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New preprint! Text by Bram van Eijnatten: Happy to share a collaboration between @binfutrecht.bsky.social and the Plant Stress Resilience Group from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and the Quint lab. We present the Arabidopsis thaliana 'EcoCore panel': www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In Utrecht we celebrate #FascinationOfPlantsDay for the entire month! Our fantastic 🌸Mariana Vega Blanes🌸 made an exhibition about various ways how plant research impacts society 🌽🌱🌾. We will conclude on June 12 with an event for the UU Botanic Gardens visitors. www.uu.nl/en/events/fa...

I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)

How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱 “Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊 The formatted PDF of our paper is now online! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

@utrechtpmi.bsky.social VICI! The Plant-Microbe Interactions group will hug this guy to pieces! Roeland Berendsen received a prestigious VICI grant from NWO (Dutch Research Council). Congrats Roeland! Looking forward to some very nice #NPEC experiments! For more: lnkd.in/eyr9a-tP

The Jo Lab website is up! thejolab.org I expect to announce 1 PhD position and 1 Postdoc position in the spring of 2026 (April-May). Stay tuned!

Thanks for your hospitality @thomaswidiez.bsky.social Chatting with the excellent scientists at @rdplab.bsky.social was like a breath of fresh air!

What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

We reviewed one of our favorite proteins Phytoglobin1 and its crucial role in hypoxia acclimation and development for the @isplore.bsky.social special issue in @jxbotany.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social check it out!

Excited to thank @biologists.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social and @novogene-europe.bsky.social for sponsoring our summer school on Environmental Signaling in Plants!

PhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!

Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026! eps.sites.uu.nl

Coordination of cortex modifications in time, space, and under stress 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Tansleyinsight by @dorotakawa.bsky.social, @hannahschneider.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social #PlantScience

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

Translational insights into abiotic interactions: From Arabidopsis to crop plants We highlight milestones in plant hypoxia research contributing to advances in field (and will continue to do so) @roederlab.bsky.social @cargueso.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Save the date! The 2026 edition of UU Summer School in Environmental Signaling in Plants will be on 24th-26th August 2026! @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

UU Plants PIs @rsasidharan.bsky.social Saskia van Wees @utrechtpmi.bsky.social presented their work at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social in beautiful Colorado @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @cropxr.bsky.social