Christian Fankhauser

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Les Diablerets 🇨🇭 for the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026), Sept. 8-11, 2026! @martinalegris.bsky.social @emiliedemarsy.bsky.social @chfankhauser.bsky.social @plantphotobiology.bsky.social ➡️ See the links below.

Promoting research by reducing uncertainty in academic writing: a large-scale diachronic case study on hedging in Science research articles across 25 years - Scientometrics Hedges are important in academic writing since they indicate uncertainty and tentativeness about academic knowledge. However, few studies explore how hedges have changed in academic writing overtime. ...

Researchers use less and less hedges (may, might, perhaps, probably ...) in their papers. Or in other words papers are becoming more like biblical texts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

Congratulations Uli! I’m sure that you will make the best of this new opportunity.

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Sensing light direction in plants" by Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics, Switzerland @fbm-unil.bsky.social

👀 Don't miss it!
📍 CRAG Auditorium

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/qzdjdrwizu

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Deux professeur·es du CIG élu·es au sein de l’EMBO Le 1er juillet 2025, la prestigieuse Organisation européenne de biologie moléculaire (EMBO) a annoncé l'élection de 69 nouvelles et nouveaux membres issu·es de 24 pays, tous·tes des chercheur·euses ho...

Deux professeur·es du CIG nouvellement élu·es membres @embo.org pour 2025

👏 👏 Félicitations à 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 et 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄 du Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG) @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1751269...

@chfankhauser.bsky.social @nvastenhouw.bsky.social

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.

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The lack of self-reliance Europe has in terms of food security makes this all the more painful. The stubborn bureaucratic casual walk into famine is so disheartening, and an insult to the excellent plant bioengineering capacity in EU academia and industry.

Insanity.

Congratulations Detlef! An extremly well deserved award @plantevolution.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana
transient expression”
#plantscience

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

📢 Applications open for an Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in #pediatric #dermatology
📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology

❗ Apply before August 10th, 2025
More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Excellent meeting for those interested in protein lipidation. More info & registration here www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you!

We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun!

🌱🔬💻🤓

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Building AI models or the data to train them?

Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

pls RT!

⚠️ Super important update of the Arabidopsis reference genome! 👇👇👇

Group Leader Search

'The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences, is seeking outstanding candidates for a faculty position.'
#ScienceJobs in Vienna.
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/career-...

Senior Group Leader Position

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city.
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis. Great work from @djgibbs.bsky.social lab together with @sjonhartman.bsky.social and @ekaiserli.bsky.social Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

this owl accidentally included me in a group chat discussing his plans to attack that deer

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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/...

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...

Exciting work from the team of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social on the role of Casparian Strips in a legume & how CS influence nitrogen fixing root nodules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.