A side project that got out of hand—in the best way 🚀 New paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We sequenced the first Clusia genomes to understand something subtle but fundamental: 👉 CAM is a drought adaptive mechanism in plants - how do different physiotypes of CAM evolve? A 🧵 👇 1/14

Great to see this really cool story (see quoted post) published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Congratulations @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social! Plant-Scopoletin-Fungal Endophyte-Iron #PlantScience #Coumarin #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Fascinating innate immune evasion strategy in SCIENCE #glycotime 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘦 makes GLYCOSIRIN, a novel iminosugar that blocks plant glycosidases from degrading bacterial flagellin—hiding pathogens from plant immune sensors. New cryo-EM insights reveal exactly how this stealthy trick works

Nature research paper: Low overlap of transcription factor DNA binding and regulatory targets https://go.nature.com/4jedGUz

Would you like to study metabolite-based microbe-microbe or plant-microbe interactions but do not have the tools to? @chesneau-g.bsky.social came up with a simple solution with great potential! Check out our new publication in @naturecomms.bsky.social and Guillaume’s 🧵 below for details👇

📣Paper Alert! 📣New publication out by @hacquardst.bsky.social and his team on the development of MetaFlowTrain – a new tool to study metabolic exchange and interactions within microbial communities @naturecomms.bsky.social 👏🥳Congratulations! 👉https://bit.ly/44jnM1H www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We present MetaFlowTrain, an easy-to-build, highly parallelized, and cost-effective fluidic system for studying microbial exometabolites and their roles in modulating microbe–microbe–host interactions. Kudos to @chesneau-g.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social Give it a try: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How did horses become so athletic? In part, a mutation that should have cut a key protein short instead makes it more sensitive to the stress of exercise. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🐴

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣Paper Alert! New publication @science.org by the group of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social, colleagues @ucph.bsky.social & others on the Casparian strip and its role in metabolic trade between plants & bacteria. 👏Learn more 👉https://bit.ly/4bJe4Yd www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Poke bacteria with a sharp needle and they poke back in just a few seconds! Congratulations to Mitchell (and others) for this analysis of Pseudomonas #T6SS assembly in response to membrane damage! Collaboration with Rod Lim's lab @biozentrum.unibas.ch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪 Homo erectus crafted specialized tools out of the bones of elephants and hippos. Read all about it in my latest for Nature. #scicom #paleo www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wow, cAMP production appears to be the key for activating canonical auxin signalling, not AUX/IAA degradation! Also annoying - I need to revise quite a many teaching slides to update auxin signalling 😀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Congratulations to Jana Ordon and all coauthors!!! Our new study is published in @natureplants.bsky.social "Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota" (0/n) rdcu.be/eauzt

Please read here about our collaborative work with Ag Kudla @uni-muenster.de on the phosphocode of these two Calcium-dependent kinases. With the power of MS-based functional #proteomics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share this viewpoint, written together with @fabriceroux7.bsky.social and Fabienne Vailleau @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/4

I’m super happy to have a great part of my PhD work (under the wonderful supervision of C. Libourel @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social & @maximebonhomme.bsky.social) now out in @naturegenet.bsky.social ! Here’s a little thread (1/18) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Have a look at our new story on how Bacterial Cellulose works miracles in plant wound healing by activating regeneration via concurrent activation of ROS, defense and cytokinin signalling. In collaboration with @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @icmabcsic.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔊Paper Alert - New publication out @nature.com by the Parker Lab @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues at Westlake University on the fine tuning of plant immunity regulation 🌿🪴Congratulations 👏 👏 Learn more here 👉 bit.ly/3WZjrfw #plantsci #immunity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm very happy to report that Matt Schechter's PhD work is now online as a pre-print: "Ribosomal protein phylogeography offers quantitative insights into the efficacy of genome-resolved surveys of microbial communities", www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here's a little 🧵 about it.

Inspired by @mads100tist.bsky.social I'm going to do threads on parts of the publishing process we often get asked about. These will be from my perspective @naturecomms.bsky.social and based on my own opinions, so keep your salt handy.

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

Such a game changing set of innovations to be able to fully 3D print these microscopes. Think about all the cool science that this unlocks, especially beyond the traditional style of microscopy 🧪

#weekendreading 🔬 Non-adapted bacterial infection suppresses plant reproduction in Science Advances #microsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The protein GAME15 is the missing link in the pathway that Solanum plants like potatoes use to make molecules for pest defense, a new Science study finds. The results pave the way for innovative applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨We are filling a 5-year postdoc/junior lecturer position in Soil Biogeochemistry at the University of Lausanne. Fully-funded, independent, cutting-edge research on microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions, #climate, and #soils. Deadline: Jan 30. Start: Sept 2025. Info👇

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

We are still waiting for applications to join us as a group leader in the department of Chromosome Biology! Apply until the first of Feb.

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project Deadline: 17 January www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... please share with your network🙏

**𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚** JXB is looking for an assistant editor to join our friendly team based in Lancaster, UK. Come and work for a society-owned journal and support the #plantscience community. 🧪 More info: bit.ly/JXBAE24 @sebiology.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @giffordlab.bsky.social

We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

What a great start to the year 2025. Just published online is our PNAS paper - Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pbaldrich.bsky.social @meghahs28.bsky.social @inneslab.bsky.social

Very happy to start the new year with publication of our new work on leaf surface RNA. Plant leaves secrete diverse RNAs that are surprisingly stable on their surfaces. Next question to answer: What do they do? www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...