Jose Julian
@josejulian.bsky.social
🇪🇸 Group Leader | Julian Lab @ BOKU University 🇦🇹
🔬 Vacuolar defense & plant stress responses
🧬 ATG8ylation | Non-canonical autophagy | VQC
https://boku.ac.at/en/btlw/impb/julian-lab
🔬 Vacuolar defense & plant stress responses
🧬 ATG8ylation | Non-canonical autophagy | VQC
https://boku.ac.at/en/btlw/impb/julian-lab
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Jose Julian
@josejulian.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
Reposted by Jose Julian
🎉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...
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My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants
The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jose Julian
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
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
Reposted by Jose Julian
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!
Reposted by Jose Julian
Very excited to see our review on metacaspases finally out in Cell Death & Differentiation! Grateful for the opportunity to summarise the current state of the field, thanks to everyone involved 🌱🤓
Check out our new review metacaspases in Cell Death & Differentiation @springernature.com . It´s not all about cell death, but more about survival 👇https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-025-01555-y
August 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Very excited to see our review on metacaspases finally out in Cell Death & Differentiation! Grateful for the opportunity to summarise the current state of the field, thanks to everyone involved 🌱🤓
Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
Reposted by Jose Julian
🆕 Review by @josejulian.bsky.social on one of my favourite organelles: #vacuole (signaling & biogenesis & quality control) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There's so much exciting stuff waiting to be discovered on these mammoth organelles!
July 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🆕 Review by @josejulian.bsky.social on one of my favourite organelles: #vacuole (signaling & biogenesis & quality control) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There's so much exciting stuff waiting to be discovered on these mammoth organelles!
Reposted by Jose Julian
📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls
🧑🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.
📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods
🧑🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.
📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods
CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls - Nature Methods
A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall ch...
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls
🧑🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.
📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods
🧑🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.
📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods
Reposted by Jose Julian
Juan Carlos De la Concepción, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI, is one of the recipients of this year’s Early Career Research Awards, awarded by the Biochemical Society.
April 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Juan Carlos De la Concepción, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI, is one of the recipients of this year’s Early Career Research Awards, awarded by the Biochemical Society.
Reposted by Jose Julian
The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Jose Julian
Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5
Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw
Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw
March 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Angelina Gross, postdoc in Yasin Dagdas’ lab, will soon join BOKU University as a principal investigator. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the GMI and her expectations for her new position: bit.ly/41C8Rg5
Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw
Read other GMI scientists’ experiences here: bit.ly/3SYh6zw
Reposted by Jose Julian
Congrats to @josejulian.bsky.social from the lab of @plantophagy.bsky.social and all co-authors on this great work uncovering a novel quality control mechanism that protects the vacuole’s integrity upon cell wall damage. Out now @natureplants.bsky.social:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Congrats to @josejulian.bsky.social from the lab of @plantophagy.bsky.social and all co-authors on this great work uncovering a novel quality control mechanism that protects the vacuole’s integrity upon cell wall damage. Out now @natureplants.bsky.social:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jose Julian
📜 ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage
🧑🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natureplants.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls
🧑🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natureplants.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls
ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
📜 ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage
🧑🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natureplants.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls
🧑🔬 @josejulian.bsky.social, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, @plantophagy.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natureplants.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy #Autophagy #PlantCellWalls
Reposted by Jose Julian
Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…
ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…
Reposted by Jose Julian
New Article: "ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage" rdcu.be/d8Y3S
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
February 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New Article: "ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage" rdcu.be/d8Y3S
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jose Julian
New paper alert! The Dagdas group @plantophagy.bsky.social discovered that the molecule ATG8 protects the vacuole when the cell wall is damaged. This mechanism ensures that the highly pressured vacuole, essential to the plant cell, remains intact. Read more: bit.ly/4aLCZK9
February 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New paper alert! The Dagdas group @plantophagy.bsky.social discovered that the molecule ATG8 protects the vacuole when the cell wall is damaged. This mechanism ensures that the highly pressured vacuole, essential to the plant cell, remains intact. Read more: bit.ly/4aLCZK9
Reposted by Jose Julian
Exciting news! 🌱 With march I will join the BOKU University in Vienna as a tenure-track assistant!
My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy.
www.thegrosslab.com
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky
My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy.
www.thegrosslab.com
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky
Gross Autophagy Lab
www.thegrosslab.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Exciting news! 🌱 With march I will join the BOKU University in Vienna as a tenure-track assistant!
My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy.
www.thegrosslab.com
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky
My group will investigate how plants integrate complex environmental stresses to induce #autophagy.
www.thegrosslab.com
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#plantscience #biochemistry #cellbiology #academicsky
Congrats on the amazing work! Just what the field was needing right now.
📣Now out: our review on plant 🌱 #autophagy in health and disease!
We hope it will be a resource to the community! Please let us know what you think
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#stressbiology #plantproteolysis2025 with @plantophagy.bsky.social @suaybuestuen.bsky.social and Margot Raffeiner
We hope it will be a resource to the community! Please let us know what you think
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#stressbiology #plantproteolysis2025 with @plantophagy.bsky.social @suaybuestuen.bsky.social and Margot Raffeiner
January 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Congrats on the amazing work! Just what the field was needing right now.
I'm very happy to receive this prize! Thanks to Professor Byung-Ho and the #plantproteolysis2025 committee for awarding my poster at #GRC.
January 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm very happy to receive this prize! Thanks to Professor Byung-Ho and the #plantproteolysis2025 committee for awarding my poster at #GRC.
Reposted by Jose Julian
Congratulations @josejulian.bsky.social for winning the Poster Prize #plantproteolysis2025
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January 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Congratulations @josejulian.bsky.social for winning the Poster Prize #plantproteolysis2025
Just starting the Autophagy session at Plant Proteolysis meeting with an introduction into the field by @plantophagy.bsky.social #GRC
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just starting the Autophagy session at Plant Proteolysis meeting with an introduction into the field by @plantophagy.bsky.social #GRC
Getting close to Luca (Toscana) for the GRC in Plant Proteolysis!
January 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Getting close to Luca (Toscana) for the GRC in Plant Proteolysis!
Reposted by Jose Julian
As we go through various steps of the peer-review process, @gmivienna.bsky.social comms team put together a nice summary of our recent #preprints : www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n... Thx @philippdexheimer.bsky.social for the illustration
Autophagy Unveiled: The Dagdas Group is shining a light on cellular recycling
Autophagy keeps cells clean from harmful components. The group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI studies how selective autophagy detects and removes damaged or unwanted cellular structures. In 2024, the Dagd...
www.oeaw.ac.at
January 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
As we go through various steps of the peer-review process, @gmivienna.bsky.social comms team put together a nice summary of our recent #preprints : www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n... Thx @philippdexheimer.bsky.social for the illustration