Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

📣 Professorship (W2) in Root-Microbiome Interactions. Joint appointment between @hhu.de and @leibnizipk.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social Looking for candidates who investigate the mechanisms that govern the attraction, colonization and proliferation of root microbial communities.

Largest screen ever, great venue for a full day on photosynthesis #plantsci #synbio

🌱Our new preprint in @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social uncovers a novel role for Toc90 in regulating chloroplast senescence and photosynthetic protein abundance in Arabidopsis. 📄:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.29.755046v1

Was hat KI auf dem Acker zu suchen? Nicolaus von Wirén (@leibnizipk.bsky.social & @unihalle.bsky.social) & Jedrzej Szymanski (@leibnizipk.bsky.social & @fz-juelich.de) im #Podcast #TonspurWissen von @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de & Rheinischer Post. 🎧👉 pod.fo/e/6bf177 #Landwirtschaft #Gentechnik #Biologie

Professorship (W2) of Computational Plant Systematics (6 years/tenure track). New job offer in our biology department @lmu.de 👇. Please apply and help to spread the word. www.nature.com/naturecareer... #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

"extreme genome reduction of this magnitude ... almost exclusively in mutualistic endosymbionts, ...minimality... supported by a host ... Sukunaarchaeum reveals a second, distinct endpoint: ...stripped of nearly all metabolic function yet capable of replicating itself." www.cell.com/current-biol...

🌱🦠 Excited to share part of my PhD work @mpipz.bsky.social with @hotvegetables.bsky.social as co-first, in collab with @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @ceplas.bsky.social. We found that Arabidopsis and its microbiota work together to adapt iron acquisition to soil pH. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵

Just spontaneously, big plant questions: * How to adapt agriculture to climate change? * Can climate change and biodiversity loss be mitigated in ecosystems? * Can photosynthesis be optimized? * How did the mosses/tracheophytes split evolve (e.g. what did early land plants do with their stomata)?

Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Congratulations to biophysicist Peter Hegemann @humboldtuni.bsky.social, plant physiologist Georg Nagel @uni-wuerzburg.de, and @deisseroth.bsky.social! …. it all started with a basic research question: how tiny alga sense light

Here a W3 professorship at Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. The university had the first Nobel Prize winner and since today also one of the most recent ones.

Asgard archaea can actively crawl, using protrusions that are filled with an actin-based "cytoskeleton". Speed in the range of µm / s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper from Xiao Dong on the mutational dynamics of centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana! 🌱 A quick thread on what we found... 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our paper on the subcellular proteome of Paulinella is finally out! A possible oxygen-scavenging mechanism to enhance RuBisCO carboxylation highlights how protists can reveal unexpected solutions to challenges in photosynthesis. Big kudos to everyone involved! @evanowack.bsky.social

Ancient genome function persists despite frequent mutations Biology: Publication in Nature Centromeres are crucial for cell division and emerged early in evolution. A research team led by Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the Max ... weiterlesen

Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de

Asgard archaea, named for the realm of the Norse gods, changed scientists' views on the origins of eukaryotes go.nature.com/4h8rgZP

💻 🍃 A mathematical #model of photoinhibition: exploring the impact of quenching processes by Tim Nies, Shizue Matsubara, Oliver Ebenhoeh doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

and many thanks to @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social and the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de team for the organisation and making it a great space for ECRs

Last week ended #BotanikTagung2026 & I really enjoyed my time there meeting known & new people and especially to be there with my small though growing group of amazing researchers 💚🌾

Mark your calendars: The next Botanik-Tagung #BT2028, the international Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 📍will take place at Göttingen, Germany organised by @jandevries.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 - 21 September 2028

Kirsten Krause is talking about plant interactions, especially parasitic plants #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Strasburger Award 2026 goes to Michelle Rönspies for her outstanding work on CRISPR-Cas-mediated chromosome fusion in A. thaliana #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Best Paper Prize 2025 by the Wilhelm Pfeffer foundation is awarded to Sara Leite Dias, Ling Chuang, and Shenyu Liu #BT2026

A big congrats to @jaccolinezegers.bsky.social again for receiving the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for her amazing PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de

Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de at #BT2026 receives the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize from DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago.

So happy to see @michaelraissig.bsky.social speaking at #BT2026 about his fascinating work on stomatal development 🌱

Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

Second day of #Botanik-Tagung2026 starts with a talk by Katie Field about mycorrhiza #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Ute Krämer is wrapping up the first day of the conference with a lecture about plant adaption to heavy metal #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

Curated to support #Botanik-Tagung2026, our latest subject collection showcases recent research and review-type articles on plant development that have been published in the journal, curated by Development Editor @stanfordstomata.bsky.social . journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Andreas Weber is kicking off #BT2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with very important messages about the roles of communities for excellent science @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

pretty cool, a special brew for #Botanik-Tagung2026 🍺

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Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

Countdown: 24 hrs #Botanik-Tagung2026 Sunday, 6 September, 4:00 pm Welcome Reception Icebreaker Location: Mensa All welcome! botanik-tagung.de/index.html

Another #PlantScience job here @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We need a seed physiology expert in our seed research team. This is a full-time, permanent position here at our headquarters in Einbeck. Expertise in Seed Physiology and Germination are needed. #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobs

www.nature.com/articles/d41.... If you are eligible, vote this fall for candidates that support the US scientific enterprise

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Today is the day! Your chance to learn about synthetic biology (iGEM). We will be sharing our experiences at 6 pm in SR2.007 (IZMB, Kirschallee 1). Interested students from the University of Bonn are invited! Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/igem @puckerlab.bsky.social @igembonn.bsky.social

Two PhD positions in the Feldbrügge Lab at HHU Düsseldorf within nEXt-RNA: 🔬 DC1: Live-cell imaging of RNA transfer and function 📦 DC10: Mechanisms and applications of RNA delivery RNA biology, fungi, extracellular vesicles and advanced imaging. www.mikrobiologie.hhu.de/en/

For the first time, researchers in the @kunzlab.bsky.social directly recorded rapid cation fluxes into isolated chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana in realtime, connection cation flux to jasmonic acid biosynthesis. 🌿⚡️

Congratulations! Dr Michelle Rönspies from @kit.edu will receive this year’s Eduard Strasburger Prize. She has demonstrated for the first time that the gene scissors CRISPR/Cas can be used to restructure even large fragments of plants’ genomes without impairing growth or development.

LAST WEEK TO APPLY!!! 🧪 @biozentrum.unibas.ch seeks a new group👩‍🔬 exploring molecular questions relevant to climate 🌍, including biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon, nitrogen) ♻️, bioenergetic energy conversion (e.g., photosynthesis, chemosynthesis) ☀️⚗️, and the adaptation to environmental change 🌊🌡️🦠🌾

Congratulations! Dr Paul Grünhofer from @unibonn.bsky.social will receive one of this year’s Horst Wiehe Prizes from DBG’s own Horst Wiehe-Stiftung for his excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis. He had questioned long-standing assumptions about the protecting surfaces of poplars.

Congratulations! Dr Sarina Niedzwiedz from @unibremen.bsky.social will receive one of this year’s Horst Wiehe Prizes from DBG’s own Horst Wiehe-Stiftung for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis in which she analysed how #ClimateChange menaces arctic kelp forests.

Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de will receive this year’s Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize of DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago.

📣 Metabolomics expert position at @ceplas.bsky.social part part of the CEPLAS Academic Expert Career Programme (tenure-track). karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob W3-Professorship in Plant Breeding @unihalle.bsky.social wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...