DOMPS
@dompsfr.bsky.social
Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg
→ http://www.plantphotobiology.org/DOMPS/Plant_Science_Seminar.php
→ https://uni-freiburg.de/bio-en/research/plant/
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→ http://www.plantphotobiology.org/DOMPS/Plant_Science_Seminar.php
→ https://uni-freiburg.de/bio-en/research/plant/
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· Mar 30
Follow the members of our Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg and stay updated on the latest news: go.bsky.app/2zSQBeQ
From root death to repatterning.
Today we heard @kevindaniel.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) talk about Arabidopsis root shape plasticity under waterlogging stress.
Curious to hear more? You’ll have another chance next week at the ISRR Symposium.
📅 Jan 23 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
Today we heard @kevindaniel.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) talk about Arabidopsis root shape plasticity under waterlogging stress.
Curious to hear more? You’ll have another chance next week at the ISRR Symposium.
📅 Jan 23 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
From root death to repatterning.
Today we heard @kevindaniel.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) talk about Arabidopsis root shape plasticity under waterlogging stress.
Curious to hear more? You’ll have another chance next week at the ISRR Symposium.
📅 Jan 23 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
Today we heard @kevindaniel.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) talk about Arabidopsis root shape plasticity under waterlogging stress.
Curious to hear more? You’ll have another chance next week at the ISRR Symposium.
📅 Jan 23 | 🕥 10:15
#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. 👇🏼
📅 Jan 16 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
If you want to know more, check out their review below. 👇🏼
ICYMI #OpenBiology review - Plant NLR immunity activation and execution: a biochemical perspective: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biochemistry #immunology
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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. 👇🏼
📅 Jan 16 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
If you want to know more, check out their review below. 👇🏼
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Follow the members of our Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg and stay updated on the latest news: go.bsky.app/2zSQBeQ
March 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Follow the members of our Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg and stay updated on the latest news: go.bsky.app/2zSQBeQ
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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 🌱
Rooting for roots?
#PlantScience
Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social
Register here for free:
tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx
Programme👇
#PlantScience
Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social
Register here for free:
tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx
Programme👇
January 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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 🌱
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Seasonal greetings from Freiburg 🌱
The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year.
Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!
The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year.
Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Seasonal greetings from Freiburg 🌱
The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year.
Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!
The Molecular Plant Physiology Division wishes our colleagues, collaborators, and the scientific community a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year.
Thanks for the shared curiosity and passion for plant science — excited for what 2026 brings!
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📣 The CIBSS Team is hiring! We are looking for someone who is passionate about helping early-career researchers develop their skills, qualifications and career prospects🧑🏽🔬🔬🫱🏽🫲🏾
➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management
🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management
🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
University of Freiburg
uni-freiburg.de
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📣 The CIBSS Team is hiring! We are looking for someone who is passionate about helping early-career researchers develop their skills, qualifications and career prospects🧑🏽🔬🔬🫱🏽🫲🏾
➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management
🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management
🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
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👉iGEM Freiburg is recruiting motivated members for its 2026 team! 🧬🚀 Don't miss out and apply by Dec 30: kurzlinks.de/op05
🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr
#iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social
🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr
#iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
👉iGEM Freiburg is recruiting motivated members for its 2026 team! 🧬🚀 Don't miss out and apply by Dec 30: kurzlinks.de/op05
🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr
#iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social
🥳Read the report of their success in the 2025 iGEM Competition: kurzlinks.de/lcwr
#iGEM #SynBio #UniFreiburg
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social
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🌱 Spotlight on #CIBSS #NextGenSignallingScientists!
Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate.
📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v
#PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience
Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate.
📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v
#PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🌱 Spotlight on #CIBSS #NextGenSignallingScientists!
Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate.
📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v
#PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience
Plant biologist @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social shows how curiosity drives discovery: plants can 'remember' rain, helping them survive flooding and adapt to a changing climate.
📖 Read more: kurzlinks.de/tc7v
#PlantBiology #WomenInSTEM #LifeScience
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ReskiLab at the Freiburg Christmas market.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
ReskiLab at the Freiburg Christmas market.
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Team Xmas lunch with the traditional cookie decoration competition. Which is your favorite?
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Team Xmas lunch with the traditional cookie decoration competition. Which is your favorite?
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Happy to share our latest preprint:
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
#sphagnum #moss #moosstart #paludifarming
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
#sphagnum #moss #moosstart #paludifarming
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
Sphagnum mosses regulate peatland carbon cycling, hydrology, nutrient dynamics, and structure. We investigated the link between Sphagnum surface chemistry and photosynthetic efficiency, and the combin...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Happy to share our latest preprint:
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
#sphagnum #moss #moosstart #paludifarming
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers
#sphagnum #moss #moosstart #paludifarming
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
Symbiosome functionality in Medicago truncatula nodules requires continuous clearing of pectins from the symbiosome space - Nature Communications
Here a mechanism for nitrogen fixation maintenance is identified in Medicago truncatula where two polygalacturoneases are expressed in nodules and secreted into the symbiosome space for clearing of ex...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
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End of the year celebrations with lab 🎄🎊
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
End of the year celebrations with lab 🎄🎊
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Now out: The expansin EXPA1 is required for both inter- and intracellular infections of Lotus roots. The study was led by Jesús Montiel (UNAM, Mexico) and Jens Stougaard (Aarhus, Denmark) with @blace.bsky.social from our team doing lots of the imaging.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Lotus japonicus alpha‐expansin EXPA1 is recruited during intracellular and intercellular rhizobial colonization
The colonization of legume roots by rhizobia represents a critical phase in the establishment of root nodule symbiosis. In this study, we demonstrated that LjEXPA1, a plant protein involved in cell w...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Now out: The expansin EXPA1 is required for both inter- and intracellular infections of Lotus roots. The study was led by Jesús Montiel (UNAM, Mexico) and Jens Stougaard (Aarhus, Denmark) with @blace.bsky.social from our team doing lots of the imaging.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Working with an international team means being invited into new worlds — including Christmas traditions I’d never encountered before.
