Yasin Dagdas

The mistake was choosing someone to lead a JOURNAL that believed “a world where journals might not even need to exist.”

Thanks! we are milling away ;)

Cool paper [in french] about cushion plants, a morphological adaptation to high/dry environments. A pity they don't mention my favourites, the quite extreme Andean Llareta, and the New Zealand sheep plant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yareta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoulia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱

We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.

We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.

Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪

Deadline: June 30, 2026
Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn...
Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event)
For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

“Mechanistic” is correlative (and regularly abused word). Some (many) would argue GRNs never provide any mechanistic insights…

Dear authors. Please make it easy for reviewers to find changes in your revised manuscript. Signed #yourfriendlyreviewer

Development presents... Natalia López Anguita YouTube video by The Company of Biologists

In addition, @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social uses in vitro models to learn how oxygen levels affect developmental processes. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Aydan's paper on this topic won @dev-journal.bsky.social's inaugural Outstanding Paper Prize and Natalia López Anguita presents it in #DevPres⤵️

Transitions in development – an interview with Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu is a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany, where her research focuses on the epigenetic and metabolic mechanisms regulating embryonic develop...

Many animals adjust or pause development in response to environmental conditions to maximise survival. To understand this potential, called diapause, @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social induces a diapause-like state in mice & embryonic stem cells. #gfe2026

@dev-journal.bsky.social interview with Aydan⤵️

Fungal symbioses: A multiplicity of fungi in the lichen union Increasing evidence suggests that lichens are not just a partnership between one fungus and one alga or cyanobacterium but may contain multiple intera…

Thrilled to see this published! 😄
Our dispatch examines potential additional fungal symbionts in lichen partnerships and the key challenges in unraveling their biology.

Thanks for involving me in this @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social

@currentbiology.bsky.social

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

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

Thank you @apmahonen.bsky.social for the invitation. This was a memorable visit. I learnt a lot and love Helsinki! Here’s one awesome paper on #regeneration from @apmahonen.bsky.social lab @nature if you missed it earlier www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Register for the Mendel Early Career Symposium by March 13th to be considered for a talk. Join #Mendel_ECR_26 at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, to discuss the latest in plant science and network with researchers across career stages. Register: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob

🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg)
Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached
📅 Apply by March 30, 2026
📩 stefan.grob@cnrs.fr
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

So happy to be part of the latest issue of New Phytologist! 🌿 Thanks for the kind feature!

FWF Emerging Fields Grants awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers Three new Research Consortia including researchers from four institutions affiliated to the Vienna BioCenter have been awarded with FWF Emerging Field Grants

This is such amazing news and so richly deserved! Kudos @gekaragoz.bsky.social @sebastianfalk.bsky.social @marco.heinlab.org @pauligroup.bsky.social @haselbachlab.bsky.social @svenklumpe.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/f...

Exciting and thought-provoking talk by Yasin Dagdas in our HiLIFE Monday seminars #viikkimon

Indeed. Look out for an orthogonal study from the labs of Joy Bergelson and @fabriceroux7.bsky.social and my lab to appear soon on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!

Really cool! About time we move on to studies like this more and more. Kudos to everyone involved. (Fig4 legend seems to be missing a reference).

Meanwhile AI's greatest contribution to academia will be one of this showing up at the doorstep of every unproductive leech plaguing Universities.

Perhaps academia’s greatest contribution to AI safety is bureaucracy. Good luck conquering the world when every step requires a printed form, a stamp, and a posted original.

Our new group picture! Excited to welcome Ceren, Hannah and Samuel joining the team🔬🧬🌱 @uni-muenster.de

Considering my book "The Tree of Life" for introductory evolution class? I have a few complimentary copies to evaluate. Please DM me. And please repost.

Review in Science described it as "..a fantastic informal introduction to a course on evolution.. recommended it to my first-year students".

Very excited to see this work out today!

Discovering viral immune antagonists directly from predicted protein structures. 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huge thanks to the amazing collaborators! 🤗

Train booking in Germany!

Our group’s inaugural PhD 🎉🍾

Toasting the successful & excellent defense of Dr. Garcia-Lozano 🎈

Congratulations, @marlenygarcial.bsky.social!!

Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges Mitigating climate change requires broad societal buy-in. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) produce cost-optimal pathways, but these are complex and not easily customized to reflect individuals’ pre...

Must read: Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges

“Many of the strategies we identified require that individuals change their behavior and all require general public support.”

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

Ubiquitin & Friends Fiesta in Vienna, 29-30 April 2026.
Great speakers, small size, a friendly community, perfect for early-career researchers to connect with fellow ubiquitin enthusiasts. Sign up at www.protein-degradation.org/symposium/ and submit abstracts for talks and awards.
#ubfriends26

A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.

📢 #CIBSS research highlight!

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social helped identify SYFO2, a protein that lets legumes 🫛☘️“open the door” to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 🦠 The team even activated it in tomato 🍅 — suggesting this symbiosis could be engineered in new crops. 🌱

🔗 kurzlinks.de/v7bi