Simon Michaeli
@michaelilab.bsky.social
Plant and cell biologist. Interested in 🔬 organelles, membrane trafficking, autophagy, 🌿🍂 senescence, 🍑 ripening, learning, teaching and much more 🪐
https://www.michaelilab.com/
https://www.michaelilab.com/
Pinned
📢 It's online (and open access) @newphyt.bsky.social
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"Autophagy restricts tomato fruit ripening via a general role in ethylene repression"
& why timing is everything...
Let's dig into it 👇
#plantscience
#autophagy
@volcaniinstitute.bsky.social
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"Autophagy restricts tomato fruit ripening via a general role in ethylene repression"
& why timing is everything...
Let's dig into it 👇
#plantscience
#autophagy
@volcaniinstitute.bsky.social
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
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#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants
@chistinesd.bsky.social, et al.
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@dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience
Summary also available in French and Spanish.
@chistinesd.bsky.social, et al.
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@dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience
Summary also available in French and Spanish.
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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.
@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.
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
"Autophagy appears to be important to our health, not only by operating directly within our own cells, but also indirectly, through the quality of fresh produce we consume"
A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening:
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
"Autophagy appears to be important to our health, not only by operating directly within our own cells, but also indirectly, through the quality of fresh produce we consume"
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of molecular sequence variation in plant evolution and breeding (Thomas L Slewinski, Sarah Turner-Hissong, Tomasz Paciorek, Brent Brower-Toland, Christine Shyu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of molecular sequence variation in plant evolution and breeding
Genetic mutations that result from spontaneous errors, random induction, or localized genome editing can produce functionally equivalent outcomes that are
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of molecular sequence variation in plant evolution and breeding (Thomas L Slewinski, Sarah Turner-Hissong, Tomasz Paciorek, Brent Brower-Toland, Christine Shyu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
Pass me some healthy mitochondria and ill give you a few defective ones to chew on in return 🤔
Intercellular mitochondrial transfer and transmitophagy in response to protein import dysfunction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687620v1
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Pass me some healthy mitochondria and ill give you a few defective ones to chew on in return 🤔
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
The ENPER bell is already in Sofia!
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The ENPER bell is already in Sofia!
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”.
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening:
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening:
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
#plantscience
rdcu.be/eOY3h
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1
Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
Cool #preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social at @frimllab.bsky.social addressing how #auxin induces #autophagy. Glad we can contribute... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1
Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Congratulations! Claudine Kraft @kraftlabfr.bsky.social receives a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant – to find out why some protein #aggregates can be cleared by #autophagy and others not. She and her partners will harness this knowledge to improve autophagy in #ageing & #disease.
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
ERC Synergy Grant for Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft
CIBSS speaker Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft is part of a team receiving an ERC Synergy Grant of ten million euros for her research on how autophagy degrades large protein aggregates in health and disease.
kurzlinks.de
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Congratulations! Claudine Kraft @kraftlabfr.bsky.social receives a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant – to find out why some protein #aggregates can be cleared by #autophagy and others not. She and her partners will harness this knowledge to improve autophagy in #ageing & #disease.
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation
azrielifoundation.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
A bit more of my Chengdu experience
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
A bit more of my Chengdu experience
Probably the best urinal point in the world...
Tanglang mountain in Shenzhen
Tanglang mountain in Shenzhen
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Probably the best urinal point in the world...
Tanglang mountain in Shenzhen
Tanglang mountain in Shenzhen
How you say you're in a conference in Chengdu without saying you're in a conference in Chengdu...
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
How you say you're in a conference in Chengdu without saying you're in a conference in Chengdu...
Hearing the good news from my country while in Chengdu. Much nicer to start the symposium on the plant hormone #ethylene tomorrow under these circumstances 🎉
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hearing the good news from my country while in Chengdu. Much nicer to start the symposium on the plant hormone #ethylene tomorrow under these circumstances 🎉
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Inside a thylakoid membrane
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
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The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Inside a thylakoid membrane
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
Congrats Dr. A. Abdrakhmanov for a fantastic PhD defence @vbcscitraining.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social ! I am proud of you👏
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Congrats Dr. A. Abdrakhmanov for a fantastic PhD defence @vbcscitraining.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social ! I am proud of you👏
👉Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
#autophagy
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#autophagy
Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress
Plants experience hyperosmotic stress due to drought and salinity. This causes cellular water loss, decreases turgor pressure, and reduces cell volume. Osmotic stress affects plasma membrane tension, ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
👉Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
#autophagy
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
#autophagy
Reposted by Simon Michaeli
📣 Massively proud of this ⬇️ great study, led by the brilliant @mesny.bsky.social surprisingly uncovering that many pathogen effectors stem from ancient antimicrobials 🤯 #EffectorWisdom #EvoMPMI
📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation
Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📣 Massively proud of this ⬇️ great study, led by the brilliant @mesny.bsky.social surprisingly uncovering that many pathogen effectors stem from ancient antimicrobials 🤯 #EffectorWisdom #EvoMPMI