Jenny Saile

The amazing @newphyt.bsky.social #NGS2025 meeting in Birmingham has ended. Unlike typical research-focused events, it brought together diverse topics and backgrounds, united by being the next generation of plant scientists. Grateful for the connections, honest conversations, and inspiring peers!

Large group of diverse scientists and researchers gathered outside a modern building for a New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium.

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight

Protocol for capturing the RNA-binding proteome from plants using orthogonal organic phase separation RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate many processes related to RNA biogenesis, localization, half-life and function. Here, we present a protocol for the en masse isolation of RBPs cross-linked to RNA ...

Identification of RBPs if plants
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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

Examples of distinct splice isoforms generated by exon skipping (ES), intron retention (IR) and other mechanisms, enabling plants to adapt to a range of biotic stresses, including those posed by bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Alternative #splicing is a crucial post-transcriptional mechanism in #plants. In a new #review, Zhu et al. explore the potential of AS to provide new strategies for #crop improvement and #sustainable #agriculture.
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🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

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SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei!

Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

Thank you all! I really enjoyed making the video and taking part in the challenge! It was a lot of fun!
@plantteaching.bsky.social @science-irl.bsky.social @strnk17desejp.bsky.social

This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Thanks for the challenge @science-irl.bsky.social.
I can't say I'm very good at reel-making, but I tried 🌱💚.
It copied here without sound, but the version on Instagram has voiceover 😂.
#RootingForScience

Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) can modulate gene expression at the mRNA level, providing the ability to tackle conventionally undruggable targets and usher in an era of personalized medicine. A key...

We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for gene knockdown -> trafficking of targeted mRNAs to the lysosomal, using lysosomal trafficking oligonucleotides (LyTONs)!

Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org
Led by Disha Kashyap
#chemsky 🧪
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Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory...
Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.

@wigge.bsky.social and @christatesterink.bsky.social on heat and salt stress, two of the major challenges for plants, i.e. for agriculture, i.e. for humanity. #ICAR2025

The @maizel-lab.org & @schumacherlab.bsky.social are hiring!
Part-time lab manager position available immediately! Apply by June 30th 🇬🇧/🇩🇪
➡️ adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Plastids in a Pinch: Coordinating Stress and Developmental Responses Through Retrograde Signalling Plastids can sense environmental stress and improve whole plant adaptation through retrograde communication to the nucleus. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of integrated canonical and ...

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

Control of seed-to-seedling transition by an upstream open reading frame in ABSCISIC ACID DEFICIENT2
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At‐RS31 orchestrates hierarchical cross‐regulation of splicing factors and integrates alternative splicing with TOR‐ABA pathways Alternative splicing is essential for plants, enabling a single gene to produce multiple transcript variants to boost functional diversity and fine-tune responses to environmental and developmental ...

Our latest research on At-RS31, a key splicing factor in Arabidopsis thaliana, reveals its role in integrating alternative splicing with TOR-ABA signaling. Using iCLIP and RNAcompete, we mapped its binding sites. 🌱 Read more at nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social

A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!

Das Bild zeigt einen Brunnen vor der Neuen Aula. Darunter der Text: Sechs Exzellenzcluster werden in Tübingen gefördert.

Die Universität Tübingen erhält sechs #Exzellenzcluster, die im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie vom 01.01.2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology.

🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social

We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.

#AcademicJobs

A plant virus causes symptoms through the deployment of a host-mimicking protein domain to attract the insect vector Plant viruses cause symptoms with devastating consequences for agriculture. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying symptom development in viral …

How do plant viruses cause symptoms? Are these developmental alterations functionally relevant? Man Gao, Enmanuel, et al. found that TYLCV does so through a host-mimicking domain in its C4 protein, co-opting a plant protein family - to attract the insect vector! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence, a joint venture of the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim, is now a reality!! For the next 7 years, we will investigate the principles underlying robustness to perturbations in plants. Stay tuned! greenrobust.de 🍾🥂💚🌱 @dfg.de

Planting the Seeds of Change: Communicating Science with Purpose. An online student-led symposium series, featuring Dr. Molly Edwards. We’ll discuss best practices for short-form video production, explore different formats and approaches, and workshop your own ideas for videos. You’ll come away with actionable steps for producing your own video that stands up for science, and we plan to stay in touch after the workshop ends to help each other amplify our videos when they come out. May 13th, 8-9am PDT / 11am - noon EDT. Open to all, come be a part of it!

Join us for an exciting Student Symposium workshop featuring Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social. It's an interactive workshop on science communication, focused on short-form video production. May 13th 11am EDT.
More information & registration link here rootandshoot.org/planting-the...

PhD candidate Plant Photobiology

If anyone is looking for a PhD in plant photobiology, highly recommend this position with Gabi Toledo @w-u-r.bsky.social #PlantSciPhD #PlantSciJobs www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development The light-induced change from skoto- to photomorphogenesis is a key switch in plant development that requires global transcriptome reprogramming. Earlier studies in Arabidopsis thaliana and other plan...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm very happy to finally share my very first preprint with you all!✨ @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Molecular Coding of Specificity in plant Processes". The issue will be edited by Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter and Laura Ragni. The image depicts the logo of CRC 1101 “Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes“ - carried by groups of 3 German Universities and funded by the DFG, deals with the challenge of understanding specificity in plant processes by application of methods reaching from structure determination, high-end spectromicroscopy and biochemistry over forward and reverse genetics to big data science and computational modelling. This special issue will summarize some recent advances made by CRC 1101 members but also welcomes contributions from colleagues working in this research area.

**UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE**

Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes

Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter & @lauraragni.bsky.social

Deadline: 30th Sept '25

Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues)

#JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience

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