Plant Cell Biology

@University of Freiburg, Germany

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    • Arabidopsis Remorins
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    • Transmission Electron Microscopy
    • Correlative Microscopy
  • Teaching
    • Grundmodul (GM-01)
    • Profilmodul (PM-20)
    • Vertiefungsmodul (VM-15)
    • Wahlmodul (WM-25)
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    New paper on infection competence

    07/07/2025

    Happy to share our newest paper fresh from the press. Have a look, how legume root cells prepare for hosting symbiotic infections. Enjoy the microscopy and other experiments by the lead PostDoc Morgane Batzenschlager & collaborators.

    Read the article:

    Batzenschlager M, Lace B, Zhang N, Su C, Egli S, Krohn P, Salfeld J, Ditengou FA, Laux T and Ott T (2025)
    Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula
    eLife; 12:RP88588

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    Our work in CIBSS

    16/01/2019

    International conference on plant proteostasis

    11/02/2019

    Collaborative work published

    31/01/2024
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    CIBSS funding continues!

    22/05/2025

    Amazing news today at 5 PM when the DFG and the German Science and Humanities Council announced the 70 Clusters of Excellence that will receive generous funding for the next 7 years. We were all thrilled to learn that our cluster CIBSS was among the selected ones (again)! Congratulations to all who joined the efforts and special thanks to the speaker team including Claudine Kraft!

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    Stay healthy and fight COVID19!

    23/03/2020

    Thanks to all collaborators and friends

    19/12/2023

    TV production – take #2

    21/05/2025
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    TV production – take #2

    21/05/2025

    Just finished the second take for a documentary on nitrogen in agriculture. After an exhausting day, the whole team was happy with what we have been able to record during this day.

    Special thanks to Casandra and Magda for all their efforts and time.

    Stay tuned.

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    Marta teaching at EM EMBO workshop

    23/01/2024

    EMBO course on Electron Microscopy

    15/01/2019
    Magda Tsitsikli

    Welcome Magda!

    20/10/2023
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    Paper contribution

    02/05/2025

    Thanks to the team of Véronique Germain and Sebastien Mongrand from the University of Bordeaux for letting us join their efforts to investigate the role of the partially plasma membrane-bound Calcium-dependent protein kinase 3 (CPK3) in viral infection. In their new work now published in eLife, they showed that CPK3 diffusion in the plasma membrane is reduced upon activation as well as upon viral infection and that such immobilization is depended on its substrate Remorin (REM1.2).

    Congratulations to all authors!

    Jolivet MD, Deroubaix AF, Boudsocq M, Abel NB, Rocher M, Robbe T, Wattelet-Boyer V, Huard J, Lefebvre D, Lu YJ, Day B, Saias G, Ahmed J, Cotelle V, Giovinazzo N, Gallois JL, Yamaji Y, German-Retana S, Gronnier J, Ott T, Mongrand S, Germain V (2025)
    Interdependence of plasma membrane nanoscale dynamics of a kinase and its cognate substrate underlies Arabidopsis response to viral infection
    eLife; 12:RP90309
    pre-print deposited at: bioRxiv; https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.31.551174

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    Innovation for medicine & plants

    31/03/2025

    How infection threads pass the cell wall

    08/07/2022

    Imaging workshop

    26/11/2024
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    TV production – take #1

    30/04/2025

    Today, we had our first recording for a documentary on nitrogen in agriculture. Great kick-off and special thanks to Magda and Casandra for all their efforts.

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    Thomas receives teaching award

    05/07/2024

    How infection threads pass the cell wall

    08/07/2022

    New review on membrane domains published

    14/08/2024
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    Innovation for medicine & plants

    31/03/2025

    Our cluster of excellence CIBSS and the university’s outreach office have just released an article about the successful interdisciplinary collaborations enabled in CIBSS, approaching similiar pathways in human and plant cells.

    Read the full article here.

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    Welcome Bikash!

