DOMPS
@dompsfr.bsky.social
Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Freiburg
→ http://www.plantphotobiology.org/DOMPS/Plant_Science_Seminar.php
→ https://uni-freiburg.de/bio-en/research/plant/
(posts by @sophiezoe.bsky.social)
→ http://www.plantphotobiology.org/DOMPS/Plant_Science_Seminar.php
→ https://uni-freiburg.de/bio-en/research/plant/
(posts by @sophiezoe.bsky.social)
Today we heard the PhD progress update of @aroessling.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social). She is undoubtedly the best illustrator within DOMPS, making her talk on vacuoles, cell walls and FERONIA’s role in cell expansion very engaging.
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today we heard the PhD progress update of @aroessling.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social). She is undoubtedly the best illustrator within DOMPS, making her talk on vacuoles, cell walls and FERONIA’s role in cell expansion very engaging.
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 21 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
How do roots sense phosphate and iron? Discover the PDR2–LPR1 pathway with @cnaumann123.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social), and see how it links nutrient sensing to ER quality control and autophagy. Learn how roots adapt in Pi-poor, Fe-rich soils!
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How do roots sense phosphate and iron? Discover the PDR2–LPR1 pathway with @cnaumann123.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social), and see how it links nutrient sensing to ER quality control and autophagy. Learn how roots adapt in Pi-poor, Fe-rich soils!
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 7 | 🕥 10:15 | 📍 KS 00.009
#PlantScience
The Cell Wall as a Biophysical Gatekeeper of Iron Homeostasis in Plant Roots
Yesterday, Chenlu Liu (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social group) revealed how dynamic cell wall charge regulates iron uptake in plant roots, acting as a reversible ion filter that shapes nutrient balance.
#PlantScience
Yesterday, Chenlu Liu (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social group) revealed how dynamic cell wall charge regulates iron uptake in plant roots, acting as a reversible ion filter that shapes nutrient balance.
#PlantScience
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Cell Wall as a Biophysical Gatekeeper of Iron Homeostasis in Plant Roots
Yesterday, Chenlu Liu (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social group) revealed how dynamic cell wall charge regulates iron uptake in plant roots, acting as a reversible ion filter that shapes nutrient balance.
#PlantScience
Yesterday, Chenlu Liu (from the @elkebarbez.bsky.social group) revealed how dynamic cell wall charge regulates iron uptake in plant roots, acting as a reversible ion filter that shapes nutrient balance.
#PlantScience
A strong start to the semester at @uni-freiburg.de, @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social! 🌱 The Department of Molecular Plant Sciences (DOMPS) introduced its working groups, sparking lively conversations with many curious and motivated master’s students.
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A strong start to the semester at @uni-freiburg.de, @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social! 🌱 The Department of Molecular Plant Sciences (DOMPS) introduced its working groups, sparking lively conversations with many curious and motivated master’s students.
We heard a very engaging talk today from @gjjang.bsky.social. 👀 You can dive deeper into their research in their recent publication "SlimVar for rapid in vivo single-molecule tracking of chromatin regulators in plants" (doi.org/10.1038/s414...)
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We heard a very engaging talk today from @gjjang.bsky.social. 👀 You can dive deeper into their research in their recent publication "SlimVar for rapid in vivo single-molecule tracking of chromatin regulators in plants" (doi.org/10.1038/s414...)
Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo.
📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo.
📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
Can a drop of rain prime plants for survival? 🌧️🌿
Join us as @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) reveals how Arabidopsis uses rain as a mechano-signal to boost flooding tolerance via calcium, jasmonate and ethylene pathways.
📅 Fri, Jul 25 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
Join us as @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) reveals how Arabidopsis uses rain as a mechano-signal to boost flooding tolerance via calcium, jasmonate and ethylene pathways.
📅 Fri, Jul 25 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
July 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Can a drop of rain prime plants for survival? 🌧️🌿
Join us as @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) reveals how Arabidopsis uses rain as a mechano-signal to boost flooding tolerance via calcium, jasmonate and ethylene pathways.
