Luiselotte Rausch

Bravo @erc.europa.eu 🙄

Now out in its final form in @jxbotany.bsky.social : Our Expert View on #AFM as a tool for plant biomechanic research! 🔬🌱 in Collab with Klaus Harter and @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

PhD: completed! ✅️ With an amazing last hurrah at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social, I can now proudly say that I have succesfully defended my PhD thesis! A massive thank you to everyone who joined me on this journey!

1/n New paper! In collaboration with Angela Gronenborn's lab, we solved the crystal structures of 2 bicycle proteins. They share some similarity to saposins, but are clearly not saposins. Instead, this stable backbone provides a platform for crazy diversity of form and surface chemistry.

This has originally developed out of a thought along the lines of: "What can you do if you only manage to get weak fluorescence signals?" A short explaining thread 🧵

Someone pinch me, I got to talk about my research in beautiful Gent at the 4th Edition of the forefront of plant research conference organized by @viblifesciences.bsky.social and @psb-vib.bsky.social 🌱 Incredible speaker lineup and amazing atmosphere 😊 Thank you and see you next time!

Let‘s gooo! After the ECR Day at @psb-vib.bsky.social yesterday, we‘re now starting off the 4th edition of At the forefront of plant research! Thanks to all organizers 😊

New Preprint! We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM! PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Job alert! PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. The position is available from October 1st Apply now or share it! #PlantSciJob

New publication from the lab! Winter cold doesn't just make plants flower. Long cold also primes them to regenerate🌱❄️. We show cold-induced CBFs recruit HAG1 to switch on key regeneration genes like WOX5. Many congrats to @fu-yu-h.bsky.social! www.cell.com/developmenta...

Our latest preprint is online. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our exciting data show that embryonic patterning in Arabidopsis is kick-started by differential sensitivity towards auxin and not by differential distribution of auxin.

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...

Role of membrane-organizing SPFH proteins in plants: @hannah-web.bsky.social, Alexandra Ehinger, @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social et al define how Arabidopsis HIR2 forms higher-order assemblies and organizes receptor signaling domains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social the improved version of our paper! I am very proud of this work with @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social, Annamaria Kiss, @moritznowack.bsky.social and others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now in @jxbotany.bsky.social ! Check out our opinion piece on Atomic Force Microscopy #afm in Plant Biomechanic Research: A powerful tool that needs careful handling, interpretation & more research! @Klaus Harter, @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Calling all STEM people 📣 Penpal registration for Letters to a Prescientist is now open! After 4y I can tell you: There’s nothing more cute and rewarding than getting letters from highschool penpals - aka next generation of scientists!👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🔬🧫🧬 Check out LPS and sign up 😊👇🏻 prescientist.org/register/

Pumpkin loading … 🪫🎃

My postdoc preprint is now online @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. We established HYDRA, a shoot regeneration assay in Arabidopsis without exogenous hormones, and show that photosynthesis-derived carbon drives regeneration via RBR1 pathway–mediated cell cycle activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

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/...

Check out our updated preprint where we introduce dual-color #sptpalm #superresolution microscopy 🔬 for tracking membrane proteins in live plant cells 🌱 Lead by @plant-cyclist.bsky.social at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Our new preprint! Winter-like extended cold primes plants for regeneration🌱❄️! Work by Fu-Yu Hung, now a new PI in Taiwan!

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Histone deacetylases and cell cycle regulators orchestrate cell identity transitions during Arabidopsis root regeneration #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Many congrats to Akira!

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The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇 Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬 Oven-Krockhaus et al. introduce single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy for studying plasma membrane proteins in plants, outlining key applications and practical guidance on instrumentation, probes, and analysis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Apply now for a PhD in Life Sciences at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! Research nanomechanics of cellular machines and track kinesin motors at high resolution in Tübingen in Erik Schäffer’s group at the University of Tübingen. More information available on our website: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de

Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Phosphoproteomics uncovers rapid and specific transition from plant two-component system signaling to Ser/Thr phosphorylation by the intracellular redox sensor AHK5 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682113v1

Transcriptional targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681868v1

Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱 #EvoMPMI #MPMI Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring: - Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO - Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv - Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025 RT are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

With Sven zur Oven-Krockhaus, @luiselotterausch.bsky.social & Klaus Harter we wrote an #ExpertView on #sptPALM in #plants 🌱 (focus: #plasmamembrane). ✔️ Our goal: help you get started with this powerful method 🚀 ❓ Curious? We’ll be happy to get you ready!

Check out our latest review on investigating plant plasma membrane proteins with super resolution microscopy 🔬 🌱 in @jxbotany.bsky.social #superresolution #plasmamembrane academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

I am presenting my work as a poster @ISMPMI #2025ISMPMI on monday 14.07 ! :) Join me and learn more about HIR2 oligomeric rings - a novel perspective on membrane organization (Poster number 39) Head here to see more: ismpmi.org/congress

Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱 We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science! However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories.. So let's change that! Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!

And another @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social delegation just arrived in Cologne for the #2025MPMI Niels (P-041), @chia-nan.bsky.social (P-011), Pin-Jou (P-438), Yujing (P-027), Farid (P-063), @raphaelschaal.bsky.social (P-094) and @ericksonlab.bsky.social (P-169)