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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 12d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 8h

Now we just need more target journal support (esp. plant journals) but this is really something needed....

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 8h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice that sounds really cool! Congrats

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 6d

This is "bulk tissue" classical RNAseq only, so it is a plus (but not strictly necessary) to be familiar RNA extraction from plant tissues. Analysis is easy to learn and we teach this often.

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 8d

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

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 13d

Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 18d

Anika in my department is looking for a Phd student on buckwheat stress responses. Maybe this is something for you?
#plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...

PhD position in the field of plant sciences/transcriptome analyses

Do you want to contribute to sustainable plant use with your work? Then you are exactly right at the institute`s department Bioinformatics (IBG-4) of the Institute for Bio and Geosciences at the Forsc...

www.fz-juelich.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 19d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics

@uni-kiel.de

Deadline: 19 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Job Openings

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 20d

Lucas Munnes closes this Wednesday’s session at the #SOLRUB2025 presenting about a #pangenome in the Morelloid clade. Different species have different levels of polyploidy with S. nigrum being highest (6x). Synteny with S. americanum (2x). For nigrum subA ~ americanum. subB & subC ~ villosum (4x).

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 20d

Laura breeding /generating the eggplants we all want to have.

Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 22d

Laura Toppino follows at #SOLRUB2025 with her presentation about avoiding eggplant fruit flesh browning using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Browning is produced by polyphenols. Chlorogenic acid is the main browning polyphenol in eggplants. It is caused by PPOs. Knocking out HQT reduces browning.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 21d

Jaime Prohens brings us a wonderful presentation about the importance of #eggplant populations to elucidate the molecular players in agronomical traits at #SOLRUB2025. Having a good population was essential to identify the gene behind the formation of #pickles in eggplants.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 21d

Nice presentation by Martina Stromvik at the #SOLRUB2025aboit the #allotetraploid potato species, Solanum acaule. This species has been used to introgress cold tolerance into some potato varieties like Viking. One of the ancestral parents remains elusive in its identification.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 21d

An-Sofie Tas brings us a presentation of a wild coffee species, Coffea dactylifera, at #SOLRUB2035. She proposes the use of this species as alternative to the coffee crops although breeding is necessary. This species has a compact form, similar to arabica. It also has smaller beans and sweet taste.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 20d

Switching from biodiversity to the omics technologies session at the #SOLRUB2025. Presenting Adi Avni about plant-based sensors. The idea , convert plant gene responses in a signal read by an electrode that can transmit the information to a computer.

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 20d

Lucas Munnes just provided some update on Morelloid genomes and where Solanum nigrum might have come from at #SOLRUB2025

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 20d

It took us a very long time but here is Arslan with the Nicotina glauca genome and the leaf developmental series transcriptome and metabolome at #SOLRUB2025

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 20d

Vivien out of her usual lichen track presents the analysis of Alkengi officinarum and transcriptomic change during the calyx color change at #SOLRUB2025.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 21d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Sep 15

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 21d

Kristina Gruden follows on the first session the third day at #SOLRUB3025. She is presenting us the last developments of the study of an ERF transcription factor as regulator for an #endophyte community in #potato. Pti5 is involved in potato immunity. They used a knowledge network to get new results

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 21d

Luciana Gaccione closes the session at the #SOLRUB2025 describing their work building an #eggplant graph-based #pangenome and its application to identify genes behind several agronomical traits.

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 21d

Luciana Gaccione presents her phantastic results on the eggplant pangenome and panphenome at #SOLRUB2025.

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 21d

Great congratulations. Really nice news.

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 22d

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Identification of a plastid-localized amino acid transporter (Nature Plants) @apmweber.bsky.social @franzikuhnert.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)
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#PlantaePSRW

Identification of a plastid-localized amino acid transporter | Plantae

Plastids are more than photosynthetic compartments, they also are responsible for the biosynthesis of nine proteinogenic amino acids (which explains why animals, lacking plastids…

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