GreenRobust

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

And now the second preprint of the lab! doi.org/10.64898/202... HY5 shoot-root movement is real and it is necessary and sufficient for the root developmental response to neighbour shading. This is a story in collaboration with the lab of @ronaldpierik.bsky.social + @kyravandervelde.bsky.social

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for an early career officer (50% position) located at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Visit of Südzucker and their research station at Kirschgartshausen by a GreeenRobust delegation. A fascinating insight into agricultural realities with @pascalhunziker.bsky.social, @kjschmid.bsky.social, @thomasgreb.bsky.social and Renata Campos-Motta.

Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Xu Wang from Andreas Schaller’s (@as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social) group has received the Best Talk Prize at the Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting (PPRM2026) for his work on new systemins in tomato. Congratulations!

The first preprint of my lab has just come out doi.org/10.64898/202... This paper came out at the same day on the sudden passing of Prof. Meng Chen. Without his work, this paper would not have existed. He was an extremely supportive member of the plant photobiology community..

Congratulations, Juan Carlos! Fantastic to see that another GreenRobust PI secured funding from the @erc.europa.eu.

🌱 Job alert! A PhD position starting in 2027 is available with me and Andrea Gust @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de 👉 Interested? Apply now &/or share! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition

Weil es (uns) wichtig ist! In unserem Leitbild haben wir die Grundsätze und Werte aufgeschrieben, die uns im politischen Dialog leiten 👉 www.bdp-online.de/de/Homepage/...

📣we're hiring a PhD researcher to test whether rhizosphere microbiomes keep flowers attractive under drought 🌸 joint supervision with soil ecologist @tcamenzind.bsky.social for the ROOT2BLOOM project in @greenrobust.de apply by 30/09 tinyurl.com/root2bloom questions welcome, thanks for sharing!

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

🚜 Mehrkomponenten-Dünger für den ökologischen Pflanzenbau 👨‍🔬Forschende der Universität Tübingen und der Universität Hohenheim arbeiten an der Entwicklung eines Mehrkomponenten-Düngers für den ökologischen Pflanzenbau 🔗 uni-tuebingen.de/99projekte #Klimaschutz @eco-future.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD candidate: Exploring the concept of disparity as an evolutionary principle of plant robustness @greenrobust.de 📍@cosheidelberg.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social Deadline: 9 October 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

New PhD opportunity with Bernd Berauer and myself within the @greenrobust.de cluster @unihohenheim.bsky.social ! 3-yr funded position to measure and model gas exchange at leaf, plant, and canopy scale. Applications can be submitted until *September 15*, at: jobs.uni-hohenheim.de/jobposting/2...

Fresh preprint online from our group! We find that stomatal maturation IS possible in the embryo, when they lack ERECTA signaling, but then still, only at the cotyledon tip. A thread. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thrilling to see that our founding GreenRobust spokesperson Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social) has been appointed as new director @mpipz.bsky.social in Cologne. Congratulations! We wish you all the best for your future endeavors in a new environment, Rosa!

FUNDING. We secured our first collaborative grant with @mpcontreras.bsky.social through the @greenrobust.de excellence cluster. Our project IDentity will investigate the mechanistic consequences of domain integration, a major event that reshapes function and evolution of #NLR immune receptors 🌱❄️🔬

New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sanierung des Botanischen Gartens: „Ein Schatz für die Wissenschaft“ – Arbeiten zur Erneuerung der Gebäude und Außenanlagen haben begonnen – Feierstunde markierte offiziellen Start des Bauvorhabens www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #botanischergarten

Check out our Review on #AFM in plants now on @jxbotany.bsky.social !

Thanks to all the speakers and participants in the "Plant Robustness from molecules to ecosystems" session at the #SEB2026 conference! Exciting science and great discussions sponsored by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and our Excellence Cluster @greenrobust.de 🌱 with @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social

Very happy with our @greenrobust.de @isabelmonte.bsky.social Plant Robustness session at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference. Excellent talks by @hildenelissen.bsky.social, Marcel Quint, @rsasidharan.bsky.social and Amy Austin. Great fishbowl discussion on plant robustness! Thanks PlantJ

How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

Today marks a major milestone for my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We got our first member! I am really excited to welcome @d-moser.bsky.social. She will bring her expertise in cryo-ET data processing to solve the mechanisms of plant invasion by fungal pathogens 🧊🔬🌾🍄 Follow her and stay tuned!

Durchbruch für die Pflanzenforschung in Europa: Die DFG begrüßt die Zustimmung des EU-Parlaments zur neuen Verordnung zu Züchtungstechniken, für dessen wissenschaftsbasierte Differenzierung sich die Senatskommission für Grundsatzfragen der Genforschung über Jahre eingesetzt hat: sohub.io/csi8

A highly significant step for European plant sciences: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/pres...

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A GreenRobust-associated project on the cover of Genome Biology and Evolution!

New paper from the Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) group, this time in @science.org, on how plant cells cope with viral infection and how selective autophagy delays cell death to give plants a chance to survive. Chapeau and congratulations to all the authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Berlin: Verleihung der Humboldt-Professur in Strukturbiologie an Sebastian Deindl 👏 durch Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär (links) und Robert Schlögl, Präsident der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… @humboldt-foundation.de

NEW PAPER: this review by @chemodiversity.bsky.social, introduces the concept of a chemodiversity landscape, and compiles evidence for emergent properties arising from the mixing of chemical blends from different sources with consequences for ecological functions.

Plant hormone and peptide signaling converge in the genetic network regulating cambium activation in Arabidopsis roots (Tiina Blomster , Riccardo Siligato , Riikka Mäkilä , Wiktoria Fatz , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Congratulations, Juan Carlos! Another Junior group supported by @dfg.de within the GreenRobust cluster.

🎉 Our paper on the first reference genome of 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘮 has been accepted in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social This has been a great collaboration and a rewarding outcome of this work. @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @greenrobust.de @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Super stimulating talk by Olivier Hamant from @rdplab.bsky.social on the tradeoff between efficiency and systemic robustness in biology and beyond. And on how we define societal progress.

We could also say that two @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social junior PIs and three @greenrobust.de PIs won the 2018, 2026 and 2027 @biochemsoc.bsky.social awards 😉 We are good at recruiting biochemists! 😄

New publication from Markus Wirtz and colleagues on N-terminal protein acetylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust @greenrobust.de we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology. Deadline: 15 April Reposts are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen #Exzellenzstrategie

Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...