FrankeLab
@frankelab.bsky.social
Plant Natural Products Group at Leibniz University Hannover. We study the biosynthetic pathways of complex specialised metabolites from plants.
https://www.botanik.uni-hannover.de/en/research/research-groups/biochemistry-of-plant-specialised-metabolites
https://www.botanik.uni-hannover.de/en/research/research-groups/biochemistry-of-plant-specialised-metabolites
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Hello! We are currently hiring for two post-doc positions on projects related to plant natural products, enzymes, and developing new systems to make useful small molecules. More details on our website: lichmanlab.weebly.com/post-docs.html
Post-Docs
We are currently recruiting for two post-doc positions in the Lichman lab that require similar skills and experience. We aim to do a joint recruitment process with a single interview. If you apply...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hello! We are currently hiring for two post-doc positions on projects related to plant natural products, enzymes, and developing new systems to make useful small molecules. More details on our website: lichmanlab.weebly.com/post-docs.html
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: chemische und molekulare Ökologie trophischer Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen.
@unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart, Germany
Start: 1 März 2026
Deadline: 19 Oktober 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: chemische und molekulare Ökologie trophischer Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen.
@unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart, Germany
Start: 1 März 2026
Deadline: 19 Oktober 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Stellenangebote
Stellenausschreibungen in der Botanik und den Pflanzenwissenschaften
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
September 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: chemische und molekulare Ökologie trophischer Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen.
@unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart, Germany
Start: 1 März 2026
Deadline: 19 Oktober 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: chemische und molekulare Ökologie trophischer Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen.
@unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart, Germany
Start: 1 März 2026
Deadline: 19 Oktober 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
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⏰ Just 7 days left for our Glycopeptide Renaming Challenge!
💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€
👉 More info and submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ym9...
#secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social
💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€
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#secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social
Naming Challenge: Help Redefine the Glycopeptide Family!
We are excited to launch a naming competition inspired by the recent preprint "Phylogenetic distance and structural diversity directing a reclassification of glycopeptide antibiotics" (https://www.bio...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
⏰ Just 7 days left for our Glycopeptide Renaming Challenge!
💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€
👉 More info and submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ym9...
#secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social
💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€
👉 More info and submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ym9...
#secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social
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Nachschattengewächse als Basis für Arzneimittel: Forschungsteams der #LUH und der @unibonn.bsky.social entschlüsseln Gensequenz zur Bildung von Steroiden. @dfg.de fördert das Projekt mit rund 511.00 Euro. http://go.lu-h.de/aNhrb
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Nachschattengewächse als Basis für Arzneimittel: Forschungsteams der #LUH und der @unibonn.bsky.social entschlüsseln Gensequenz zur Bildung von Steroiden. @dfg.de fördert das Projekt mit rund 511.00 Euro. http://go.lu-h.de/aNhrb
Extremely happy to see our withanolide biosynthesis paper out in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/evHOF
Fantastic team effort with the Pucker group @bpucker.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social at @unibonn.bsky.social and Heretsch, Herde and Witte groups at @unihannover.bsky.social. Funded by @dfg.de
Fantastic team effort with the Pucker group @bpucker.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social at @unibonn.bsky.social and Heretsch, Herde and Witte groups at @unihannover.bsky.social. Funded by @dfg.de
Phylogenomics and metabolic engineering reveal a conserved gene cluster in Solanaceae plants for withanolide biosynthesis
Nature Communications - Withanolides are plant steroids with potent bioactivities found in many medicinal plants including Withania somnifera, but their biosynthetic pathway is largely unknown....
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July 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Extremely happy to see our withanolide biosynthesis paper out in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/evHOF
Fantastic team effort with the Pucker group @bpucker.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social at @unibonn.bsky.social and Heretsch, Herde and Witte groups at @unihannover.bsky.social. Funded by @dfg.de
Fantastic team effort with the Pucker group @bpucker.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social at @unibonn.bsky.social and Heretsch, Herde and Witte groups at @unihannover.bsky.social. Funded by @dfg.de
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🚨 Seeking a brilliant postdoc for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship! Work at the interface of bioinformatics, evolution & biotech.
🌱 Join a top German university
💡 Great science, strong mentoring
👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/contact
#MSCA #Postdoc #Biotech #Bioinformatics #AcademicJobs
🌱 Join a top German university
💡 Great science, strong mentoring
👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/contact
#MSCA #Postdoc #Biotech #Bioinformatics #AcademicJobs
July 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Elucidation and recreation of the biosynthetic pathway for taxol (Nature) @cmcclune.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)
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#PlantaePSRW
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#PlantaePSRW
Elucidation and recreation of the biosynthetic pathway for taxol | Plantae
Paclitaxel (sold as Taxol) is taxane diterpene natural product of yew trees (Taxus spp.) and a potent stabilizer of microtubules that is effective in treatment of cancers. However…
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July 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Elucidation and recreation of the biosynthetic pathway for taxol (Nature) @cmcclune.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)
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#PlantaePSRW
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#PlantaePSRW
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PhD position open! 🌾🧫🧬✂️😃 Are you interested in plant pathology and genome editing? Have you ever seen how cool Xanthomonas manipulates the plant cell using TALEs? Don't hesitate to apply! www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...
June 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
PhD position open! 🌾🧫🧬✂️😃 Are you interested in plant pathology and genome editing? Have you ever seen how cool Xanthomonas manipulates the plant cell using TALEs? Don't hesitate to apply! www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...
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Dear #molbio buble, can you suggest any (free) software for cloning and sequence analysis? Something similiar to SnapGene (but cheaper) or Benchling (but locally hosted)?
Asking for a newly set up group.
Asking for a newly set up group.
June 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Dear #molbio buble, can you suggest any (free) software for cloning and sequence analysis? Something similiar to SnapGene (but cheaper) or Benchling (but locally hosted)?
Asking for a newly set up group.
Asking for a newly set up group.
Fantastic work by the Sattely group on taxol biosynthesis, featuring a highly innovative application of single nuclei sequencing to find elusive biosynthetic genes 👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III - Nature
An approach that combines single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed perturbation identifies genes that enable the biosynthesis of direct precursors of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, whose curren...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fantastic work by the Sattely group on taxol biosynthesis, featuring a highly innovative application of single nuclei sequencing to find elusive biosynthetic genes 👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We're hiring!
🥼 2-year lab technician at UCPH from 01 Aug
🌿 Support our research in plant natural products with relevance in agriculture, nutrition, and medicine.
🧬 Your skills: plant molecular biology and/or tissue culture & transformation
📅 Deadline 18 May 2025
jobportal.ku.dk/administrati...
🥼 2-year lab technician at UCPH from 01 Aug
🌿 Support our research in plant natural products with relevance in agriculture, nutrition, and medicine.
🧬 Your skills: plant molecular biology and/or tissue culture & transformation
📅 Deadline 18 May 2025
jobportal.ku.dk/administrati...
Laboratory Technician, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
jobportal.ku.dk
April 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We're hiring!
🥼 2-year lab technician at UCPH from 01 Aug
🌿 Support our research in plant natural products with relevance in agriculture, nutrition, and medicine.
🧬 Your skills: plant molecular biology and/or tissue culture & transformation
📅 Deadline 18 May 2025
jobportal.ku.dk/administrati...
🥼 2-year lab technician at UCPH from 01 Aug
🌿 Support our research in plant natural products with relevance in agriculture, nutrition, and medicine.
🧬 Your skills: plant molecular biology and/or tissue culture & transformation
📅 Deadline 18 May 2025
jobportal.ku.dk/administrati...
Started as a very successful master thesis, now published in JACS. Screening sequence similarity networks turned out to be a great way to discover oxidosqualene cyclases with unusual activity from more than thousand plant transcriptome sequence datasets.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Expansion of the Stereochemical Space of Triterpenes by Mining Noncanonical Oxidosqualene Cyclases Across the Diversity of Green Plants
Triterpenoids and steroids are structurally complex polycyclic natural products with potent biological functions, for example, as hormones. In all eukaryotes, the carbon skeletons of these compounds a...
pubs.acs.org
March 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Started as a very successful master thesis, now published in JACS. Screening sequence similarity networks turned out to be a great way to discover oxidosqualene cyclases with unusual activity from more than thousand plant transcriptome sequence datasets.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics:
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
February 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics:
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
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What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In this paper, @prywes.bsky.social et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In this paper, @prywes.bsky.social et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A cellulose synthase–like protein governs the biosynthesis of Solanum alkaloids | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
A cellulose synthase–like protein governs the biosynthesis of Solanum alkaloids
Decades of research on the infamous antinutritional steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) in Solanaceae plants have provided deep insights into their metabolism and roles. However, engineering SGAs in heter...
www.science.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A cellulose synthase–like protein governs the biosynthesis of Solanum alkaloids | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
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Anyone up for some #ToxTuesday?
A lot of us love spicy foods, and the capsaicin in chili peppers that gives us that heat can be addictive. But is there anything hotter? I'm glad you asked. Yes, yes there is. And it's called RESINIFERATOXIN
A lot of us love spicy foods, and the capsaicin in chili peppers that gives us that heat can be addictive. But is there anything hotter? I'm glad you asked. Yes, yes there is. And it's called RESINIFERATOXIN
December 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Anyone up for some #ToxTuesday?
A lot of us love spicy foods, and the capsaicin in chili peppers that gives us that heat can be addictive. But is there anything hotter? I'm glad you asked. Yes, yes there is. And it's called RESINIFERATOXIN
A lot of us love spicy foods, and the capsaicin in chili peppers that gives us that heat can be addictive. But is there anything hotter? I'm glad you asked. Yes, yes there is. And it's called RESINIFERATOXIN
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We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studenship available that builds on parts of this pre-print:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/dis...
🗓️ Deadline 25 Nov 2024
Please do get in touch if you're interested!
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/dis...
🗓️ Deadline 25 Nov 2024
Please do get in touch if you're interested!
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 PM
We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studenship available that builds on parts of this pre-print:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/dis...
🗓️ Deadline 25 Nov 2024
Please do get in touch if you're interested!
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/dis...
🗓️ Deadline 25 Nov 2024
Please do get in touch if you're interested!