resource center. This position is a cornerstone of the tomato and Solanaceae community and provides some really cool research and teaching opportunities. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06784