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Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen (Germany) supporting Independent Research Groups focusing on fundamental plant molecular biology since 1999
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📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th
Please spread the word!
More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th
Please spread the word!
More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Thanks @uhammes.bsky.social for a truly enjoyable seminar and nice scientific discussions!
We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳
We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳
Good morning, Tübingen. After all these years it still feels like home.
Thanks for having me @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Thanks for having me @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thanks @uhammes.bsky.social for a truly enjoyable seminar and nice scientific discussions!
We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳
We wish you all the best with your brand new position in Würzburg! 🥳
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Our editors write:
- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1
A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW
- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1
A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our editors write:
- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1
A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW
- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1
A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW
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Inspiring visit and exciting talk by @likeyoda1.bsky.social today in @psb-vib.bsky.social. Impressive progress after starting her lab only 2 years ago!
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Inspiring visit and exciting talk by @likeyoda1.bsky.social today in @psb-vib.bsky.social. Impressive progress after starting her lab only 2 years ago!
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Research Briefing: Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding go.nature.com/47EBk8f
rdcu.be/eN6k1
rdcu.be/eN6k1
Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding - Nature Biotechnology
We engineered chimeric variants of the Arabidopsis thaliana pattern recognition receptor RLP23 by replacing the C-terminal domain from orthologous proteins in crop species. Expression of these chimeri...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Research Briefing: Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding go.nature.com/47EBk8f
rdcu.be/eN6k1
rdcu.be/eN6k1
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Thanks a lot Isa @isabelmonte.bsky.social👩🔬for accepting our invitation🤩. Such a terrific talk, opening up new research lines hand-in-hand with #Trichoderma. MPMI in its purest state!!! Special thanks to @agrienvironcyl.bsky.social for funding the visit, and many more yet to come. 🌿🧫🦠🧬
Thanks @javicheztin.bsky.social for hosting me. It's been a pleasure to go back to my dear @usaloficial.bsky.social and know more about the ongoing projects at #CIALE. Thanks for the lively scientific discussions on Trichoderma, MPMI and Marchantia, including 26 min of Q&A 😎
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thanks a lot Isa @isabelmonte.bsky.social👩🔬for accepting our invitation🤩. Such a terrific talk, opening up new research lines hand-in-hand with #Trichoderma. MPMI in its purest state!!! Special thanks to @agrienvironcyl.bsky.social for funding the visit, and many more yet to come. 🌿🧫🦠🧬
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Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Plant cell wall signaling is indeed a very dynamic process 🌱
You can read what our very own Sebastian Wolf says about pectin in this news feature 👇
You can read what our very own Sebastian Wolf says about pectin in this news feature 👇
Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Plant cell wall signaling is indeed a very dynamic process 🌱
You can read what our very own Sebastian Wolf says about pectin in this news feature 👇
You can read what our very own Sebastian Wolf says about pectin in this news feature 👇
Don't miss this online seminar by Emanuele Scacchi, from Marja Timmermans' lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, on how mobile small RNAs and Turing patterns coordinate leaf polarity!
I’ll be presenting my latest work on self-organizing gene regulatory networks and how they shape leaf morphogenesis in WG/GLIMPRINT Virtual Seminars on Multiscale Modeling.
Grateful to the IMOBio team for the kind invitation.
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#RNA #Turing #morphogenesis #leaf #plants
Grateful to the IMOBio team for the kind invitation.
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#RNA #Turing #morphogenesis #leaf #plants
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Don't miss this online seminar by Emanuele Scacchi, from Marja Timmermans' lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, on how mobile small RNAs and Turing patterns coordinate leaf polarity!
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Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
The interplay of RALF structural and signaling functions in plant-microbe interactions
Rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptides are important signaling molecules binding to Catharanthus roseus receptor-like kinase 1-like (CrRLK1L)—LORELEI/LORELEI-like GPI-anchored protein complexes t...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg.
We are so proud of you!
#plantsci
We are so proud of you!
#plantsci
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg.
We are so proud of you!
#plantsci
We are so proud of you!
#plantsci
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⏰Happening in three days, Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 9 am Eastern time. Join us!🌱
👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese...
👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese...
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on October 23 at 9 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/YRoRap9
#PlantScience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/YRoRap9
#PlantScience
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
⏰Happening in three days, Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 9 am Eastern time. Join us!🌱
👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese...
👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese...
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Another study from the lab🔬🎉
Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science!
Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
#PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP
Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science!
Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
#PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP
The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub
Summary: In vitro reconstitution experiments reveal that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 interacts with microtubules, MAP65-3 and lipids as a possible mechanism for division site deposition and...
journals.biologists.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Another study from the lab🔬🎉
Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science!
Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
#PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP
Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science!
Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
#PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP
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Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1
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Shu Yao Leong, Erik Schäffer @schaefferlab.bsky.social & team @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social discover that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 acts as a versatile interaction hub for microtubules, MAP65-3 & lipids.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Shu Yao Leong, Erik Schäffer @schaefferlab.bsky.social & team @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social discover that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 acts as a versatile interaction hub for microtubules, MAP65-3 & lipids.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar!
Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏
#MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci
Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏
#MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
October 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
Jessica @ericksonlab.bsky.social, Junior Group Leader at the #ZMBP, will discuss about work-life balance with other plant scientists in this upcoming Plantae webinar 🤸♀️🌱
Registration open in the link below 👇
Registration open in the link below 👇
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on October 23 at 9 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/YRoRap9
#PlantScience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/YRoRap9
#PlantScience
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Jessica @ericksonlab.bsky.social, Junior Group Leader at the #ZMBP, will discuss about work-life balance with other plant scientists in this upcoming Plantae webinar 🤸♀️🌱
Registration open in the link below 👇
Registration open in the link below 👇
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Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
Lost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer
@isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
@isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Lost and found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer
Plant immune receptors hold great promise for engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance,
but their effectiveness is very limited by restricted taxonomic functionality (RTF).
In this issue of Cell ...
www.cell.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
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Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!
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How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️
Have you noticed someone new here? 👇
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI
Thanks Sebastian @pfeilmeier.bsky.social for coming to the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for a #TRR356 seminar. We have all enjoyed discussing with you about #MPMI, Xanthomonas, hydathodes and more!
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Have you noticed someone new here? 👇
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI
Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP!
#newPI #plantscience #MPMI
Congratulations to the winners of the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium awards 🥳🥳🥳
🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social
🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák
🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab
🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social
🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák
🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab
September 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium awards 🥳🥳🥳
🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social
🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák
🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab
🥇Best chalk-talk Theresa Staps from @ericksonlab.bsky.social
🥇🥇 Best posters Mariam Ataulla (Lahaye lab) and Adrián Vojtaššák
🥇 Best oral presentation @frangordilloc.bsky.social, both from @isabelmonte.bsky.social's lab
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Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social
#superresolution #plasmamembrane
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
#superresolution #plasmamembrane
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Revealing Plasma Membrane Protein Dynamics in Living Plant Cells with Single-Molecule Tracking
Abstract. The behavior of proteins and other biomolecules in cellular environments is governed by complex molecular processes. Understanding their temporal
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September 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social
#superresolution #plasmamembrane
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
#superresolution #plasmamembrane
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Thanks Farid and @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for inviting us from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this year! I had a great time listening to the great talks from my peers at ZMBP and enjoyed the discussions and feedback about my work ☺️ see you again next year!
Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Thanks Farid and @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for inviting us from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this year! I had a great time listening to the great talks from my peers at ZMBP and enjoyed the discussions and feedback about my work ☺️ see you again next year!