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Jenny Saile
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Postdoctoral researcher Plant Physiology at Wageningen University; trying to understand how plants respond to abiotic stress in order to improve plant stress resilience 🧂🌱☀️💚
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This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
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A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development (Jennifer Saile, Hannah Walter, Moritz Denecke, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development
Light-responsive changes in alternative splicing and development are modulated by a subgroup of serine/arginine-rich splicing regulators in Arabidopsis tha
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November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026!

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EPS Summer School | Universiteit Utrecht
We would like to invite you to join the PhD Summer School that has an attractive program with many expert speakers in the field of environmental signaling in plants. In addition to the invited speaker...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:

🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)

📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience

#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs

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October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Arabidopsis Group I Pumilio RNA-binding factors are vital for embryo development and balancing between growth and stress resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671196v1
August 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
Head of Service Unit Proteomics
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August 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...
W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)
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August 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

On Sept 18, we will have our first session:

🌱 BEGINNINGS - the origins of plants and the start of the plant life cycle 🌱

🎤 Invited speakers incl Steve Penfield & Kin Pan Chung

⏳ Join us! Register by Aug 19 🗓️

👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#PlantScience 🧪
August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov:
👇 A quick thread + link:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recycling in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha
Processing bodies (P-bodies) are conserved ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules central to RNA metabolism across eukaryotes. Although the mechanisms underlying their assembly are well understood, the path...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The amazing @newphyt.bsky.social #NGS2025 meeting in Birmingham has ended. Unlike typical research-focused events, it brought together diverse topics and backgrounds, united by being the next generation of plant scientists. Grateful for the connections, honest conversations, and inspiring peers!
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight
Re-join the New Phytologist next generation scientists live stream at 18:30 BST (UTC+1), when we'll be delighted to welcome Noni Franklin-Tong for a special evening lecture on 'A research career focused on investigating how self-incompatibility works'

👉 www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
August 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱

Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...

@unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social
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July 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Alternative #splicing is a crucial post-transcriptional mechanism in #plants. In a new #review, Zhu et al. explore the potential of AS to provide new strategies for #crop improvement and #sustainable #agriculture.
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#PlantScience
July 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🍀🔬

SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei!

Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
June 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE2A B′η drives spliceosome subunit dephosphorylation to mediate alternative splicing following heat stress (Seung Hee Jo , Hyun Ji Park , Haemyeong Jung , Ga Seul Lee , et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Thanks for the challenge @science-irl.bsky.social.
I can't say I'm very good at reel-making, but I tried 🌱💚.
It copied here without sound, but the version on Instagram has voiceover 😂.
#RootingForScience
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for gene knockdown -> trafficking of targeted mRNAs to the lysosomal, using lysosomal trafficking oligonucleotides (LyTONs)!

Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org
Led by Disha Kashyap
#chemsky 🧪
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Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) can modulate gene expression at the mRNA level, providing the ability to tackle conventionally undruggable targets and usher in an era of personalized medicine. A key...
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June 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory...
Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.
2026 Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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@wigge.bsky.social and @christatesterink.bsky.social on heat and salt stress, two of the major challenges for plants, i.e. for agriculture, i.e. for humanity. #ICAR2025
June 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The @maizel-lab.org & @schumacherlab.bsky.social are hiring!
Part-time lab manager position available immediately! Apply by June 30th 🇬🇧/🇩🇪
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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June 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664
Plastids in a Pinch: Coordinating Stress and Developmental Responses Through Retrograde Signalling
Plastids can sense environmental stress and improve whole plant adaptation through retrograde communication to the nucleus. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of integrated canonical and ...
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June 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM