@michaelilab.bsky.social
Plant and cell biologist. Interested in 🔬 organelles, membrane trafficking, autophagy, 🌿🍂 senescence, 🍑 ripening, learning, teaching and much more 🪐 https://www.michaelilab.com/
May their words reach politicians‘ ears…
10.12.2025 12:48 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
10.12.2025 14:14 — 👍 45 🔁 60 💬 0 📌 1
Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
08.12.2025 08:41 — 👍 27 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1New plant-specific DUBs that cleave K63 Chains and reduce endocytosis rates by the Hofmann Lab (Köln)
08.12.2025 12:49 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Was fabulous at the Israeli Society of ☘️ Sciences (ISPS) 2025 conf. held at Sde Boker @bengurionuni.bsky.social.
It started with an In Memoriam lecture by @taw-lab.bsky.social dedicated to the Late Prof Gad Galili and ended with best poster 🏆 awarded to Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group!
That's great clip!
06.12.2025 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our new group photo, from the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences meeting at Sde Boker
04.12.2025 16:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very last chance to register !
Extended deadline: 10th of December.
🌱 Curious about plant biology?
Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!
In between some excellent talks, mostly from PhD students and postdocs (including our Dr. Pradeep Kumar Pathak 👇) and even one brave MSc student 👏🏻
05.12.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was fabulous at the Israeli Society of ☘️ Sciences (ISPS) 2025 conf. held at Sde Boker @bengurionuni.bsky.social.
It started with an In Memoriam lecture by @taw-lab.bsky.social dedicated to the Late Prof Gad Galili and ended with best poster 🏆 awarded to Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group!
X-Ray Vision: New Tech Secures Israel's Rarest #Seeds from Damage
The Israel Gene Bank (IGB) successfully evaluated X-ray imaging and micro-CT technology. These are non-destructive alternatives for assessing seed viability.
Activation of alternative oxidase ensures carbon supply for ethylene and carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening (Ariadna Iglesias-Sanchez, Nestor Fernandez Del-Saz, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
26.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My November....
Fun as well as troubling
Prof. Gad Galili, my mentor @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social, was a pioneer in plant amino acid metabolism and cell biology, including #autophagy.
Primarily, he was one of the kindest people I've known. Attentive to the mental side of students long before it became common.
May he rest in peace.
Rest in peace,Gad. You will be greatly missed.
16.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Prof. Gad Galili, my mentor @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social, was a pioneer in plant amino acid metabolism and cell biology, including #autophagy.
Primarily, he was one of the kindest people I've known. Attentive to the mental side of students long before it became common.
May he rest in peace.
Oh no Tamar! I am so sad to hear this. He was a great scientist and a lovely person.
16.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0May he rest in peace! 😔 I never met with him but always enjoyed reading his papers. He was ahead of his time.
16.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Reactions, processes, and parameters controlling C4 photosynthetic flux in the NADP-ME subtype.
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants
@chistinesd.bsky.social, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience
Summary also available in French and Spanish.
Congrats Ora 👏🏼🥳
12.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
"Autophagy appears to be important to our health, not only by operating directly within our own cells, but also indirectly, through the quality of fresh produce we consume"
11.11.2025 06:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of molecular sequence variation in plant evolution and breeding (Thomas L Slewinski, Sarah Turner-Hissong, Tomasz Paciorek, Brent Brower-Toland, Christine Shyu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
08.10.2025 15:18 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2Pass me some healthy mitochondria and ill give you a few defective ones to chew on in return 🤔
10.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ENPER bell is already in Sofia!
09.11.2025 23:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Congrats @victorsmh6.bsky.social 🥳
your great work is evident in the recent preprints from the lab. All the best in your next destination!
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening:
#plantscience
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