Thorsten Langner

Postdoc opening in my lab! Looking for someone excited about genomes, symbionts and plant–insect interactions to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. 🧬🍄🌿🦟 Applications reviewed from 16 Nov. buff.ly/WZtMcGs

Professorship Experimental Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

⏰ Deadline extended! The submission deadline for our special issue on plant immune receptors is now 30 November. More time to share your latest discoveries. We look forward to your contributions! 🌱 #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #MPMI

📢 Registration is now open for the SNP2Prot International Conference 2027! Plant Genetic Variation meets Protein Architecture 📅 21-23 June 2027 | 📍 Halle (Saale), Germany Bringing together experts in plant genetics, structural biology and computational biology. Register now: tinyurl.com/mr4a4zmp

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Berasategui Lab at TSL, Norwich, UK This is an exciting opportunity to work at the interface of evolutionary genomics, plant pathology and insect symbiosis, within a world-class research environment. Application review starts 16 Nov 2026 buff.ly/WZtMcGs

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

Join us in Halle for our #SNP2Prot international conference 2027 - Registration is open as of today!

Structural basis for size-selective perception of chitin in plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LoL-align is out in @natmethods.nature.com! It aligns protein structures without superposition. More sensitive than TM-align and DALI, producing better alignments 5–20× faster. Now available in Foldseek! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek 🌐 search.foldseek.com

Beetles secrete jelly to embed & sustain symbionts with impossibly tiny genomes🪲 But what is this jelly made of? And how does it help maintain a partnership that has lasted over 62 million years? Thrilled to share our latest, out now in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

VACANCY: Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician TSL is searching for a dynamic, motivated individual to work in an exciting bioinformatics/computational biology/data science focussed team. Apply before 2 Nov 2026 buff.ly/MXkLT6X

🔬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!

Happy to share that I’ve joined @inrae-france.bsky.social as a permanent researcher, studying fungal diseases of crops 🌿 I’m part of the Leptosphaeria team at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social, based on the new @agroparistech.fr campus in @parissaclay.bsky.social Open to collaborations and applications!

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme This 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant & Microbial Sciences @earlhaminst.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social ➡️https://okt.to/qjy60T 🗓️ Apply before 12 Nov '26

Starting my bluesky with this super exciting new! New preprint from Di Pietro's Lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... How do fungal pathogens maintain dispensable chromosomes without losing them in clonal evolution? Here's a thread 🧵

It's live! The next @embo.org #EvoChromo meeting will take place next year October in St Feliu de Guíxols (Spain), check it out here: meetings.embo.org/event/27-chr.... It's been great to co-organise with @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social @kellervalsecchi.bsky.social @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social & Nick I.

Being part of Kamounity has been absolutely transformative. Thank you, Sophien, for the incredible time and energy you put in, day in and day out, to train and mentor us; not just to become better scientists, but to understand what it really means to be a scientist: “Je cherche à comprendre.”

This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...

Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 Job alert at Reussner & Hilbert groups at @kit.edu Theoretical / Computer Science part of a researcher tandem to explore DNA-based Information Processing Systems. Please share, contact us with inquiries, or: simply apply! More info in the linked post from LinkedIn: lnkd.in/p/e_jjYf6N

Thank you MibiNet & friends @mibinet.bsky.social for a wonderful International Symposium on "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities"!! It was impressive to see the vivid exchange, excellent talks and and poster discussions. @dfg.de; @hhu.de; @fz-juelich.de

Did you miss yesterday's fantastic Legends of IS-MPMI webinar with @jonathandgjones.bsky.social? You can watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel! 👇 youtu.be/yynU5Bu8BRM?...

🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV

🔴 Live today! Join us at 16:00 CEST for the ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar on Starship transposons and fungal evolution 🍄🧬 Speakers: @‌mycomile.bsky.social & @‌fungage-lab.bsky.social 📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/6eC7dvl... #transposons #evolution #biodiversitygenomics #TEs

Job alert! We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social. This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands. A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary. #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

🚨Reminder: Our next Legends of IS-MPMI webinar with @jonathandgjones.bsky.social is TOMORROW! The webinar is completely free and open to the public. Register using the link below👇, don't miss out!

ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar this Wednesday, 30 September at 16:00 CEST: Starship transposons and their role in fungal evolution 🍄🧬🚀 Speakers: @‌https://mycomile.bsky.social @‌https://fungage-lab.bsky.social 🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/starshi... @biogeneurope.bsky.social

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...

Still one week to apply!

Happy to share that our study of the interaction between the MAX effector AVR-Pia and rice HMA domain-containing proteins has been published (as the cover article!) in PLOS Pathogens. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

For everyone who still believes that MDPI is a legitimate publisher. More fake science in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social. Hard to imagine that such obvious image manipulation wasn't picked up in the "review process". #sciencecrisis

Thrilled to share the final version of our manuscript! 🎉 @estukenbrock.bsky.social and I investigated the secretome of the barley pathogen #Zymoseptoria passerinii and asked what its protein structures could tell us about #effector evolution. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧶👇🏻

#SNP2Prot speaker Marcel Quint kicks off this year‘s retreat that is taking place at @leibnizipk.bsky.social we look forward to reconnecting and discussing the progress made in the last two years 🌱

Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)

Excited to share this pre-print from my PhD work! We explore a Pmk1-Mst12-Bip1 network required for appressorium-mediated infection by the blast fungus 🌾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 👇

6 years later, he has an ERC... @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

And now The J. Colhoun Poster Award Winner!

Peer-review ladies and gents. What’s your favorite? #BSPP26 #PPTATH2026

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

Excited to launch our ERC project ImmuneCellState 🚀 We’ll investigate how individual plant cells respond to pathogens and explore new dimensions of plant immunity research by integrating single-cell/spatial omics, deep learning and genome editing. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Congrats @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social !!! Looking forward to see all the cool things your lab will discover!

Our junior research group leader, Mariana Schuster, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant, which comes with a grant of 1.5 million euros. Congratulations @marischuster.bsky.social! #ERCStg @erc.europa.eu More Information: www.ipb-halle.de/en/article/e...

🦠 Die Leopoldina ehrt Mikrobiologin Regine Kahmann für ihr Lebenswerk mit der Cothenius-Medaille. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! ✨

Another #PlantScience job here @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We need a seed physiology expert in our seed research team. This is a full-time, permanent position here at our headquarters in Einbeck. Expertise in Seed Physiology and Germination are needed. #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobs

Two PhD positions in the Feldbrügge Lab at HHU Düsseldorf within nEXt-RNA: 🔬 DC1: Live-cell imaging of RNA transfer and function 📦 DC10: Mechanisms and applications of RNA delivery RNA biology, fungi, extracellular vesicles and advanced imaging. www.mikrobiologie.hhu.de/en/

Am 29.9. heißt es wieder #BookAScientist: Ihr könnt mit Forschenden der @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de direkt online über verschiedenste Themen sprechen. In diesem Jahr bin ich auch dabei. #wisskomm Alle Infos ⬇️

Am Sonntag wird über die Zukunft eines Bundeslandes entschieden. Bildung & Forschung sind Ländersache und das Programm des erwarteten Wahlsiegers will u.a. die Selbstbestimmung der Universitäten einschränken. Wir haben uns die Folgen für die Wissenschaft angesehen.⤵️ oekoprog.org/keine-stimme...

Now accepted: Haplotype-phased assemblies of the two poplar rust fungi species: Melampsora larici-populina and Melampsora allii-populina academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...