Plant Energy Biology Lab

Our recent paper on the chloroplast ionome was featured in ASPB's newsletter a the Plant Cell Article of the Week.

Thx @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantaeofficial.bsky.social for featuring our recent study doi.org/10.1093/plce... at @theplantcell.bsky.social as the TPC Article of the Week. The entire team was unbelievably thrilled.

Thanks Sjon! We hope this will be useful.

In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors All organisms fuel and build themselves through their energy metabolism. While classic biochemistry conceptualizes the fluxes of energy and matter, our understanding of how energy metabolism works in ...

Freshly online 🗞️
In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors 🌱🔋🌈🔬

@jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social
@morganlab-saarland.bsky.social
@uni-muenster.de
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

GBM Lunch on March 11, 2026 (12:30 PM)
Speaker: Kathrin Ulrich (Saarland University)
Title: "Redox-Regulated Chaperones: From a Tightly Controlled Thiol Switch to Proteostasis Regulation”
Chair: Florestan Leander Bilsing (Heidelberg University)
Organized by the GBM Postdocs
#GBMLunch

Mitochondrial malate conversion is particularly critical when photosynthesis is limiting 🌱🌥️

Congrats Pilar Martinez and Veronica Maurino on this huge long term & collaborative effort 👏 🇦🇷

Preprint is out now
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Abstract Submission

If you like plants and microscopy (optical, spectroscopic, and/or electron based), George Littlejohn and I are charing the plant session at #IMC21:

Abstract submission is open, so come join us in Liverpool!

🌱🔬😎

www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abs...

Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution YouTube video by University of Oxford

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.

Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

Macro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Plantae The bid to understand long distance Ca2+ signaling patterns in co-ordinating whole-plant responses to systemic or induced defense have been scarce in soil-grown plants mainly due to limitations of…

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Macro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging (Science Advances) @labcosta.bsky.social (Summary by Indrani Kakati @indranik18.bsky.social) buff.ly/LxaRjzT

#PlantaePSRW

Workshop venue seating with speakers with introduction by Helen Zenner from Company of Biologists

Picture of entrance to Buxted Park

English countryside with sheep

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Miltos Tsiantis Interview with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thanks Christopher Grefen and organizers for the kind invitation to "Botanik-Tagung International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences" see you there: 6th – 10th September 2026 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

A huge thank you to Joe, Alex, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together an absolutely amazing community in plant imaging 🌱🔬 in the stunning Sussex countryside.

👉 Featuring speakers Amanda Cardoso, Thomas Williams, and Sabina Villadangos, hosted by Agustin Zsögön and moderated by Thomas Depaepe.

Opinion | I Just Returned From China. We Are Not Winning.

I wouldn’t put it this way for research, as science isn’t about winning. But I also returned last week from China with similar sentiments about Chinese prowess.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...

Loving this deep dive into the plastid ionome ➕🌿➖

@kunzlab.bsky.social neatly demonstrate how manipulatable the plastid ionome really is 🔧

Beautiful science, beautiful figures, beautiful team effort! A true go-to reference! Congrats, everyone! 🎉

Out now my first “In Brief” for @theplantcell.bsky.social, highlighting amazing new work from Holzner and colleagues @kunzlab.bsky.social. A long-needed characterization of the chloroplast ionome in model plants, together with new genetic strategies to manipulate it, has finally seen the light! 🌱🔬

Your subscription fees deserve talking about though.
Our institute had to cancel its TAIR subscription due to the extreme pricing. Hardly a community platform when large parts of the community cannot afford access.

That is good news 😀
Sorry for my confusion

Shame that due to crazy high subscription fees large parts of the community have no access to those data they contributed

CEPLAS, the cluster of excellence on plants sciences, is looking for PhD candidates for a number of exciting projects. See below for more info on the topics and on the recruiting process, and here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

Happy to share this preprint, we describe how the membrane could shape the ROS nanoenvironment in plant responses to osmotic signals. Led by @arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing colleagues @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , @jbfiche.bsky.social , A Meyer, and J Ugalde.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila
See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh
@sfb1348.bsky.social

Vascular propaganda.
My sashimi - and most of the marine food web - would like a word.

🥇The amazing Daniela Döben received the prize of the jGBM @gbmev.bsky.social for her Master thesis on the redox metabolism of plant-microbe interactions 🌱🦠🔬 #MPMI
@uni-muenster.de

Huge congratulations, Daniela! 🎉🎉🎉
Also big shout out to the mentoring of @jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social 🙏

👏👏👏 DBG Master Prize @uni-muenster.de goes to Daniela Döben!! 🏆
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/ueber-die-db...
Congratulations Daniela!! We are very proud of you.
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#redox

For #ECR’s:

DBG’s Hot Tpoic Workshop
on Cryo-Electron Tomography + FIB-milling

13 – 15 April 2026
In @cellarchlab.com 's lab @biozentrum.unibas.ch

Organised by @tamb-o.bsky.social, Karen Zinzius, @fannyleblanc.bsky.social

Details: www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity

Structural biologist Alexey Amunts launches new research lab in Shenzhen ‘Shenzhen adds another dimension; it is a place where ideas do not remain ideas for long,’ Amunts says of new position.

We're launching a research lab at SMART. Shenzhen Medical Academy for Research and Translation is a newly established institute with long-term funding mechanisms for internal and external investigators. At full capacity SMART aims to support up to 400 labs.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Foto von Dr. Margareta Hellmann

Den Preis der Studienstiftung erhält Margareta für ihre Dissertation in die Biologie an der Universität Münster. Mithilfe neuester Analysemethoden widmet sie sich in ihrer Arbeit der Rolle von Chitosanen in der Infektionsstrategie des weltweit verbreiteten Pilzes Cryptococcus neoformans und eröffnet neue Perspektiven für die Entwicklung von Therapien und Impfstoffen.

🥳 Unsere @maggihel.bsky.social erhält den Promotionspreis der Studienstiftung! 👑

„Ihre Arbeit liefert überzeugende Einblicke in das Zusammenspiel pilzlicher Enzyme und menschlicher Immunmechanismen und [besitzt] darüber hinaus auch Relevanz für Pflanzenschutz und Landwirtschaft“, so die Jury.

The Plant Cell welcomes 2026 Assistant Features Editors The Plant Cell is pleased to announce our Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) for 2026 (Fig. 1). The Plant Cell AFE program provides AFEs with experience in

Super excited to share that I’ve joined @theplantcell.bsky.social as an Assistant Feature Editor! I’ll be writing “In Brief” highlights, receiving editor and peer-review training, and helping share amazing plant science with a wider audience, all with a fantastic community of editors and authors 🌱🦠🔬