Our next session is a workshop, and we’re happy to welcome back Dr. Yulia Kozyrakis (www.linkedin.com/in/ykozyrakis/). We’re looking forward to an engaging session on “Science Under Pressure: Authoritarian Dynamics, Disinformation, and How to Stay in a Constructive Dialogue". #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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And last but not least, congratulations to the winners of the best poster prize @ #MAdLand2026 🎉 From right to left: 1st place: Abhayanjali Tripathi from Philippar lab in Saarbrücken. Shared 2nd place: Kshitij Bhushan from Philippar lab and Craig Allen Dorsch from @jandevries.bsky.social lab

Congratulations to Kim-Kristine Müller from the Classen lab @uni-kiel.de for the best Postdoc talk and winning the @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🥳🌱 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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Congratulations to the winners of best PhD talk @ #MAdLand2026 from right to left: @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab, who won @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🌱 @thanahartmann.bsky.social from Schuller lab and @hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social lab

@jandevries.bsky.social is wrapping up the final MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social meeting. It was a blast! Excited what’s to come next. #plantsci #evolution

Thank you all for coming! It was a wonderful final meeting, filled with great science and an even greater community 🌱. We hope to see many of you again somewhere down the road. Safe travels home today, everyone! #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Plants transformed the Earth’s atmosphere and surface.
@watertoland.bsky.social transformed my research life here in Germany.
Thanks to the community and @dfg.de for their supports over the years!
My special thanks to @rensingstefan.bsky.social and @jandevries.bsky.social.

The last talk of the meeting! We’re a little sad that #MAdLand2026 is coming to an end, but very happy to welcome our guest speaker, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social from Toulouse. He will talk about the evolution of plant–microbe interactions at the water-to-land transition. 🌱 #plantsci

We are very happy to welcome our next guest speaker, Liam Dolan @liamdolanlab.bsky.social from the GMI in Vienna. He is telling us more about the development of the Marchantia polymorpha sporeling #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk before the coffee break and already the final short talk of the meeting is given by @thanahartmann.bsky.social from the Schuller Lab in Marburg, taking us into the world of Cryo-Electron Tomography of streptophyte algae #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Chiara Kuhlmann from the Schünemann Lab in Bochum will take us into the fascinating world of chloroplast protein transport, exploring how these mechanisms have adapted throughout land plant evolution. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Aniya Azam Rakhi from the Theissen Lab in Jena will share her work on how tetramerization of the Marchantia polymorpha MADS-domain transcription factor MpMADS2 impacts DNA-binding site recognition #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next we have Nora Gutsche from the Zachgo lab in Osnabrück sharing her insights on the analysis of developmental TGA transcription factor functions in Riccia fluitans, a reductively evolved liverwort and how it unveils divergent evolutionary TGA trajectories #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now we'll hear from Norina Noor from the Frank Lab in Munich, who will present her work on the functional analysis of small RNA pathways in bryophytes. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Tim Ruder from the Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover will share his latest discoveries on a conserved geometric core that defines the RNA polymerase ω-subunit family. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Elisa Goldbecker from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen will share her insights into core transcriptomic responses of Zygnematophyceae to a gradient of terrestrial stressors. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Our first talk after lunch will be given by Haruna Nomizo from the Uchida lab in Japan, who will share her insights into Cell division behavior of proliferative outermost cells during discoid thallus morphogenesis in Coleochaete scutata. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci