🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... Endophytic adaptation in Flavobacterium sp. 98 @xinyapan.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social ✌🏽 lysoPE story could be cool

Marchantia workshop will be held in Kobe next year!

Our new lab logo (created by the amazing @hsuanpai.bsky.social)! tatsuyanobori.com

I remember early experiments on CYP707A1 beginning just as I started my PhD in the Tsuda lab (then at MPIPZ Cologne) in 2015. A wonderful piece of work. Kudos to the team for their tenacity🎉

Our ten years of work is finally out in Current Biology! We reveal a new mode of action of the bacterial phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae. www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026. buff.ly/pemelQu

We’re delighted to share that our paper has been just accepted in PCP! We analyzed fungus–fungus competition that suppresses pathogenic colonization in Arabidopsis roots.Special thanks to Duke, Hiroyuki, Yuki, Nanami, and everyone who contributed! t.co/obQyD1rzI1

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

I am happy to see this out! Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context. We summarize the current knowledge on this. Hope you enjoy~ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

Chinese scientists turn Moon soil into oxygen and water needed for life ->India Today | #Moon #Space #Science #Soil #Water | More info from EcoSearch

🎉 Our new paper is out in Science Advances! Plants can detect parasitic nematodes. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A copper-dependent, redox-based hydrogen peroxide perception in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666036v1

Cryo structure of CARD1 from N. benthamiana transiently produced protein.

oh it 1000% is. there’s a reason this has been a desk meme wall staple since I made it in undergrad

I'm very happy that this paper is now published in PNAS! Isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis appears to have emerged in the Brassicales after the divergence of C. papaya, likely within the timeframe between the divergence of B. maritima and R. odorata. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Love the work! Really nice design. Congrats to @kenichitsuda.bsky.social team. Emergence of isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis within Brassicales | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Our study provides strong evidence that the IC pathway emerged within the Brassicales order, which was driven by key evolutionary innovations in the IC pathway genes ICS, EDS5, and PBS3.” Emergence of isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis within Brassicales www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Last day of #2025ISMPMI, last poster session: dont miss @shanshuo.bsky.social fantastic poster about how we used a combination of scRNAseq and cell-type specific approaches to reveal the role of autophagy in stomatal & mesophyll immunity during Pseudomonas infection - more info ➡️ P-432 #proteostasis

Read Nakano's latest review in PCP discussing 'Long-Term Consequences of PTI Activation and Its Manipulation by Root-Associated Microbiota' 🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantMicrobiome

Tsuda lab @mpipz.bsky.social reunion! #2025ISMPMI

Awesome to see next generation of group leaders from @earlhaminst.bsky.social presenting at #2025ISMPMI 👏

Hot off the printer! Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI P-315 by @siyusong.bsky.social P-441 by @hsuanpai.bsky.social

This is interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Updated preprint: MMF1 is "a microbiota receptor” through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

I somehow missed this article. Looks quite interesting. NPR1 promotes blue light–induced plant photomorphogenesis by ubiquitinating and degrading PIF4 | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

New Article: "TIR immune signalling is blocked by phosphorylation to maintain plant growth" rdcu.be/eqwo4 Ca2+-dependent kinases phosphorylate TIR domains at a conserved serine to block NADase activity across kingdoms. Link with SNC1-mediated immunity in plants.

Salicylic acid accumulation correlates with low anthocyanin production in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.08.658514v1

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Tatsuya Nobori | Presentation: Jun 5 15:00-15:30 (GMT) | Decoding the molecular and cellular architecture of plant-microbe interactions | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Medically ignorant RFK Jr calls leading medical journals such as Lancet ‘corrupt’ & pushes to create state-run alternatives. He's threatening to ban federal scientists from publishing in the world's leading medical journals! 🤬 What about "small govt"? 1/3 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2025 (RSPS2025) | Finalist Oral Presentation Contest | Jun 4 12:55-15:30pm & Jun 5 13:00-15:35pm (GMT/UTC) | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) or WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

The recording of my talk at the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Symposium is now online: youtu.be/OgQeXcokJ_M?... You can also find it on our lab website: www.tatsuyanobori.com/online-talks @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

STT3A is required for recognition of pathogen-derived sphingolipids in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.18.654772v1

I am happy to introduce this bioRxiv. Stomatal opening is crucial for gas exchange, but it unavoidably offers invasion by pathogens. We found that by coronatine (COR), Pto DC3000 exploits CYP707A1 activation in Arabidopsis thaliana, encoding an enzyme that degrades ABA, for stomatal invasion.

Well done, Bruno and Yasu!!!

a great thrill and a great honor- thanks to all the great people who've passed through my lab over the last >30 years, and for the friendship and "mutual potentiation" of my co-honorees Jeff Dangl and Brian Staskawicz!

Responding to reviewer request

Rpl12 is a conserved ribophagy receptor www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New! Well done, Max! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Scientists, it’s been a rough week. And honestly, we don’t lift each other up enough—especially when it comes to mental health. Our careers are built on repetitive rejection of papers, grants, and jobs. That doesn’t define you. You and your science are incredible. Just wanted to remind you of that.

Well done, Erika and Yasu!

Excited to share our new publication on a novel MAMP peptide conserved across nematodes, insects, and fungal pathogens, along with the RLK essential for its signaling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New MAMP from nematodes (derived from a peptide of trehalase), is also found in insects and fungi. Plant immune responses require lectin receptor kinases - LecRK-Vs. Cool! I like the old-school protein biochem for MAMP ID. 🙂 #PlantPathogenInteractions #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Journal cover for the first time in my career! We published a review article about microbiome-mediated plant disease resistance and its agricultural implications. Hopefully, you can enjoy reading. Open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...