Christin Naumann
@cnaumann123.bsky.social
Plant biochemist, group leader @ IPB Halle, interested in the local phosphate response and plant autophagy
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Hustle 🌱 👩🔬👨🔬🔬guys! Last day to register for #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social at: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Registration
Registration: Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hustle 🌱 👩🔬👨🔬🔬guys! Last day to register for #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social at: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
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Physical principles have redefined our understanding of autophagy.
In our new @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social review, we discuss how phase separation, avidity, and wetting shape autophagy at the molecular level.
Great collaboration with @wilflinglab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...
In our new @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social review, we discuss how phase separation, avidity, and wetting shape autophagy at the molecular level.
Great collaboration with @wilflinglab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...
Autophagy regulation by phase separation, avidity, and wetting
Autophagy enables cells to selectively degrade a wide range of macromolecules, and
how this process achieves spatial precision within the densely packed cytosol is an
active area of investigation. Rec...
www.cell.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Physical principles have redefined our understanding of autophagy.
In our new @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social review, we discuss how phase separation, avidity, and wetting shape autophagy at the molecular level.
Great collaboration with @wilflinglab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...
In our new @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social review, we discuss how phase separation, avidity, and wetting shape autophagy at the molecular level.
Great collaboration with @wilflinglab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...
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Hi passionate 🌱🔬 the #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social is entering its last registration week. Take some time and ASAP 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/conference-m... . Please repost, like, & spread the word.
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Hi passionate 🌱🔬 the #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social is entering its last registration week. Take some time and ASAP 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/conference-m... . Please repost, like, & spread the word.
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Volles Haus beim 1. Kölner Wissenschaftsfestival! CEPLAS und @mpipz.bsky.social geben spannende Einblicke in die Pflanzenforschung!
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Volles Haus beim 1. Kölner Wissenschaftsfestival! CEPLAS und @mpipz.bsky.social geben spannende Einblicke in die Pflanzenforschung!
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Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Today we had the pleasure to welcome Mehdi Davari from @ipbhalle.bsky.social at our institute and listen to his captivating talk about #MolecularSimulation and #MachineLearning strategies to accelerate #protein and #enzyme design. Thanks a lot for your visit! 🌱
Thanks to Dirk Walther for hosting 👏
Thanks to Dirk Walther for hosting 👏
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today we had the pleasure to welcome Mehdi Davari from @ipbhalle.bsky.social at our institute and listen to his captivating talk about #MolecularSimulation and #MachineLearning strategies to accelerate #protein and #enzyme design. Thanks a lot for your visit! 🌱
Thanks to Dirk Walther for hosting 👏
Thanks to Dirk Walther for hosting 👏
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🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
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Work hard - party hard.
After a very productive day of updates, strategy and brainstorming. We all come together to celebrate our progress so far!
After a very productive day of updates, strategy and brainstorming. We all come together to celebrate our progress so far!
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Work hard - party hard.
After a very productive day of updates, strategy and brainstorming. We all come together to celebrate our progress so far!
After a very productive day of updates, strategy and brainstorming. We all come together to celebrate our progress so far!
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Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks a lot for inviting me @elkebarbez.bsky.social . It was really an exciting visit and I enjoyed it a lot to talk to old friends and get to know new people. Really a perfect day 🌱❣️
How do roots sense phosphate and iron? Discover the PDR2–LPR1 pathway with @cnaumann123.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social), and see how it links nutrient sensing to ER quality control and autophagy. Learn how roots adapt in Pi-poor, Fe-rich soils!
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanks a lot for inviting me @elkebarbez.bsky.social . It was really an exciting visit and I enjoyed it a lot to talk to old friends and get to know new people. Really a perfect day 🌱❣️
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Happy to contribute to the excellent work from our collaborators where "1 + 1 ≠ 2". Instead of increased susceptibility to #rice_blast, loss of 2 CPK5 paralogs led to #Effector-triggered_immunity (ETI)-type of resistance, thus showing importance of #calcium_signalling.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to contribute to the excellent work from our collaborators where "1 + 1 ≠ 2". Instead of increased susceptibility to #rice_blast, loss of 2 CPK5 paralogs led to #Effector-triggered_immunity (ETI)-type of resistance, thus showing importance of #calcium_signalling.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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How do roots sense phosphate and iron? Discover the PDR2–LPR1 pathway with @cnaumann123.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social), and see how it links nutrient sensing to ER quality control and autophagy. Learn how roots adapt in Pi-poor, Fe-rich soils!
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How do roots sense phosphate and iron? Discover the PDR2–LPR1 pathway with @cnaumann123.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social), and see how it links nutrient sensing to ER quality control and autophagy. Learn how roots adapt in Pi-poor, Fe-rich soils!
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
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Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
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Happy to share our latest preprint:
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
@cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss
Please check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
@cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss
Please check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a conserved protein kinase and an important signalling hub in eukaryotes. The moss Physcomitrella (Physcomitrium patens) is a model organism for plant physiology, developm...
www.biorxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy to share our latest preprint:
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
@cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss
Please check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
@cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss
Please check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Funded internship in our lab!
The talented @aciattoni.bsky.social secured funds to hire an intern next summer.
Please share among undergraduates from UK, US, Canada and Ireland
The talented @aciattoni.bsky.social secured funds to hire an intern next summer.
Please share among undergraduates from UK, US, Canada and Ireland
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Funded internship in our lab!
The talented @aciattoni.bsky.social secured funds to hire an intern next summer.
Please share among undergraduates from UK, US, Canada and Ireland
The talented @aciattoni.bsky.social secured funds to hire an intern next summer.
Please share among undergraduates from UK, US, Canada and Ireland
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Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
journals.plos.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
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New publication by Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Nick Irwin, & @plantophagy.bsky.social at the GMI from @oeaw.bsky.social revealed that Exo70 undergoes changes in electrostatic charge, causing it to break from its original complex & take on new functions.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New publication by Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Nick Irwin, & @plantophagy.bsky.social at the GMI from @oeaw.bsky.social revealed that Exo70 undergoes changes in electrostatic charge, causing it to break from its original complex & take on new functions.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
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My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants
The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
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Excited to share the latest collaborative SNP2Prot publication!
This work combines cryo-EM, cross-linking, and multi-scale approaches to uncover how pentameric channels function. Insights that reach far beyond plant science. 🌍
Congrats to all authors!
This work combines cryo-EM, cross-linking, and multi-scale approaches to uncover how pentameric channels function. Insights that reach far beyond plant science. 🌍
Congrats to all authors!
Conserved hydrophilic checkpoints tune FocA-mediated formate:H+ symport - Nature Communications
How do bacteria control formate flow, essential for microbial life? Researchers detected specialized molecular checkpoints that fine-tune small-molecule transport by combining cryo-electron microscopy...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Excited to share the latest collaborative SNP2Prot publication!
This work combines cryo-EM, cross-linking, and multi-scale approaches to uncover how pentameric channels function. Insights that reach far beyond plant science. 🌍
Congrats to all authors!
This work combines cryo-EM, cross-linking, and multi-scale approaches to uncover how pentameric channels function. Insights that reach far beyond plant science. 🌍
Congrats to all authors!
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New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
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Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...