Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University.
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥
@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de
Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇
There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social
- PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit...
- Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto...
Earliest start date: 01/05/2026.
We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!
On the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience at the ZMBP we interviewed Trang Phan and Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social
Check how they became plant biologists and their advice to ECRs! 🌱
(and follows us on 👇)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...
In just two months, we’ll host our 4th yearly departmental symposium! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Malcolm Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and Margot Smit (from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social), alongside hands-on workshops, poster speed dating, and group talks.
👥🌱👥Can’t wait! 🎉
Characterization of the C4 proteins encoded by okra-infecting geminiviruses in India https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703481v1
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.
Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
And here's the advert for the PhD position
Please share!
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📢 Job alert! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, junior group leader at #ZMBP, has 2 open positions (PhD and postdoc) to investigate appressoria formation in plant pathogenic #fungi using #cryoEM and #cryoET
#EmmyNoether #MPMI #plantscijob
More info 👇
GT Lab (median) New Year dinner 🎉 + Clem’s farewell 😊🥲😔 at Chin-Thai Restaurant/天富楼 in Tübingen — amazing food and better company! All the best for your PI life (!) @clemmar.bsky.social — so much fun lies ahead! (but we will miss you!!)
Congratulations, Dr @hsuanpai.bsky.social! Well done! 🥳🥳🥳
Thanks for the invitation, @kamounlab.bsky.social. It is always nice to discuss science with friends and colleagues @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social
Thank you
@marioncmueller.bsky.social, @binebrumm.bsky.social, Eric Kemen, Yiheng Hu and Thomas Lahaye for this nice common effort on effector diversity.
Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Great to have Sebastian Wolf from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social visiting us today @uni-muenster.de ! Plant development at it’s best 🤩 🔬!
Welcome to the ZMBP, @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social!
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social.
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Important theoretical framework for NLR evolution.
doi.org/10.32942/X2R...
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Workflow of single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy (sptPALM) analysis. (A) Localization: single molecule spots are cut out of the raw data image stack, fitted with two-dimensional Gaussian functions and the results (most importantly, their coordinates) stored as lists. (B) Tracking: single-molecule positions are grouped to tracks, based on their relative positions in subsequent frames. (C) Mean square displacement (MSD) analysis: the average squared distance the molecules have traveled in certain time intervals (top left) can be plotted in MSD curves (bottom), showing a straight line for free Brownian motion (dark gray), for which the slope is directly proportional to the diffusion coefficient. Other motion types like superdiffusive (red) or subdiffusive (yellow) show different curve shapes (inset: corresponding single-molecule example tracks).
🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬
Oven-Krockhaus et al. introduce single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy for studying plasma membrane proteins in plants, outlining key applications and practical guidance on instrumentation, probes, and analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱
Fig. 1.Summary of recent reports of factors that regulate the division-differentiation balance in different cell lineages. Schematic of a hypothetical differentiation landscape highlighting cells that progressively lose division potential as they differentiate into specific cell types. The color gradient reflects the degree of differentiation from stem-cell like precursors to fully differentiated cells. Recent studies identifying factors that promote or repress progress through the differentiation trajectories are highlighted (A–F) and discussed in Box 1. These include regulators of vascular (xylem and phloem, A–C) and leaf (stomata, trichomes, and myrosin cells, D–F) development.
🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬
In this review, González-Suárez & Smit describe mechanisms that balance division and differentiation along cell lineages, and highlight recent works that identify factors controlling these processes.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Apply now for a PhD in Life Sciences at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! Research nanomechanics of cellular machines and track kinesin motors at high resolution in Tübingen in Erik Schäffer’s group at the University of Tübingen. More information available on our website: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de
🗣️ Today, Rosa Lozano-Durán from the Center for Molecular Plant Biology (ZMBP), @unituebingen.bsky.social (Germany) came to visit us in Málaga to share her research with a great talk entitled “The Cell Snatchers -- viral strategies to hijack a plant” as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars
Most members of the Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab, the El Kasmi Lab and the Contreras Lab enjoying a Christmas garden with Glühwein and other drinks before their feet got too cold! From left to right around the table: Frank, Moritz, Eldin, Isa, Raphael, Chia-Nan, Sharon, Fran, Elke, Sara x2, Farid, Mau, Xander and Uli
Our lab (Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab) together with El Kasmi Lab and @mpcontreras.bsky.social Lab enjoyed a very Christmassy evening with Glühwein and many 🎄🎄🎄 not far from Tübingen.
Cheers to a new year at the #ZMBP full of discoveries on immune receptors 🥂
#JuniorPIs #EMCRs #MPMI
Fluorescence micrograph of a metaphase cell showing (spindle) microtubules in green, chromosomes in blue and some pink staining on the spindle poles.
Behold the beauty of a human metaphase spindle 🫠
[RPE1 cell, confocal expansion microscopy, microtubules in green, chromosomes in blue, kinesin-12 in magenta)
micrograph by Malte Lemmin, Nanoscience Master Student @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity:
the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs
#MPMI #ZMBP
European Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
Check out our new story on the famous rice Pik NLR pair, led by @clemmar.bsky.social and @hsuanpai.bsky.social! Turns out they form a massive 1 MDa membrane-associated complex before activation 🤯
A cool new example of the diversity of NLR resting states!
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks @uhammes.bsky.social for a truly enjoyable seminar and nice scientific discussions!
We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳
Our editors write:
- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1
A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW
