Darius Kosmützky
@dariuskos.bsky.social
Postdoc @slcuplants.bsky.social | Plant Microbe Interactions, Photosynthesis, Sustainability | Gates Cambridge Alumnus | ☀️🌱🦠🧑🔬🏳️🌈🔬🧬
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Darius Kosmützky
@dariuskos.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
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.
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.
The life of a plant scientist… In order of magnification: me taking some #Marchantia from my courtyard, the picture I took in that very moment, and the microscopy image of that sample sectioned through a gemma cup. Turquoise: chlorophyll, yellow: WGA-FITC (binds chitin of e.g. fungi)!
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The life of a plant scientist… In order of magnification: me taking some #Marchantia from my courtyard, the picture I took in that very moment, and the microscopy image of that sample sectioned through a gemma cup. Turquoise: chlorophyll, yellow: WGA-FITC (binds chitin of e.g. fungi)!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and Diversity
The successful applicant will be expected to build an independent research group to study plant development and/or its natural variation.
www.mpipz.mpg.de
August 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn
Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!
July 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants
The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!
Our latest paper is out now in @jacs.acspublications.org . In this study we tried to push the limits of #electrochemistry beyond proteins, to studying entire pathways of biological electron transfer ⚡️🦠. Here's a summary 🧵 (1/10)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Dissecting Bioelectrical Networks in Photosynthetic Membranes with Electrochemistry
Photosynthetic membranes contain complex networks of redox proteins and molecules, which direct electrons along various energy-to-chemical interconversion reactions important for sustaining life on Ea...
pubs.acs.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
July 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...
Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity at Imperial College London
Apply for the Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
GROUP LEADER VACANCY
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.
www.jic.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
GROUP LEADER VACANCY
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.
Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!
Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!
July 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.
Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!
Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell?
The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI
The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI
July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell?
The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI
The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
July 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
Full circle moment for me at #2025ISMPMI: the Congress started out in #Bielefeld where I did my undergrad in biochemistry!
July 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Full circle moment for me at #2025ISMPMI: the Congress started out in #Bielefeld where I did my undergrad in biochemistry!
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Really lovely talk with great insights into scientific mentoring. Obvs also love the puns 😂
MPMI: Magic Professional Mentorship Interaction
July 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Really lovely talk with great insights into scientific mentoring. Obvs also love the puns 😂
Really cool start of a week of conference yesterday at #OMGN2025. I learned so much about oomycetes and got to present our some of our work studying its interaction with Marchantia. Looking forward a free morning in Cologne and to #2025ISMPMI starting later today!
#omgn2025 @dariuskos.bsky.social presenting research on a Marchantia transcription factor which controls its reproductive structures and is stress-regulated.
Read more about it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read more about it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Really cool start of a week of conference yesterday at #OMGN2025. I learned so much about oomycetes and got to present our some of our work studying its interaction with Marchantia. Looking forward a free morning in Cologne and to #2025ISMPMI starting later today!
First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI!
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI!
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social
What a cool day at Botanicon today! I’m excited to part of such a buzzing research community in #plantscience!
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)
Botanicon 2025 - the 3rd annual Plants @ Cambridge conference bringing together plant scientists from across Cambridge to share their work and ideas.
@camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PlantsAtCambridge
@camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PlantsAtCambridge
July 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What a cool day at Botanicon today! I’m excited to part of such a buzzing research community in #plantscience!
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)
(Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)
Beautiful microscopy from Alex leading to exciting insights on the interface membranes between plants & pathogens/symbionts!
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
June 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Beautiful microscopy from Alex leading to exciting insights on the interface membranes between plants & pathogens/symbionts!
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions
#plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions
Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!
June 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!
Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae?
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
A game of tag: A review of protein tags for the successful detection, purification and fluorescence labelling of proteins expressed in microalgae
Protein tags for detection, purification and fluorescence labelling are vital in microalgal research, yet the suitability of specific tags remains largely unexplored. This review discusses the pros a....
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae?
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
Had a lovely time at the #FestivalofPlants @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on Saturday showcasing our research @slcuplants.bsky.social. Spot me at the stereoscope looking at flowers and of course #Marchantia!
Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.
Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.
June 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Had a lovely time at the #FestivalofPlants @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on Saturday showcasing our research @slcuplants.bsky.social. Spot me at the stereoscope looking at flowers and of course #Marchantia!
Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.
Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Reposted by Darius Kosmützky
Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics
Science is political.
For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.
Science is political.
For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.
May 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics
Science is political.
For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.
Science is political.
For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.