Kasper van Gelderen

Meanwhile the Arabidopsis conference next year is stubbornly still going to be held in the US. I guess we may not be able to call it an “international” conference any more.

🚨 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

If you want to know more about it, please read @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social 's thread:

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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

15 PhD positions

Nuclear architecture and chromatin and advanced imaging analysis

In Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’

positions in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden + Czech Republic
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Helpful skills:
Plant science wet lab skills, confocal microscopy skills, or coding skills in bioimage analysis.

Benefits:
- A true postdoc-level salary
- An awesome network of scientists
- An integrated, tailored training program
- Cutting-edge science in top-class facilities

Requirements:
- A Master in Biology or Bioinformatics, or equivalent.
- Proven research experience in microscopy imaging, or Bioimage analysis
- A desire to succeed in academia

We are looking for 15 PhD positions in either Plant cell imaging, or in Imaging analysis, and are recruiting highly motivated candidates for cool research projects. The projects are taking place across labs in Europe.

AGILE is a European network of plant cell biologists interested in high resolution imaging, nuclear and chromatin organization, and imaging analysis. It’s a fully integrated, pan-European, training and research program for doctoral candidates via the Marie Curie Sklodowska Network.

15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’
Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu
Please check out the website and apply there
Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Reading one of the first publications documenting circadian rhythms in humans and it’s essentially two professors torturing an assistant prof.

so i guess not much has changed in academia in 130 years 🙃

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

Density. Crowding. Tomato. Tomato 🍅

@gabepopkin.bsky.social kin.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social Thx for covering the debate! We promise we're all friends 🥰 @liamholt.bsky.social & @gwgl.bsky.social

Nothing would have been possible without @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social

Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

We recently published a first story on combining spatial and single cell transcriptomics in barley (see here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Lets go for the next level now, i.e. understanding gene networks and barley meristem development in 4D!

Pls RT‼️ @hanhtkvu.bsky.social lab @embl.org & we @cosheidelberg.bsky.social are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life.
www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested.

Beautiful #preprint on a novel regulator of plant #autophagy from the @cnaumann123.bsky.social lab. How do plants regulate #autophagosome size??? ER-PM contact sites and Can1 seem to be key! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Many Europeans believe that their countries and governments are better than the current Trump admin and violence exercised by ICE, but it only takes a little research to see that Europe is just better at hiding its sins against immigrants.

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Advanced Training for Next Generation Scientists in Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Plant Cells | AGILE | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission Quantitative microscopy imaging holds transformative potential in plant sciences by uncovering structural and functional principles at unprecedented spatial and temporal scale revealing how plants ada...

here is the working link to the EU project: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

You should have proven research experience in either confocal imaging or bioinformatics and image processing.
The AGILE website and positions will open officially on March the 1st, if you want to be notified on the offical opening and application process, send me your email address and CV.

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job

Really cool to meet everyone from RDP and IGFL Lyon! Thanks for the hospitality and stimulating discussion 😊

Two days of stimulating discussions with colleagues from @rdplab.bsky.social and @igflyon.bsky.social about science and life. Thanks for all the hospitality and engagement!

I wonder if we can manipulate meiosis in allopolyploids, such that instead of homologs separating, homeologs separate.

Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?

#PlantScience

Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!

We are looking for a scientific coordinator in Heidelberg for the Greenrobust excellence cluster www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

Spatial barcoding reveals reaction radii and contact-dependent mechanism of proximity labeling - Nature Chemical Biology A DNA nanoruler platform enables precise measurement of the labeling radii of TurboID and APEX2, uncovering their contact-dependent mechanisms. These findings redefine the enzymology of proximity labe...

Proximity labeling users: check out this study by @zhixingchen2.bsky.social and Peng Zou, which establishes how much contact-dependence vs. diffusion is responsible for biotinylation — tl;dr TurboID has a much smaller effective radius! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2

Detecting fluctuating shade
For plants adapting to light conditions is crucial. Canopy shade brings with it its own challenges, it is not just less light, but with some of the useful red light filtered out by the leaves above the ratio of red vs far red-light changes as well. 🧵1/4

#PlantScience

An uORF-encoded mobile peptide sparks systemic stomatal immunity In Arabidopsis, the uORF-encoded long-distance mobile peptide USIC in pathogen-infected local leaves activates systemic stomatal immunity, leading to stomatal closure in uninfected distal leaves.

An uORF-encoded mobile peptide sparks systemic stomatal immunity

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...