Suayb Üstün
@suaybuestuen.bsky.social
Professor for Plant Cell Biology @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | #theustunlab | DFG Emmy Noether alumni | ERC StG #DIVERSIPHAGY | in 💚 with #proteostasis 🇺🇸🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇹🇷🇮🇹🇨🇳🏳️🌈 He/Him
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· Sep 3
7 years ago,I sat outside @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social,gathering the courage to begin a new chapter as a group leader. Now in Bochum, I still need that courage to face challenges—both inside & outside the lab—but after all I’m grateful that I still find joy in what I do. #happybirthday #theustunlab
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New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
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Let's keep in touch: How membrane contact sites drive immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Let's keep in touch: How membrane contact sites drive immune responses
Inside every cell, a pulsating network of molecular messengers orchestrates life's most critical conversations. While vesicular trafficking facilitates lon
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October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Let's keep in touch: How membrane contact sites drive immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
So my looks and appearance decide whether I fit into the "typical" German city landscape? Not surprising — even after 42 years, people still can’t seem to process that Germany is my home.
Migration und das Stadtbild... bemerkenswerte Aussage von #Merz: "Bei der Migration sind wir sehr weit [...] Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen" 1/x
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
So my looks and appearance decide whether I fit into the "typical" German city landscape? Not surprising — even after 42 years, people still can’t seem to process that Germany is my home.
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Wie soll man das anders verstehen, als dass der Bundeskanzler
nach Aussehen und Ethnie entscheidet, wer dazugehört und wer "im Stadtbild" stört? Störe ich Sie auch, Herr Merz? Ich laufe schließlich nicht im Arztkittel herum.
nach Aussehen und Ethnie entscheidet, wer dazugehört und wer "im Stadtbild" stört? Störe ich Sie auch, Herr Merz? Ich laufe schließlich nicht im Arztkittel herum.
Migration und das Stadtbild... bemerkenswerte Aussage von #Merz: "Bei der Migration sind wir sehr weit [...] Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen" 1/x
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Wie soll man das anders verstehen, als dass der Bundeskanzler
nach Aussehen und Ethnie entscheidet, wer dazugehört und wer "im Stadtbild" stört? Störe ich Sie auch, Herr Merz? Ich laufe schließlich nicht im Arztkittel herum.
nach Aussehen und Ethnie entscheidet, wer dazugehört und wer "im Stadtbild" stört? Störe ich Sie auch, Herr Merz? Ich laufe schließlich nicht im Arztkittel herum.
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Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
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October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
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October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Sometimes being a supervisor, project leader, mentor, or professor can feel quite lonely. I miss my PhD and postdoc days — it was the sense of community, the great interactions, and the feeling of belonging to a family that kept me sane in academia @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicChatter
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sometimes being a supervisor, project leader, mentor, or professor can feel quite lonely. I miss my PhD and postdoc days — it was the sense of community, the great interactions, and the feeling of belonging to a family that kept me sane in academia @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicChatter
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Surreal to hear folks don't think agricultural biosecurity isnt a national security risk and a massive strategic weakness for ALL countries on earth.
We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin.
Everyone needs to eat.
We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin.
Everyone needs to eat.
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Surreal to hear folks don't think agricultural biosecurity isnt a national security risk and a massive strategic weakness for ALL countries on earth.
We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin.
Everyone needs to eat.
We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin.
Everyone needs to eat.
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FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!
September 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!
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Starting our first @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience seminar series of the academic year with a thank you by @elkebarbez.bsky.social for postdoc appreciation day, chocolates and a talk by @beritebert.bsky.social on cell walls and glycans!
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Starting our first @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience seminar series of the academic year with a thank you by @elkebarbez.bsky.social for postdoc appreciation day, chocolates and a talk by @beritebert.bsky.social on cell walls and glycans!
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If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts
a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look "
ALT: a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look "
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September 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts
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Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
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September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676479v1
September 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676479v1
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I am excited to share my graduate work in the Sabatini and @bartellab.bsky.social labs. Since their discovery, we have known lysosomes possess RNase activity; however, their substrates were not known. Surprisingly we find specific RNAs are targeted for degradation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lysosomal RNA profiling reveals targeting of specific types of RNAs for degradation
Autophagy targets a wide variety of substrates for degradation within lysosomes. While lysosomes are known to possess RNase activity, the role of lysosomal RNA degradation in post-transcriptional gene...
www.biorxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I am excited to share my graduate work in the Sabatini and @bartellab.bsky.social labs. Since their discovery, we have known lysosomes possess RNase activity; however, their substrates were not known. Surprisingly we find specific RNAs are targeted for degradation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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...
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...
W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
August 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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...
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...
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Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
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Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
September 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
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I am extremely happy and honoured to share with you that I received an #ERCStG! It has been an amazing journey. 🤘
Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱
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Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I am extremely happy and honoured to share with you that I received an #ERCStG! It has been an amazing journey. 🤘
Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱
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Thank you so much for the encouragement and support from mentors, colleagues, friends and family during my career through different countries in Europe. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱
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I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
🎉 Three ERC Starting Grants for Cologne researchers:
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳
Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳
Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9
Millions in EU funding: Three ERC Starting Grants Awarded to Researchers at the University of Cologne
Three researchers at the University of Cologne have each received one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers / for a total of 4.5 million euros over five years
uni.koeln
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
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Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation!
How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation
Positions to be announced soon!
How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation
Positions to be announced soon!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation!
How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation
Positions to be announced soon!
How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation
Positions to be announced soon!
Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!
The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
September 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!