The ISME20 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 February. Microbial ecologists worldwide are invited to submit abstracts for oral, short talk, or poster presentations and contribute to the ISME20 programme. isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

Proximity between microbes can hold a lot of information about how they interact. Really cool study from @harriswang.bsky.social showing how Spatial Sequencing can be used to deduce more from the microbial world by understanding physical proximity. Really cool work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/2 "All T6SS-inducing regulators are equal, but some regulators are more equal than others". Preprint 🚨: We use #Vibrio to show that #T6SS activation by regulator manipulation may result in the expression of different effector repertoires, affecting toxicity 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new paper from the lab on virus-like particles called eCISs www.nature.com/articles/s41... How bacteria evolved thousands of precision nanoinjectors? Some bacteria don’t secrete toxins — they inject them using phage-derived machines called extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs).

Preprint: Here we report a glass bead-based system suitable for the *simultaneous monitoring* of Arabidopsis root exudate and root microbiome dynamics. Teaser: some link between glucosinolates ~ SynCom composition. Happy reading. Credits to Charlotte Joller et al.! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our new preprint using 30 SynComs covering a phylogenetic diversity gradient, we uncover many interesting strain and community features involved in seed to seedling bacterial transmission 🧫🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social in the SUCSEED project @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

Hey y’all, New paper out from the lab in Microbial Genomics, starting down the rabbit hole of IS elements in Paeudomonas syringae www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Result 1) you can see from complete genomes that there’s been multiple independent expansions of IS5 and we don’t quite know why Result 2) ~50% of the (>100 copies) of IS5 elements differ in location between nearly identical genomes Result 3) IS5 from can hotwire gene expression

Don't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?... @natanellae.bsky.social

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social

🚨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

Preprint: Systematic discovery of TIR-based immune signaling systems in bacteria Conservation of TIR-derived signals accross the tree of life! We found bacterial TIR immune systems that signal via canonical cADPR (like in humans) and 2'cADPR (a plant immune signal). Documented 11 Thoeris types

Excited to share our new @natecoevo.nature.com paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats !!! Beautiful work

From a gene’s single cell expression–through spatial localization–to novel function, and beyond! Now out @natplants.nature.com We built a comprehensive spatial-transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis, revealing cell-type identities across organs in unprecedented detail www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats Natanella !!!

Congrats Asaf !!!

Expression level of anti-phage defence systems controls a trade-off between protection range and autoimmunity By Nitzan Aframian and Avigdor Eldar. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Tansley review out in @newphyt.bsky.social with @fdiniandreote.bsky.social and Gabriel Castrillo! We explore how the root is shaped by dialogue with soil microbes—highlighting emerging mechanisms and future research directions in root plasticity and microbiome interactions. tinyurl.com/38mkyx5t

📢 New preprint alert! We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

v2 in bioRxiv!! Oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis is negatively affected by viral NblA proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@shanice-webster.bsky.social looks at iron status in plant-microbiome interactions. Proteobacteria and firmicutes are typically balanced in the microbiota, but iron starvation can really mess with that, going to dysbiosis. Used “mfec” Arabidopsis quadruple mutant. #2025ISMPMI

Our paper on Pseudomonas intra-genus competition in SynComs on Arabidopsis roots is now out @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 If you want to chat about the story, visit poster 374 tomorrow, Thursday #2025ISMPMI journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Going to a conference and hope someone posts about your talk? Make it easy for the posters!! Tips: 1. Include your handle at beginning and end 2. Make clear what is published/not 3. Have a conclusions slide with key message 4. Highlight new preprint or publication if relevant #AcademicSky 🦠🧪🧬

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/7 I’m excited to share our paper, describing the majority of my PhD, now published in @naturecomms.bsky.social ! We present how the lncRNA NORAD interacts with STAT3 to regulate the antiviral response in human cells. A 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...