Next up, @clinton-sa.bsky.social from @grandpahiro.bsky.social lab is exploring the evolution of SA signalling and NPR protein function using Marchantia polymorpha and Physcomitrium patens as research models. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

The new session starts with Lea Marie Preuß from the Ischebeck lab in Münster sharing her insights on the Evolution of lipid droplet- associated proteins and their role in drought resistance #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk of the session: @shiltemann.bsky.social is introducing @nfdi4plants.bsky.social ARCs and exploring the path towards FAIR data publications.

Find all published MAdLand ARCs here: archive.nfdi4plants.org/communities/... #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Elena Sturm from the Bucher & Becker lab in Cologne is exploring the evolutionary links between nutrient starvation responses and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis during plant terrestrialization. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now @nidabasturk.bsky.social is up on how endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes shapes the molecular biology of plants and algae. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, @nidabasturk.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is exploring endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes, from Archaeplastida and secondary algae to Paulinella. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Our first short talk of the day 🌱 @dvarshney.bsky.social from @rensingstefan.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is exploring the origins of land plants through gene family evolution and a reproducible Galaxy workflow. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Starting fresh into a new day! 🌱 We’re very happy to welcome @moodytomato.bsky.social from Oxford as our next guest speaker, who will be unravelling the origins of multidimensional growth in plants with us. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

A particular diterpene controls the N-fixing hornwort - cyanobacteria mutualism
@fernway.bsky.social
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UV-B response in plant sister lineage: similar, but different.
Cool story @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social
#MAdLand2026
www.cell.com/current-biol...

And we’ve arrived at the final talk of the day! Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab is taking us on a journey through cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia, exploring what they can tell us about early land plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re excited to welcome Takashi Murata, joining us all the way from Japan, to tell us how microtubules mediate post-cytokinetic cell wall synthesis in Closterium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Kim-Kristine Müller from the Classen Lab in Kiel is exploring the evolution of pectins in streptophyte cell walls: highly diverse or strongly conserved polysaccharides? #MAdLand2026 #plantsci#MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@fernway.bsky.social from @duke-university.bsky.social in North Carolina is sharing his latest discoveries on how a plant-derived diterpenoid initiates symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are starting the short talks with @peterszovenyi.bsky.social from Zurich, telling us about the functional evidence suggesting that the algal and hornwort carbon-concentrating mechanisms rely on functionally homologous set of genes #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, we’re delighted to welcome Miguel Blanquez from Valencia. He is taking us back in time with his talk Before Gibberellins: The Ancestral Environmental Regulation of DELLA Activity ⏳ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

At #MAdLand2026 in beautiful Göttingen these days? Make sure to check out @tammitsoe.bsky.social poster on how we created something special in the lab...hint...it involves the "model" moss and #Cyanobacteria! @watertoland.bsky.social #Symbiosis #MossesAreCoolButCyanobacteriaMayBeCooler

We’re kicking off the session with our next guest speaker, Elvira Hörandl, who is sharing her insights into The Paradox of Sex in Plants 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk of the session by @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing her latest insights into the conserved and divergent UV responses in Mesotaenium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci