Department of plant and environmental sciences @HUJI

Hanukkah at the department 🕯️. A fun celebration organized by our awesome students. Happy holidays.

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Congrats Moshe! 👏

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This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
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This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
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Carving out the microbiota of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent is…

Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New from the Keren lab! This study identifies a conserved regulatory program in cyanobacteria that links nutrient limitation to coordinated shifts in metabolism and photosynthesis. Congrats @nir-keren.bsky.social and all authors!

🔬 New from our faculty: A must-read review on how root development is shaped by microbial interactions. Great work by @finkel-lab.bsky.social, @fdiniandreote.bsky.social & Gabriel Castrillo! 🌱🧬

This Thursday!

Amazing and insightful seminar by @finkel-lab.bsky.social that is visiting Agricultural University of Athens this week as part of an Erasmus Staff Exchange program #microbiome #planthealth

This Thursday!

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This week in our departmental seminar:

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Departmental Retreat Spring 2025. Thanks to Meni Neuman and all at the Botanical Garden of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus for providing not only a great tour of the gardens but also a wonderful venue for our lecture sessions.

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🌱 Two More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025 🌱

🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO

Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.

📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com

#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience

Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !

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This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

This week in the HUJI-PES seminar

Well our Otto didn’t win a Nobel but we won’t hold it against him.

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies.
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heat stress drives rapid viral and antiviral innate immunity activation in Hexacorallia The cnidarian class Hexacorallia, encompassing stony corals and sea anemones, plays a critical role in marine ecosystems. Coral bleaching, the disruption of the symbiosis between stony corals and zoox...

1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸
We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Phytologist Stomata Seminar Video available (by Sally Assmann and myself). Thanks again for this fantastic opportunity to share our work and perspectives 🌱🥰!
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...

הגדלת שינוע הנפט באילת תשחרר את הרוצח של המערכות האקולוגיות הימיות הארץ

www.haaretz.co.il/nature/2024-...

And here is the manuscript:

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