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Sarah Courbier
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MSCA fellow in Hiltbrunner lab at University of Freiburg, Germany.
Studying the interplay between light and defense signaling in plants.
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"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv
An illustration of a woman wearing an axolotl costume in front of an audience, with text: Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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sfb1381.bsky.social
Welcome back to our “SFB 1381’s Female Minds” series! This time, we had the pleasure of speaking with Sonja-Verena Albers (University of Freiburg).

Check out the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

#womeninstem
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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lauraragni.bsky.social
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#PlantSciences
An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS
Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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dompsfr.bsky.social
How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!

📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
I am very happy to see @sophiezoe.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social amongst this year's fellows
plantaeofficial.bsky.social Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 17d
📣ASPB is happy to announce the 2026 Plantae Fellows, an impressive group ready to bring their best to this resource for the global plant science community!🌱

Read more: buff.ly/CDI47lq

#PlantScience
Image text: 2026 Plantae Fellows. www.plantae.org | www.aspb.org. Features ASPB & Plantae Logos, and Plantae Fellows' names and headshot photos.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686496v1
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
Dr. Bruno Guillotin
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
The logo of the conference symbolises a plant cell, plant leaves, plant cell's organelles, and a bug. It also offers the details of the 39th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) taking place from 16th to 19th March 2026 in Hennef, Germany
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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ispphotobiology.bsky.social
🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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toheitka.bsky.social
We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:

🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)

📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience

#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs

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Job posting. We look for a Full Professor (W3) of Stress Resilience of Plants at the RWTH Aachen.
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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plantaeofficial.bsky.social
📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: GRC and GRS on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction

👉https://buff.ly/ZE5MZKv

#PlantScience
GRC and GRS on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
(2026) Sun 8 Feb - Fri 13 [EST]: Applications for this meeting must be submitted by January 11, 2026. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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cgonzagaj.bsky.social
"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social
Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social
Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management
Abstract. Light is a central environmental signal that coordinates plant development, metabolism, and stress responses. By integrating external cues with i
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October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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meyerchrisscience.bsky.social
Happy to share our News and Views published with Justine Broutin in @NaturePlants on the role of nitrate and of the NLP7 transcription factor in wheat drought recovery !
Nitrate to spark parched plants
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Nitrate to spark parched plants
Nature Plants - Plants often experience multiple stresses to which they adapt by mounting specific responses. Nitrogen supply allows plants to better recover from drought, and this is linked to...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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fionachembot.bsky.social
I have a PhD position available in my lab at the University of Freiburg!! If you, or someone you know, might be looking for a position using modeling and simulations to uncover secrets in (glyco-)protein structure/function relationships please take a look at our website!
www.kearnslab.org
Beautiful picture looking out of the chemistry building at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg Germany. The old cathedral can be seen in the distance with a backdrop of a blue sky with clouds and distant foothills of the black forrest with fall colors showing through in the trees picture of the Münster at dawn in the Altstadt of Freiburg, Germany, with a still dark sky in the background and moon over the Münster, in the foreground a well-lit flowers stand can be seen preparing for the daily morning market
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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somssich.bsky.social
And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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djgibbs.bsky.social
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
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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rootstrapping.bsky.social
🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology

#PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
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October 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Jasmonic Acid Oxidases (JAO) define a new branch in jasmonate metabolism towards 11OH-jasmonic acid and its glucosylated derivative https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681447v1
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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jacquet-chris.bsky.social
Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.
October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 7 moderates the activity and the cytosolic-nuclear shuttling of PHYTOCHROME A https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680213v1
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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HY5 integrates light and electrical signaling to trigger a jasmonate burst for nematode defense in tomato
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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katherinedenby.bsky.social
Fantastic PhD opportunity to join myself, Nicola Patron and @lichmanlab.bsky.social in uncovering the biosynthesis and function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones. 4-year fully-funded combining molecular & engineering biology, & plant pathology.

Deadline Nov 25th

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The biosynthesis and immunity function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones at Gatsby Charitable Foundation on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The biosynthesis and immunity function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones at Gatsby Charitable Foundation, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
TOR inhibition drives accumulation of amino acids through transcriptional activation in algae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679311v1
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM