Our new paper is out in @newphyt.bsky.social
04.03.2026 06:12
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Our new paper is out in @newphyt.bsky.social
New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target.
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We’re hiring! 🌿
Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover.
Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required).
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
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Come work with us in beautiful Copenhagen!
This is the erfect position for you, if you like:
- natural products
- working with plants
- solving complex metabolism puzzles
- having an applied impact
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Doktorandin Finia Uecker bereitet die Versuchspflanzen vor. Diese sind in der Pflanzenanzuchtkammer des Instituts für Botanik unter genau festgelegten Bedingungen wie Licht, Temperatur und Feuchtigkeit gewachsen.
Doktorandin Finia Uecker und ihr Betreuer Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfannschmidt analysieren die Ergebnisse einer Protein-Gelelektrophorese, die den Aufbau der Photosynthese-Proteine nach dem Einschalten des Optoswitches zeigt.
Veröffentlichung in Nature Communications: Das Institut für Botanik der #LUH hat entdeckt, wann und wo Pflanzen Chloroplasten aufbauen, in denen die Photosynthese abläuft. http://go.lu-h.de/KQETC
German academia has become increasingly neoliberalized – unnecessary hurdles, especially in the social sciences and the humanities, mainly related to precarious jobs and the endless funding rounds by @dfg.de, are disincentivizing autonomous thinking, thorough analysis, and staying humane. 1/3
Gestern hab ich bekannt gegeben, dass ich spätestens 2028 aus der Wissenschaft aussteigen werd — darüber schreibt @evamurasov.bsky.social nun im @tagesspiegel.de. Zig Kommentare & Nachrichten zeigen mir: Sehr viele Wissenschaftler_innen hadern. Bedingungen müssen dringend besser werden! #IchBinHanna
A red/blue optoswitch for temporal control of chloroplast transcription and biogenesis in Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com
As promised - here is more information on our Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social - please share.
lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...
Excited to share our latest work posted on bioRxiv!: Enhanced phenylalanine biosynthesis amplifies light-stress-driven phenylpropanoid production in Arabidopsis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Interesting paper: Metabolic enzyme PAL can go into the nucleus in response to high product build up and sequester an activating TF of the pathway, thus acting as a feedback inhibition loop.
From: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
I'm super happy to share my new preprint reporting a study in collaboration with the Seebeck (Basel) and Sasso (Leipzig) labs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We discovered that ovothiol A, a thiohistidine, is a major antioxidant in the green alga Chlamydomonas. (1/4)
BackBone Builder (B3): A modular Golden Gate standard with a compatible Agrobacterium parts library https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705982v1
Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In our latest preprint we report the unexpected discovery of Epi-STR, an R-stereoselective ortholog of the S-selective canonical Strictosidine synthases (STRs). Found in the rather obscure plant Pogonopus specious. This work was led by my stellar student Clara Morweiser!
#natprod
#PlantScience
The cooperation between DFG and #TWAS allows to invite researchers in early career phases #ECR from various countries outside Europe to an institution in Germany for a 3-month research and collaboration stay. Full information on requirements, deadlines and info sessions:
www.dfg.de/en/news/news...
Diagram of 3 independent MYB mutations: 1) 8-kb deletion upsteam of the gene in Middle American population; 2) 1-bp frame shift mutation in Peru population; 3) 1-bp frame shift mutation in Andean population.
Independent mutations in a MYB TF reduce lignin/fiber development and reduce pod shattering.
From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#PlantScience
D: DAP-seq coverage plot showing MYB13 binding to the promoter of GAME12, a glycoalkaloid biosynthetic gene. F: Diagram for constructs used in dual luciferase assay. G: When MYB13 is overexpressed along with the pGAME12 reporter, the reporter is activated.
A MYB TF activates glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in potato tubers, whose expression appeared to be selected against during potato domestication.
From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PlantScience
#Trigger Warnung
#Content Note
#TW #CN
#Antisemitismus #Anthroposophie
Eine Sammlung von antisemitischen und antijudaistischen Aussagen des Waldorfschule-Gründers Rudolf Steiner findet ihr hier.
Zum Zwecke der Dokumentation - ich teile die antisemitischen Ansichten dahinter ausdrücklich NICHT!
Trust in the University of Copenhagen #UCPH as an employer has been undermined, says Sergey Rosbakh @srosbakh.bsky.social after mass layoffs at the Faculty of Science: »I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but I felt relieved to be on my way out«.
uniavisen.dk/en/layoffs-s...
Overexpression of TRYPTOPHAN DECARBOXYLASE from Aegilops variabilis enhances flavonoid biosynthesis and germination in wheat academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social
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„In der Polizei Berlin werden keine Schmerzgriffe ausgebildet“, behauptete die Berliner Polizeipräsidentin. Wir veröffentlichen jetzt ein Handbuch, das belegt: Berliner Polizeikräfte lernen, wie sie Demonstrierenden möglichst effektiv Schmerzen zufügen können. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
Developmental and abiotic stress assays in Columbia-0 (Col-0) and mutants (abi1-1 and defenseless).
Decoding plant defense signaling using the defenseless mutant
Baral and Brosché
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Bei meinen Stipendien-Workshops kriege ich in letzter Zeit mit, dass die Promotion wegen der Inflation nicht mehr mit einer einzigen Finanzierungsquelle machbar ist.
Mittlerweile brauchen viele die Stipendium + Stelle (25%)-Kombi, um überhaupt promovieren zu können.
#ichbinhanna
New Preprint: AMBER and GOLD: Polycistronic Genes for Betaxanthin Production in Plants (2026)
https://www.tsl.ac.uk/publications/162209
Linker Antisemitismus spielt an Unis seit dem 7.10. eine sehr wichtige Rolle. Podiumsgespräch dazu an der FU Berlin am 20.1.: Wie kann man linken Antisemitismus verorten & wie geht man damit um (insbes. angesichts d Dominanz d linken Perspektive an Universitäten)?
oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/ter...
Heterogeneity of iridoid biosynthesis in catmints: Molecular background in a phylogenetic context - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @jipb.bsky.social
Amazing story from the @lichmanlab.bsky.social!
Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
