Kay Schneitz
@kschneitz.bsky.social
Plant developmental geneticist. Professor at TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich. Views my own. He/him.
https://msl.ls.tum.de/plantdev
https://msl.ls.tum.de/plantdev
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Oft wird als wichtigstes Erfolgskriterium nur die Publikation von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen angesehen, am besten in renommierten Fachzeitschriften, die es in die main stream Medien schaffen.
Gemessen daran, war unser Labor die letzten 12 Monate recht unerfolgreich. Aber das hat Gründe.
Gemessen daran, war unser Labor die letzten 12 Monate recht unerfolgreich. Aber das hat Gründe.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Oft wird als wichtigstes Erfolgskriterium nur die Publikation von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen angesehen, am besten in renommierten Fachzeitschriften, die es in die main stream Medien schaffen.
Gemessen daran, war unser Labor die letzten 12 Monate recht unerfolgreich. Aber das hat Gründe.
Gemessen daran, war unser Labor die letzten 12 Monate recht unerfolgreich. Aber das hat Gründe.
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Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
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Deadline Nov 15 (in 2 days!). Join us in Geneva in the fantastic Dpt. of Molecular and Cellular Biology - great opportunity! mocel.unige.ch/news-events/...
Open position for assistant (tenure-track) or associate professor - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - UNIGE
mocel.unige.ch
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Deadline Nov 15 (in 2 days!). Join us in Geneva in the fantastic Dpt. of Molecular and Cellular Biology - great opportunity! mocel.unige.ch/news-events/...
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Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a nonrandom pattern of giant cells
Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells have a wide range of sizes and ploidies, but the mechanisms patterning their size and spatial distribution remain unclear. This study shows that the pathway controllin...
journals.plos.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
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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...
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
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Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
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Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!
Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!
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Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
The interplay of RALF structural and signaling functions in plant-microbe interactions
Rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptides are important signaling molecules binding to Catharanthus roseus receptor-like kinase 1-like (CrRLK1L)—LORELEI/LORELEI-like GPI-anchored protein complexes t...
dx.plos.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
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👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇
Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!
#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!
#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇
Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!
#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!
#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
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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
#uniheidelberg #lifescience
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Early Excellence in Science Award goes to GreenRobust PI @brittavelten.bsky.social. Congratulations!
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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
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
Congratulations, Dr. Rodion Boikine! He led our efforts to understand the molecular mechanism of receptor kinase-mediated cell wall damage caused by inhibition of cellulose biosynthesis. Instrumental in establishing FRET-FLIM technology in our lab. Excellent work! Also, a kind human being.
October 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Congratulations, Dr. Rodion Boikine! He led our efforts to understand the molecular mechanism of receptor kinase-mediated cell wall damage caused by inhibition of cellulose biosynthesis. Instrumental in establishing FRET-FLIM technology in our lab. Excellent work! Also, a kind human being.
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Human organisations are like biological networks: there are enzymes, activators and repressors. The enzymes are the people who do stuff. Activating interactions motivate and inspire them. Repressing interactions create friction, bureaucracy, etc. Roles or processes that create friction tend ...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Human organisations are like biological networks: there are enzymes, activators and repressors. The enzymes are the people who do stuff. Activating interactions motivate and inspire them. Repressing interactions create friction, bureaucracy, etc. Roles or processes that create friction tend ...
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We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
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Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration,
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7
Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration, https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7
• LEC2 reprograms somatic epidermal cells into totipotent somatic embryo founder cells
• LEC2 and SPCH co-activate local auxin biosynthesis by targeting TAA1 and YUC4
• GMC-auxin state marks stomatal cells shifting from differentiation to totipotency
• Transcriptional rewiring and auxin signaling drive reprogramming of stomatal cells
www.scoop.it
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration,
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01020-7
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Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
www.science.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
career5.successfactors.eu
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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W1 Tenure-Track Professor for Plant Biochemistry.
Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
JobOpportunities
uni-tuebingen.de
September 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
W1 Tenure-Track Professor for Plant Biochemistry.
Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
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I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
🎉 Three ERC Starting Grants for Cologne researchers:
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳
Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳
Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9
Millions in EU funding: Three ERC Starting Grants Awarded to Researchers at the University of Cologne
Three researchers at the University of Cologne have each received one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers / for a total of 4.5 million euros over five years
uni.koeln
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
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Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich.
A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!
A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!
September 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich.
A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!
A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement www.nature.com/articles/d41...