📅 Fri, Jul 25 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
Join us as @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social (from @hartman-plantlab.com) reveals how Arabidopsis uses rain as a mechano-signal to boost flooding tolerance via calcium, jasmonate and ethylene pathways.
📅 Fri, Jul 25 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
@marischuster.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social) gave an eye-opening talk on Friday, highlighting how receptor-like kinase processing is an emerging and crucial mechanism in plant development and immunity, with big potential for crop protection. #PlantScience #SeminarRecap
July 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
@marischuster.bsky.social (from @ipbhalle.bsky.social) gave an eye-opening talk on Friday, highlighting how receptor-like kinase processing is an emerging and crucial mechanism in plant development and immunity, with big potential for crop protection. #PlantScience #SeminarRecap
Today we heard a fascinating talk by Conrad Mullineaux on Cyanobacterial mRNA localization and chloroplast evolution. You can read more about it in this review ☝🏼, written in collaboration with @freecyano.bsky.social and @cyanolab.bsky.social from @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social.
June 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today we heard a fascinating talk by Conrad Mullineaux on Cyanobacterial mRNA localization and chloroplast evolution. You can read more about it in this review ☝🏼, written in collaboration with @freecyano.bsky.social and @cyanolab.bsky.social from @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social.
Today Alisha (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social) gave a talk on the evolution of key regulatory genes in non-seed plants. She explored SPL transcription factors in Marchantia polymorpha and showed how phytochromes diversiPHYd to help plants conquer land. #PlantScience
May 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today Alisha (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social) gave a talk on the evolution of key regulatory genes in non-seed plants. She explored SPL transcription factors in Marchantia polymorpha and showed how phytochromes diversiPHYd to help plants conquer land. #PlantScience
The DOMPS #PlantScience Paper of the Year 2024 was awarded to Sharma et al., from Thomas Laux's group. Congratulations! 🥂
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
April 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The DOMPS #PlantScience Paper of the Year 2024 was awarded to Sharma et al., from Thomas Laux's group. Congratulations! 🥂
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Huge thanks to this year's wonderful organizing team: Klara (@k-lesch.bsky.social), Catarina, Laura, Anne, and Doro (@derwordo.bsky.social)!
April 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Huge thanks to this year's wonderful organizing team: Klara (@k-lesch.bsky.social), Catarina, Laura, Anne, and Doro (@derwordo.bsky.social)!
Our second keynote speaker was Ute Höcker (from @unicologne.bsky.social). She talked about their current research on identifying novel substrates of COP1/SPA. Additionally, they have been investigating the molecular mechanisms of photoreceptor-mediated inactivation of COP1/SPA.
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our second keynote speaker was Ute Höcker (from @unicologne.bsky.social). She talked about their current research on identifying novel substrates of COP1/SPA. Additionally, they have been investigating the molecular mechanisms of photoreceptor-mediated inactivation of COP1/SPA.
#PlantScience poster session is on fire! So many exciting discussions happening!
April 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#PlantScience poster session is on fire! So many exciting discussions happening!
