After a refreshing break in the Eifel, I’m also heading to #2025ISMPMI Excited to meet all the friendly faces again and dive into some amazing research.
Come find us at posters P-364 & P-070 to chat about SCARs and their role in plant susceptibility. Let’s talk science! 🌱🧬

Sometimes beakers can also be useful for rescuing beautiful peacock butterflies that enter the office by accident. This guys is now flying around Weihenstephan again.

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

Strawberry moon in Freising, yesterday

🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉

You realize that you spend too much time on the microscope when the laboratory floor starts to look like microtome sections 😅

Microscopy Wednesday: Preparing for a practical course on Friday. Students will have to look at sporangiophores/sporangia of different oomycetes. #PlantScience #PlantMicrobeInteractions

While preparing for a lecture this week I was reading up on Emmer and learned that while its niche, there are a couple of brewery’s in Germany left that use emmer for beer production. Found one in the supermarket today and could not resist :) Very tasty!

Wrapping up 5 years of research. Left: barley seeds. Right: Arabidopsis, Benthi and Medicago…bigger seeds means much more storage space needed 😅

Show your plants some love and they might love you back 😉 Medicago api roots expressing dsRED transformation marker.

Good morning everyone. Happy to finally look at the blue sky. Here above my workplace, the beautiful Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge