I’m happy to share our new preprint! We uncovered the full diversity of bacterial TIR-based antiviral immune signaling, massively expanded the known diversity of Thoeris systems, and revealed conservation of TIR-derived immune signals across the tree of life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint from our group led by @metalichen.bsky.social on the discovery of a Starship giant transposable element in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus.

PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!

🛑Exciting update from our work with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social team on the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis❗❗ 🔥New results support a conserved three-gene module and master regulator for nutrient-responsive intracellular accommodation of fungal symbionts🤯 Check the nice thread below👇🏼 #plantscience

Sooo happy to see this preprint out 🍄☘️! Congratulations @leocastanedo.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social et al. ! It has been a long journey, from developing ericoid-mycorrhizae in the lab (Leo) to the genetics in Marchantia (Katharina), and many other details (#teamwork)

Congratulations!

Humbly share our latest work led by @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social my phd student And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social

1\ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🌿🌿Our article on fern immunity has been peer-reviewed 🌿🌿 Thanks to @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @jacquet-chris.bsky.social a quick thread 🧵 1/4

A first dive in fern x pathogen interaction! More to come! Congratulations @baptistebio.bsky.social @jacquet-chris.bsky.social et al.!

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper! doi.org/10.1186/s129... Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social! Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work! EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Two papers to tell us more about mysterious EPP1, a protein required for symbiosis. Well done @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social and all co-authors.

...and three more fern genomes @molbioevol.bsky.social ! Not-so-static static lineages! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Fun read today: Did figs and chilli peppers 'domesticated' humans?

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post! Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Outstanding paper ! -> receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase AeRLCK2 mediates Nod-independent rhizobial symbiosis in Aeschynomene legumes | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic

Super excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 This project has been an incredible learning experience, thanks to the amazing lab and wonderful people I get to work with. Huge thanks to my supervisor! @plantevolution.bsky.social

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...

For those who are not familiar with SA research history, we humbly introduce a review we wrote years ago: www.cell.com/trends/plant... @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are chromatin remodelling complexes targets of bacterial effectors PopP2 & XopJ6 ? Check out our work at #2025ISMPMI ! P-163 presented Wednesday afternoon by my amazing PhD supervisors Laurent Deslandes & Valerie Pacquit. @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social @ismpmi.bsky.social

@charlesrleveillee.bsky.social is introducing the concept of „EDEN“ in his talk in the concurrent session „local and inter-organ signaling“ #2025ISMPMI see also his great review: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#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...

@federicalocci.bsky.social presents the fonction of non canonical TIR immune receptors #2025ismpmi

Full room for @keehoonsohn.bsky.social presentation #2025ismpmi

Fantastic plenary talk by Nuria Coll @bactodeath.bsky.social on how to use metabolic engineering to make plants resistant to vascular pathogens #2025ISMPMI

Poster at #ISMPMI2025 from collaborations with @sainburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics group: P011 ( @isabelmonte.bsky.social ), P073 ( @HeeKungAng group), P086 & P034 (Zipfel group) P101 ( @tolgaboz.bsky.social ) and P130 ( @jonathandgjones.bsky.social and XiaoLin)

@geminiteamlab.bsky.social reminds us the importance of virology in plant immunity research #2025ismpmi

Interested on (gemini)viral peptides? 🦠🍅 ➡️ Come see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 🧾 Poster P-003: Mon 14th, Session 1 #unpublished-results #I’lldraw’em4U 💥

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 🌱🦠

If you’re interested in the role of #proteostasis in plant immunity and how pathogens manipulate it visit our contributions at #2025ISMPMI @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social will talk on Tuesday in the effector interference session @shanshuo.bsky.social (P-432) @margotraffeiner.bsky.social (P-405)

Plenary talk by my colleague Wenbo Ma @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI

Attending #ISMPMI2025? Don't miss posters from our team: ▶️ @madeleinebaker.bsky.social (P-182) ▶️@baptistebio.bsky.social (P-089) and ▶️@katharinamel1.bsky.social (P-407) ▶️@nicolasfreiditfrey.bsky.social (P-425) + talk tomorrow in the Symbiosis/Mutualism session ☘️ #symbiosis #immunity #evolution

#2025ISMPMI Rotem @SorekLab encourages the audience to start studying those components of the plant immune system that have not been studied yet. Luckily there is more than TIR and CC NLRs in plants. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

All set up for the poster session tomorrow #2025ISMPMI Please join if you wanna know more about transcription factor complexes that play roles during AMS in #MyMarchantia P-407 And, also see posters P-089 @baptistebio.bsky.social and P-182 @madeleinebaker.bsky.social

Well arrived at #2025ismpmi with @madeleinebaker.bsky.social (Poster P-182) @nicolasfreiditfrey.bsky.social (talk at symbiosis concurrent session) and @katharinamel1.bsky.social (P-407)

Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!

On our way to Cologne 🥳 #2025ISMPMI with @nicolasfreiditfrey.bsky.social @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social See you there!!!

Latest #preprint from the lab @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Please welcome Nissolia brasiliensis, the new non-nodulating model legume ☘️ developped by Camille Girou in the team! Work led by Tatiana, with input from many! 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

Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues at #2025ISMPMI next week! Find me at P-267 >>> Session 1, Monday, 14th. In the meantime, you can check out my poster on Zenodo :) #openscience zenodo.org/records/1583...

#EFPP Thorsten Langner presents past and future of pathogen genomics... starting with smut fungi😀

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies doi.org/10.1038/d415... A comment on this @cellpress.bsky.social paper: "A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM

There is great science happening at @instmolplantsci.bsky.social in Edinburgh, on plant biology, evolution and paleobotany. Thanks @transitionalform.bsky.social for explaining to me this rare fossil collection. Thanks again @davidjhoey.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for the invitation.

How forceful #fungi penetrate host cells — primer by Lauren Ryder Joris Sprakel and Nick Talbot www.cell.com/current-biol...