Christian Fankhauser

#plantsci Assistant Professor position in Canada🇨🇦 www.academicwork.ca/jobs/tenure-... Heard from a colleague that it is a very supportive department!

#thermomorphogenesis meeting 2026 in Dundee has started and is in full swing! Thanks to @transcription.bsky.social and the Sponsors for making it possible!

My MCDB Dept is hiring, again! Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost! Applications Due Oct 1st We welcome applications from all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals. More information can be found HERE: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679540/a...

Very happy to share our collaborative study revealing a novel recruitment mode for Polycomb at the chromatin: The 1st cryoEM structure of a plant PRC2 complex, in presence/absence of the ULT1 cofactor! 👍🏻 @UGrenobleAlpes @IBS_Grenoble @LPCV_Grenoble @institut_curie www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌺 How does a hibiscus flower pattern its petals? A new computational model reveals hidden "boundary" cells can spontaneously emerge during flower development, helping to create stable petal patterns. Prediction confirmed experimentally! 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-hib... #PlantsInTheSpotlight

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With new law, European Union can more quickly greenlight gene-edited crops www.science.org/content/arti...

With an intense end if term, I caught this a little late. I’m no less excited, however, by a decision that will benefit people and planet. Finally! www.eu-sage.eu/index.php/no...

So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Now online! Plant cell wall-plasma membrane attachments mediate stress resilience through cellulose synthase complexes and remorins

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱 Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

The Lancet spells out the case against RFK Jr so clearly. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (1/4🧵)

🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg) Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached 📅 Apply by March 30, 2026 📩 stefan.grob@cnrs.fr Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Register for the Mendel Early Career Symposium by March 13th to be considered for a talk. Join #Mendel_ECR_26 at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, to discuss the latest in plant science and network with researchers across career stages. Register: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Evaluate the product , not the method, so much more justified

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA - Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴 Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Highly recommended EMBO Workshop on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026) in Les Diablerets, Switzerland! (even if I may be slightly biased...) Registration open. We are very much looking forward to seeing you there! ⬇️

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts. Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

1 JOUR = 1 INFO SUR LA CRÉATION VARIÉTALE J87 A retrouver sur Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DT2jPkqje9...

It’s 2026 and one of the first things that has happened is that a major news outlet has announced that it will no longer seek information from experts. I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.

We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

Accessible chromatin enables rapid recruitment of PIFs to induce expression of shade-induced genes! doi.org/10.1186/s130.... Particularly proud of the excellent work of Sandi Paulišić and Alessandra Boccaccini. Many thanks to all authors who made it happen. @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Les Diablerets 🇨🇭 for the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026), Sept. 8-11, 2026! @martinalegris.bsky.social @emiliedemarsy.bsky.social @chfankhauser.bsky.social @plantphotobiology.bsky.social ➡️ See the links below.

Researchers use less and less hedges (may, might, perhaps, probably ...) in their papers. Or in other words papers are becoming more like biblical texts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Sensing light direction in plants" by Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics, Switzerland @fbm-unil.bsky.social 👀 Don't miss it! 📍 CRAG Auditorium 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/qzdjdrwizu

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 Learn more here: www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Deux professeur·es du CIG nouvellement élu·es membres @embo.org pour 2025 👏 👏 Félicitations à 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 et 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄 du Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG) @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1751269... @chfankhauser.bsky.social @nvastenhouw.bsky.social

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The lack of self-reliance Europe has in terms of food security makes this all the more painful. The stubborn bureaucratic casual walk into famine is so disheartening, and an insult to the excellent plant bioengineering capacity in EU academia and industry. Insanity.

Congratulations Detlef! An extremly well deserved award @plantevolution.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Applications open for an Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in #pediatric #dermatology 📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology ❗ Apply before August 10th, 2025 More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... #joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Excellent meeting for those interested in protein lipidation. More info & registration here www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you! We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun! 🌱🔬💻🤓

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

⚠️ Super important update of the Arabidopsis reference genome! 👇👇👇