Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!

Very happy to See This Published!!!! Thanks for the collaboration link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬 Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions. Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a.... Please help us get the word out!

So structural biology is not dead after all 😋 Not a big surprise The title of this article is exactly in line with what I think. Same applies to LLMs for scientific writing.

📣Interested in doing your PhD in Plant Sciences 🌱, Microbial Sciences 🦠 or Computational Biology 👩‍💻? @ceplas.bsky.social offers 10 fully funded PhD 🎓fellowships. Pls repost and forward to interested candidates holding BSc degree.

👉Excited to share our latest work @natmicrobiol.nature.com, revealing a decrease in cytoplasmic crowding during filamentous growth in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Furthermore we found that inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger filamentous growth in this pathogen rdcu.be/eT1Su

New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS

The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.

#Lichens form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With @spribille.bsky.social we revisited 150 years of #lichen #resynthesis to ask: has anyone succeeded?

Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

New publication by Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Nick Irwin, & @plantophagy.bsky.social at the GMI from @oeaw.bsky.social revealed that Exo70 undergoes changes in electrostatic charge, causing it to break from its original complex & take on new functions. Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

📣 Now announcing the journal publication 📄 of our work in @newphyt.bsky.social on how Verticillium undermines the plant's 🌱 "cry for help": terrific work by @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻

Now out in Science! Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell cycle. In @vcushing.bsky.social's magnum opus, we use #cryoEM to figure out how the CDK-activating kinase recognises CDKs to fully activate them - a key step in cell cycle control. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵

🚀 New preprint! We used a human cell-free translation screen (~28 000 compounds) to discover NT-2, a #Fusarium -derived #mycotoxin that blocks human ribosomes. #Cryo-EM at 1.72 Å reveals a link between chemical inhibition and ribosome dormancy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m excited to share our new preprint from @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social lab! 🌱 Our latest study reveals how Magnaporthe oryzae synchronizes organelle trafficking and autophagy to infect plants. (1/13) 📄 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱 #EvoMPMI #MPMI Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱

Please RT: We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/... Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details. @spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

A bit late 🙃 but happy to share our recent findings on #cdiAMP signaling in controlling #cyanobacteria #diurnal rhythm in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #cdiAMP is involved in almost all cellular processes, explaining it's essentiality in #cyano @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan

We’re renewing our collaboration with Google DeepMind! We'll keep developing the AlphaFold Database to support protein science worldwide 🎉 To mark the moment we’ve synchronised the database with UniProtKB release 2025_03. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... 🖥️🧬 #AlphaFold @pdbeurope.bsky.social

Very interesting work for maintaining synthetic microbial consortia www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mibinet.bsky.social

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances ~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our latest work, spearheaded by @gabmrojas.bsky.social! GPCRs are central sensors in eukaryotes, but little is known about them in fungi. In Ustilago maydis, we now uncovered a host-dependent GPCR mechanism that promotes fungal infection. Gabriel nicely explains the full story👇

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

New Insights Into Bacterial Motility and DNA Transfer: a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de www.eurekalert.org/news-release... w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Which fungal 🍄 molecules cause zombie 🧟‍♀️ ant 🐜 behaviors? @williamycete.bsky.social has begun to answer this question! He found a peptide that binds to scramblase and affects important odor-dependent behaviors in ants. Spoiler: worms 🪱 played a key role in this research 🧐 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint! t.co/962Kj9pt6F

Spacedust: a tool for de novo identification of conserved gene clusters from metagenomic data. @ruoshiz.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social

We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

New #preprint from talented graduate student for a workflow we have been using for a while into a formal usage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback." Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

Spectacular and exciting!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In situ architecture of plasmodesmata suggests mechanisms controlling intercellular exchange https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666190v1

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share! jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

Unexpectedly, @jurgjn.bsky.social found that running Alphafold3 predictions for protein interactions can yield ipTM scores that are more predictive of true interactions when run in pools of proteins instead of pairwise predictions. Presumably, this reflects some sort of "competition effect".

You designed binders for your favourite protein and wish there was a way to experimentally screen them within 24h w/ only a set of pipettes and a plate reader? Check out our Cell-Free 2-Hybrid approach (CF2H) Full post: tinyurl.com/48cz5nb6 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco