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Tora Økland 🌱

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Plant receptor enthusiast in the Parniske group @LMU Munich. Interested in root symbioses, immunity and how they evolve 🍄‍🟫🦠 | 🇳🇴➡️🇩🇪

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Sep 24

Time to introduce myself on here! I’m Tora, a doctoral candidate in plant genetics in Munich. I study the evolution and function of receptors involved in symbiosis and immunity, but you’ll also catch me talking excitedly about food, climbing and climate policy #PlantScience #AcademicChatter #phdskye

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Sep 12

kan det gå én dag uten at du eller @lassebjorn.bsky.social lekker interne notat fra fiskegruppa

Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Sep 11

Noen må gå

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Naturvernforbundet @naturvernforbundet.no · Sep 8

Usikker på hvem du skal stemme på?

Stem på havet
stem på skrei, sild, sei og lodde.
Stem på dem som lever her om hundre år,
stem på din sønnesønns gråt,
stem på din datterdatters første smil.

(Utdrag fra diktet Stemmeseddel av Harald Sverdrup)

Godt valg!

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Hoda Imad @hodaimad.bsky.social · Sep 6

Norge er verdens aller beste land å bo i. Det har ikke kommet av seg sjøl. Det skyldes små forskjeller mellom folk og høy tillit til hverandre, også landets institusjoner. Det er ingen selvfølge at det alltid vil forbli sånn. Hvis du enda ikke har stemt: tillitssamfunnet vårt er verdt å forsvare.

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Hoda Imad @hodaimad.bsky.social · Sep 6

Listhaug ble avkledd i går. Først og fremst fordi hun bekrefta at hun er leder av et høyrepopulistisk parti, som i likhet med sine søsterpartier over hele Europa og i verden, har den samme forutsigbare strategien. Mens andre lykkes med å holde maska frem til valgdagen, glapp maska til Listhaug i går

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations Katie! I'm excited to see where this will go !

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Maria Spezzati @maryspezz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share some data from my PhD project at #ENFC2025
Join me to discuss about Lotus and Tomato SymRK 🌱

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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · Aug 11

What can #herbarium collections tell us about genetic responses to global change? A lot!! 🌿

Check out our viewpoint, out now in @newphyt.bsky.social - genetic monitoring, extinctions, adaptation, GEAs, and more! ⬇️

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Using herbarium collections to study genetic responses to global change

Earth's c. 406 million herbarium specimens represent a largely untapped resource of genetic data that could transform our understanding of global plant populations. Advances in DNA sequencing have ma...

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Olav Torvund @olavtorvund.bsky.social · Aug 2

Jeg vil oppsummere det slik: Politikerne har ingen forutsetninger for å kunne vurdere hvilke utdanninger som er arbeidslivsrelevante og fremtidsrettet. De vet bare hva som var etterspurt i fjor, og aner ingen ting om hva vi har behov for om fem år. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/arbeid...

(+) Politikerne bør tøyle sine indre planøkonomer

«Arbeidslivsrelevans» i høyere utdanning vil bare gi mer tull

www.morgenbladet.no

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jul 24

Umulig å ikke tenke på Samhald på Stord (Nordom bekkjen sidan 1919)

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Eirik Lågeide @eiriklag.bsky.social · Jul 14

If you're interested in ancient conserved immune systems and plant-virus interactions, come chat today at my poster P-227! #2025ISMPMI #🧪 #🌾

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm sorry I'll miss this! Have a great time in Cologne :)

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jul 9

this made me laugh so much

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Jul 9

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

Symptom Development in Plant Viral Diseases: What, How, and Why? | Annual Reviews

Plant viruses are obligate intracellular pathogens that hijack host cellular machinery to support their replication and spread. Viral infection induces a variety of structural and physiological change...

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jul 3

New (English!) episode from the wonderful TRR356 podcast on plant-microbe interactions, and this time I got to join! Have a listen to hear more about the work we do to understand how plants and beneficial microbes interact 👇

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#SciComm 🧪 #PlantScience

#5 Rooted in Symbiosis: How Plants and Microbes Work Together - With Tora Fougner-Økland and Jonathan Jelen

Podcast-Folge · Pflanzen und ihr Mikrokosmos · 03.07.2025 · 21 Min.

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · Jul 2

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature

A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

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micamer.bsky.social @micamer.bsky.social · Mar 11

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com

Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

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Alex Guyon @alexguyon.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jun 24

This looks so interesting, I can’t wait to read it (and marvel over the images)!

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Elia Stahl @eliastahl.bsky.social · Jun 16

We are recruiting!
A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jun 15

Lorenz does some really cool work and everyone who stops by the #PlantScience feed now and then should definitely follow him !

Lorenz Oberkofler @oberkoflerlorenz.bsky.social · Jun 15

Just back from the #COST Action meeting in Hamburg, where I had the chance to present some of our research on fungal extracellular vesicles and sRNA transport.
Always a pleasure to exchange ideas and reconnect with the #exRNA community!

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · Jun 15

Will I ever get tired of the pictures from this system ? 100% no

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Lorenz Oberkofler @oberkoflerlorenz.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · May 29

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