Excited to see our new preprint on bioRxiv! 🌱🤖 We used AI protein design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN) to build brand-new sensor domains from scratch and installed them in a rice NLR immune receptor engineering recognition of a Fusarium effector FoSSP17

I am glad for being selected to present at this webinar series. 🌱 Also, I am honored to represent Argentina🇦🇷

Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Have you checked out the new IS-MPMI website? 👀 Fresh look, same mission: your hub for all things molecular plant-microbe interactions. Member resources, event info, webinar recordings, and more, all in one place. Explore it here: Ismpmi.org

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Join us July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. lnkd.in/gMeN7F94 Join us on July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to our sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

Important news! The new ISMPMI website is live! Visit the site to get society news, watch posted videos, listen to our podcasts, become or manage your membership and more. ismpmi.org

June 2026 newsletter highlighting a few of @getgenome.bsky.social recent activities and opportunities. Remember, you can find this and our previous newsletters here getgenome.net/network

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#RoadtoJeju #LegendsofISMPMI #watchparty Did you have a Road to Jeju Legends of ISMPMI party like Eugenia Segretin's lab in Buenos Aires? Post your watch party! We kicked of the Webinar series with Roger Innes.

📣 We are hiring! In the collaborative research center 'Plant Ecological Genetics' @teamthomma.bsky.social searches a PhD candidate to study the role of plant-associated microbiota in plant density responses and inter-plant competition. See project A07: sl1nk.com/b7z0doc Deadline July 10!

Watch the Q&A on youtube for Legends of IS-MPMI webinar by Prof. Roger Innes — "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Sponsored by GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences Co , The British Society for Plant Pathology & The New Phytologist Foundation. youtu.be/phUOjFR8ukY

Watch the first Road to Jeju Webinar sponsored by GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences Co ,The British Society for Plant Pathology and The New Phytologist Foundation. Roger Innes discuses Leaf Surface RNA: how does it get there are what does it do? youtu.be/UbEBDfwWmDE

Missed the inaugural Legends of IS-MPMI webinar? Watch it now! 🎬 Prof. Roger Innes — "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Now available on our YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbEB...

Inspired by yesterday's talk? The next webinar could feature YOU. 🫵 Rising Stars of IS-MPMI — PhD & postdoc IS-MPMI members can self-nominate to present. Self-nominations for the July 29 session close June 30. 🔗👇 🌍 Global South researchers can apply regardless of membership!

This Wednesday: Roger Innes opens the Road to Jeju webinar series! "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Decades of foundational work on plant immunity. Road to Jeju is supported by @getgenome.bsky.social, with this seminar sponsored by @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 Register 👇

📚 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 "How to frustrate a plant pathogen" 🐛 From structural genomics to AI-driven protein design, this review explores new strategies for engineering broad-spectrum resistance against plant pathogen effectors. ✍️ Knight, Heddle and @adamrbentham.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

To Move or Not to Move: When and How Bacteria Suppress Flagellar Motility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MicroSky

Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

TSL Synbio just deposited 192 highly requested plasmids on @addgene.bsky.social! 🧪 Popular by demand: Our deposits include MoClo Plant promoters, plant terminators, C-terminal and N-terminal tags. Find them here: www.addgene.org/kits/youles-...

Excited to share that I will start my lab this summer as an ECL Unit Leader at RIKEN CSRS! We will study perception by cell-surface receptors across diverse plant species. I’ll be recruiting soon, so please reach out if you’re interested!

The demonstration of a single origin for nodule evolution, with nodule engineering in a non-nodulating species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.728964v1

We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Host killing by necrotrophs is really complex. Using a 29-gene knockout series in Botrytis cinerea, we show that removing nearly all known cell death-inducing proteins and major phytotoxins is not sufficient to prevent host necrosis. Check out the paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Emma Turley started her PhD expecting the effector ChEC108 would aid Colletotrichum establish infection, but she instead discovered that when it makes it's way to plasmodesmata it's bound by host HIPP6, triggering PD closure and impeding infection. #PlantScience

So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵 and link to the original preprint thread on X👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org @teamthomma.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@khongsamchia.bsky.social Extremely excited to share the first pre-print from my PhD project in the Carella lab, co-first authored with @khongsamchia.bsky.social 🎉 (Thread below ⬇️) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to all co-authors and the #CarellaCapybaras for all the support 😊

TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear. Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Enjoyed the inaugural World Cup match? ⚽🇲🇽🇿🇦 Our own kickoff is just 5 days away! 🌱🦠 Join us for the inaugural Road to Jeju webinar, Legends of IS-MPMI with Roger Innes. Sign-up info in the quoted post!👇

📽️ "Medicine can save your life one day. Plants save your life every day." 🌱 @kamounlab.bsky.social shares his personal journey, his passion for science and his vision for the future in an inspiring talk at TEDx Pasha Street, now freely available online 🌾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqt...

Three weeks left to apply for a chance to present at our new ECR webinar series: Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! We especially encourage applications from researchers based in the Global South! See the quoted thread for info on how to self-nominate. Sponsored by @getgenome.bsky.social

We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology // University of Freiburg www.nature.com/naturecareer... The position holder will lead a research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for biotechnological and societally relevant applications. #BotanyJobs

As seen on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: our story on how the dreaded late blight pathogen hijacks a helper NLR pathway is now out in its final form! 🎉 Meet AVRcap1b: the two-faced effector 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In 9 days: the first "Road to Jeju" webinar! 🌟 Roger Innes (Indiana University Bloomington) kicks off the Legends of IS-MPMI series. "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" 📅 June 17 | Noon UTC-3 💻 Free on Zoom Register now: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#PlantScience #MPMI #microbe peeps, check out this great opportunity in an amazing location!

Calling all early-career plant-microbe researchers! 🌱🦠📢👋 Rising Stars of IS-MPMI: your chance to present your work to a global audience. PhD students & postdocs - self-nominate for the July 29 session. ⏳ Deadline: June 30 Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

IS-MPMI members and plant-microbe interaction enthusiasts! Did you get our recent email with news from the society? Please check your spam folders! look for @ismpmi.org Not on our mailing list? join ISMPMI: ismpmi.org

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Legends of IS-MPMI - "On the Road to Jeju" - by Roger Innes - "Leaf surface RNA: how does it get there and what does it do?" 👉 buff.ly/qpTBZcS #PlantScience

Big news from IS-MPMI! We have a LOT of exciting updates to share 🧵 New website, a brand-new webinar series, a Global South membership initiative, and more. Thread ⬇️

We @getgenome.bsky.social are delighted to support “Road to Jeju,” a new webinar series celebrating the lead-up to IS-MPMI 2026 in Korea 🇰🇷 Expect inspiring science and voices from across the plant-microbe community. First up: Roger Innes on June 17. Register here: lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K

IS-MPMI community! Check this!!! sign up!

Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. Check out our Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI speakers. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Check back for how to apply to give a Rising Stars of IS-MPMI talk.

Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. The series will feature 7 webinars with Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Rising Star info coming soon. please repost!

We passed the half-way point of our ambitious goal of raising $40,000 for the Mishkind Travel fund for early career researchers to attend our 2027 Congress*. Please consider donating today! ismpmi.org ISMPMI's president will make a $2500 donation to honor her challenge pledge.

#IS-MPMI Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time. www.youtube.com/@is-mpmi3587

#IS-MPMI Did you know that IS-MPMI has a youtube channel? We just posted the 2025 Early Career Showcase webinars (2 volumes). Check them out at youtube.com/@is-mpmi3587 ! Look for an upcoming announcement about upcoming Webinars