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

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

Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Congratulations to biophysicist Peter Hegemann @humboldtuni.bsky.social, plant physiologist Georg Nagel @uni-wuerzburg.de, and @deisseroth.bsky.social!

…. it all started with a basic research question: how tiny alga sense light

@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

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

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

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

Next up, Zahin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is sharing his latest discoveries on phytochrome-mediated light signalling in Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up is @heche.bsky.social from the @jandevries.bsky.social lab, talking about Polyploid cycle in land plants: an exaptation of the alternation of dimorphic multicellular generations #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

The final MAdLand Meeting @watertoland.bsky.social starts with @jandevries.bsky.social welcome in Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de #plantsci #evolution

Mark your calendars:

The next Botanik-Tagung #BT2028, the international Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

📍will take place at Göttingen, Germany
organised by @jandevries.bsky.social

🗓️ 17 - 21 September 2028

Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de at #BT2026 receives the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize from DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago.

In our general assembly today Sophie de Vries introduced & launched YongDBG, the network for early career researchers (ECR) from undergraduate level to first junior group leader position for members of our DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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