Madlen I. Somssich

Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet Many of us reach for foods labelled as ‘organic’, assuming they’ll be free from chemical nasties and hold a higher nutritional value. But is this reputation deserved – and is organic food worth the hi...

"Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet"

It's nice to have such a clear statement directly in the title 👏

Interview with Ian Godwin from Queensland University, Australia for Contact Magazine.

qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2025...

#PlantScience #OrganicFood #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs

DFG fördert nationale Servicestelle für Diamond Open Access

Die #DFG fördert eine nationale Servicestelle für Diamond #OpenAccess zur Erhöhung der Leistungsfähigkeit deutscher Infrastrukturen. Ziele sind gleichberechtigter Zugang zum wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen und dessen Weiterentwicklung. Weitere Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Wow, that's huge. Congratulations Ute!

Aufruf zu Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative 2026

Die #DFG ruft zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative im Jahr 2026 auf. Vorschläge können aus allen Bereichen der #Wissenschaft kommen. Ziel ist, besonders vielversprechender Technologie für die Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Alle Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

Ein Foto von Dr. Kai Sicks. Er hat seine Arme verschränkt und lächtelt in die Kamera. Ein runder Störer zeigt das Zitat: „Der Förderatlas ist ein unverzichtbares Instrument zum Verständnis der vielfältigen deutschen Wissenschaftslandschaft.“ – Dr. Kai Sicks, DAAD Generalsekretär. Bildquelle: DAAD Ittermann

Der DFG-Förderatlas 2024 zur öffentlich finanzierten Forschung in Deutschland ist jetzt online! Auch der #DAAD ist vertreten – mit Zahlen, die zeigen, wie internationale Hochschulkooperationen und Mobilitätsprogramme zur #Internationalisierung beitragen: ➡️ foerderatlas.dfg.de
@dfgpublic.bsky.social

New approaches in the fight against bacterial rice disease An international research team, the “Healthy Crops” consortium, has developed rice varieties resistant to a detrimental crop disease in East Africa and Madagascar. The new varieties are resistant to b...

The team has successfully developed #rice varieties through marker-assisted backcross breeding that are #resistant to bacterial blight. They will be transferred to partners in #Madagascar and #Tanzania, where they'll be tested in the field before they are distributed to local farmers.

Dr Ibrahim Hashim from TARI in Tanzanian found that a recent BB outbreak is causing significant yield losses in Tanzania, having a massive impact on economic stability and regional nutrition. Comparable losses are estimated in Madagascar, as Dr Mathilde Hutin from @ird-fr.bsky.social reports.

The newly developed BB-resistant rice varieties are now transferred to plant breeders and researchers working locally in Madagascar and Tanzania for field testing. Afterwards these varieties could be released in the national registration processes and made available to farmers.

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐

go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

@plantepigenetics.ch created one
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Ten simple rules for reading a scientific paper

This is about one particular part of doing science: reading scientific papers. My final-year undergrads found it useful. 1st year grad students might as well, even if they have already been assigned quite a few papers.

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A starter pack image for Evolutionary Biologists, with avatars of several people included

Taking a stab at a starter pack of Evolutionary Biologists — this was trickier than expected both because of the interface setup and because of the 150-person limit

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Forschungsfördertage – 12. & 13. Nov 2024:
Einen Überblick über (inter-)nationale Förderprogramme erhalten, an einer Podiumsdiskussion mit erfolgreichen #HHU Forschungsgruppenleiter*innen teilnehmen und lernen, wie man eine Forschungsgruppe finanziert.
juno.hhu.de/fft-2024

CRISPR-edited crops break new ground in Africa Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local threats. Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local thr...

📜 CRISPR-edited crops break new ground in Africa

🧑‍🔬 Heidi Ledford

📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Agriculture #Sustainability #FoodSecurity

The group photo of the 2nd Decennial Plant Science & Beyond Symposium. WebEx speakers have been added in cropped frames. The in-person attendees are in front of the screen, showing the Meeting Title and Date, "The 2nd Decennial Plant Science & Beyond Symposium - Haus der Universität Düsseldorf - September 30th & October 1st, 2024."

It has been a great #PSBS24. I planned to post a bit during the Symposium - but it's been too interesting and busy to spend time on the phone!

