Department of plant and environmental sciences @HUJI
@huji-pes.bsky.social
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The university's first department, now celebrating its centennial.
Opinions expressed are our own.
The university's first department, now celebrating its centennial.
Opinions expressed are our own.
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About our header photo: the first members of the department, then known as the 'Systematic Botany Branch' Alexander Eig, Naomi Feinbrun and Michael Zohary getting some work done at the herbarium. Missing from the photo is Otto Warburg, department founder and director at the time.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Carving out the microbiota of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir
Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent is…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New from the Keren lab! This study identifies a conserved regulatory program in cyanobacteria that links nutrient limitation to coordinated shifts in metabolism and photosynthesis. Congrats @nir-keren.bsky.social and all authors!
We've tried to take a different view at the issue of nutrient limitations-looking for the shared basis rather than for specific response. This is the result:
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Led by Hagit Zer with Stav Chen and David Rasin, in close collaboration with Miguel Hernandez–Prieto. Thanks!
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Led by Hagit Zer with Stav Chen and David Rasin, in close collaboration with Miguel Hernandez–Prieto. Thanks!
A shared basis for nutrient limitation response in cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria possess diverse regulatory mechanisms to adapt to nutrient limitation,
yet the extent to which these responses are shared across different nutrient stresses
remains unclear. Understandin...
www.jbc.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
New from the Keren lab! This study identifies a conserved regulatory program in cyanobacteria that links nutrient limitation to coordinated shifts in metabolism and photosynthesis. Congrats @nir-keren.bsky.social and all authors!
🔬 New from our faculty: A must-read review on how root development is shaped by microbial interactions. Great work by @finkel-lab.bsky.social, @fdiniandreote.bsky.social & Gabriel Castrillo! 🌱🧬
New Tansley review out in @newphyt.bsky.social with @fdiniandreote.bsky.social and Gabriel Castrillo! We explore how the root is shaped by dialogue with soil microbes—highlighting emerging mechanisms and future research directions in root plasticity and microbiome interactions.
tinyurl.com/38mkyx5t
tinyurl.com/38mkyx5t
Microbial drivers of root plasticity
Soils are highly heterogeneous and dynamic systems, experiencing a constant flow of plant root exudates and moisture fluctuations that affect nutrient distribution, soil physicochemical properties, a...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🔬 New from our faculty: A must-read review on how root development is shaped by microbial interactions. Great work by @finkel-lab.bsky.social, @fdiniandreote.bsky.social & Gabriel Castrillo! 🌱🧬
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June 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Amazing and insightful seminar by @finkel-lab.bsky.social that is visiting Agricultural University of Athens this week as part of an Erasmus Staff Exchange program #microbiome #planthealth
June 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Amazing and insightful seminar by @finkel-lab.bsky.social that is visiting Agricultural University of Athens this week as part of an Erasmus Staff Exchange program #microbiome #planthealth
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May 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Departmental Retreat Spring 2025. Thanks to Meni Neuman and all at the Botanical Garden of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus for providing not only a great tour of the gardens but also a wonderful venue for our lecture sessions.
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Departmental Retreat Spring 2025. Thanks to Meni Neuman and all at the Botanical Garden of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus for providing not only a great tour of the gardens but also a wonderful venue for our lecture sessions.
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April 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🌱 Two More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025 🌱
🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO
Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.
📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience
🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO
Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.
📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🌱 Two More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025 🌱
🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO
Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.
📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience
🔬 @finkel-lab.bsky.social – @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 Eiko Kuramae – NIOO
Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga, November 2025.
📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeResearch #SoilHealth #PlantScience
Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !
March 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !
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Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies.
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 27, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies.
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸
We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Heat stress drives rapid viral and antiviral innate immunity activation in Hexacorallia
The cnidarian class Hexacorallia, encompassing stony corals and sea anemones, plays a critical role in marine ecosystems. Coral bleaching, the disruption of the symbiosis between stony corals and zoox...
www.biorxiv.org
December 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸
We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New Phytologist Stomata Seminar Video available (by Sally Assmann and myself). Thanks again for this fantastic opportunity to share our work and perspectives 🌱🥰!
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...
December 15, 2024 at 5:15 AM
New Phytologist Stomata Seminar Video available (by Sally Assmann and myself). Thanks again for this fantastic opportunity to share our work and perspectives 🌱🥰!
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...
cassyni.com/events/CpfRD...