Thomas Ott - @ottlab.bsky.social - Plant Cell Biology
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Protein organization on cell surfaces
• Membrane-associated signal transduction
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Protein organization on cell surfaces
• Membrane-associated signal transduction
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thomas Ott - @ottlab.bsky.social - Plant Cell Biology
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Protein organization on cell surfaces
• Membrane-associated signal transduction
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Protein organization on cell surfaces
• Membrane-associated signal transduction
Laura Ragni - @lauraragni.bsky.social - Plant Cell Biology
• Radial growth of plant organs
• Root protective barriers
• Plant polymers
• Radial growth of plant organs
• Root protective barriers
• Plant polymers
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Laura Ragni - @lauraragni.bsky.social - Plant Cell Biology
• Radial growth of plant organs
• Root protective barriers
• Plant polymers
• Radial growth of plant organs
• Root protective barriers
• Plant polymers
Sjon Hartman - @sjonhartman.bsky.social - Plant Environmental Signalling and Development
• Plant Responses to Flooding
• Epigenetic Stress Memory
• Ethylene and low-oxygen signalling
• Plant Responses to Flooding
• Epigenetic Stress Memory
• Ethylene and low-oxygen signalling
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sjon Hartman - @sjonhartman.bsky.social - Plant Environmental Signalling and Development
• Plant Responses to Flooding
• Epigenetic Stress Memory
• Ethylene and low-oxygen signalling
• Plant Responses to Flooding
• Epigenetic Stress Memory
• Ethylene and low-oxygen signalling
Elke Barbez - @elkebarbez.bsky.social - Cell wall charge in plant roots
• Plant cell wall
• Apoplastic pH regulation
• Plant molecular biology
• Plant cell wall
• Apoplastic pH regulation
• Plant molecular biology
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Elke Barbez - @elkebarbez.bsky.social - Cell wall charge in plant roots
• Plant cell wall
• Apoplastic pH regulation
• Plant molecular biology
• Plant cell wall
• Apoplastic pH regulation
• Plant molecular biology
Ralf Reski - @reskilab.bsky.social - Plant biotechnology
• Plant Biotechnology
• Synthetic Biology
• Evo-devo
• Plant Biotechnology
• Synthetic Biology
• Evo-devo
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Ralf Reski - @reskilab.bsky.social - Plant biotechnology
• Plant Biotechnology
• Synthetic Biology
• Evo-devo
• Plant Biotechnology
• Synthetic Biology
• Evo-devo
Andreas Hiltbrunner - @plantphotobiology.bsky.social - Molecular Plant Physiology
• Molecular mechanisms of phytochromes
• Evolution of phytochromes
• Integration of light and environmental signalling
• Molecular mechanisms of phytochromes
• Evolution of phytochromes
• Integration of light and environmental signalling
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Andreas Hiltbrunner - @plantphotobiology.bsky.social - Molecular Plant Physiology
• Molecular mechanisms of phytochromes
• Evolution of phytochromes
• Integration of light and environmental signalling
• Molecular mechanisms of phytochromes
• Evolution of phytochromes
• Integration of light and environmental signalling
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn - @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social - Molecular Plant Physiology
• Unraveling plant growth at a subcellular level
• Unraveling plant growth at a subcellular level
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn - @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social - Molecular Plant Physiology
• Unraveling plant growth at a subcellular level
• Unraveling plant growth at a subcellular level
Pitter Huesgen - @degradomics.bsky.social - Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics
• Proteomics method development
• Protease substrate identifcation
• Proteolysis in cellular stress responses
• Proteomics method development
• Protease substrate identifcation
• Proteolysis in cellular stress responses
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pitter Huesgen - @degradomics.bsky.social - Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics
• Proteomics method development
• Protease substrate identifcation
• Proteolysis in cellular stress responses
• Proteomics method development
• Protease substrate identifcation
• Proteolysis in cellular stress responses
A very entertaining talk by @structplantbio.bsky.social (from the University of Geneva) as a follow-up to our previous seminar on inositol pyrophosphates. It covered the importance and structural mechanism of how the SPX domain and the PPI5PK kinase and phosphatase (2in1) function.
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A very entertaining talk by @structplantbio.bsky.social (from the University of Geneva) as a follow-up to our previous seminar on inositol pyrophosphates. It covered the importance and structural mechanism of how the SPX domain and the PPI5PK kinase and phosphatase (2in1) function.
We concluded the second day with two exciting workshops:
•Science illustration with Michal Rössler (freelancer), and
•Introduction to bioinformatic tools related to the evolution of land plants with @dvarshney.bsky.social and @shiltemann.bsky.social (from @watertoland.bsky.social).
•Science illustration with Michal Rössler (freelancer), and
•Introduction to bioinformatic tools related to the evolution of land plants with @dvarshney.bsky.social and @shiltemann.bsky.social (from @watertoland.bsky.social).
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We concluded the second day with two exciting workshops:
•Science illustration with Michal Rössler (freelancer), and
•Introduction to bioinformatic tools related to the evolution of land plants with @dvarshney.bsky.social and @shiltemann.bsky.social (from @watertoland.bsky.social).
•Science illustration with Michal Rössler (freelancer), and
•Introduction to bioinformatic tools related to the evolution of land plants with @dvarshney.bsky.social and @shiltemann.bsky.social (from @watertoland.bsky.social).