Mitochondrial function is usually measured in large POPULATIONS. But in cells they may operate as INDIVIDUALS. A recent Gedankenexperiment by the plant mito community in Germany featured in #BIOspektrum Hildebrandt Lab Cell Physiology, Halle shorturl.at/jsJL4

“I wish the public understood that the curiosity-driven science we [do today] is the crucial foundation for [future innovations.] If we can already see direct applications of the research.. the new technology coming out will not be transformative." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Close to finishing your BSc studies? Interested in doing a PhD? Apply for the CEPLAS Graduate School for excellence in 🌳🪴🌱☘️🌿 sciences! Still one more week to go!

Don't miss this excellent opportunity to work on exciting topics within a stimulating environment!

Vacant postdoc position available here for three years to study gene #expression variation, its impact on #fitness variation and the role of #epigenetics in the magic #Alyrata. Review of application will begin on Feb 15th, start April 2022, please RT! #evolsysbiol #QGen #Popgen

Das Genom der Mistel haben Pflanzenforscherinnen und –forscher um Hans-Peter Braun, Lucie Schröder und Helge Küster analysiert und in The Plant Journal publiziert doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15…: Siehe Pressemitteilung Leibniz Uni Hannover ➡️uni-hannover.de/de/universitae…

‼️Please RT: the call for our new cohort of postdocs is out now! We have 21 exciting projects to fill Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universität zu Köln, MPIPZ Cologne, FZ Jülich-IBG2 ! 📅Deadline: June 6 2022! Find out more about the projects and the application here👉 bit.ly/388yJIZ #PlantSciJobs

Our research consortium #TRR341 is ready to start! We need YOU. Open call for 22 PhD positions at Universität zu Köln Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and with our partners MPIPZ Cologne Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universität Potsdam Philipps-Universität jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/…

Exciting news: Our group it moving to Cologne. I am very happy and excited to officially start as a professor for plant metabolic biochemistry Universität zu Köln and CEPLAS today. Many thanks to my new colleagues for their warm welcome!

Check out our newest review in Trends in Biochemical Sciences on #aminoacidmetabolism in plant-microbe interactions! Great progress has been made and we are happy to give you an update about yet another interesting role of amino acids in plants! Congrats to @Janmoo95 for his first publication👏

How my lab went from 4,000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year nature.com/articles/d4158…

🎉📣Please RT: The call for our PhD program in Plant Sciences/Quantitative Biology just opened! If you are currently doing a BSc or are just finished, check out our website and consider applying! #PlantSciJobs #plantsci ▶️ bit.ly/3z5cxtd

🌱In a project co-supervised by Tatjana Hildebrandt (Hildebrandt Lab) and Nadine Töpfer (@NaToepfer) Universität zu Köln, the PhD student will combine modeling and experimental work to understand how seedling metabolism is coordinated in lupins mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/open-imp…

Please remind and RT: 📆Deadline to register for #MBP2023, the Conference Molecular Biology of Plants of our Section SPPMB in Hennef, Germany, will be this Sunday, December 4th! Organized by Andreas Meyer, Ute Höcker and Stefan A. Rensing. #plantsci pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/conference-mol…

We’re excited that our analysis of respiratory supercomplex I+III2 from mung bean came out back-to-back with SC I+III2 from Arabidopsis! James A. Letts + Braun/Kuhlbrandt labs (not on Tw) Mung bean: rdcu.be/c2s0y Arabidopsis: rdcu.be/c2wBs 1/14

We proudly share two new @natureplants articles about the detailed structure of the respiratory supercomplex I+III2! Mung bean: nature.com/articles/s4147… María Maldonado + @lettsScience Arabidopsis: nature.com/articles/s4147… Braun Lab @unihannover + Kühlbrandt Lab Uni Heidelberg Congrats!

Two PhD positions available Finkemeier lab @WWU_Muenster on plant PTMs and acclimation responses in organelles involving a lot of protein mass spectrometry, molecular biology, biochemistry and plant physiology in Arabidopsis! Please RT! uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Stell…

Interested in natural product chemistry and elucidating steroid biosynthesis in plants? We offer a fully funded PhD position at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Please RT! More information here: uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/588…

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