Have you checked out the new IS-MPMI website? 👀 Fresh look, same mission: your hub for all things molecular plant-microbe interactions. Member resources, event info, webinar recordings, and more, all in one place. Explore it here: Ismpmi.org

My PhD thesis has been submitted and reviewed, and my PhD defence is on the horizon! But today I start my next chapter as a postdoc in the Molecular Plant Immunity lab led by @clemmar.bsky.social at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! Here I will continue to dive into the form & function of plant NLRs 🌱

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Back on social media for SMBE 2026! I'll be presenting the fascinating microbe Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis at Poster A048!

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#RoadtoJeju #LegendsofISMPMI #watchparty Did you have a Road to Jeju Legends of ISMPMI party like Eugenia Segretin's lab in Buenos Aires? Post your watch party! We kicked of the Webinar series with Roger Innes.

📣 We are hiring! In the collaborative research center 'Plant Ecological Genetics' @teamthomma.bsky.social searches a PhD candidate to study the role of plant-associated microbiota in plant density responses and inter-plant competition. See project A07: sl1nk.com/b7z0doc Deadline July 10!

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

Cracking Plant Defense Mechanisms: Dr. Madhuprakash @JMadhuprakash Contributes to Major Intracellular Immunity Breakthroughs #CelebratingAlumni herald.uohyd.ac.in/dr-madhuprak...

Missed the inaugural Legends of IS-MPMI webinar? Watch it now! 🎬 Prof. Roger Innes — "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Now available on our YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbEB...

Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬❄️ by brilliant @mdreimann.bsky.social and great collaborators! Using cryo-ET&EM, we reveal archaeal chromatin in a near-native state: variable-beads-on-a-string fibers shaped by growth phase and histone composition #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Inspired by yesterday's talk? The next webinar could feature YOU. 🫵 Rising Stars of IS-MPMI — PhD & postdoc IS-MPMI members can self-nominate to present. Self-nominations for the July 29 session close June 30. 🔗👇 🌍 Global South researchers can apply regardless of membership!

VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes Closing date: 1 September 2026 Salary: competitive Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

I am thrilled to share this story on how cocktails can help your protein research 🍸. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/6

A highly significant step for European plant sciences: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/pres...

How do pathogens disarm plant immunity? We discovered a widespread strategy used by plant bacterial pathogens: they directly cleave a conserved immune signaling molecule produced by plant immune receptors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Preprint: Plant pathogens cleave 2’cADPR to suppress TIR immune signaling Inspired by knowledge on how phages inhibit bacterial immunity, we now show that disease-causing bacteria inhibit plant immunity in a similar way. A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This Wednesday: Roger Innes opens the Road to Jeju webinar series! "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Decades of foundational work on plant immunity. Road to Jeju is supported by @getgenome.bsky.social, with this seminar sponsored by @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 Register 👇

📚 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 "How to frustrate a plant pathogen" 🐛 From structural genomics to AI-driven protein design, this review explores new strategies for engineering broad-spectrum resistance against plant pathogen effectors. ✍️ Knight, Heddle and @adamrbentham.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

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...

TSL Synbio just deposited 192 highly requested plasmids on @addgene.bsky.social! 🧪 Popular by demand: Our deposits include MoClo Plant promoters, plant terminators, C-terminal and N-terminal tags. Find them here: www.addgene.org/kits/youles-...

Enjoyed the inaugural World Cup match? ⚽🇲🇽🇿🇦 Our own kickoff is just 5 days away! 🌱🦠 Join us for the inaugural Road to Jeju webinar, Legends of IS-MPMI with Roger Innes. Sign-up info in the quoted post!👇

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

New Publication: A plant pathogen effector blocks stepwise assembly of a helper NLR resistosome (2026) www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

Three weeks left to apply for a chance to present at our new ECR webinar series: Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! We especially encourage applications from researchers based in the Global South! See the quoted thread for info on how to self-nominate. Sponsored by @getgenome.bsky.social

now published!!! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @leahmcphillips.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear. Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

As seen on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: our story on how the dreaded late blight pathogen hijacks a helper NLR pathway is now out in its final form! 🎉 Meet AVRcap1b: the two-faced effector 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Host killing by necrotrophs is really complex. Using a 29-gene knockout series in Botrytis cinerea, we show that removing nearly all known cell death-inducing proteins and major phytotoxins is not sufficient to prevent host necrosis. Check out the paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

In 9 days: the first "Road to Jeju" webinar! 🌟 Roger Innes (Indiana University Bloomington) kicks off the Legends of IS-MPMI series. "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" 📅 June 17 | Noon UTC-3 💻 Free on Zoom Register now: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Folddisco is now published @natbiotech.nature.com. It’s a fast motif search for similar 3D DISCOntinuous residues like catalytic sites or zinc fingers across the entire protein universe. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 folddisco.foldseek.com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🌐 https://search.foldseek.com/folddisco

#PlantScience #MPMI #microbe peeps, check out this great opportunity in an amazing location!

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Legends of IS-MPMI - "On the Road to Jeju" - by Roger Innes - "Leaf surface RNA: how does it get there and what does it do?" 👉 buff.ly/qpTBZcS #PlantScience

Abstract submission deadline extended for 2 types of posters to present your #plantsci work at our #BT2026 to an international plant science audience 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📅 6-10 Sept 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BT2026ext

Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social - great work led by @dianagdlc.bsky.social and Matt Moscou www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

Calling all early-career plant-microbe researchers! 🌱🦠📢👋 Rising Stars of IS-MPMI: your chance to present your work to a global audience. PhD students & postdocs - self-nominate for the July 29 session. ⏳ Deadline: June 30 Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵 and link to the original preprint thread on X👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We @getgenome.bsky.social are delighted to support “Road to Jeju,” a new webinar series celebrating the lead-up to IS-MPMI 2026 in Korea 🇰🇷 Expect inspiring science and voices from across the plant-microbe community. First up: Roger Innes on June 17. Register here: lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K

Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The demonstration of a single origin for nodule evolution, with nodule engineering in a non-nodulating species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.728964v1

Help early-career researchers get to Jeju! 🙏 The Mishkind Travel Fund supports students & postdocs attending the IS-MPMI Congress. We've raised $23,500 toward our $40,000 goal. Every donation makes a difference. Contribute at ismpmi.org Please RT/repost! 🔁

Excited to share that I will start my lab this summer as an ECL Unit Leader at RIKEN CSRS! We will study perception by cell-surface receptors across diverse plant species. I’ll be recruiting soon, so please reach out if you’re interested!

📢 #Postdoc opportunity! We're looking for a Postdoc to join the lab of @carogutj.bsky.social at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social (Potsdam, Germany). Research focus: #molecular mechanisms of nutrient exchange in arbuscular #mycorrhiza #symbiosis 📩 See www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2287446/karr...

Big news from IS-MPMI! We have a LOT of exciting updates to share 🧵 New website, a brand-new webinar series, a Global South membership initiative, and more. Thread ⬇️

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.

Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. The series will feature 7 webinars with Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Rising Star info coming soon. please repost!

Come to join us in beautiful Freiburg #PlantSciJob #Plantscience. 🌱

Excited to share our latest research on leveraging machine learning with helical fusions for the design of novel protein cages! Preprint: “Design and structure of protein cages based on helical fusion and machine learning” Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...