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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 17h

Would you like to highlight your core facility and introduce yourself to the community at UK Light Microscopy Facility Meeting 2026?

Why not submit a 'Crib Talk' proposal to make your mark at this great event for the #LightMicroscopy community!

https://ow.ly/AmSl50Xb5nU

Banner for the UK Light Microscopy Facility Meeting 2026 held on 8-9 January at Newcastle University, featuring a blue microscopic pattern background.

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 17h

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!

Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Daniel Gibbs Lab

Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

sites.google.com

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Greg Vert @plantubiquitin.bsky.social · 1d

Great work by julien Spielmann now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Canonical tyrosine‐based motifs are required for constitutive endocytosis and polarity of IRT1 and contribute to metal uptake

Control of IRT1 cell surface levels is critical for plant iron uptake from the soil and was previously shown to be regulated by ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis upon non-iron metal excess. Here, we she...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 12d

#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben:
14 October
Tuesday
1:30 - 15p.m. CET
in English

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EpiSeedLink @episeedlink.bsky.social · 1d

We would like to call your attention on this meeting for the next year. One of the main focuses is proteostasis, but it also covers many aspects of developmental biology and signaling pathways

📢 Excellent speakers
🪧 Venue: Montpellier

👉Take a look:
13-zomes.sciencesconf.org

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 2d

It's tomorrow!! Don't miss out!!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 14d

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Sreya Das will present again (!) in our JC. This time, she will present her paper on the role of PIF3 in thermomorphogenesis.

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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 2d

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 2d

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 3d

9 days to go:
* 2 x open positions!
* Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package
* University of Toronto appointments
* Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Henryk Straube @hstraube.bsky.social · 3d

🌿 Postdoc in Algae Biochemistry – University of Copenhagen

Join the Algae Biochemistry Group to explore molecular biology, synthetic biology & metabolomics in eukaryotic microalgae.

📅 Apply by 1 Nov 2025

🔗 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164971

#Postdoc #Algae #Biochemistry #SyntheticBiology

Postdoc in Algae biochemistry

employment.ku.dk

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating study sheds light on dehydration tolerant proteins, which proteins tends to be more stable during dehydration-rehydration and more (*not in plants).

Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation

Desiccated cells lose over 85% of their water content and experience widespread biomolecular dysfunction. Romero-Pérez et al. show that the yeast proteome contains a subset of proteins that are desicc...

www.cell.com

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 4d

📢Closing on Monday: Associate Professor of Molecular Cell Biology

But if you thought you had missed out...

🎉Extended till 22nd October: Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour

Join us in the new state-of-the-art Life and Mind Building 👇

bit.ly/488CNW3

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...

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Eirini Kaiserli @ekaiserli.bsky.social · 4d

What a fantastic conference! Thank you @crc1644.bsky.social for the invitation and all ECRs and group leaders for sharing your amazing science!

Eirini Kaiserli @ekaiserli.bsky.social · 5d

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 7d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 6d

Bringing Darwin’s Botanical Work Into the Spotlight share.google/pmabhSuaMRZ1...

Bringing Darwin’s Botanical Work Into the Spotlight

Surveying visitors at a major botanical garden reveals a surprising gap in plant evolution knowledge, and a clear opportunity to close it.

share.google

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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team!
Please repost!

jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

John Innes Centre

jobs.jic.ac.uk

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Cambridge Biochemistry @cambiochem.bsky.social · 7d

There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 6d

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Katherine Brown, @biologists.bsky.social Publishing Director and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor, who has been closely involved with @prelights.bsky.social since its inception. #100biologists

@katherine-brown.bsky.social

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal!

'It was exciting to have a chance, as an early career researcher, to write something in my voice, with my take on where my field is going.' – Matthew Naish, 2024 #TansleyMedal winner

Deadline 1 November 2025:

New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an early career researcher.

www.newphytologist.org

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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 10d

**Please Repost**

Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 13d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 14d

New MASC initiative to support early career colleagues in need- especially in the U.S. & Argentina - please take a look & send comments to MASC President Thorsten Hamann by Oct 15

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 15d

📣Magnifying a new initiative from MASC (Multi-national Arabidopsis Steering Committee) to support colleagues in need
tinyurl.com/MASC-initiat...
Please read the document and return comments to Thorsten Hamann ([email protected]) by Oct. 15th. Please share.
#arabidopsis #community #plantscience

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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 14d

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light

Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.

doi.org

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