A meaningful moment in my plant pathology journey, fueled by my passion for nematology, bacteriology, and biotech. Grateful for support from UCD Plant Pathology, APS, industry partners, and especially the guidance and lab support from Drs. Shahid Siddique & Gitta Coaker. #PlantHealth2025 🪱🦠🌱🌺

I'm deeply thankful to APS for the Travel Award and to my advisor and lab for their support. This encouragement means a lot and inspires me to keep learning and sharing with the community.

Snapshots from yesterday's APS Gives Back: Native Roots Volunteer Experience field trip. Thank you volunteers! #PlantHealth2025

It’s my great honor to be part of this project and happy to see this part of my thesis work finally out in Nature Plants!

Amazing talk (and videos) in plenary 2 from Xiangyi Ding ( @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social ) about biophys constraints in cytoplasm. #Celegans cytoplasm is more like jelly than honey (human cells), plus found gene that constrains this mess particle diffusion. #worm25 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inspirational talk from Pam Padilla highlighting ways to broaden impact of our research to broader communities. #worm25

#worm25 was such a special experience for me as a first-time attendee. I felt truly honored to speak in the parasitism sessions and grateful for the chance to meet Nobel laureates. It felt almost unreal! Loved the comedy show 😍 and I was so happy to win a worm atlas shirt 👕.

I went to the poster yesterday at #worm25 and it's fantastic. Would love to try the method in the future. 🙏

Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.

🌱 From Heliyon: Multitasking proteins in Xanthomonas secretomes may play hidden roles in virulence and plant-pathogen interactions. (Renata de Almeida Barbosa Assis, Abhaya M. Dandekar) ▶️ www.cell.com/heliyon/full... #plantpathology #plantscience

Happy to write this News & Views highlighting a groundbreaking study on #Agrobacterium. By combining mathematical modelling with quantitative live-cell imaging, the study uncovered a density-dependent synergistic and antagonistic effect on #AMT

👀 EFR-mediated PTI restricts transient transformation and genome editing, but not T-DNA integration. This study combines floral stage targeting 🌷, immune evasion 🛡️, and Agrobacterium engineering 🔧 to boost plant genome editing efficiency. #Agrobacterium #GenomeEditing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Overcoming gene functional redundancy 👀 Cool! #CRISPR #tomato www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud of Siddique Lab undergrads at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference! Aarish gave a fantastic talk (rainbow effect says it all!), Emma, Lisa, and Katelin rocked their posters. Shoutout to Jonathan from Coaker Lab for his awesome damage receptor talk! Cheers to all the inspiring souls!

Our Research Briefing on the tandem kinase proteins paper is online now! Curious about the story behind our TKP paper? 📄 Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄 Research article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Story behind our recent paper on tandem kinases is out! Written by @yichangsung.bsky.social. #MPMI #PlantBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic work👏 Plant tandem kinases are so cool 😎

This is so cool 😎 ✨first regulator of effector production in PPN✨

Two exciting papers from Shirasu Lab utilizing the *juice* of my favorite biological players—Agrobacterium and nematodes—to investigate receptor profiles! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🪱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats to the authors! 🥳🤩

Nice turnout for Agriculture today too!

🪱🔬 Nematode Nerds Unite! 🔬🪱 Huge thanks to the Groen lab for hosting us at UCR Nematology! From exciting research discussions to sharing our love for these tiny but mighty guys with many NEMA-enthusiastics from this department, it was a truly NEMA-zing experience! 🧬🔬 #WormScience #UCD #UCR