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍
Can you guess what this is?
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍
Can you guess what this is?
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Working with an international team means being invited into new worlds — including Christmas traditions I’d never encountered before.
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍
Can you guess what this is?
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍
Can you guess what this is?
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Celebration season is here — time for the traditional DOMPS PI Apéro! ✨
Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚
@dompsfr.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚
@dompsfr.bsky.social
#PlantScience
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Celebration season is here — time for the traditional DOMPS PI Apéro! ✨
Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚
@dompsfr.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Xmas wishes from all of us 🎄💚
@dompsfr.bsky.social
#PlantScience
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Christmas Brunch with the group.
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Christmas Brunch with the group.
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Congratulations Nico van Gessel on your excellent PhD defense.
Nico is the 58th PhD student I had the pleasure and honor to supervise.
Nico is the 58th PhD student I had the pleasure and honor to supervise.
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Congratulations Nico van Gessel on your excellent PhD defense.
Nico is the 58th PhD student I had the pleasure and honor to supervise.
Nico is the 58th PhD student I had the pleasure and honor to supervise.
Less is bad and more is bad! This is how @jennyrussinova.bsky.social (from @viblifesciences.bsky.social) started her talk, illustrating how roots tightly control brassinosteroid synthesis and signaling to balance cell division and elongation.
📅 Dec 1 | 🕥10:15
#PlantScience
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
📅 Dec 1 | 🕥10:15
#PlantScience
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Less is bad and more is bad! This is how @jennyrussinova.bsky.social (from @viblifesciences.bsky.social) started her talk, illustrating how roots tightly control brassinosteroid synthesis and signaling to balance cell division and elongation.
📅 Dec 1 | 🕥10:15
#PlantScience
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
📅 Dec 1 | 🕥10:15
#PlantScience
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
How do root stem cell niches change with age? Yanling Yu (from Thomas Laux's group) mapped the Arabidopsis columella stem cell niche using single-nucleus transcriptomics, revealing early niche reorganization and new gene functions.
Stay tuned for their manuscript!
📅 Nov 28 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
Stay tuned for their manuscript!
📅 Nov 28 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
How do root stem cell niches change with age? Yanling Yu (from Thomas Laux's group) mapped the Arabidopsis columella stem cell niche using single-nucleus transcriptomics, revealing early niche reorganization and new gene functions.
Stay tuned for their manuscript!
📅 Nov 28 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
Stay tuned for their manuscript!
📅 Nov 28 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
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Die #UniFreiburg wird in 31 von 57 Fächern in den „Global Rankings of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2025” der #ShanghaiRanking Consultancy geführt. Weltweit wird sie in fünf Fächern in den Top 100 geführt, in drei Fächern zählt sie international zu den 50 besten Institutionen. ufr.link/shanghairanking-25
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Die #UniFreiburg wird in 31 von 57 Fächern in den „Global Rankings of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2025” der #ShanghaiRanking Consultancy geführt. Weltweit wird sie in fünf Fächern in den Top 100 geführt, in drei Fächern zählt sie international zu den 50 besten Institutionen. ufr.link/shanghairanking-25
Today we heard the PhD progress update of @aroessling.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social). She is undoubtedly the best illustrator within DOMPS, making her talk on vacuoles, cell walls and FERONIA’s role in cell expansion very engaging.
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today we heard the PhD progress update of @aroessling.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social). She is undoubtedly the best illustrator within DOMPS, making her talk on vacuoles, cell walls and FERONIA’s role in cell expansion very engaging.
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
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It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS
Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and
organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
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We are proud to be part of the excellent research environment at the University of Freiburg and are excited to contribute to the UFR2040 agenda with the whole university community! #sparkingthechangethatmatters
1/5 „The Future Research University: Sparking Change That Matters“: Mit ihrem im #Exzellenzwettbewerb des Bundes und der Länder eingereichten Antrag formuliert die #UniversitätFreiburg ihren Anspruch, Wandel in Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik mitzugestalten. ufr.link/exzellenzantrag-eingereicht
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We are proud to be part of the excellent research environment at the University of Freiburg and are excited to contribute to the UFR2040 agenda with the whole university community! #sparkingthechangethatmatters
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Together with @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social and Tübingen College of Fellows, FRIAS is offering #EarlyCareerRescueFellowships.
Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Together with @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social and Tübingen College of Fellows, FRIAS is offering #EarlyCareerRescueFellowships.
Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...