We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊

Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀 Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable! microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Happy Halloween please enjoy this rollercoaster of a story about my fave skeleton at the @harvardmuseums.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪

📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️, who will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the #SILVA taxonomy🌳. Read and share! 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/... 🧪🦠🌱🦋💽

Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens? Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:- 🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1 Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org & Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.

We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀

Just Published: "The TALE PthA4 of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri Indirectly Activates an Expansin Gene CsEXP2 and an Endoglucanase CsEG1 via CsLOB1 to Cause Citrus Canker Symptoms," by Rikky Rai and Nian Wang. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-03-25-0030-R

Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.

Novel insights into CAZY pathogenicity factor AA7 involved in plant immune-modulatory function: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📣 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 👇🏻

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar! Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏 #MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

Domestikation, Grüne Revolution, Inzuchtdepression - #MaiThinkX beleuchtet Vor- aber vor allem auch Nachteile der Züchtung von Tieren und Pflanzen. Dazu @maxbierhals.bsky.social endlich mal wieder in seiner Paraderolle! 🌽 Unbedingte Empfehlung! Ein paar Anmerkungen habe ich aber noch: 🧵 1/

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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...

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

🎉 Enhorabuena a todos los estudiantes que han conseguido una beca #JAEIntro del @csic.es 👏. 🚨 Ahora que llega el momento de elegir grupo, recordad que el IHSM La Mayora ofrece 11 proyectos diferentes para realizar estas prácticas 🌱🧬🦠 📚 Consulta los planes formativos que ofertamos 👇

Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social! You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here: doi.org/10.1093/plph... But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

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

IN BRIEF: Division of labor in the nodule: Plant GluTRs fuel heme biosynthesis for symbiosis (Min-Yao Jhu, Raphael Ledermann) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

New preprint! Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠 Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare! An epic effort by Rosanna Wright www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How to live a good life in difficult times??? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Group Leader Position Molecular Plant Sciences: Cell biology and biochemistry to unravel fundamental processes in plant development and biology School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases mediate Wall Teichoic Acid perception in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677107v1

Important read if you use LLMs for science knowledge discovery around plants "What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... As per usual LLMs appear to propagate biases.

Tenure track Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany #plantscience #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/tenure-...

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"? With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Starting in 3h or so - we will be discussing why and how we should be defining cell types and states - I expect really stimulating conversation and important suggestions for how to (not) use the terminology! #PlantScience @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @bas-bargmann.bsky.social @b-coli.bsky.social

RNA-binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent editorial by my friend and colleague @pracheeac.bsky.social: "Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket" www.wsj.com/opinion/acad...

Professorship Plant Genetics. Würzburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/univers...

Professorship Plant Genetics. Kiel, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w-2-pro...

Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Learn more about #Strigolactones in our recent special issue, guest-edited by @jspp-news.bsky.social Society President, Junko Kyozuka academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/64/9 And sign up below for Junko's upcoming talk👇 #Phytohormones #PlantEvoDevo #PlantDevelopment

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

‼️Vacancy for an Assistant Professor in Microbiome Engineering‼️ Join us at the Swammerdam Institute in Amsterdam 🦠🧠💻🌱 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...