Lena Maria Müller

Amazing collaboration with the Bowman lab. FLIM reveals hidden layers of plant-AMF interactions!

With @lmueller.bsky.social we found that standard WGA-Alexa488 membrane stain shows amazing FLIM contrast when labelling symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. We acquire over 10^10 photons / second and achieve ~20 picosecond pixel noise. Note the narrow lifetime range:

#TansleyReview: Balancing mutualism: choice and sanctions in root–microbe symbioses Athira Sethu Madhavan & @lmueller.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN! www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind... You can book hotel rooms at the venue here 👇

ECRs, one week to go! Please join us for an exciting event: The Sainsbury Laboratory Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions for Early Career Researchers 20th – 31st July 2026 Norwich, UK Application deadline: 12:00 BST (UTC +1) Monday 30th March 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

Excited to share this new Tansley article from our lab! We discuss how plants differentiate between different microsymbionts to ensure beneficial symbiosis outcomes, comparing nodulation and AM symbiosis. @newphyt.bsky.social

Paging senior graduate students! Apply to present your research during the Salk Discover symposium and network with potential collaborators or faculty advisors. Application deadline extended to March 16. More info: www.salk.edu/about/our-co...

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

it was great to collaborate with @lmueller.bsky.social to help characterize the Medicago crn mutant!

Now that Im finally here, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @salkinstitute.bsky.social as a postdoc with @lmueller.bsky.social Keep your eyes open for everything AMF symbiosis, peptide biogenesis, and the apoplast!

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

If you are enjoying #2025ISMPMI then you might also be interested in joining the Plant Peptide and Receptor Meeting #PPRM2025, 8th-10th September in Edinburgh. We have a great lineup of speakers and a diverse and inclusive community. More info here pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk

Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Great review from @lmueller.bsky.social -> Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic

Absolutely thrilled to share our story—please take a moment to check it out! Huge thanks to all the contributors and my amazing supervisor @lmueller.bsky.social . This was truly a team effort! #peptides #mycorrhiza www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

Plant Biology faculty position @umontreal.ca @irbv.bsky.social : Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Don't miss your opportunity to attend New Phytologist next generation scientists, the FREE meeting for early career researchers in plant science. #npnextgen 4–7 July 2025 Birmingham, UK Apply to attend by 27 January! www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF). Learn more and apply by February 7, 2025 👉 https://surf.aspb.org

This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in San Diego! Check it out and spread the word! www.salk.edu/about/our-co...

Matt Salomon and I just published a commentary on @lizkoziol.bsky.social’s recent paper in New Phyt on AMF products. These products are lacking - but whose responsibility is it to further their quality and function for agriculture - academia or industry? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Special Issue: #Mycorrhizal research now By integrating molecular, physiological, and ecological perspectives, this collection untangles interactions between #plants and #fungi and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/242/4

New carefully conducted study from @michela-audisio.bsky.social finds little evidence for previous, spectacular claims of massive carbon transfer between roots of trees (but support for plant-fungus carbon transfer). nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi new folks, I share my list of #amf 🍄🧪 sci people. Please let me know who I missed. 🌎🦠 #mycosky go.bsky.app/scQ6YL

We are hiring! Two assistant prof level jobs in biology. Focusing on cellular and molecular biology, microbiology, and metabolic physiology but all good candidates will be considered. cas.gsu.edu/about/employ...

The Biology Dept at Queen's U, Canada is hiring 2 faculty, either Assistant or Associate: i) Indigenous Science - joint with Envt'l Studies ii) Director of the Queen's University Biological Station Find details here: biology.queensu.ca/jobs/ #evolution #ecology #conservation #IndigenousSTEM

We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the Salk Institute 🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling 🍄 plant-fungus interactions 🍀 symbiosis 🤩 great team and amazing views Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf

Wesleyan University is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in evo-devo. Great job! careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10102

My lab (blogs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...) is looking for a postdoc to study host and pathogen diversity and interactions at the interface of wild and working landscapes in Oregon! Come and join us! gradschool.oregonstate.edu/sites/gradsc...

Please re-post! The University of California Riverside is recruiting an assistant professor on the genetics and genomics of 🌾 🍊 🥑 🍇 🍅 🌽 plant resistance to nematode pests. Note: prior experience with nematodes is not necessary! I will be chairing the search: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01804

Wonderful mentor, amazing science and a spectacular institute - makes me wanna do a postdoc all over again

We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the Salk Institute 🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling 🍄 plant-fungus interactions 🍀 symbiosis 🤩 great team and amazing views Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf

Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.   Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...

Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824 Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄

Funding alert! A new Royal Society independent postdoc fellowship scheme launches next week. Lots of funding and very prestigious. Only for applicants of black heritage. Good to see the RS putting substantial money behind a plan to diversify research. royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

Our UW Biology dept has led seminal research on evidence-based teaching practices: active learning, equitable classrooms, and other topics We're now seeking tenure-track faculty member to build a new, exciting education research program Please share with colleagues! apply.interfolio.com/130335

Our review paper on CLAVATA signaling in plant-environment interactions is now published in Plant Physiology! Super proud of the main authors Sagar and Chandan (not here yet). academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #plantscience 🌱

Princeton EEB and HMEI are hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Prof) - we are seeking a broad thinker in the area of biodiversity puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

News today i just heard and... (drums) I have been promoted to PROFESSOR !! I can hardly contain my excitement!!! Not only because of me but for what this means to the whole @BlackInPlantSci community!! We are up to Great things!! #communitiesofinfluence

UW Genome Sciences is hiring a new Assistant Professor working in computational biology! apply.interfolio.com/135108

Not one but three genomics positions at KU, in the Department of Molecular Bioscience. A range of genomics research would fit well, including evolutionary. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

On the tenure-track job market this cycle? The University of Iowa is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Biochemistry: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827

Rhizophagus irregularis arbuscule (green) in Medicago truncatula root cortex cell (red).