UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

New paper! 🚀 A high-affinity anti- #mNeonGreen #nanobody turns #mNG into a #multifunctional Tag. @nanotag.bsky.social decided to openly share the #nanobody for research use. Not common, but we strongly believe well-defined reagents are key for reproducible science. We hope you find it useful! 💚

Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

I'm getting more requests for gift authorship lately. Complete with a written MS and a request to just add my name or to provide minor comments to add me as a co-author. Please don't do this. Authorship should reflect substantial intellectual contributions and shared responsibility for the work.

Our latest work on immune receptor engineering for enhanced pathogen recognition is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... #NLRs #Effectors #Exo70

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Wenbo Ma FRS has been awarded a highly competitive @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her exciting new project sRNA-Defense, which will allow her and her team to uncover new roles for sRNAs in defending plants from pathogens 🧬🌱 www.tsl.ac.uk/news/srna-re...

A new preprint is OUT! 🚨 Thrilled to finally share our work on how decoy diversification underpins the regulation of an NLR-mediated autoimmunity. Check out the full story on @bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Sunset on our run tonight

Call your representatives because it’s illegal: “By levying such a large tax on its other programs, the agency appears to be defying a congressional directive in the final FY 2026 appropriations bill that ‘No [NSF] directorate shall receive more than a 5% reduction relative to…2024 enacted level.’”🧪

Awesome! 👏 Finally, science has convinced sufficient politicians to approve the new NGT-rules to enable CRISPR-based plant breeding! Time to celebrate!🎉🎊🥂🧬✂️🌱 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

More discoveries from the NAD world: plant pathogens cleave 2′cADPR to suppress the immune response! Congratulations to @ohadroth.bsky.social and colleagues 👏

The first fatty acid-binding structure in a “G-type lectin domain” among plant PRRs has been verified! A new LORE paper is out from Ranf lab at TUM in Germany and University of Fribourg in Switzerland and @antonelladipizio.bsky.social at TUM : doi.org/10.64898/202... Here are some cool highlights:

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Marchantia has two RBOHs. Double mutant = disorganized cell mass. Conditional mutant analyses show they are required to sustain morphogenesis via cuticle-cell-wall integrity. Clever study. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out this cool new preprint by @willshaw.bsky.social from the Gehring and Khalil labs about the optimization of T-DNA vector backbones to achieve predictable and stable (over)expression in Arabidopsis

Just did the math. $240 billion is about 27 years of funding for NSF. Literal generations of scientists.

Using tobacco rattle virus for somatic gene editing in tomato with the compact ISYmu1 TnpB endonuclease. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I complimented a woman at the gym - she has a nice weight belt and I’m looking for a new one. She told me “I got it from my first husband.” 😂 At least it has your back. I think we’re gonna be friends.

Look how fast they took Trump’s face off the screen after the crowd erupts in boos.

We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Nice visit and seminar from former postdoc Thomas Liebrand at UC Davis (now researcher in Trait Biology @rijkzwaan.bsky.social ). He gave an excellent overview of the company and its research programs.

Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. Check out our Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI speakers. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Check back for how to apply to give a Rising Stars of IS-MPMI talk.

Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Another #PlantScience job opening here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We are looking for a #Phytopathology Scientist at our station in Murcia, Spain. As I have already written in one of last posts: Our vegetable division is expanding & it's a good time to get on board! #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs

📣Last week another @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social dropped: "A fungal pathogen effector that shapes host plant microbiota kills bacteria through lipoteichoic acid binding and membrane disruption" a joint effort by @nicksnelders.bsky.social & @gabriellapetti.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.

I din’t buy this magazine, but I might go back and get it.

📢 Inviting submissions for the MPMI Focus Issue on Plant Receptors and Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions! Research & reviews across all areas of immune receptor biology. If you have an idea, please reach out (via link below). Pls repost 🔗 apsjournals.apsnet.org/mpmireceptors

This is so bad. If the proposed changes go into effect, this will kill science in the US (which is their goal anyway). Now is a good time to comment, call your reps and be loud.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

CARD1 cryo structure now on Nature Comm. Well done, Nobu and Anu! rdcu.be/fjrIq

We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June

It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

The U.S. government has recently convicted multiple postdocs from China for improper shipments of biological materials. Some see a replay of the 2018 China Initiative. https://scim.ag/4txj2hZ

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Introducing Genie 3, a generative protein model that substantially advances the state-of-the-art for binder design, increasing in silico success rates by up to 20x on hard multimeric targets. It also debuts a form of inference-time scaling unobserved in other design models. 🧵1/8

Paper mill content growing faster than legitimate research, according to study by @reeserichardson.bsky.social & colleagues — which @elisabethbik.bsky.social mentioned in her talk at #WCRI2026: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

This work shows that experimental context shapes Arabidopsis immune responses, with implications for how we interpret PRR signaling assays. Heavy lifting by @alba-mp.bsky.social and undergrad researcher Hanxu Sha (who will now pursue her PhD in a plant biology lab at Stanford).

Congratulations on your new position Yi-Chang! You will be greatly missed.

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

Sad to hear that Sally Miller @samtime.bsky.social, an excellent scientist and person passed away. Her research had huge impact on applied plant pathology. I overlapped with her at OSU and she was a champion for many early career researchers. plantpath.osu.edu/our-people/s...

🧬 From Trends in Plant Science: Thirty years of research on a key immune receptor reveal how plants detect pathogens, guiding strategies to build durable disease resistance in crops. (Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar) ▶️ www.cell.com/trends/plant... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Genomics

Merci @ulaval.ca 👏 Thank you to my team, past and present! Thank you to the funding agencies that have believed in our ideas and our passion, and to the agricultural community in Québec and across Canada, with whom we work every day 💚 www.services-recherche.ulaval.ca/prix-et-dist...

Dear Cell, is this a joke??! (Westerns in figS5) Complete biosynthesis of nicotine: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I’m not enjoying this season of reality.