Hi everyone, a few years ago, we started a list of labs studying bacterial immunty for students, editors, conference organizers... (currently n=79). Update time ! Send me a message to 1) add your lab or others 2) Correct info docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #Phagesky #Microsky

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 😊

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...

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg. We are so proud of you! #plantsci

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

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...

Have you noticed someone new here? 👇 Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP! #newPI #plantscience #MPMI

Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Another Preprint Pizza Party has come and passed! Students, postdocs and RAs from TSL and @johninnescentre.bsky.social gathered to discuss and review recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social articles 📝 Pizza kept the spirits high during this challenging task 🍕 #PreprintCommentClub #PreprintPizzaParty

BIK1-RIN4 complex links plant immunity and pathogen virulence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.03.673898v1

Amazing #CelebratingAlumni news this week (Thread) (1/3) Clemence Marchal @ClemMarchal received an @ERC_Research Starting Grant -- CooPAIRation "Optimised plant immune receptor pairs" erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Dr. Joel Frohlich vom fMEG-Zentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät und Dr. Clémence Marchal vom @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social haben jeweils einen Starting Grant des @erc.europa.eu eingeworben! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr Infos: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ERCStartingGrants #Molekularbiologie

Can't believe my @thesainsburylab.bsky.social chapter is coming to an end! Feels like only yesterday I was starting my predoc with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🥲 Learned so much from several generations of TSL scientists, made some discoveries and a lot of friends! Time flies when you're having fun...

We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free) Through @GetGenome scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward. medium.com/p/why-you-sh...

I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇 medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally a method to identify plant RNA-binding proteins! 🧬 This enables so much new biology to discover from immunity to development! 🤯 🪴 Established by the incredible Victor Sanchez with @havandenburg.bsky.social @uva.nl Congratulations!!

Happy to share that our Helixer deeplearning-based annotation of 230 superasterid genomes is now online on @datadryad.bsky.social 💻🌱 doi.org/10.5061/drya... Check out how we used 69 of them to study the molecular evolution of a plant immune receptor network here! 👇

A conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.20.665670v1

I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge. medium.com/p/stop-displ...

Anyone at #2025ISMPMI who didn't like my confocal microscopy, here's your chance to come and teach me how to do it better. I think you'll like the amazing team and kit.

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

🚨 New @biorxivpreprint alert! 🚨 We are thrilled to share our latest findings—building on our earlier work on suppressors of helper NLRs of the NRC family—a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector captures resistosome assembly intermediates of tomato NRC3! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Excited to attend my 1st ISMPMI conference, and present our work on a paired wheat CNL/MLKL receptor mechanism! 🌾 Come chat to me at my poster on Tuesday, P-050! 📜 If you miss my poster session, I will be talking in: Crop resistance genetics and genomics on Wednesday - 16:25-16:35!

Chewing the fat with old colleagues @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social #ismpmi2025

Up and ready! Find me at P-267 today for some molecular evolution and NLR biology! 🥬💻 You can also find the poster and preprint below 👇🏻 #2025ISMPMI

Preprint: “Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling” Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules Congrats Nitzan Tal! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kudos Madhu @JMadhuprakash, Mau @mpcontreras4 and the whole team for this beautiful structure and study! 😍 #EffectorWisdom #NLRbiology #PlantSci

Shedding light on the structure-function mechanisms of LRR-RPs. Our research merges #AlphaFold3, years of literature and functional validation to reveal diverse ligand-binding mechanisms and a conserved co-receptor association mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our latest preprint! This work started during my PhD and was finished together with @jmadhuprakash.bsky.social. We found a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector that bridges a host TOL protein to activated NLRs to suppress immunity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/15

An effector from the potato late blight pathogen bridges ENTH-domain protein TOL9a to an activated helper NLR to suppress immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663370v1

Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663357v1

Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco

Hot off the printer! Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI P-315 by @siyusong.bsky.social P-441 by @hsuanpai.bsky.social

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️ With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼 #openscience @erc.europa.eu

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.28.662111v1

Desde Lysenko en los 1930 no se veía una interferencia tan mortífera entre la ideología y el conocimiento científico...

Thanks to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Postdocs for the invitation and for the exciting scientific discussions! What a great day! 😊

If you are member of the IS-MPMI society, you will have received the option to vote for the next president and members of the board of directors. This is an encouragement to vote. Also, I am running for one of the two director positions. www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...

📣 Join us on May 30 at 9 EDT, for a The Plant Cell panel discussion focusing on “Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond".🌱 👉Learn more and register at blog.aspb.org/may-30-plant.... #plantscience

Childhood happiness thanks @mpcontreras.bsky.social

With @agroserv.bsky.social funding, @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social visited @embl.org Imaging Centre to use cryo-EM & CLEM to see how fungal pathogens penetrate plants with unprecedented results.🔬🌾 Learn more🔽 eurobioimaging.eu/news/imaging...

🔗 Preprint alert: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿 Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]

We have a Winner! Congrats AmirAli @amiralito_ for winning the 2024 ASAPbio @ASAPbio_ Poster Competition! So proud of our team's embrace of transparent and early sharing of data, ideas and protocols. The future is bright! #openscience asapbio.org/announcing-t...

Here is a link to the poster: Evolutionary diversification of protein-protein interaction interfaces: A case study on an NLR immune receptor network #ASAPbio #openscience doi.org/10.5281/zeno...