KunzLab@LMU

New PEC story 🌱 led by PhD cand Susi with amazing collabs Grimm, Hause & Robatzek labs! We patch-clamped isolated plastids to show that PECs mediate rapid cation flux across the IE. PECs relay Ca²⁺ signals into plastids & link Ca²⁺ to JA-mediated defense. #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Congrats to @dennisbrandt.bsky.social on his new paper! 🌱 A "stay-green" mutant revealed that plastid LEA proteins are crucial for degreening and long-term seed survival 🫛 Big thanks to all involved - a massive team effort! @uni-muenster.de @newphyt.bsky.social #PlantSci doi.org/10.1111/nph....

microbiome? crops? interested in joining CEPLAs DD and IPK? If so pls apply (also due to the shared locations this position has strongly reduced teaching duties!!!!)

📣 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.

I’m very excited to share the first big project from my PhD (my first proper-first, yay!) where we use cryoET and a fun new flavour of CLEM to study the re-organisation of photosynthetic machinery of cyanobacteria growing beyond the red limit of light. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Very proud to have three award winners in my team today. Congratulations to Simon @simonhaber.bsky.social Mio @mm-ecophys.bsky.social and Laura Kinzinger for their excellent work

Haven't used this is in a while, but a new paper from the group is a good excuse. This is monster of a paper from Sebastian Kaiser about the evolution of non-ribosomal peptides. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On this week’s episode of The Joy of Why podcast, evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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

The Arabidopsis TELLURITE RESISTANCE C is required for the functionality of both photosystems by supplying manganese and calcium #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The Arabidopsis TELLURITE RESISTANCE C is required for the functionality of both photosystems by supplying manganese and calcium pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42864911/

We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

TerC likely transports Mn²⁺ & Ca²⁺ across the thylakoid membrane, supporting PSII's oxygen-evolving complex and PSI assembly 🌱 rb.gy/skzcev Chloroplast metals measured via TXRF ionomics: doi.org/10.1093/plce... Great collab @lmu.de funded by @dfg.de #plantscience

Anyone brave enough for an adventure in the uncharted waters of plant immunity and cell biology? We have a PhD studentship available as part of the NRP DTP - join us! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

🔬Postdoc position available! Interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying host-endosymbiont interactions? Join our group and help us explore these fascinating biological partnerships! Deadline: 29. Oct Details & application: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please spread the word!

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 🌱🔬 PostDoc / Academic staff member Plant RNA Biology @unimainz.bsky.social In Andreas Wachter’s lab www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Wonderful collab published: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GAZPQ2... Thx to the Engelsdorf team from @unimarburg.bsky.social for leading this effort and @julien-gronnier.bsky.social and the Bisceglia lab for further support.

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Plant biochemistry and cell biology. @tum.de School of Life Sciences, in Claus Schwechheimer's lab in Freising close to Munich www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

🦠 Alarm! How bacteria adapt under stress Talk by Prof. Kirsten Jung (LMU) in the series "Was Wissen schafft" (in German) 📅 Tue, 13 Oct 2026, 19:00 CET 📍 Großer Hörsaal der MPIs, Martinsried www.bi.mpg.de/wws #Microbiology

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

„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...

🌿🔬 RESEARCH 🔬🌿 Using genetically encoded biosensors, we revealed the spatiotemporal dynamics of pattern-triggered immunity responses induced by different danger signals and by Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis seedlings - Mor et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

🌱🧬PLASTID ENVELOPE ION CHANNELS (PEC1/2) mediate fast Ca²⁺ flux into plastids. JA induces PECs, boosting stromal Ca²⁺ transients under stress. Loss impairs defense priming; OE improves Botrytis tolerance A link between Ca²⁺ & JA signaling. #plantsci @kunzlab.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great to see Agrisera LOX-C and Actin antibodies used by @kunzlab.bsky.social in their recent study, “PLASTID ENVELOPE ION CHANNELS (PEC1/2) link Ca2+ and jasmonic acid signaling in plant cells” 🌱 We’re pleased to support plant science research 🔬 📄 Article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Comparative observation of mitochondrial morphology in Arabidopsis mutants of 4 reported fission factors (Masaru Hashimoto , Yugo Ito , Issei Nakazato , Hideki Takanashi , Shin-ichi Arimura) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

New W2 Professorship in crop/plant sciences at the University of Bonn 🌱 We especially welcome expertise in genome engineering and pest & disease control …and interdisciplinary research bridging topics with the cluster of excellence #PhenoRob Apply by Sept 30 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

Please share! Our lab at Colorado State University is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2027. We are broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...

What happens when scientists share their materials? Faster, more reproducible research. That’s the spirit of #OpenScienceWeek, and it’s been Addgene’s mission for 20+ years. Learn more about what drives our work: https://twp.ai/4hvnqx.

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

Conserved and lineage-specific roles of KEA-mediated ion homeostasis in Chlamydomonas (Tobias Wunder , Leon Eulitz , Luis Kramer , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The next Botanik-Tagung will take place in Göttingen, Germany, from 17th to 21st September 2028. Hope to see you all there!

Read review paper by Kirsten Krause and colleagues on the role of hormones in parasitic plant infection 🆓Open Access article link: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 Check out other related papers in the special issue on #ParasiticPlants: academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/4

Check our new draft.. #plants #highlight #adaptation #photosynthesis Great Work of @JGBultri @NicoEBlanco @CEFOBI_CONICET From #variegation to #Happy #highlight 🌞 #nostress Read the details here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Read more on what the scientific excellence of her paper is here: www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

We start the #proteostasis session with @taw-lab.bsky.social (great to have you here 🤗) who will talk about the role of autophagy in the plant metabolism 🌱 #BT2026 #plantscience

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

Too much Fd+low light=stunted, variegated tobacco. Crank up the light & mutants bounce back—growth, leaf phenotype & photosynthesis recover near WT at 1400 µmol. Boosting Fd rewires the growth/photoprotection trade-off toward high light 🌿☀️https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.18.733257v1

Thrilled to have the opportunity to investigate the role of membrane protein proteolysis in plant immunity through the ERC Starting Grant FRONTERA! A heartfelt thank you to my mentors, friends, and family whose support, encouragement, and guidance made this possible. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

Go and work on an exciting project with Dr. Rachael DeTar assistant professor at UCF in Orlando.

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On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#Spirogyra genome paper now available @theplantcell.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Emmy Noether grant for biologist Sofia Doello www.bio.lmu.de/en/latest-ne...

New paper published! A couple of years ago, German Sepulvada found that there were Alternaria growing as endophytes in Tillandsia plants in the Atacama! We show that they are very similar to the Alternaria atra isolate we found as a pathogen on wild tomato! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do plants prepare for an attack?🌱 A team led by Hans-Henning Kunz @kunzlab.bsky.social identified ion channels in chloroplasts that play a key role in connecting early stress signaling with the plant’s defense machinery. This can help them to respond faster & more strongly when stress returns.