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Cluster of Excellence "GreenRobust: Understanding Robustness of Plant Systems from Molecules to Ecosystems" research initiative led by the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim.
Website: www.greenrobust.de
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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New preprint from our group:

Phenotypic differentiation between highland and coastal quinoa under cold stress conditions

We use both field trials and lab experiments under controlled conditions to show that the two major quinoa ecotypes differ in adaptive traits.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9
Für eine krisenfeste Landwirtschaft: DFG-Senatskommission fordert stärkere Unterstützung für vielfältige Anbausysteme von Nutzpflanzen
sohub.io
January 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.

Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive

Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.

For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants
Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
How to achieve plant robustness on the cellular level? The regular divisions of cambium stem cells:
Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Our lab (Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab) together with El Kasmi Lab and @mpcontreras.bsky.social Lab enjoyed a very Christmassy evening with Glühwein and many 🎄🎄🎄 not far from Tübingen.
Cheers to a new year at the #ZMBP full of discoveries on immune receptors 🥂
#JuniorPIs #EMCRs #MPMI
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Zwei Forscherinnen und drei Forscher der Universität und des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen erhalten hochdotierte Förderungen für Projekte in der #Medizin, der #Mikrobiologie und dem Maschinellen Lernen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…#ERCR#ERCCoGo#MachineLearningng
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparison of Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference
Background: Causal structure learning offers a promising approach to studying gene regulation in cells, aiming to provide deeper mechanistic insights than purely association-based methods. Theoretical...
www.biorxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
European Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems
Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Very proud that Freddy Igiebor has won a DBG Master thesis prize with his work in my lab on phyB photobody meory function!😃
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...
2025: Best Master Thesis
DBG award: Best plant science master thesis 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A new study from the @maizel-lab.org, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and @roelandmerks.bsky.social labs starting to unravel a role of SOSEKI proteins in cellular mechanosensing.
New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PlantScience.ai
PlantScience.ai
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
GreenRobust PI Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) receives the Lautenschläger award, the most prestigous price of Heidelberg University acknowledging his scientific achievements. Congratulations!
Jan Lohmann erhält Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis: Auszeichnung ist mit 250.000 Euro dotiert – Preis für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs geht an Lukas Bunse www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin #theologie
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Two ERC Synergy Grants for Scientists at Universität Heidelberg: European Research Council awards prestigious funding for complex research projects www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #university #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #erc #research #eu @erc.europa.eu
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development.
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Early Excellence in Science Award goes to GreenRobust PI @brittavelten.bsky.social. Congratulations!
Auszeichnung für Heidelberger Datenwissenschaftlerin: Britta Velten wird für innovative Verfahren für die Analyse von komplexen Datensätzen aus den Lebenswissenschaften mit dem Early Excellence in Science Award ausgezeichnet www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#uniheidelberg #lifescience
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Wie Pflanzen ihre Anpassung an Trockenheit steuern: Forschungsteam der Universität Heidelberg entdeckt molekularen Mechanismus, der für die Schließung der Poren auf den Blättern sorgt www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Christoph Schneider hat heute sein Amt als Rektor der #UniHohenheim angetreten. Der Klimageograph & frühere Vizepräsident für Forschung der @humboldtuni.bsky.social will „die Uni Hohenheim im Team voranbringen – in Forschung, Lehre & Transfer.“
👉 Video t1p.de/t0amo
👉 mehr t1p.de/tgz5y
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim
Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM