Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-... We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

Hamer + Spijker. Tijd voor verandering van de PhD stelsel op Nederlandse Universiteiten. Lees dit opiniestuk van @erikvansebille.bsky.social in het Digitaal Universiteitsblad van @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Reviews by @zakisaati.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

📣 A fantastic resource for the study of population genomics of transposable elements. Congratulations to all @johannconfais.bsky.social ! Also very happy to see the Brachypodium resource being used for this purpose! It's 🌈🌈 again! #TEsky #goBrachy

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #plantscience

This one has been a long time in the making. So many contributions and years of hard work went into bringing this project to the finish line. I’m really happy to finally share our new story. Thanks to everyone involved, and a very special thanks to @teamthomma.bsky.social and @lfaino.bsky.social

Distinct modes of sequence evolution and epigenetic modifications underpin the origins of Starship-mediated variation in Pyricularia fungal plant pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702382v1

Out in @science.org this week, two fungal enzymes synthesise DHHA, which controls cell wall porosity and turgor in plant pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #mycology #plantscience

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Welcome to 🦋 Luigi Faino! @lfaino.bsky.social

Finally we made it

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

You did not get your #MSCA and you are upset, because you really wanted to work on somatic cell evolution on the way to malignancy with single cell data and 🧬machine learning 💻? Then get in touch! There are other ways to fund a postdoc ;-)

Spatial structure: Shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Review by @marcelbaecker.bsky.social et al from @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

New OA Resource: "Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity" rdcu.be/e29Ro ...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

Promote brilliant plant science #ECRs 🌱 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Awards 2026 are open. monetary prize, a certificate & a plenary talk at Botanik-Tagung. Deadline: 26 Apr 2026. Pro tip: 👉 Self-noms welcome for Horst Wiehe Award Details: www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/3awards

I am pleased to share that our paper is now published in Cell! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... I am deeply grateful to all co-authors for making this possible. This work was made possible through the guidance of Dr. Peer Bork. I share this in grateful memory and with deep respect for his mentorship.

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Structural basis of canonical TIR-NLR activation in plant innate immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703613v1

Multi-omics analyses of mutants for Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA and MARIS reveal a link between cell wall integrity and abscisic acid responses url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥 Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬 interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688

Happy to announce that our review article on vesicle-coupled mRNA trafficking is now availalbe @mibinet.bsky.social #EMBOrnaLocalization link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Rereading these two papers: Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them

Can plant pathogens boost vector fitness? Together with @hassansalem.bsky.social, we review how phytopathogens can spread further by moonlighting as insect symbionts 🪲 More on this nifty lifestyle in @annualreviews.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

NEW H. H. Flor Distinguished Review: "The Extended Plant Immune System," by Corné M. J. Pieterse. Read the open access review in MPMI: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-10-25-0144-HH

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Interested in plant calcium signaling? This meeting is for you: Connect, share your work and build collaborations at EMBO workshop Plant calcium signaling: 20 – 24 September 2026 | Primosten, Croatia meetings.embo.org/event/26-cal... #PhD#Postdoc#EMBO#CalciumSignalling

PhD done! 🎓 Grateful to my examiners for the great discussion and to my amazing colleagues and friends for the support! ✨

📣 Job opportunity: I’m still looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join my lab @leibniz-hki.de who is interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering. We’ll work on an interdisciplinary project with the team of @luziagyr.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.leibniz-hki.de/en/job-offer...

Kudos Rita @ritamarquex and Team for this nice contribution to NLR biology of legume plants (Fabaceae) 🫛🫘🥜🌿

Predatory vibes from @pensoft.net — click a link to decline a review and you’re forced to create an account—purely to pump user metrics. Declining a review should not require registration. Commercially driven #predatorypublishing plain and simple. #sciencecrisis

Predation by soil protists shifts bacterial metabolism from competitive to cooperative interactions -in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social from Wu Xiong (Qirong Shen) with Stefan Geisen, Alex Jousset www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have a look at our most recent preprint, where we looked at transcriptional regulation during tomato root colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis.

Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!

What enables a fungus to invade a mammal host? @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social unravels signatures of translation adaptation among pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Trichosporonales. See more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations again @gabriellapetti.bsky.social and @teamthomma.bsky.social! It was indeed a fantastic defence and you did an incredible job in utilizing and mastering NMR, Gabriella (among all the other things you achieved in your PhD)!

Check out this amazing paper on the Umbilicaria lichen and a black yeast fungus that appears to be its ever-present component!

🎉 Yesterday we enjoyed the glorious defence of @gabriellapetti.bsky.social of her @unicologne.bsky.social PhD thesis on "Homologous antimicrobial proteins in plants and fungi: conserved mechanisms shaping the plant microbiota" #proudPI #PhDone ..mind the crown modeled after the Ave1 NMR structure!😍

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Dear #Root / #PlantScientists 🧪, Do you know of any #ProgrammedCellDeath #PCD genes that are specific for #RootHairs only? The 🌱 species does not matter. RP pls. #PlantScience #PlantResearch 🧬👩‍🔬

📢 Three new #bioRxiv preprints from our team on holocentric chromosomes. Together, they connect centromere repeat evolution, karyotype dynamics, and meiotic recombination outcomes, revealing how holocentric genomes evolve and function. 🧬👇

Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement

Autophagy restricts symbiosis-associated cell death and regulates colonization by Serendipita indica in Arabidopsis (Patricia Zecua-Ramirez , Nick Dunken , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🦠 The impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on fungal pathogenicity and drug resistance #fungi #mycology #DrugResistance #pathogens academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...

PRESS RELEASE - Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields Researchers at the John Innes Centre and @earlhaminst.bsky.social are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat 🌾 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Sharing our lab’s first publication! Probing clinical isolates of Cryptococcus, a disease-causing fungus of the lungs and brain, we found multiple heat-mobile elements that ‘jump’ in the genome at body temperature (!) with the ability to drive adaptive changes. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...