Our new publication in #ISMEJournal (@isme-microbes.bsky.social) describes how Bacillus and Trichoderma works together to fight against the plant pathogen Fusarium, a superb collaboration with Zhihui Xu at Nanjing Agricultural University, including the experiments by @jiyuxie.bsky.social at #IBL 1/7

You were right @suaybuestuen.bsky.social ! Amazing….

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

New preprint on pop #genomics of #spittlebug—the main insect vector of Xylella, the bacterium that has ravaged olive groves in southern Italy 🇮🇹 🫒 Take-home: problematic insect vector may be less widespread than initially thought—important implications for disease control 💥 👇

📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

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Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de

Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

New preprint by Judith Fliegmann and Lisha Zhang on an additional regulatory layer of #plantimmunity: the TIR-domain production of small molecules (typical during ETI) is required for PTI responses downstream of RLPs PRRs #MPMI #ZMBP

📣 Major milestone achieved! First @teamthomma.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social PhD student graduated 🎉! Congratulations to @wolki95.bsky.social for a stellar defence of a thesis on antimicrobial effectors of Verticillium dahliae that drive niche adaptation #proudPI #PhDone

‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

📣Interested in doing your PhD in Plant Sciences 🌱, Microbial Sciences 🦠 or Computational Biology 👩‍💻? @ceplas.bsky.social offers 10 fully funded PhD 🎓fellowships. Pls repost and forward to interested candidates holding BSc degree.

Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS

Our paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jromeijn.bsky.social et al from @mfseidl.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Screening over a thousand fungal genomes, @jromeijn.bsky.social, Iñigo Bañales Belaunde and @mfseidl.bsky.social find that horizontal transfer shapes the fungal mobilome 🍄🔄✈️🧬 @ubc-uu.bsky.social Don't miss Josje's thread for a summary of the findings! 👇

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European Council and Parliament agree on relaxing rules for bringing genome-edited plants to the market - a central step for facilitating a science-based management of our current plant systems. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬 Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions. Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a.... Please help us get the word out!

GreenRobust PI Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) receives the Lautenschläger award, the most prestigous price of Heidelberg University acknowledging his scientific achievements. Congratulations!

TWO positions open in our group. 1 postdoc and 1 PhD position. Join us for some exciting evolutionary plant biology! #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Nick Talbot! We were fascinated by his MibiNet talk, exploring how the appressorium uses turgor pressure to infect rice & how the transpressorium spreads the fungus. Brilliant insights! @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social #MibiNet

My former colleague Patricia Zecua, me and the Zuccaro group published a new story about how autophagy restricts cell death and regulates root colonization by beneficial fungi: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Some news 🎉 After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye. Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠

Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!! And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁

📣NEWS: We are delighted to share that Dr Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social will join us as a new group leader next year. “Aileen is an exceptionally talented scientist and brings new expertise to TSL in plant-insect-fungal interactions” says @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social buff.ly/kRs4ASU

We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

Finally published! Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species. Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...

New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Our paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728

🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics! Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf. More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position

Delighted to share that James Brown has been awarded BSPP Honorary Membership 2025! A career spanning pioneering pathogen genetics, major advances in wheat disease resistance, and work to protect UK trees from ash dieback and Dutch elm disease. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial NEP1-like proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687460v1

NEWS - Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions. www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

To all visionary microbe enthusiasts: @femsmicro.org is looking for an editor-in-chief for their flagship journal FEMS Microbiology Reviews! More details can be found here: fems-microbiology.org/opportunitie...

Guns in rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal (Marc Somssich, Daniel J Kliebenstein, Tonni Grube Andersen) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

"...the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana" 🤔 @natplants.nature.com you may want to edit the title! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 😊

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

✨X-ray crystallography reveals surprising twist in how proteins enter the unique photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella. The chromatophore targeting peptide (crTP) folds into a 3D structure, hinting that folded proteins cross peptidoglycan and inner membrane. (1/2) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very proud and happy to have contributed to this work. Special thanks to @antonkraege.bsky.social, @wolki95.bsky.social and @teamthomma.bsky.social

I’m very happy to see my fist article now officially published 🥳 great work by my partner in crime @wolki95.bsky.social and the rest of @teamthomma.bsky.social! Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... or have a look at the 🧵⬇️

📣 Now announcing the journal publication 📄 of our work in @newphyt.bsky.social on how Verticillium undermines the plant's 🌱 "cry for help": terrific work by @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

Merce Montoliu brings us a presentation about wonderful #lichens at the #biodiversity25. Lichens are associations between mycobionts (fungi), photobionts (green algae or cianobacteria) and microbiomes. 38 different lichens were sequenced in DToL & ASH. Results show complex multiorganismal scenarios

Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date. Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Want to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred? Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available. fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...