Sascha Laubinger

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

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...

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/...

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe!

Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾

#plantscijob

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs MicroRNAs (miRNAs) guide post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants and shape developmental outcomes and environmental responses by precisely tuning gene expression. miRNAs originate from primary t...

New Review from our fellow @snp2prot.bsky.social members @saschalaubinger.bsky.social, Clara Schöder, Panos Kastritis and the excellent ECRs Cecille Scholl, Lars Grosch and Jana Baradei! Check it out: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th

www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience

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...

Lab to field: Challenges and opportunities for plant biology Plant-microbe research offers many choices of model and strain and whether a field-first or lab-first approach is best. However, differences between l…

1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists.
1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa...
2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15.
blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The report identifies factors that limit innovation in Europe: fragmentation, both of markets and of regulatory frameworks, incl different national implementations of EU legislation, no true financial union, incompatible standards, insufficient R&D funding, risk-averse regulatory culture.

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC

Someone asked if they could use this recording in their teaching. #PlantSci
YES! 😁
Please share this with students - the topics raised are so important.
Let's teach students (and colleagues?) to think critically about expectations for basic research, & be realistic about applications! 🌱🌾🌽

One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱

Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...

@unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social

Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants (Tobias Jores , Nicholas A Mueth , Jackson Tonnies , Si Nian Char , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Great session with amazing talks! Using single-plant omics on naturally occurring (Wild) Arabidopsis populations is a powerful and underutilized approach for uncovering gene-phenotype relationships in an ecological context. #icar2025

Concurrent session 14: gene to phenotype prediction: Eneza Yoeli Mjema: approach: collect data from plants growing in natural habitats to find missing gene functions, use machine learning to look for gene-phenotype relationships @enezer.bsky.social
#icar2025

Genes influential in controlling petiole length ratio identified using LASSO model (some well studied and some 🆕 )- lab validated 👍🏼

Inheritance of acquired adaptive cold tolerance in rice through DNA methylation Multigenerational cold stress induces heritable ACT1 promoter hypomethylation, enabling rice to acquire cold tolerance for high-latitude adaptation.

A new study in Cell finds claims that when a variety of rice is subjected to cold stress, it generates adaptive cold tolerance.

This tolerance is epigenetically mediated and is heritable for at least three generations.

🐋🌱🧠🗃🦋🦫🧪 #EvoBio

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

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Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant viruses remains unknown. Here we describe a 617 kbp integrated giant viral element in the model green alga C...

Latest findings on cryptic infection of giant viruses published in @ScienceMagazine. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 We offer a #PhDposition within the @dfg.de-funded @rtg2498.bsky.social on "Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments" in Debora Gasperini's lab at the IPB.

🔗All information: www.ipb-halle.de/karriere/ste...

📅Apply now until: March 21, 2025!

#plantsci #plantscijobs #phd

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Regulation of alternative splicing by CBF-mediated protein condensation in plant response to cold stress - Nature Plants CBF transcription factors facilitate the formation of SKIP nuclear condensates to increase the splicing efficiency of cold-responsive transcripts, bridging transcriptional and post-transcriptional reg...

What a super cool story: New role of CBFs in alternative splicing by interacting with spliceosome-associated proteins like SKIP.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From the archives: Plasmodesmata – regulation of function, targeting by pathogenic bacteria, and plasmodesmal-associated proteins Mariana Schuster; From the archives: Plasmodesmata – regulation of function, targeting by pathogenic bacteria, and plasmodesmal-associated proteins, The Pl

I am happy to share my last #InBrief.
I thoroughly enjoyed being an assistant feature editor for @theplantcell.bsky.social the last two years. I am very grateful for the opportunity which I would highly recommend to all ECRs that like to write. Special thanks to Nan Eckardt for all her support!

Looking for bright spots in 2025: it's the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Arabidopsis genome! We're celebrating in @theplantcell.bsky.social in May with a Focus Issue, but you can have some love here too www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... & here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....