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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

Autoinhibition and phospho-switch for the dynamic regulation of ion transport Membrane transporters, including ion channels and carriers, maintain ionic and nutrient homeostasis vital for growth and stress resilience in plants. Their activity is finely regulated, enabling dynamic responses to internal and external signals. Transporters often exist in an ‘autoinhibited’ resting state that can be switched on by post-translational modifications in response to environmental cues. Specifically, protein phosphorylation functions as a molecular switch that relieves autoinhibition of channels and carriers to modulate their activities. We examine the phospho-regulation of exemplary transporters involved in nutrient allocation, stress resistance, and signal transduction, providing a perspective on how plants orchestrate membrane transport processes to sustain ion and nutrient balance and adapt to environmental challenges.

Autoinhibition and phospho-switch for the dynamic regulation of ion transport #plantscience

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

Another GreenRobust-related Job opening: The university of Hohenheim is looking for a Data Steward in Research Data Management www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
The development of a directed evolution strategy with proof of concept in plant immune protein engineering.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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📣Join your colleagues at #PlantBio2026 in Ottawa, Canada!🌱

Now accepting applications for:
-ASPB Travel Awards (due 11/14)
-Women's Young Investigator Travel Awards (due 11/14)
-Recognition Travel Awards (due 12/1)

👉 Learn more and apply now: plantbiology.aspb.org/travel-awards/!

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Applications are now open for the Salk SURF — a fully funded, 10-week program that gives undergraduate students access to world-class facilities, mentorship from leading scientists, and a supportive community of peers.

📅 Deadline: December 7, 2025

Apply today: www.salk.edu/about/our-communi...

Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq - Nature Genetics This study introduces single-cell transcription factor (TF) sequencing, a single-cell barcoded and doxycycline-inducible TF overexpression approach that reveals dose-sensitive functional classes of TFs and cellular heterogeneity by mapping TF dose-dependent transcriptomic changes during the reprogramming of mouse embryonic multipotent stromal cells.

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

What's one piece of advice you'd give to someone considering a PhD?

We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
go.nature.com/4nDjJ7t

Fig. 3.AlphaFold Multimer (AFM)-predicted models of RD21-like proteases and four different inhibitors. RD21 and its orthologues are shown in a pale green surface representation with the active site (red) and inhibitors are shown in light blue as cartoon and lines with disulfides and interface residues shown as sticks. AFM scores and PDB files of these models are available in Supplementary Table S1 and Supplementary Dataset S1, respectively.

📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖

🛡️ RD21-like proteases act in immunity and are targeted by unrelated effectors produced by a diverse range of plant pathogens throughout the plant kingdom - Huang & van der Hoorn 📝

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 1.Four classes of roles of immune proteases illustrated via examples. (i) Pathogen perception: Required for Cladosporium Resistance-3 (Rcr3) protease is inhibited by the fungal avirulence effector Avr2. The Rcr3-Avr2 complex is recognized by the immune receptor Cf-2, triggering a defence response (Kruger et al, 2002). (ii) Regulation of the immune response: METACASPASE 4 (MC4) is activated by calcium upon wounding or pathogen attack. MC4 cleaves tonoplast-located ProPEP1 releasing PEP1 to the apoplast where it is perceived by PEP RECEPTORS (PEPRs) thereby initiating defence responses (Hander et al, 2019). (iii) Counteracting pathogen effectors: soybean aspartic protease GmAP5, degrades the Phytophthora sojae virulence factor glycoside hydrolase family 12 (GH12) protein, XEG1 (Xia et al., 2020). (iv) Direct pathogen attack: secreted aspartic proteases (SAPs) cleave Pseudomonas syringae MucD protein thereby suppressing bacterial growth (Wang et al., 2019).

💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡

Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!

▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling Protein synthesis can contribute to plant cell signaling at multiple regulatory levels. Recent studies have expanded the conditions that are directly …

Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben: 14 October Tuesday 1:30 - 15p.m. CET in English

#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Molecular determinants for the endocytosis of the voltage-gated K+ channel Kv1.3 The activity of a voltage-gated K+ channel is restrained by a mechanism that targets the channel for degradation.

Scientists have identified a degradation mechanism for a voltage-gated potassium channel that acts as an important brake on its activity in neuronal and immune cells, according to new in vitro experiments in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/4mKCN2g

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...

Cover illustration: Proteases play key roles in guarding proteome integrity and regulating protein function. The reviews and research articles in this special issue put a timely spotlight on the fascinating diversity, function and regulation of proteases in plants. Selected topics rise as bubbles above University of Hohenheim, where they were first presented at the 6th International Conference on Plant Proteases (photo courtesy of Universität Hohenheim/Maximilian Pircher; logo by Renier van der Hoorn). See Jeran et al., pp. 4294–4312; Peiyi Wang et al., pp. 4359–4373; Mantz et al., pp. 4279–4293; Calvanese et al., pp. 4326–4339; Fei Wang et al., pp. 4220–4231.

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝

🔎 Guest editors Huesgen, Stintzi & Schaller introduce the new JXB Special Issue, spotlighting plant protease diversity, function & regulation, technical advances, and potential for crop protection 🌱⚡🔬🌾

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 1 Impact of post-translational modifications on cytoplasmic biomolecular condensate dynamics.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) The role of post-translational modifications in the dynamic of cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates in plants
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Text reads: Spotlight: Dr Man Qi. The path to resilience

The path to resilience 🌱

@manqi.bsky.social works across scales to investigate what it takes for our ecosystems to be resilient, and discover how we can protect them in the face of ever-changing environments.

Read our new spotlight on Man! 👇
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📸 Cover: Selected topics rise as bubbles above University of Hohenheim, where they were first presented at the 6th International Conference on Plant Proteases (photo by Universität Hohenheim/Maximilian Pircher; logo by Renier van der Hoorn).

@degradomics.bsky.social @as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social

Vol 76 Issue 15 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Plant Proteases: Guardians of Proteome Integrity and Function Cover illustration: Proteases play key roles in guarding proteome integrity and regulating protein function. The reviews and research articles in this special issue put a timely spotlight on the fascinating diversity, function and regulation of proteases in plants. Selected topics rise as bubbles above University of Hohenheim, where they were first presented at the 6th International Conference on Plant Proteases (photo courtesy of Universität Hohenheim/Maximilian Pircher; logo by Renier van der Hoorn). See Jeran et al., pp. 4294–4312; Peiyi Wang et al., pp. 4359–4373; Mantz et al., pp. 4279–4293; Calvanese et al., pp. 4326–4339; Fei Wang et al., pp. 4220–4231.

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🔬Plant Proteases - Guardians of Proteome Integrity & Function
🌱 Exploring the fascinating diversity, function & regulation of proteases in plants

📘 Edited by Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaller

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gene editing of Nicotiana benthamiana architecture for space-efficient production of recombinant proteins in controlled environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679797v1

The federal government has shut down, leaving many questions unanswered.

At Salk, more than half of our research is supported by federal grants. But in times of uncertainty, science can't wait.

Donate to support science now: www.salk.edu/support-us/s...

Membrane trafficking meets root barriers, resilience, and carbon storage 🌱🌍
New discovery: Blocking clathrin-mediated endocytosis in Arabidopsis roots sparks ROS bursts → ectopic suberization. This might unlock ways to increase suberization in roots and C in soils
#PlantScience #RootBiology #Suberin

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