Fantastic talks from many #PlantScience -related fields 👍👌

Thanks to all attendees and supporters; @hhu.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social, and the RSF. 🙏

Scholarships Made Beerable Science Made Beerable was born of a desire to help beer drinkers better understand the connection between science and beer. And now, from this week, the team behind the venture is helping ensure the ...

Kelsey Picard 👩‍🔬 is a #PlantScience PhD-student in Tasmania, 🇦🇺. During her PhD she founded the non-profit #SciComm project 'Science Made Beerable' 🧪🍻.
Now, this project launches its own scholarship for aspiring #BeerBrewers.

What an achievement! What an inspiration!

#WomeninSTEM #WomenInBeer

Did plants repurpose parts of the nuclear pore as size exclusion barriers at #Plasmodesmata?

Read more in our @sympore.bsky.social preprint:

#PlantScience #PlantCellBio 🧪🥦

Setting up for #PSBS24 amazing organization team!

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50.
I have tried to focus on active accounts.

go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

Poster for the 2nd Decennial Plant Science & Beyond Symposium. It will take place on September 30th and October 1st in the Haus der Universität in Düsseldorf.

The 2nd Decennial #PlantScience & Beyond Symposium will take place in at the @hhu.bsky.social Haus der Universität, this coming Monday (30th Sep) and Tuesday (1st Oct).

Amazing line-up of speakers from #Academia #SciPub #SciComm #AppliedScience #BioTech - but always plant-related. 👍

wissenschaftliche*r Koordinator*in (m/w/d) im ERC Synergy Projekt

📢 Job alert!
The SymPore Team @hhu.bsky.social is seeking a Project Coordinator, preferably with a background in #PlantScienceResearch and/or molecular biology. Please apply online via:
karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a...

#PlantSciJobs

We are looking for a TA:

jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
English version should be online soon

Post for the 2nd Decennial Plant Science & Beyond Symposium. It shows the date (September 30th & October 1st) and place (Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf), Bluesky handle (@psbs.bsky.social and hastag #PSBS24 ). The backdrop is a high-resolution Arabidopsis root tip on black background. It then includes a list of invited Participants: Tonni Grube Andersen, Andrea Bleckmann, Lorenzo Borghi, Vittoria Brambilla, Maike Breiden, Marina Bureau, Melinka Butenko, Igor Cesarino, Raffaele Dello Ioio, Berit Ebert, Martin Hobe, Alexander Idnurm, Gwendolyn K. Kirschner, Zheng Li, Ralf Müller-Xing, Kelsey L. Picard, Stephanie Rehwald, Nicole Schatlowski, Rüdiger Simon, Madlen I. Rast-Somssich, Ines Trindade, Liu Wang, René H. Wink & Petra Zadniková

The Line-up for the 2nd #PlantScience & Beyond Symposium is now complete.

On September 30th and October 1st we'll have an amazing group of plant scientists and academics from adjacent fields in Düsseldorf at the Haus der Universität @hhu.bsky.social.

#PSBS24

A CUC1/auxin genetic module links cell polarity to patterned tissue growth and leaf shape diversity in crucifer plants | PNAS How tissue-level information encoded by fields of regulatory gene activity is translated into the patterns of cell polarity and growth that generat...

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Landmark gene-edited rice crop destroyed in Italy Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

5/5
These people don't care about humans living in other parts of the world. Where there is not enough food. Children are going blind. Humans suffer from a toxic environment due to overuse of fungicides and pesticides.
They don't care. Not one bit.
They are safe. Their kids are safe.

#PlantScience

Landmark gene-edited rice crop destroyed in Italy Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

2/5
The unknown "Activists" followed the same line that orgs like #Greenpeace and the European #GreenParty have been supporting and promoting for over 30 years now, destroying all plants that were produced by academic (non-profit / non-company) researchers with the aim to help feed the world.

Landmark gene-edited rice crop destroyed in Italy Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

1/5 Researchers in Italy conducted the country's first field trial with #GeneEdited plants. "Activists" have now destroyed the field and plants.

These plants
- were gene-edited (NOT transgenic)
- require less fungicide application, & are thus better for the environment.

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs

Improving transient protein expression in agroinfiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana <em>New Phytologist</em> is an international journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.

📜 Improving transient protein expression in agroinfiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana

🧑‍🔬 Konstantina Beritza, Emma C. Watts, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn

📔 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMethods #Agroinfiltration #PlantTransformation