Still cannot fully believe it, but today is officially my first day as a PI at @scilifelab.se and Stockholm University! The lab is open, time to fill it with science.. #newPI

How diverse is bacterial immunity ? We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems. 👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie... Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

Norwich looks strangely familiar 🤔 Had a great visit to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social this week! Thank you for the invite @kamounlab.bsky.social, and thanks to everyone for the warm welcome and great discussions about science!

Our 11th (!) Preprint Pizza Party was a success! 📑 Students, postdocs and RAs from our lab and @johninnescentre.bsky.social discussed recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social papers and enjoyed a pizza break 🍕 Stay tuned for the publication of our comments online! #PreprintCommentClub

When you cannot decide between two titles...excited for our #preprint 🥳 #teaser

🧵1/X 🚨New Preprint🚨 Root pathogens are hard to manage, and we know little about plant genes enabling infection (susceptibility genes). Here, we show that SCARs are susceptibility factors in barley roots - and their loss affects pathogens/symbionts in distinct ways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Now that it's official i've got some news! Our group has moved from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to @unihalle.bsky.social where I am now leading the department for phytopathology and plant protection 🍄🌾🧬

I just published: #CelebratingAlumni: The Lab Is a Launchpad, Not the Destination These last weeks brought several alumni into sharp focus, and I couldn't resist writing it down. A celebration. With links. medium.com/p/celebratin...

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Got Genome?

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)

Atlas of predicted protein complex structures across kingdoms www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.biopredictnavigator.cn

So jazzed for my colleague @gittacoaker.bsky.social for being elected as an AAAS Fellow! She's an outstanding scientist, leader, mentor, and colleague

This is super impressive and interesting #TeamTomo work by @carter-lab.bsky.social. Congrats everyone!! 🧪 🧶🧬

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...

It’s time to say farewell to ERC Research Group Leader Thorsten Langner after nearly 3 years at the institute. He reflects on his time here, key milestones, and what’s next: tinyurl.com/2vce2d6k Congratulations on your new position—we wish you and your team all the best for the future!

Cell-surface receptors play key roles across many biological processes. In plants, these receptor families have undergone remarkable expansion. Here, we systematically review these receptors in @theplantjournal.bsky.social Happy to see this out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Over 250 million protein sequences are known, but fewer than 0.1% have confirmed functions. Today, @genophoria.bsky.social, @bowang87.bsky.social & team introduce BioReason-Pro, a multimodal reasoning model that predicts protein function and explains its reasoning like an expert would.

Exciting news! New findings from TSL and international collaborators reveal that the wheat receptor WAI3 forms an octameric resistosome, offering fresh insights into plant immune system structures and functions 🌱 @jonathandgjones.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/news/breakth...

Completing "Plant Bioinformatics" 🌱 Students worked with CLI, big data, and cloud computing. Critically assessed papers and reproduced analyses. Alarming how often methods are incomplete or data is not shared. Teaching #OpenScience is crucial. 🔗 github.com/bpucker/teac... @puckerlab.bsky.social

Check out Manuel's work on P-bodies and biotic stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MBP2026

Frederica Locci @federicalocci.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social will talk about TIR-domain proteins in plant systemic resistance #MBP2026

We start the biotic interactions session at #MBP2026 with @mpcontreras.bsky.social from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social who will talk about the regulation of a NLR immune receptor network #plantscience

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

$1B per day is about $42 million per hour. About 30 min worth of that spending can fund my lab for my ENTIRE career (~20 3-year NSFs or ~10 5-year R01s). Please wrap your head around that.

We are inviting applications for a joint appointment: Director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Full Professor (W3) at MLU Apply by April, 24 via: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de Join us in advancing innovative research at the interface of chemistry and bioactive natural products.

Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system. Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

Wonderful (and fun!) read from @mastroianni.bsky.social which finishes with a clear answer on how to solve the collective action problem of dismantling scientific publishing

Attending @micronorwich Annual Conference? ReSay Podcast organising micro-quiz / mega-impact. You can register here buff.ly/uP2iWNI There are prizes on offer, £2 entry fee will go toward @getgenome.bsky.social supporting researchers across global south. Donations are matched too!

New paper alert: Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cell death is a fundamental mechanism of antiviral immunity across diverse organisms, including bacteria. As my final PhD project with @jbdsf.bsky.social, I was curious whether cell death is required for successful immunity with the ancient cGAS pathway known as ‘CBASS.’ Spoiler – the answer is no!

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

Following the successful completion of the Series A funding round, our plant disease resistance start-up Resurrect Bio @resurrectbio.bsky.social is hiring for its London lab: (1/2) AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/resurrect/ai...

Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.

We’re hiring! Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab “Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

A really cool #PlantImmunity paper showing that the ubiquitin-binding protein RH3 recruits PTI & ETI receptors into one large complex via ubiquitin chains, linking these pathways. Also goes well with this paper showing a link between BIK1 & NLRs via phosphorylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ubiquitin recognition integrates plant immune signaling by cell-surface and intracellular receptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.703835v1

Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word! www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

📢 Job alert! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, junior group leader at #ZMBP, has 2 open positions (PhD and postdoc) to investigate appressoria formation in plant pathogenic #fungi using #cryoEM and #cryoET #EmmyNoether #MPMI #plantscijob More info 👇

Exciting PhD positions on plant immunity and engineering plant disease resistance with an excellent supervisor @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social. Strongly recommend.👇

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

A new webinar series is born - ''MechanoBioTalks - Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter", to bring together and inspire researchers interested in biomechanics, biophysics and biology across different kingdoms of life. Join us! For info and registration visit green-te.nl/activities/

Happy New Year all. I know it's been a draining and difficult year for science in general, but wanted to share some good news: our intrabody paper has now been published in Science Advances with lots of additional data. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An interesting way to look at encoded structural characters to build alignments and trees downstream. This takes structural phylogenetics one step further in the post-AlphaFold era. #Evolution #Science #StrPhy On Confidence Assessment in Structure-Aware Alignments doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...