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Darius Kosmützky
@dariuskos.bsky.social
Postdoc @slcuplants.bsky.social | Plant Microbe Interactions, Photosynthesis, Sustainability | Gates Cambridge Alumnus | ☀️🌱🦠🧑‍🔬🏳️‍🌈🔬🧬
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🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨
Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬
Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD

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December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The 4th annual non-seed plant flash talk showcase extravaganza didn’t disappoint #nonseedUK25 🌱
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Fantastic closing keynote by @rensingstefan.bsky.social. Thanks for joining us and telling us about all of the great @watertoland.bsky.social outputs 👍
December 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Thanks to everyone who came along to the #nonseedUK25 meeting. Another fantastic day of non-seed science. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for looking after us all so well 👍
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Non-seed science is accelerating forwards at a truly impressive rate. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for an awesome #nonseedUK25 meeting, and to @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for agreeing to organise #nonseedUK26 in Edinburgh - looking forward to it 👍
Thanks to everyone who came along to the #nonseedUK25 meeting. Another fantastic day of non-seed science. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for looking after us all so well 👍
December 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Macarena Mellado Sanchez provides insights into DELLA function in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK25 😃
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ooi-Kock Teh explores how cells sense and adapt to changes in cell wall integrity #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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@justingoodrich.bsky.social investigates the ancestral roles of ZHOUPI genes in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A nice day in the fine Norwich with a lovely crowd! It was fun to talk about GRAS7 and some natural fungus-Marchantia interactions, thanks for the opportunity 🤓
@dariuskos.bsky.social highlights the multitalented MpGRAS7 gene, which is involved in both stress response and reproductive development #nonseedUK25 😀
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Miriam Charpentier discusses the evolution of endosymbiosis-mediated nuclear calcium signaling in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍
December 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Hugh Mulvey explains why M. polymorpha is such a great system for studying morphogenesis from a single cell #nonseedUK25 👍
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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@davidjhoey.bsky.social discusses the acquisition of vasculature as an evolutionary innovation - lovely comparative approaches across multiple land plant lineages #nonseedUK25 🌱 😊
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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@jimfouracre.bsky.social discusses vegetative phase change and the ancestral role of miR156 #nonseedUK25
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Katy Mather introduces a novel regulator of 3D growth in P. patens (NOG5) #nonseedUK25 😃
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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@sramundo.bsky.social looks through the lens of Chlamydomonas to understand the origins of plastid-encoded RNA polymerase complexity #nonseedUK25 👍
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Comparative genomics to understand the evolution of water conducting tissues. A great overview by @alexmcbowles.bsky.social 🌱 #nonseedUK25
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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@philcarella.bsky.social opens up the 4th #nonseedUK25 meeting. An exciting day of science lies ahead…
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface
Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social

Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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📣Interested in doing your PhD in Plant Sciences 🌱, Microbial Sciences 🦠 or Computational Biology 👩‍💻? @ceplas.bsky.social offers 10 fully funded PhD 🎓fellowships. Pls repost and forward to interested candidates holding BSc degree.
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants

@chistinesd.bsky.social, et al.

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

@dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience

Summary also available in French and Spanish.
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The life of a plant scientist… In order of magnification: me taking some #Marchantia from my courtyard, the picture I took in that very moment, and the microscopy image of that sample sectioned through a gemma cup. Turquoise: chlorophyll, yellow: WGA-FITC (binds chitin of e.g. fungi)!
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!
July 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM