Stefan A. Rensing

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Das #StarterPack der #UniFreiburg 🎉: go.bsky.app/BspXE1o

...and if you missed it, here are 60 phylogenetically diverse brown algae genomes
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have a good start, Simon!

Kigelia africana, Leberwurstbaum, in Namibia

Dollar Bush, Zygophyllum stapffii, #Namibia

So happy to have seen it in the wild!
#Welwitschia #Namibia

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Engineering – Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This webinar is the 1st in a series together with "The Plant Journal" Join us for a webinar hosted in collaboration between The Global Plant Council and the "The Plant Journal", exploring the latest ...

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1st features researchers from our 𝑆𝐼 𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 🌱🧬
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Science management job in plant science @dfg.de
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Auxin does everything, but how? The story just got more complicated by the discovery of a B class ARF degron providing a means of protein (in)stability regulation. @mjprigge.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social

Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de
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How conserved are plant transcription factor binding sites?
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Great study by @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social lab shows a mixed pattern. Thanks for making good use of #TAPscan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... also. C2H2 neofunctionalization fits ny thoughts.

An exciting negative result!

Das Konsortium DataPLANT unter Leitung der Universität Freiburg entwickelt seit 2020 eine Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) die Förderung des Projekts bis 2028 verlängert.

Das Konsortium #DataPLANT @nfdi4plants.bsky.social unter Leitung der #Unifreiburg entwickelt seit 2020 Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne #Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die @dfg.de die Förderung bis 2028 verlängert.
➡️ ufr.link/dataplant-foerderung
@fz-juelich.de

Good morning

Then again, being a generalist might be metabolically more costly. Otherwise, why be a specialist?

Freshly appointed @simonelsasser.bsky.social presenting his research @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social - welcome @uni-freiburg.de !

Now attending the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social event where @archaellum.bsky.social presents diversity of the faculties research

Congratulations to the winners of @uni-freiburg.de liga soccer tournament; great day full of sports organized by Hochschulsport

Big fun with @bahn.de yesterday and today on my way to Hamburg and back: 2h+3h delays. New record, yeehah.

@dfg.de assembly with a view

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🌿🧬 Plant Evolution Starter Pack from @barkerms.bsky.social‬
Scientists researching the evolution of plants and plant diversity - including population genetics, plant genome evolution, plant speciation, plant systematics, and macroevolutionary patterns of plant diversification.

To make the statement that it is generizable in the sense of a common/shared trait one should have a broad sampling - so the first to find it in one species usually can't make the claim. ;)

🎉✨ Congratulations for the 70 newly @dfg.de -funded #ClustersOfExcellence ✨🎉

and especially for the
4 #PlantSci 🌿 🧬 🔬 🌱 🍀 clusters

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A profile picture of Douglas Prasher from Martin Chalfie's Nobel Lecture

Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇

Special Issue: Plant Engineering — Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise: The Plant Journal Click on the title to browse this issue

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🌱Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Focused Reviews & Technical Advances
🌿Plant transformation tech
🧬Gene editing & synthetic biology
🔧Emerging engineering strategies
breakthroughs & challenges
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How bibliometric analysis can help to specify and track interdisciplinary research areas: A term-based analysis approach Inter- and transdisciplinary research is carried out with increasing frequency and intensity. Bibliometric analysis of disciplinary research is aided by i) classical topical categories that are used b...

How can we track interdisciplinary research using bibliometry?
Here we tested a term-based approach using word frequencies from papers published in the field. Comments welcome!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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