Björn Usadel
@usadellab.bsky.social
Plant Omics, Machine Learning, Genomics, Tools, Data Managment
Labs in Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf Uni
https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ibg/ibg-4
https://www.biological-data-science.hhu.de/en/biological-data-science
Labs in Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf Uni
https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ibg/ibg-4
https://www.biological-data-science.hhu.de/en/biological-data-science
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How do graph pangenomes and panphenomes help breeding eggplant? doi.org/10.1038/s414.... This feat would not have been possible without a large team of 24 researchers from 7 countries.
How do graph pangenomes and panphenomes help breeding eggplant? doi.org/10.1038/s414.... This feat would not have been possible without a large team of 24 researchers from 7 countries.
Graph-based pangenomes and pan-phenome provide a cornerstone for eggplant biology and breeding - Nature Communications
Eggplants are important vegetables worldwide. Here, the authors report 40 genome assemblies of Solanum melongena, its progenitor S. insanum and the allied species S. incanum to construct two pangenome...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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How do graph pangenomes and panphenomes help breeding eggplant? doi.org/10.1038/s414.... This feat would not have been possible without a large team of 24 researchers from 7 countries.
How do graph pangenomes and panphenomes help breeding eggplant? doi.org/10.1038/s414.... This feat would not have been possible without a large team of 24 researchers from 7 countries.
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The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
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Associate Professor & Director of NCBG Herbarium
This is a research, teaching, and public service position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving jointly as Herbarium Director at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) and as...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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In our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
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🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
Systems-level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas-Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation
Plant molecular adaptation to plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) under nutrient stress remains unclear, yet is essential for advancing PGPB use in agriculture. The model grass Brachypodium dystach...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
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Postdoctoral Research Position in Plant–Microbe Interactions | University of Cologne, Germany
The Saur Lab at the University of Cologne invites applications for a postdoctoral position in molecular plant–microbe interactions. This ERC-funded role offers an opportunity to study non-host resistance…
The Saur Lab at the University of Cologne invites applications for a postdoctoral position in molecular plant–microbe interactions. This ERC-funded role offers an opportunity to study non-host resistance…
Postdoctoral Research Position in Plant–Microbe Interactions | University of Cologne, Germany
The Saur Lab at the University of Cologne invites applications for a postdoctoral position in molecular plant–microbe interactions. This ERC-funded role offers an opportunity to study non-host resistance to fungal pathogens in cereal crops within one of Europe’s top research environments.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Postdoctoral Research Position in Plant–Microbe Interactions | University of Cologne, Germany
The Saur Lab at the University of Cologne invites applications for a postdoctoral position in molecular plant–microbe interactions. This ERC-funded role offers an opportunity to study non-host resistance…
The Saur Lab at the University of Cologne invites applications for a postdoctoral position in molecular plant–microbe interactions. This ERC-funded role offers an opportunity to study non-host resistance…
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We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:
🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
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🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
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October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:
🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
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🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
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Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Conference
Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants", annual meeting of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...
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Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin
Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor
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October 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity.
The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
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October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Now we just need more target journal support (esp. plant journals) but this is really something needed....
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Now we just need more target journal support (esp. plant journals) but this is really something needed....
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The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:
- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x
Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025
RT are welcome
#plantjobs #plantscijobs
- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x
Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025
RT are welcome
#plantjobs #plantscijobs
Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:
- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x
Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025
RT are welcome
#plantjobs #plantscijobs
- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x
Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025
RT are welcome
#plantjobs #plantscijobs
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Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025
Anika in my department is looking for a Phd student on buckwheat stress responses. Maybe this is something for you?
#plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...
#plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...
PhD position in the field of plant sciences/transcriptome analyses
Do you want to contribute to sustainable plant use with your work? Then you are exactly right at the institute`s department Bioinformatics (IBG-4) of the Institute for Bio and Geosciences at the Forsc...
www.fz-juelich.de
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Anika in my department is looking for a Phd student on buckwheat stress responses. Maybe this is something for you?
#plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...
#plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics
@uni-kiel.de
Deadline: 19 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics
@uni-kiel.de
Deadline: 19 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
September 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics
@uni-kiel.de
Deadline: 19 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics
@uni-kiel.de
Deadline: 19 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
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Lucas Munnes closes this Wednesday’s session at the #SOLRUB2025 presenting about a #pangenome in the Morelloid clade. Different species have different levels of polyploidy with S. nigrum being highest (6x). Synteny with S. americanum (2x). For nigrum subA ~ americanum. subB & subC ~ villosum (4x).
September 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Lucas Munnes closes this Wednesday’s session at the #SOLRUB2025 presenting about a #pangenome in the Morelloid clade. Different species have different levels of polyploidy with S. nigrum being highest (6x). Synteny with S. americanum (2x). For nigrum subA ~ americanum. subB & subC ~ villosum (4x).
Laura breeding /generating the eggplants we all want to have.
Laura Toppino follows at #SOLRUB2025 with her presentation about avoiding eggplant fruit flesh browning using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Browning is produced by polyphenols. Chlorogenic acid is the main browning polyphenol in eggplants. It is caused by PPOs. Knocking out HQT reduces browning.
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Laura breeding /generating the eggplants we all want to have.
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Jaime Prohens brings us a wonderful presentation about the importance of #eggplant populations to elucidate the molecular players in agronomical traits at #SOLRUB2025. Having a good population was essential to identify the gene behind the formation of #pickles in eggplants.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Jaime Prohens brings us a wonderful presentation about the importance of #eggplant populations to elucidate the molecular players in agronomical traits at #SOLRUB2025. Having a good population was essential to identify the gene behind the formation of #pickles in eggplants.
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Nice presentation by Martina Stromvik at the #SOLRUB2025aboit the #allotetraploid potato species, Solanum acaule. This species has been used to introgress cold tolerance into some potato varieties like Viking. One of the ancestral parents remains elusive in its identification.
September 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nice presentation by Martina Stromvik at the #SOLRUB2025aboit the #allotetraploid potato species, Solanum acaule. This species has been used to introgress cold tolerance into some potato varieties like Viking. One of the ancestral parents remains elusive in its identification.
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An-Sofie Tas brings us a presentation of a wild coffee species, Coffea dactylifera, at #SOLRUB2035. She proposes the use of this species as alternative to the coffee crops although breeding is necessary. This species has a compact form, similar to arabica. It also has smaller beans and sweet taste.
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
An-Sofie Tas brings us a presentation of a wild coffee species, Coffea dactylifera, at #SOLRUB2035. She proposes the use of this species as alternative to the coffee crops although breeding is necessary. This species has a compact form, similar to arabica. It also has smaller beans and sweet taste.
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Switching from biodiversity to the omics technologies session at the #SOLRUB2025. Presenting Adi Avni about plant-based sensors. The idea , convert plant gene responses in a signal read by an electrode that can transmit the information to a computer.
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Switching from biodiversity to the omics technologies session at the #SOLRUB2025. Presenting Adi Avni about plant-based sensors. The idea , convert plant gene responses in a signal read by an electrode that can transmit the information to a computer.
Lucas Munnes just provided some update on Morelloid genomes and where Solanum nigrum might have come from at #SOLRUB2025
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Lucas Munnes just provided some update on Morelloid genomes and where Solanum nigrum might have come from at #SOLRUB2025
It took us a very long time but here is Arslan with the Nicotina glauca genome and the leaf developmental series transcriptome and metabolome at #SOLRUB2025
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It took us a very long time but here is Arslan with the Nicotina glauca genome and the leaf developmental series transcriptome and metabolome at #SOLRUB2025
Vivien out of her usual lichen track presents the analysis of Alkengi officinarum and transcriptomic change during the calyx color change at #SOLRUB2025.
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Vivien out of her usual lichen track presents the analysis of Alkengi officinarum and transcriptomic change during the calyx color change at #SOLRUB2025.
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Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.