🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
Congratulations!
📢 #CIBSS research highlight!
Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social helped identify SYFO2, a protein that lets legumes 🫛☘️“open the door” to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 🦠 The team even activated it in tomato 🍅 — suggesting this symbiosis could be engineered in new crops. 🌱
🔗 kurzlinks.de/v7bi
Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!
Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts.
Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026
PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Know a brilliant early-career plant scientist? 🌱
Nominate them for one of DBG’s three prestigious science awards! #ecr #plantsci
👉Strasburger Prize
👉Pfeffer Prize
👉Wiehe Prize
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/actualia/...
I'm excited to repost my first #PlantaePSRW research summary as a Plantae Fellow! And looking forward to sharing many more! #PlantScience
Image showing the ICAR2026 meeting information. 22-26 June 2026f, National University of Singapore
The #ICAR2026 webpage is now live and registration is open (icar2026.sg). #arabidopsis #plantscience #conference
Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg
Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms.
Be quick - deadline is tomorrow!
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
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! 🎉
Professorship Molecular Botany. Bremen, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/profess...
The 4th congress on strigolactone research will take place 5-8 October this year in beautiful Paris! Early bird registration will be until March 16. So, just go for it!
ics2026.sciencesconf.org
📣 Our lab is seeking a postdoc to study mutation mechanisms in fungi using cutting-edge sequencing + computational biology. No active posting/grant right now, but we’re excited to host postdoc fellowship applicants in our comparative immunology team.
Interested? Reach out DM email. krasilevalab.org
Please share!
PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Detail of the wood tissue in a fossil stem of Sigillaria seen under the microscope. It shows files of conducting cells and rays.
Today's lycopsids ("clubmosses") are small plants and do not produce wood but some of their Paleozoic relatives did! This is a detail of the wood cells in a stem of Sigillaria from the Carboniferous of the USA 🔬🌿⛏️ Happy #FossilFriday!
#paleobotany #botany
IN BRIEF: A needle in the haystack: Single-cell omics of the distinct xylem differentiation programs in gymnosperms and angiosperms (Leonard Blaschek) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
PlantWallK is now underway 🌱 A network for plant cell wall research, linking imaging, modelling, and data methods. We are building the website, planning our first meeting, and preparing calls for grants, so follow for exciting news!: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...
#PlantScience #CellWall #COSTActions
The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...
PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
This week we will hear @federicalocci.bsky.social (from @parkergroup.bsky.social, @mpipz.bsky.social) talk about "How not to die", workings of TIR-networks in damage and systemic resistance.
📅 Jan 16 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
If you want to know more, check out their review below. 👇🏼
Mit der Expansion des Römischen Reichs über die Alpen begann auch die intensive Nutzung der dortigen Wälder. Wie sich selbst Krisen des Imperiums im Holz ablesen lassen, erklärt der Dendroarchäologe Bernhard Muigg von der @uni-freiburg.de im Interview. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/interview_be...
Jetzt bewerben! Beim #Exzellenzcluster #FutureForests sind 21 Doktorand*innenstellen zu besetzen. Mehr Informationen zum Exzellenzcluster, seinem #Forschungsprofil und den ausgeschriebenen Stellen:
➡️ uni-freiburg.de/futureforest...
Auf einem gelben Hintergrund sieht man in einem Kreis links Prof. Dr. Sylvia Paletschek, Prorektorin für Universitätskultur an der Universität Freiburg. Rechts daneben steht das Zitat: „Die Förderung hilft uns, unser Gleichstellungskonzept weiter umzusetzen und voranzubringen. Damit kommen wir unserem Ziel einer geschlechtergerechten Universität einen wichtigen Schritt näher.“
#UniFreiburg erhält im #Professorinnenprogramm2030 rund 2,1 Mio Euro zur Förderung von Gleichstellungsprojekten wie z.B. Übergangsfinanzierungen von Postdoc-Wissenschaftlerinnen oder den Ausbau von #Coachings, #Familienservice und #Gleichstellungsmonitoring.
➡️ ufr.link/professorinnenprogramm-2030-2
Four Images: A scientist in a lab looking at a pipetting robot, a greenhouse with lots of pots containing plants, a scientist with drones and other euipment in a field, and a tractor driver with lots of high-tech equipment in the cockpit. The text is: TalentCampus@KWS May 29, 2026 A look behind the scenes: All KWS research and development departments open their doors
The headline and text says: May 29, 2026 in Einbeck, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Seeding the future – breeding combines sciences and talents The image is a wheel showing all the R&D contributions to plant breeding, incl. Molecular Biology Experimental Fields Cell Biology Breeding Phytopathology Chemical Analytics Greenhouse Phenotyping Digitalization
Highlights of the program Information stands Breeders of our main crops explain their work From sowing to harvesting: all the special machines of a breeding station Digital tools for field trialing Root phenotyping: how roots grow in the soil Phenotyping with drones: multispectral from a bird's eye view Phytopathology: insects, fungi, nematodes and other pathogens Chemical Analytics and process analysis Catch crops - concepts for agriculture, soil health, CO2 balance Biological seed treatment Breeding technologies – data and genomics specialists support breeding Genome Editing: new breeding technologies and their application at KWS Regulatory Affairs: paving the way to approval From lab to market: how KWS protects intellectual property Marker lab: examine the DNA The art of engineering for seed production Career opportunities at KWS Hands-on activities The start of a new generation of varieties: crossing plants by hand Tissue culture: placing plant parts on a special diet in vitro Leaf harvest for the marker lab Live view of root growth: navigate a camera through the soil
If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th.
More info here:
www.kws.com/corp/en/care...
Figure illustrating some content of the Python course for biology students at UniBonn
“Analysis of Biological Data with Python” started today for biology bachelor students 🧬🐍
Want to learn Python for data analysis?
Slides are freely available:
github.com/bpucker/teac...
#Python #DataAnalysis #Biology #OpenScience #BigData #Bioinformatics #DataScience @puckerlab.bsky.social
Check out this exciting online and FREE mini symposium on roots, featuring not one but two Freiburg-based @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social talks by @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social and @kevindaniel.bsky.social 🌱
Ten days left to apply for the Faculty position in #plantscience in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the department of biology #usherbrooke.
www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
We are looking for a Scientist as Application Specialist »Next Generation Sequencing« (m/f/div) to work with cutting-edge tech like AVITI24 & NovaSeq.
Part 2: You will play a key role in advancing the broard portfolio of NGS methods to support ambitious research projects at our institute. Use cutting-edge sample preparation and deep sequencing technology including short- and long-read sequencing systems • AVITI24, NovaSeq6000, Nanopore Sequencing and more • Robotic liquid handling device Biomek i7
We offer A full-time position in a stimulating, international interdisciplinary research environment within the Max Planck Society and much more! Apply by February 2nd, 2026
🧬 Join our Deep Sequencing Facility! 🧬
We are looking for a Scientist as Application Specialist »Next Generation Sequencing« (m/f/div) to work with cutting-edge tech like AVITI24 & NovaSeq.
📍 Freiburg, Germany 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Feb 2, 2026
🔗 jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/d...
Bark of Sri Lankan cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum next to a pile of ground cinnamon. Photo by Tom Kimmerer
We probably don't often plan to snack on tree bark, but we certainly do. Cinnamon is tree bark. There are five species of cinnamon from different geographical locations with distinctly different flavor profiles. This one is Cinnamomum verum, Sri Lankan cinnamon. Eat some bark today!
