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Tobias Jores

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Plant scientist aiming to understand and engineer plant gene regulation. #EmmyNoether group leader at @hhu.bsky.social

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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-...

18.02.2026 09:36 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
CEPLAS: Call 2026

πŸ“£ 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

18.02.2026 10:55 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
CEPLAS: Call 2026

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

18.02.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...

AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.

No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.

Raw genome β†’ accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.11.2025 06:00 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
2026 Salt and Water Stress in Plants Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

06.11.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Big news from the Demirer lab: first 4 research papers are preprinted! Check them out, feedback welcomed:

eCIS for plant protein delivery: tinyurl.com/mrx4d878
R2 for targeted insertion: tinyurl.com/5n73za6h
Transient expression: tinyurl.com/38p2ud6w
Chemotaxis assay: tinyurl.com/3nw9haes

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26.08.2025 12:31 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Conservation and divergence of regulatory architecture in nitrate-responsive plant gene circuits Gene circuits that control transcriptional regulation of nitrate-responses have similarities and differences, despite the equivalent effects of nitrogen on

At long last, our paper on conservation and divergence of a nitrogen circuit upstream of NLP6/7 &NIR1 in Arabidopsis and tomato is published! It's an exciting combo of whole plant, in vitro, protoplast and systems bio approaches: tinyurl.com/nitrogencirc... @gozdedemirel.bsky.social

01.07.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Chromatin insulators: Good fences that make good neighbors Laura Arribas-HernΓ‘ndez; Chromatin insulators: Good fences that make good neighbors, The Plant Cell, , koaf157, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf157

For an excellent executive summary read the In Brief article by Laura Arribas-HernΓ‘ndez: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

17.06.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Many thanks to my coauthors including Cole Mueth and
@rnanerd.bsky.social and to our collaborators at @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social

17.06.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our latest paper is out in its final form in @theplantcell.bsky.social
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

17.06.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾

Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!

πŸ“© Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to apply_healthycrops@hhu.de

RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch

29.01.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Job Openings

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W3 Professorship: Plant Ecology and Biological Climate Impact Research

πŸ“ @unigoettingen.bsky.social

πŸ“… Start: earliest date possible
πŸ“… Deadline: 7 February 2025

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

29.01.2025 13:30 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A big thank you to @lampoona.bsky.social for creating this beautiful artwork for my lab!

08.01.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2. #postdoc position (m/f/d, TV-L E13, 100%, 3 years) in plant gene regulation to study the interaction of cis-regulatory elements in plants.

08.01.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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1. #postdoc position (m/f/d, TV-L E13, 100%, 3 years) in plant synthetic biology to design and characterize inducible transgene expression cassettes. This is a collaborative project with @nicolabiologist.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) and Christine Queitsch (University of Washington)

08.01.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
artwork by Sayeh Gorjifard (@lampoona.bsky.social)

artwork by Sayeh Gorjifard (@lampoona.bsky.social)

πŸ“’Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).

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08.01.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0