TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty. Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion. With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEworldwide

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

It’s been such a pleasure to present my work at #iMMM2025. Thanks for the constructive discussions and comments - this remains my absolute favourite meeting! Looking forward to the next iteration 2027 in Toulouse 🍷

Check out @alexguyon.bsky.social’s preprint on membrane compositions upon mutualistic & pathogenic colonisation. Brilliant microscopy included!

Check out @binebrumm.bsky.social’s new study from her times with us in Cambridge!

Was great having you with us, @isabelmonte.bsky.social!

And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI

**CLOSING SOON** Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz Deadline: 31st March 2025 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience (1/2)

Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Great lab, institute & mentor - come and join us!

Are you serious @royalsociety.org?? He is trying to destroy science, spreading dangerous misinformation, inciting violence & your response is to do nothing? So what’s your purpose then? What do you exist for? Other than being elite? 🧪 #academicsky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The remarkable Starships - large mobile elements capable of moving large genomic regions in fungal populations. Changes everything we thought we knew about horizontal gene transfer among fungi and the mobility of large proportion of pan genomes ⁦‪Aaron Vogan‬⁩ #ECFG17

Really grateful to have won a postdoctoral poster award at #Fungal24. If you weren't at the conference or couldn't make it during my slot, the poster is now available on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…. Drop me a line if you have any questions or suggestions 🙏

An ode to Evo-MPMI by AmirAli Toghani at our yearly #SchoBozKaKouDeRella symposium

⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 17-19 September 2024 | Cambridge, UK. Theme: Development - Reprogrammed. Registrations open 1 March. ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Organisers @dromius.bsky.social & Alexander Jones

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology! Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students. Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO #plantsci

To a new year of fun science and lovely people!

Cantabrigians! Do you want to discover more about the intimate relationships between plants and fungi? Interested in learning how to make the invisible visible? 🔎Join Raffy and myself for our course at Cambridge Botanic Garden in May! t.co/6J9UbfgD1I

📜 Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification 🧑‍🔬 David G. Robinson, Torgny Näsholm, et al. 📔 Trends in Plant Science 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #MPMI

📜 Thermospermine is an evolutionarily ancestral phytohormone required for organ development and stress responses in Marchantia polymorpha 🧑‍🔬 Takuya Furumoto, Taku Takahashi, et al. 📔 Plant & Cell Physiology 🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #Phytohormones

📜Spatial IMA1 regulation restricts root iron acquisition on MAMP perception 🧑‍🔬 Min Cao, Wolfgang Busch, et al. 📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition

Excited to publish our recent work in Nature Communications@NatureComms! We showed ROS tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing T2SS, allowing the co-existence and turning it into a beneficial bacterium to host. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A good start to the year: I am delighted to announce that this week marks the start of my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at @slcuplants.bsky.social, supporting my work on mycorrhizal interactions between Mucoromycotina Fine Root Endophytes and plants. Exciting times ahead!👨🏼‍🔬🧬

Very excited to announce the 2024 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology GRC organised by @annaselmecki.bsky.social & myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.

📜 A GH81-type β-glucan-binding protein enhances colonization by mutualistic fungi in barley 🧑‍🔬 @alanwanke.bsky.social, Alga Zuccaro, et al. 📔 @currentbiology.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Finally got the chance to meet @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social in person. Great talk and discussions! Thanks for stopping by at SLCU Cambridge - hopefully there are no interruptions on your journey back.

Using both long-read bacterial genomes 🦠and short-read fungal metagenomes 🍄, we realized we are only a few pages in to the novel that is understanding these 🧬-binding effector proteins in an endofungal symbiosis! Check out our preprint that includes some of my favorite figures I've ever made 👩‍🎨

1/3 Periodic reminder that we have multiple vacancies in our group: we are looking for a #postdoc to join us in early 2024, spearheading a project on temperature-controlled translation: jobs.ac.uk/job/DDF087/pos (deadline 02/11/2023) #PlantSciJobs

Can’t believe #iMMM2023 happened already a month ago. For those who have missed out on our presentation and the poster presentation, here the link to my poster: zenodo.org/records/8404462 #openscience #zenodo

Check out the October Root & Shoot newsletter! It's full of exciting opportunites. Please share! And please follow @root-shoot.bsky.social. Thanks! mailchi.mp/105f5c1fe949... #PlantScience

This week marks the beginning of my postdoctoral association with Darwin College. I am excitedly looking forward to all future collaborations in research and outreach projects with the college and its members!

Hugely proud of how we listed all preprints and reports in the "Data Availability" section of the #wheatblast pandemic paper. This recognises the many diverse #openwheatblast contributors. Perhaps journals should have a separate section "Preliminary reports and preprints"? doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our Foldtree notebook allows you to compute and visualize trees from protein structures in the browser. Generate trees from either 1) a set of protein structures, 2) AlphaFold​DB identifiers or 3) an #AlphaFold cluster identifier cluster.foldseek.com. 🌐 colab.research.google.com/github/Dessi...

#iMMM2023 Katie Field provides the newest about ‚The ‘other’ mycorrhizas: Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophytes’ form nutritionally mutualistic mycorrhizal associations with vascular plants‘ revealing new insights about what is exchanged nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Parasponia ‘noodles’ at #iMMM2023 - Yueyang Ge presents data on the ‘Twin role of two AP2/ERF transcription factors in Endosymbiosis’

#iMMM2023 Toon Leroy present his work on improving the industrial and agricultural potential of arbuscular mycorrhiza through the modulation of the carbon status in tomato

#iMMM2023 Silvia Perotto is giving the last presentation of today on orchid and Tualsnella fungal gene expression coupled with laser microdissection and stable isotope labelling providing clues about nitrogen and sulfur metabolism in orchid mycorrhiza

The third day of #iMMM2023 starts with a v interesting talk by Juliana Almario - ‘Adapting to symbiosis loss: uncovering new microbial associations in non-mycorrhizal plants and establishing their contribution to plant phosphorus nutrition’

#iMMM2023 Katie Field standing in for Chris Bell you wasn’t able to attend in person to present his work on Phytophagy driving a plant-led reduction in sugar allocation to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by host plants whilst lipid supply is maintained nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#iMMM2023 it’s now Cynthia Albracht with data showing that ‘Soil history rather than plant history determines arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly’

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all @slcuplants 25-27 September. For those travelling 23/24 September from London or Stansted Aiport plz note that busses may replace trains between Royston & Cambridge. nationalrail.co.uk/engineering-... immm2023.com #iMMM2023

The ability of fatty acids to induce AM fungal hyphal branching - a step towards axenic cultivation of these fungi - presented by Hiromu Kameoka #iMMM2023

#iMMM2023 Judith van Dingenen - The multiple roles of nuclear Rhizophagus irregularis effectors during plant growth and mycorrhization

#iMMM2023 Raphaella Hull reports her recently completed PhD (viva last Friday). She traced the role of D14L as a regulator of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

#iMMM2023 Luisa Lanfranco presents work on a small LYSM PROTEIN which regulates rice architecture and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

#iMMM2023 Jordana Oliveira characterises transposable elements in Rhizophagus irregularis strains: insights into variability, genome composition and gene expression

#iMMM2023 @PierreMarcDelau giving the EMBO Young Investigator Lecture: The evolution of mycorrhizal associations - and if you see this slide ever again, he didn’t keep a promise

Next at #iMMM2023 is Garo Akmakjian - Leveraging cell type-specific translatomes to investigate rice-mycorrhizal interactions

#iMMM2023 Joske Ruytinx is dissecting adaptive metal tolerance in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus, from genomics over transcriptomics to functional genetics