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We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @ www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @ www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland
The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…
The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…
Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland
The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant cultivation, imaging, and research support.
agristok.net
January 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland
The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…
The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿🐝🌴 Another team in Botanical University Challenge 2026! University of Galway from Ireland. First Irish team in BUC making it a truly international competition. Team has entered every year since 2022 and have reached the quarterfinals. How will they do in 2026?? #BUC2026
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word!
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word!
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
🌸 Flowering Newsletter Review 🌸
López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🌸 Flowering Newsletter Review 🌸
López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
López-Gómez et al. review the role of protein–protein interactions in flower and fruit development and discuss the latest techniques to study them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🧬
🍅 Genome-edited tomato mutants for the SPATULA gene elucidated conserved functions during gynoecium development, improving our understanding of the SPT gene in fleshy fruits- Martínez-Estrada et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
🍅 Genome-edited tomato mutants for the SPATULA gene elucidated conserved functions during gynoecium development, improving our understanding of the SPT gene in fleshy fruits- Martínez-Estrada et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
![Fig. 4.Effect of the lack of SlSPT function on pollen tube growth and ovary characteristics in slspt mutants and wild-type (WT; Micro-Tom) plants. (A) Pollen tube growth in the gynoecium. (B) Pollen tube staining measured as relative intensity units. (C) Micrographs of transverse sections of the ovary at anthesis, with a magnified view of the pericarp of the ovary at anthesis. (D, E) Comparison of cell layers and pericarp thickness between WT and slspt mutants. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences [ANOVA followed by Fisher's LSD test, P≤0.05, n=10, for (B), Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn’s test, P≤0.05, n=15, for (D); Tukey’s range test, P≤0.05, n=15, for (E)]. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.4 mm (C left); 50 µm (C right).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggz22gcwkakll7efac23g33s/bafkreiaf3ebstlmcdbo5jov4d2slkfczlrqqb4wtsci55jroaspvt7nk4i@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🧬
🍅 Genome-edited tomato mutants for the SPATULA gene elucidated conserved functions during gynoecium development, improving our understanding of the SPT gene in fleshy fruits- Martínez-Estrada et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
🍅 Genome-edited tomato mutants for the SPATULA gene elucidated conserved functions during gynoecium development, improving our understanding of the SPT gene in fleshy fruits- Martínez-Estrada et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @defolter-lab.bsky.social
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Promoter and domain swap analysis delineates heat stress memory-specific determinants of heat shock factor HSFA2 (Vicky Oberkofler , Joan Baltzer , Witold Szymanski , Isabel Bäurle) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Promoter and domain swap analysis delineates heat stress memory-specific determinants of heat shock factor HSFA2
The function of the transcription factor HSFA2 in heat-stress-induced transcriptional memory maps to functional domains within the protein.
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Promoter and domain swap analysis delineates heat stress memory-specific determinants of heat shock factor HSFA2 (Vicky Oberkofler , Joan Baltzer , Witold Szymanski , Isabel Bäurle) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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🚨JOB ALERT!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🚨JOB ALERT!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms.
tinygu.de/TknxZ
If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in RNA biology and how it shapes tree growth and adaptation?🧬
Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.
Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.
Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
PhD position in the RNA Biology of trees | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in RNA biology and how it shapes tree growth and adaptation?🧬
Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.
Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.
Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
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Join us! We are going to have a ton of fun this summer with 2 week projects on plant and animal morphogenesis! @maizel-lab.org is leading a module. For my section we are going to live image developing leaves.
Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Join us! We are going to have a ton of fun this summer with 2 week projects on plant and animal morphogenesis! @maizel-lab.org is leading a module. For my section we are going to live image developing leaves.
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Network Meeting
Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.
Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.
Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Network Meeting
Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.
Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.
Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Senior Research Technician in Plant Tissue Culture and Genetics
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!
🌱 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...
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 5:59 PM
Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a Tenure Track Professors...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Cleomaceae are the sister group to the Brassicaceae. In contrast to the Brassicaceae, they contain true C4 photosynthetic species. This indicates that the genetic capacity to evolve C4 is ancestral to the split of Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cleomaceae: diversity and potential of a model family for studies on the evolution of photosynthesis
The Cleomaceae family integrates floral diversity, physiological plasticity, and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis, serving as an important model to investigate plant adaptation and evolutionary inn...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Cleomaceae are the sister group to the Brassicaceae. In contrast to the Brassicaceae, they contain true C4 photosynthetic species. This indicates that the genetic capacity to evolve C4 is ancestral to the split of Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Chromosome Dynamics 2026 @ Awaji Japan www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw...
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Chromosome Dynamics 2026 @ Awaji Japan www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Very last chance to register !
Extended deadline: 10th of December.
🌱 Curious about plant biology?
Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!
Extended deadline: 10th of December.
🌱 Curious about plant biology?
Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Very last chance to register !
Extended deadline: 10th of December.
🌱 Curious about plant biology?
Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!
Extended deadline: 10th of December.
🌱 Curious about plant biology?
Explore epigenetics, stress responses & priming this February in Amsterdam!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
9-10 February 2026 - Don’t miss it!
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution
YouTube video by University of Oxford
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
It's our annual #PlantScience Day! 110 attendees, 2 amazing plenary talks from Prof. John Christie @glasgow.ac.uk and Prof. Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social , 10 talks from IMPS members, 15 posters and 4 awards!
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's our annual #PlantScience Day! 110 attendees, 2 amazing plenary talks from Prof. John Christie @glasgow.ac.uk and Prof. Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social , 10 talks from IMPS members, 15 posters and 4 awards!
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
So happy to see this work finally online!
In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory
Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
So happy to see this work finally online!
In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Interesting study suggesting that nucleus, cytoskeleton, and endomembranes preceded acquisition of mitochondria, during eukaryogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Interesting study suggesting that nucleus, cytoskeleton, and endomembranes preceded acquisition of mitochondria, during eukaryogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory
Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Eirini Kaiserli
As part of our 100-year celebrations this year, we would like to hear stories from you on how @Co_Biologists has impacted your careers. bit.ly/3PL5CO6
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
As part of our 100-year celebrations this year, we would like to hear stories from you on how @Co_Biologists has impacted your careers. bit.ly/3PL5CO6