Excited this MS is out! Here, we genome edited Pire in tomato, a conserved E3 ligase controlling NADPH oxidase accumulation in Arabidopsis. Edited lines exhibited enhanced resistance to foliar bacterial pathogens, but not two root colonizing pathogens. #PlantImmunity academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

New paper alert! A chromosome-scale genome of Meloidogyne hapla. A devastating plant pathogen. But this is not just another genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 NO CANONICAL TELOMERES but a novel 16-mer repeat at chromosome ends. A new mechanism for chromosome-end maintenance?

A Chromosome-scale Reference Genome of Meloidogyne hapla reveals localized recombination hotspots enriched with Effector Proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.654606v1

Worms just keeping everything good a weird with holocentric chromosomes AND weird caps at the ends. Awesome to see such an example of the diversity of solutions to segregating and maintaining information in chromosomes!

New paper alert! A chromosome-scale genome of Meloidogyne hapla. A devastating plant pathogen. But this is not just another genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 NO CANONICAL TELOMERES but a novel 16-mer repeat at chromosome ends. A new mechanism for chromosome-end maintenance?

Congrats. Well deserved Alison nematology.ucdavis.edu/news/alison-...

Important work on nematode diet regularion. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited to see my first first-authored paper published in @pnas.org . We found the first regulator of effector production in plant-parasitic nematodes! Congratulations to co first author @clempellegrin.bsky.social and all other authors. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🪱🔬 Nematode Nerds Unite! 🔬🪱 Huge thanks to the Groen lab for hosting us at UCR Nematology! From exciting research discussions to sharing our love for these tiny but mighty guys with many NEMA-enthusiastics from this department, it was a truly NEMA-zing experience! 🧬🔬 #WormScience #UCD #UCR

New to bluesky - would appreciate a "retweet" please, so I can find everyone from twitter.

UC (Davis+Riverside) Nematology Meet up! @chjlin.bsky.social @damarisgodinez.bsky.social @simoncgroen.bsky.social