📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Discover and share the CBS Montpellier starter pack, to follow current and formers members of the Centre de Biologie Structurale on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/G682pvP @cnrs.fr @inserm.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

#JJC2026 @fmartin54.bsky.social gives us an amazing evening talk about his 45-year career on forest ecosystems, ectomycorrhizae, fungal genomics and mycobiome research

Bruno Le Cam @irhs-angers.bsky.social is kicking off the #JJC2026 conference on #Mycology and #Phytopathology. 4 days of science in the scenic mountains of #Aussois!

Delighted to be attending (and sharing our latest results!) at the Journées Jean Chevaugeon (@sfp-france.bsky.social) #JJC2026 this week 🌱 Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!

Wei Shi @wshisky.bsky.social & Merle‘s work is online. Wei really pushed this work from scratch and Merle linked it to MLA diversification…3rd (co-)first author paper in her PhD. Very proud PI! And only possible through collaboration with G. Döhlemann, @grandpahiro.bsky.social &, Matt Platre. (1/x)

Our latest work is now out in @cp-molcell.bsky.social ! We have looked at Sgt1, an essential Hsp90 co-chaperone in yeast. We determined its interaction with Hs90 and showed that it stabilises the chaperone-client complex and prevents its dissociation by Aha1. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Mismatch screening in Nicotiana benthamiana to explore Pik-1/Pik-2 paired NLR platforms for receptor engineering Yuxuan Xi (席玉轩) and Mark J. Banfield nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧬 New preprint on fungal effector 🍄🍎 We identify AvrRvi6, the first AVR from Venturia inaequalis. AvrRvi6 is a MAX effector with apoplastic activity, expanding the functional landscape of this major effector family. 📄 bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ancient MAX Effector Variants of a Fungal Pathogen Evade Apoplastic Immunity in Apple https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.25.695362v1

Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science". "Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”

Deeply saddened by this news. A truly incredible woman who has done so much for so many. "Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱 www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An activated wheat CCG10-NLR immune receptor forms an octameric resistosome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672026v1

A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚 #PlantBio2025

#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference! 👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u... Apply by September 15 #PlantBio

Excited to be in Milwaukee for the @plantphys.bsky.social editorial board meeting and Plant Biology conference #PlantBio25 🌿 Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!

🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social‬! Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏 📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... bsky.app/profile/yusu...

After great talks at #2025ISMPMI on de novo design of pathogen protein binders for receptor engineering - perfect timing for this preprint from colleagues at the Centre de Biologie Structurale!

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share our preprint on heavy metal associated (HMA) domain-containing rice proteins bound by the rice blast MAX effector AVR-Pia! 🌾

Such a great evening with past and present members of the CIME team! #2025ISMPMI @phimresearch.bsky.social

Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward. Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc #plantscience #networking

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster today at #2025ISMPMI! For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo! zenodo.org/records/1588...

Looking forward to the start of #2025ISMPMI today! If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me! 🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function" 📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15 🌱🦠