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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology

We’re hiring! 🌱
Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity

Characterization of the C4 proteins encoded by okra-infecting geminiviruses in India https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703481v1

Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word!
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Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!

We are looking for a scientific coordinator in Heidelberg for the Greenrobust excellence cluster www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.

Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

PhD position in biology (m/f/d) (1/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a PhD position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social!
If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026.

Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

GT Lab (median) New Year dinner 🎉 + Clem’s farewell 😊🥲😔 at Chin-Thai Restaurant/天富楼 in Tübingen — amazing food and better company! All the best for your PI life (!) @clemmar.bsky.social — so much fun lies ahead! (but we will miss you!!)

🚀 Calling all ssDNA virologists! 🔬✨
Join the International Symposium on ssDNA Viruses (IS³DV 2026) isdv2026.com

📅 15–19 June 2026
📍 Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil 🇧🇷

Whether you’re a P.I., postdoc, ECR, or student, this is your stage to connect, share, debate and push the frontiers of ssDNA virology.

What could be better than discussing single-stranded DNA viruses with an international community of experts and a trans-kingdom perspective — at an affordable prize?

Doing it in Bahia, Brazil! 🌴🌊☀️

Join us for IS3DV, June 15-19!
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A giant virus forms a specialized subcellular environment within its amoeba host for efficient translation

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

Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱

Join us in Málaga!

AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@hua-wei.bsky.social @syluo.bsky.social @shaojunpan.bsky.social @axelgiudicatti.bsky.social

@lauramepul.bsky.social @nicholaydiaz.bsky.social @zhihaojiang.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social @delphinem-p.bsky.social @gmvalora.bsky.social @chaonan123.bsky.social
@kyokakuroiwa.bsky.social

The GT goes to Stuttgart! A (brief) trip, nice scenery, good food, a touch of (mostly fictitious) science, and excellent company! What else could one wish for in a lab retreat? (Ah — it was also the 10th anniversary of the lab!) 🎂🌱🦠

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! 👏

Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections Plants engineered with synthetic genetic programs can transform how we monitor and manage the extension of crop pests and diseases. Here, we establish a bioluminescent platform in Nicotiana benthamian...

Such a cool pre-print on making sentinel plants - so much potential!

Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections

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

Review: The what, how and why of symptom development in viral disease | Plantae I was initially drawn to this review by curiosity about its title; I realized I hadn’t ever wondered how and why viral infections cause symptoms in plants. I’m so glad I looked into it!

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The why, why and how of symptom development in viral disease (Annu. Rev. Phytopathology) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) @geminiteamlab.bsky.social buff.ly/dsQwgbo

#PlantaePSRW

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social

🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa

Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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/...