Yasin Dagdas
@plantophagy.bsky.social
Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/evolutionary-cell-biology
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🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE cooperates with MADS-domain transcription factors to regulate an auxin-dependent network controlling Megaspore-Mother-Cell differentiation - Nature Communications
In plants, the MMC represents the precursor of the female germline. Here, the authors show that SPL/NZZ, together with ovule-identity MADS-domain transcription factors, controls MMC differentiation by...
www.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
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✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
PhD position to study epigenomic diversity and altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina
jobs.ethz.ch
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
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We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I feel like a parent seeing your first kid leave home ;-).
While the entire Pauli lab family will greatly miss @lorenzoorts.bsky.social as Laura has become a real role model, it makes me incredibly happy & proud to have her establish the Lorenzo-Orts lab at the @imbmainz.bsky.social! All the best!
While the entire Pauli lab family will greatly miss @lorenzoorts.bsky.social as Laura has become a real role model, it makes me incredibly happy & proud to have her establish the Lorenzo-Orts lab at the @imbmainz.bsky.social! All the best!
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I feel like a parent seeing your first kid leave home ;-).
While the entire Pauli lab family will greatly miss @lorenzoorts.bsky.social as Laura has become a real role model, it makes me incredibly happy & proud to have her establish the Lorenzo-Orts lab at the @imbmainz.bsky.social! All the best!
While the entire Pauli lab family will greatly miss @lorenzoorts.bsky.social as Laura has become a real role model, it makes me incredibly happy & proud to have her establish the Lorenzo-Orts lab at the @imbmainz.bsky.social! All the best!
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I’m very happy (and grateful!) to share that I’m featured in a Nature Cancer Viewpoint about starting my lab at CNIO.
In the Lab (www.rcglab.com) we’re combining AI, protein design and structural biology to study protein structures and design novel protein therapeutics for cancer. 🔬
In the Lab (www.rcglab.com) we’re combining AI, protein design and structural biology to study protein structures and design novel protein therapeutics for cancer. 🔬
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m very happy (and grateful!) to share that I’m featured in a Nature Cancer Viewpoint about starting my lab at CNIO.
In the Lab (www.rcglab.com) we’re combining AI, protein design and structural biology to study protein structures and design novel protein therapeutics for cancer. 🔬
In the Lab (www.rcglab.com) we’re combining AI, protein design and structural biology to study protein structures and design novel protein therapeutics for cancer. 🔬
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Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
Symbiosome functionality in Medicago truncatula nodules requires continuous clearing of pectins from the symbiosome space - Nature Communications
Here a mechanism for nitrogen fixation maintenance is identified in Medicago truncatula where two polygalacturoneases are expressed in nodules and secreted into the symbiosome space for clearing of ex...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
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Kazuo Shiraga (Japanese, 1924-2008), Chouryou, 1990. Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 70.8 cm.
December 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Kazuo Shiraga (Japanese, 1924-2008), Chouryou, 1990. Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 70.8 cm.
“Every process at Deutsche Bahn is really complicated," Iffländer says. "It takes forever and that frustrates the people that actually want to do something.” —sounds familiar
'The German railway Deutsche Bahn's long-distance "high-speed" trains are now among the least punctual in Europe. In October, the national rail operator broke its own poor record with roughly only half of all long-distance trains arriving without delay.'
www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g...
Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?
You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“Every process at Deutsche Bahn is really complicated," Iffländer says. "It takes forever and that frustrates the people that actually want to do something.” —sounds familiar
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@pravrutharaman.bsky.social got super intrigued about EZHIP/CATACOMB, previously identified as a histone H3K27M mimic of PRC2. You can read about her efforts here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope these analyses will help spur more analyses in this very cool gene! 1/
Dynamic evolution of EZHIP, an inhibitor of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 in mammals
The Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) is an ancient, conserved chromatin-interacting complex that controls gene expression, facilitating differentiation and cellular identity during development. It...
www.biorxiv.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
@pravrutharaman.bsky.social got super intrigued about EZHIP/CATACOMB, previously identified as a histone H3K27M mimic of PRC2. You can read about her efforts here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope these analyses will help spur more analyses in this very cool gene! 1/
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More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
7 random unsolicited tips for students and early career researchers
You might not want to hear them, but here they are anyway.
kamounlab.medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
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New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity:
the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs
#MPMI #ZMBP
the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs
#MPMI #ZMBP
Small Molecule Binding to EDS1/PAD4 in LRR-RP-Mediated Pattern-Triggered Immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.692544v1
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity:
the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs
#MPMI #ZMBP
the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs
#MPMI #ZMBP
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I'm honored to receive the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize at Åbo Akademi University. www.abo.fi/en/news/the-...
