jandevries.bsky.social

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

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.

Professorship for Plant Metabolism: www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

Symbiotic #rhizobia form nitrogen-fixing partnerships with #plant roots. This study by @albinteulet.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social uses structural modelling to predict how secreted proteins may mimic plant factors in a strategy shared with pathogens. 🧪 #AcademicSky #symbiosis plos.io/4j6bWj0

How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that Type III effectors of symbiotic Rhizobia include diverse predicted transcriptional and post-transcriptional modulators. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Now @plosbiology.org More information below.

Symbiotic #rhizobia form nitrogen-fixing partnerships with #plant roots. This study by @albinteulet.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social uses structural modelling to predict how secreted proteins may mimic plant factors in a strategy shared with pathogens. 🧪 #AcademicSky #symbiosis plos.io/4j6bWj0

Arabidopsis PP2C clade B members are negative feedback regulators of MPK3/MPK6 MAPK cascade in plant immunity and development (Qin Qiu , Bixin Li , Panpan Ma , Shiyuan Wang , Xuying Ma , Xiaofei Tang , Shuqun Zhang , Mengmeng Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Heya I put together a bunch of things that i have been thinking about over the past a few years into this insight piece and look forward to any discussion this may lead to 🌸💚

🔔The new program for our Ecology Seminar in the winter semester 2026/27 is out: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/ecology+s... 💚 We are happy that we again have a wide mix of topics and researchers from all levels presenting their research. Please find the Zoom link in the program or contact us via PM.

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Registration is now open for the @gensocuk.bsky.social #nonseedUK26 meeting, which will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December. Looking forward to celebrating another year of non-seed 🌱 science. You can register here: tinyurl.com/3xusawvd 😃

I am very happy to see this story published! This was a wonderful collaboration between the @mestelle.bsky.social lab (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) on the moss side, Annis Richardson’s lab on the maize side, and @luciastrader.bsky.social lab’s help throughout. #plantscience #auxin

I have a new review out in TiG titled, “The ecology of horizontal gene transfer”! I’ve been thinking about these ideas for years and this field is growing so fast it’s becoming impossible to review it. I hope this paper sparks discussion on different ways we can look at DNA transfer!

Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora #protists

Finally out! Explore how vascular T6P modulates root growth 🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to the winners of best PhD talk @ #MAdLand2026 from right to left: @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab, who won @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🌱 @thanahartmann.bsky.social from Schuller lab and @hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social lab

Congratulations to Kim-Kristine Müller from the Classen lab @uni-kiel.de for the best Postdoc talk and winning the @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🥳🌱 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

And last but not least, congratulations to the winners of the best poster prize @ #MAdLand2026 🎉 From right to left: 1st place: Abhayanjali Tripathi from Philippar lab in Saarbrücken. Shared 2nd place: Kshitij Bhushan from Philippar lab and Craig Allen Dorsch from @jandevries.bsky.social lab

„Without funding of basic research – which is the advantage of doing research in Germany – our discoveries would not have been possible”, Nobel Prize laureate 2026 Peter Hagemann points out in German news @heutejournal.bsky.social (starting at 19:00 minutes) – in German www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes (San Feliu, Spain): Abstract submission is open, with a short deadline! comparativegenomics2026.com Join us as we explore the most diverse, surprising, and still largely uncharted branches of the eukaryotic tree.

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

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

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

We are very happy to welcome our next guest speaker, Liam Dolan @liamdolanlab.bsky.social from the GMI in Vienna. He is telling us more about the development of the Marchantia polymorpha sporeling #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

The last talk of the meeting! We’re a little sad that #MAdLand2026 is coming to an end, but very happy to welcome our guest speaker, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social from Toulouse. He will talk about the evolution of plant–microbe interactions at the water-to-land transition. 🌱 #plantsci

Thank you all for coming! It was a wonderful final meeting, filled with great science and an even greater community 🌱. We hope to see many of you again somewhere down the road. Safe travels home today, everyone! #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Plants transformed the Earth’s atmosphere and surface. @watertoland.bsky.social transformed my research life here in Germany. Thanks to the community and @dfg.de for their supports over the years! My special thanks to @rensingstefan.bsky.social and @jandevries.bsky.social.

@jandevries.bsky.social is wrapping up the final MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social meeting. It was a blast! Excited what’s to come next. #plantsci #evolution

Next, Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen will share her insights into core transcriptomic responses of Zygnematophyceae to a gradient of terrestrial stressors. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Elisa is up on core transcriptomic responses of three divergent genome sequenced Zygnematophyceae to a bifactorial gradient of stressors And the Spirogyra genome published @theplantcell.bsky.social #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, @nidabasturk.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is exploring endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes, from Archaeplastida and secondary algae to Paulinella. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now @nidabasturk.bsky.social is up on how endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes shapes the molecular biology of plants and algae. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@fernway.bsky.social from @duke-university.bsky.social in North Carolina is sharing his latest discoveries on how a plant-derived diterpenoid initiates symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, @derenbuyuktas.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is sharing her latest insights on Hornwort Abiotic Stress Responses and their Evolutionary Link to Cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk of the session by @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing her latest insights into the conserved and divergent UV responses in Mesotaenium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re very delighted to welcome our first invited speaker, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, from Japan! He is taking us into the fascinating world of the unicellular zygnematophycean alga Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex. 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Starting our short talk sessions with James Walker from San Diego, telling us more about linking live-cell dynamics to single- cell molecular states across plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are going into the next session with Maria Dolores Lopez Bueno from the @philipp-denninger.bsky.social lab in Munich, sharing insights into the Evolution of novel RHO OF PLANTS signaling activators during the adaptation from water to land #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Alisha Alisha from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is focusing on investigating the role of FHY1 in phytochrome signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Zahin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is sharing his latest discoveries on phytochrome-mediated light signalling in Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Daniel Heß from @cyanolab.bsky.social in Freiburg is sharing his insights on Inositol phosphates, pyrophosphates and the genes involved in their turnover in the streptophyte green alga Chara braunii #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Zah is up on light quality signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens and beyond #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re kicking things off with a welcome talk by @jandevries.bsky.social, introducing us to Göttingen and the Alte Mensa 🏛️ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@jandevries.bsky.social kicking off the last @watertoland.bsky.social meeting

The final MAdLand Meeting @watertoland.bsky.social starts with @jandevries.bsky.social welcome in Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de #plantsci #evolution

Next up is @heche.bsky.social from the @jandevries.bsky.social lab, talking about Polyploid cycle in land plants: an exaptation of the alternation of dimorphic multicellular generations #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Congratulations to bioinformatician Dr Jaccoline Zegers for the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize, German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG), awarded for her PhD thesis. The prize recognises outstanding achievements in plant research: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #AppliedBioinformatics #Genomics #Algae

Congratulations to Dr. Sophie de Vries to be re-elected to be the YoungDBG representative and creating the #ECR #YoungDBG network - I’m excited to join and see what will grow from this. It is open to any ECR until junior group leaders @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social