    16/01/2024

    How infection threads pass the cell wall

    08/07/2022

    EMBO course on Electron Microscopy

    15/01/2019
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    Welcome Henriette!

    05/02/2025

    Great news: Henriette Rübsam joined our team as a PostDoc and Research Manager. Knowing her from the ENSA project as a PhD student with Kasper Andersen at Aarhus University, the whole team is now looking forward to her valuable inputs and skills.

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    New paper on infection competence

    07/07/2025

    Paper contribution

    02/05/2025

    Welcome Bikash!

    16/01/2024
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    Good-bye X, see you on Bluesky

    03/01/2025

    Observing the misuse of social media and the influence used by owner Elon Musk to support far-right winged parties and movements together with continuous and unbearable fake news and lies spread on this platform made us leaving X fully after 12 years. We now exclusively follow and send posts on Bluesky, which hopefully stays integer in the future. Follow us.

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    CIBSS funding continues!

    22/05/2025

    Paper contribution

    02/05/2025

    Imaging workshop

    26/11/2024
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    Imaging workshop

    26/11/2024

    We are hosting the imaging workshop in frame of the SFB1381 today with inspirational talks by Beatrice Lace, Marta-Rodriguez Franco, Angela Nauman (LIC), Franck Ditengou (LightHouse) and Thorsten Hugel (Chemistry).

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    New paper on infection competence

    07/07/2025

    Stay healthy and fight COVID19!

    23/03/2020

    Collaborative work published in Plant Cell

    03/12/2020
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    Review published: The TPC.

    03/10/2024

    In our current review, we aimed to discuss the new concept of the “transcellular passage cleft” (TCP). This apoplastic compartment actively contributes to the cell-to-cell passage of infection threads in legumes.

    Interested? Then read the whole story in:

    Zhang G and Ott T (2024)
    Cellular morphodynamics and signaling around the transcellular passage cleft during rhizobial infections of legume roots
    Current Opinion in Cell Biology; 91: 102436

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    Nils wins poster prize at ENFC2023

    11/09/2023

    Imaging workshop

    26/11/2024

    Collaborative work published

    31/01/2024
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    New review on membrane domains published

    14/08/2024

    Great thanks to Yvon Jaillais (Lyon) and Julien Gronnier for taking the initiative to work out a set of guidelines for describing membrane domains in plants. Was a pleasure to contribute.

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    Jaillais Y, Bayer E, Bergmann DC, Botella MA, Boutté Y, Bozkurt TO, Caillaud MC, Germain V, Grossmann G, Heilmann I, Hemsley PA, Kirchhelle C, Martinière A, Miao Y, Mongrand S, Müller S, Noack LC, Oda Y, Ott T, Pan X, Pleskot R, Potocky M, Robert S, Sanchez Rodriguez C, Simon-Plas F, Russinova E, Van Damme D, van Norman JM, Weijers D, Yalovsky S, Yang Z, Zelazny E, Gronnier J (2024)
    Guidelines for naming and studying plasma membrane domains in plants
    Nature Plants; doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01742-8

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    Magda Tsitsikli

    Welcome Magda!

    20/10/2023

    Collaborative work published

    31/01/2024

    Chao wins Poster Prize

    09/02/2019
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    Thomas receives teaching award

    05/07/2024

    Thomas received this years award for the best teaching in the basic modules for our BSc students during winter term 2023/2024.

    “I am really excited and grateful to all undergraduate students for receiving this appreciation of my teaching efforts. It’s a great motivation to continue and means a lot to me.”

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    Marta teaching at EM EMBO workshop

    23/01/2024

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    22/05/2025

    Cell cycle stalling preceeds rhizobial infection

    19/07/2023
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  • Jul 07, 2025 New paper on infection competence
  • May 22, 2025 CIBSS funding continues!
  • May 21, 2025 TV production – take #2
  • May 02, 2025 Paper contribution
  • Apr 30, 2025 TV production – take #1

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