This award goes to my lab and my lab members ❤️
Science is also possible only in the right environment and
@aboakademi.bsky.social and @turkubioscience.bsky.social are amazing place to work
This award goes to my lab and my lab members ❤️
Science is also possible only in the right environment and
@aboakademi.bsky.social and @turkubioscience.bsky.social are amazing place to work
Henrik Saxén and Guillaume Jacquemet are awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize at Åbo Akademi University
Professor Henrik Saxén and Associate Professor Guillaume Jacquemet both receive a prize from Chancellor Marianne Stenius for their successful research at Åbo Akademi University.
www.abo.fi
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I'm honored to receive the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize at Åbo Akademi University. www.abo.fi/en/news/the-...
This award goes to my lab and my lab members ❤️
Science is also possible only in the right environment and
@aboakademi.bsky.social and @turkubioscience.bsky.social are amazing place to work
This award goes to my lab and my lab members ❤️
Science is also possible only in the right environment and
@aboakademi.bsky.social and @turkubioscience.bsky.social are amazing place to work
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Want to establish your research program in Canada?
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Application process - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Want to establish your research program in Canada?
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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📣 Major milestone achieved! First @teamthomma.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social PhD student graduated 🎉! Congratulations to @wolki95.bsky.social for a stellar defence of a thesis on antimicrobial effectors of Verticillium dahliae that drive niche adaptation #proudPI #PhDone
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📣 Major milestone achieved! First @teamthomma.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social PhD student graduated 🎉! Congratulations to @wolki95.bsky.social for a stellar defence of a thesis on antimicrobial effectors of Verticillium dahliae that drive niche adaptation #proudPI #PhDone
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Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Glad to hear real cells can be Goodsell-esque 😁
Love the caption of Fig. 3 in this impressive preprint:
"A Goodsell-esque 3D orthogonal rendering of an IsoNet2-processed FIB-milled tomogram of C. reinhardtii"
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Since I am no expert, what does the cryoET community think of IsoNet? @cellarchlab.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
"A Goodsell-esque 3D orthogonal rendering of an IsoNet2-processed FIB-milled tomogram of C. reinhardtii"
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Since I am no expert, what does the cryoET community think of IsoNet? @cellarchlab.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Glad to hear real cells can be Goodsell-esque 😁
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A. thaliana has been pivotal in advancing our understanding of the bases of adaptation to past and ongoing environmental changes! A very nice review by @ahancock.bsky.social, Swan Portlier, Andrea Fulgione, @mgstetter.bsky.social and @meauxjuliette.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
www.annualreviews.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A. thaliana has been pivotal in advancing our understanding of the bases of adaptation to past and ongoing environmental changes! A very nice review by @ahancock.bsky.social, Swan Portlier, Andrea Fulgione, @mgstetter.bsky.social and @meauxjuliette.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
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Come and work with us, We are looking for a new group leader at Turku Bioscience @turkubioscience.bsky.social.
Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator).
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator).
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
LinkedIn
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December 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Come and work with us, We are looking for a new group leader at Turku Bioscience @turkubioscience.bsky.social.
Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator).
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator).
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface
Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...
Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface
Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...
Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...
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Thanks, @hildenelissen.bsky.social. Was great to have you at COS. A day of good discussions and a stimulating seminar.
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks, @hildenelissen.bsky.social. Was great to have you at COS. A day of good discussions and a stimulating seminar.
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
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!!!
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🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
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#Microbial #Eukaryotes in #UExM on the cover of @natgenet.nature.com ! Unbelievable !!!
Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!
Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!
It is amazing that @dudinlab.bsky.social beautiful #ExM composition has been selected to highlight our #6mA work for the cover of @natgenet.nature.com. #Protists (and ichthyosporeans in particular) in the cover of NG must be quite unique!
December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#Microbial #Eukaryotes in #UExM on the cover of @natgenet.nature.com ! Unbelievable !!!
Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!
Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!