My first hairy root!

Now that Im finally here, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @salkinstitute.bsky.social as a postdoc with @lmueller.bsky.social Keep your eyes open for everything AMF symbiosis, peptide biogenesis, and the apoplast!

I am thrilled to share the peer reviewed version of our work on how the circadian clock gates In11-induced responses to tightly regulate induced antiherbivore responses in legumes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

The work from my MSc with @silviarestrepo in collaboration with @dromius.bsky.social is finally out. We used an integrative approach to follow Phytophthora betacei along while infecting tree tomato. This was in my back burner during my Ph.D, and it materialized thanks to @epiplantpath.bsky.social 🥳

Microscopical and molecular characterization of the infection cycle of Phytophthora betacei during disease development on tree tomato (Solanum betaceum). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675658v1

More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛 Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6

How do plants detect insect eggs ? 🌱🦋 Our new paper on GLR2.7 and its role in plant defense responses to insect eggs is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social Big thanks to the Reymond Lab @unil.bsky.social and our collaborators ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This will be my closing post for this #2025ISMPMI series. If you're a society member, you have access to ISMPMI rewind and can watch any talk the speaker agreed to have recorded. See you in Jeju, Korea in 2027!

First, work from Chang-Bao Li and Chuanyou Li (Shandong Ag U) on regulation of SYR1 receptor. The paralog SYR2 is an induced negative regulator w/ lower binding affinity. @nataliagupa.bsky.social highlighted that the module is only found in Solanoideae www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We recently wrote two Preview articles of exciting MPMI papers in Mol Cell and Dev Cell. Two surprising cases showing different ways to regulate immune receptors in plants -- the cell surface LRR-RK, SYR1 and the intracellular NLR DM2 Short summaries below 🧵🌱 #2025ISMPMI

Maria Harris closing #2025ISMPMI with the "most important plant-microbe interaction on earth". CKL1 and CKL2 kinanses locate to the periarbuscular and plasma membranes during AMF symbiosis and their kinase activity is key for regulating downstream lipid biosynthesis.

@cornepieterse.bsky.social shows off the incredible automated growth and phenotyping setup with the Hades in vitro root system which “loves microbes”. Incredible throughput. Link: www.npec.nl/phenotyping-... #2025ISMPMI

Stunning talk by Dr. Stella Cesari (PHIM, Univ. Montpellier): MAX effectors—structurally conserved but sequentially diverse. Beyond HIPPs, AVR-Pib hits MAPKKKs—key players in plant immunity. One fold, many targets? #ISMPMI2025 #MAXeffectors #MAPKKK #PlantImmunity @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social

#2025ISMPMI Benjamin Menn presents an elegant yeast surface displace screen to identify new carbohydrate binding receptors of plants.

Luis Rubio moves us from thinking about engineering against pathogens to engineering for nitrogen fixation. They moved Nif genes into yeast mitochondria! But can this work in plants? Insolubiluty is the issue. Screened variants by expressing in N benth - found one. Works in rice too! #2025ISMPMI

"LRRs are slinkys, and slinkys are circles" Thank you math! #2025ISMPMI

#2025ISMPMI Aurelie Rakotondrafara shows very interesting effects of mycovirus infection of Sclerotinia on virulence on the host plant. Take home to use mycoviruses and plant viruses to limit the spread of fungal pathogens.

Po-Yuan Shih on aphid salivary protein Ap4 targeting PsBPL1/2 to increase aphid fecundity on a biotype-specific manner. She also highlights the pain of transient expression on legumes and using our well established N. bethamiana system to get at some mechanism #2025ISMPMI

Evans Lagudah taking a global perspective on improving wheat, highlighting CIMMYT’s phenotyping network for wheat. He calls for the community to use MPMI knowledge more directly to improve crop outcomes. #2025ISMPMI

Last day of #2025ISMPMI begins with Renier van der Hoorn and the amazing work on glycosirin, a bacterial inhibitor of BGAL1 that acts to manipulate plant glycobiology at the apoplast to evade recognition!

It was a pleasure to present our work on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the #2025ISMPMI congress in Cologne. @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social

A really nice insect talk by @nataliagupa.bsky.social. #2025ISMPMI

Simon Kratringer on Proteomics + AF3 for the win to quickly prioritize candidate interactors of plant receptors. A fungal rust cellulase is recognized by the PRR Rphq2 in Barley #2025ISMPMI

Desalegn Etalo and The WeEVIL legacy: Fusarium TR4 is transmitted from infected females to eggs, perpetuating the disease in African banana fields #2025ISMPMI

It's showtime! Come see me and other amazing colleagues in room P+Q CS: Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interactions starting at 3:15 pm. #2025ISMPMI

Loving all the peptide talks #2025ISMPMI Martin Stegman and grafting experiments to probe CEP peptide mobility to modulate nitrogen starvation and immune responses. CEPR1, CEPR 2 and RLK7 all contribute to the response to CEP4

Yasuhiro Kadota thanks the millions of C.elegans that gave their life 😂 so he could identify a secreted trehalase that acts as conserved MAMP across free-living and plant parasitic nematodes (TreCe24) #2025ISMPMI

Day 3 morning session of ##2025ISMPMI closes strong with a herbivore story. BPH salivary protein BISP binds the highly variable LRR domain of Bph14. Although there is a cost to immunity due to hyper activation (small restaurant rice plants)!

Tritrophic interactions to another level! #2025ISMPMI Talia Karasov introduces Tailocins, potent phage-like bacteriocins, the drivers of interactions between competing co-ocurring pathogenic strains of Pseudomonas on A.thaliana.

Day 3 of #2025ISMPMI kicks off with Satoko Yashida introducing the spoh1 mutant that constitutively exudates haustoria inducing lignin monomers important in haustoria formation in P. Japonicum and Striga

See our latest work on an LRR-RLP receptor and plant-caterpillar interactions this Wed at #2025ISMPMI The legume receptor INR attracts predatory wasps in the field!🍀🐛 💀 @nataliagupa.bsky.social presents in CS: Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interaction (we sneak in among the microbes)

Day 2 of #2025ISMPMI closing with two of my favorite: receptors and Phytophthora. Vivianne Vleeshouwers talks about the combined used of effectoromics, PRRs and intelligent receptor design to enhance plant protection against pathogens.

Federica Locci on "TN3 might not be the missing link between PTI and ETI, but it does link local and systemic resistance likely due to NADase activity and phloem signals" #2025ISMPMI

Uta Paszkowski on "individualist" arbuscles and their specialized functions on nutrient exchange during AMF colonization #ISMPMI2025

On my way to Cologne for #2025ISMPMI. I'm excited to return since I last attended in 2016. This time, I bring you a story on molecular plant-herbivore interactions (MPHI??). Come to CS:Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interactions on Wed, 16 July, or P-101 to hear it.

The next 2 weeks are exclusively for science! I'll be at @salkinstitute.bsky.social as an invited speaker for the Discover Symposium. Then I'm off to Cologne to speak about herbivores! at #2025ISMPMI thanks to a travel award from @maxplanck.de. Follow along as I share all the cool science happening!

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