Excited to share this commentary on the work by Isaksson et al, now out in @mpmijournal.bsky.social, where they find that structural similarity underlies both multimerization and NLR recognition of a powdery mildew effector family doi.org/10.1094/MPMI... Original paper 👉 doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

Cool kids of the nematology haha @anikadamm.bsky.social @youngnemas.bsky.social #vnc2025

@uprogress.bsky.social @anikadamm.bsky.social

VNC 2025! @youngnemas.bsky.social

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here: open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...

Structure-informed phylogenetic inference with FoldTree outperforms sequence-only trees on divergent proteins, and untangles RRNPPA quorum-sensing receptors across Gram-positive bacteria & phages. Work led by David Moi (www.linkedin.com/in/david-moi) Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Tem jogo bom, tem jogo excelente, e acima deles tem Final Fantasy Tactics.

New Preprint alert! It is finally here! M incognita is a remarkable pathogen: extremely specialised with the widest host range (> 3,000). All this while reproducing parthenogenetically! We analyse the infection phenotype and transcriptome of 9 hosts (6 orders) at 25 dpi. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

This was so heartwarming 💙 I didn’t win, but honestly, just being nominated feels amazing! "We have a meme in the lab that "Victor was here". Life and soul of the group, dare say the building, with his contributions to positive working culture. Thank you, Victor!"

Out in @science.org The crazy sequence of events from planting maize in dense fields. Density-dependent linalool release triggers release of compounds into the soil affecting microbes and plants. Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Genomics and Effectoromics! When: 18th September, 2025 Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱 Looking forward to seeing you there!

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵

🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists: Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉 If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract. Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z ⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!

🚀 Registration for VNC 2025 opens on July 10, 2025! 🔬 Submit your abstract and showcase your research in a vibrant, supportive environment. 📅 Save the date! More info on the 10th!

Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N

🌱 New review out with @minyaojhu.bsky.social and Dr. Katharina Schiessl. Plants form unique organs, and here, we dive into signal perception, hormone regulation, and organ development of three structures: root-knot gall, rhizobia nodule and haustorium Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...

We explore how plants adapt their developmental programs to form specialized organs — nodules, galls, haustoria — enabling mutualistic or parasitic symbioses. Despite their differences, these organs share gene regulatory pathways, demonstrating the remarkable plasticity of plant development.

🚀 Excited to share our new review published in Trends in Plant Science, coauthored with Dr. Victor Hugo Moura de Souza & Dr. Katharina Schiessl! 🌱 From hosts to parasites: Hormones driving symbiosis-induced de novo organogenesis 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥 #microscopy #mycosci #fungi

One week to go! 🌱 Join our webinar on Nematode-microbe interactions – May 22, 15:00-16:15 CEST. 📅 Register now - use the QR code below and stay tuned 😀 #Nematology #Plantpathology #Science

Get to know our Board members! 🌱 Meet Dr. Unnati Sonawala (@uprogress.bsky.social), one of YNN’s founding members. As a PostDoc at the @cropscicentre.bsky.social, she is marvelled at interactions between plants and microbes—and beyond! Also, she is passionate about learning a new language!

Momentos Civ VI

Almost a month to go until our webinar "Nematode-Microbe Interactions" by Dr Olivera Topalović and PhD student Sandra Bredenbruch. 🗓 Save the date: 22nd of May 2025, from 15:00 to 16:15 CEST! 🔬 Stay tuned and don’t miss it! Register now!

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

Over 10 years ago I was the editor for the first tomato & the first potato genomes in our pages. This week, we have this on the cover “Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering” So satisfying to see these advances @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was such a nice surprise! Our review about Aphelenchoides besseyi is in the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the Plant Pathology in 2023! Please, check it out doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13829 @sebastianevda.bsky.social @uprogress.bsky.social

This is going to be huge 😅https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/37/4/koaf050/8109904

Exciting: YNN, SON and APN working together to bring excellent NemaEvents later this year! Curious to know more? Follow us and stay tuned for updates! #Science #PlantPathology #Nematology #Nematodes

A beautiful Bursaphelenchus xylophilus trying to escape from a droplet! Cool, isn’t it? #Nematology #Plantdisease #PlantPathogens #Science

We are delighted to announce our upcoming seminar: "Nematode-Microbe Interactions" by Dr Olivera Topalović and PhD student Sandra Bredenbruch 🔬 Don’t miss it—register now!

Go SUGR-1 >> The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence | Funded by the EU 🇪🇺 | Kudos to all authors 💪

Paper Alert! @pnas.org We think nematodes break open plant cells, sense small molecule signals (termed effectostimulins), which switch on a master regulator SUGR1, which switches on effectors, which break cells. Looks like a feed-forward loop driving infection. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited to see my first first-authored paper published in @pnas.org . We found the first regulator of effector production in plant-parasitic nematodes! Congratulations to co first author @clempellegrin.bsky.social and all other authors. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New to bluesky - would appreciate a "retweet" please, so I can find everyone from twitter.

Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR2025. More info and registration at web.cvent.com/event/448810... . Spread the word! #PlantScience @bertderybel.bsky.social @apmahonen.bsky.social

Exciting data showed by Ana Zotta! She observed that +Mi virulent root-knot nematodes are related to several deletions (Even up to 1.2Mb!) across the genome. However, they come with a fitness cost!

Excellent talk by @B_Mol_ (Crop Science Centre - University of Cambridge) on the effector repertoire of Heterodera schachtii!

Reminder about our webinar tomorrow 15-16:15 CET on Advances in Bioinformatics. We’ll have two exciting talks by @B_Mol_ and @anazotta Join us on the link below: uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/6747936482... #Science #Nematology

We're excited to finally be on BlueSky! Follow us for all things nematodes - whether plant-parasitic or parasitic nematodes, free-living species, and more. Stay tuned for great nema-content!

[email protected] has coordinated a special Frontiers in Plant Science editorial on plant-parasitic nematodes, highlighting innovative, eco-friendly strategies for managing them 👉 www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/dr-vict... #nematodes #Agriculture

Estão mentindo pra você. O Pix é só uma cortina de fumaça. Pt. 1 👇🏽

A nematode sword? +5 damage against plant foes :) #plantpathology #science #nematodes

Cambridge covered in white :)

Find out how @vmourade.bsky.social is using fungus to protect key crops in Brazil ➡️https://www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/using-fungus-to-protect-key-crops-in-brazil/ 🍄🌾🇧🇷 #Brazil #Agriculture #plantsatcambridge Photo from Dr Meyer and Dr Favery

I’m thrilled to announce that my first paper as a supervisor has been published! Supervision was done 100% online (different countries), which was particularly challenging, but it definitively paid off. Thanks Sophia for all the hard work! doi.org/10.1163/1568... #Nematology #PlantPathology

💡 My latest paper — where we undertake a polyphasic approach to characterize nematophagous fungi of the Esteya genus for the best-suited candidates for biocontrol of the #pinewood_nematode — is featured on the MedForest website. 📰 Find out more at medforest.net/2024/12/17/r...

American scientists funded by the NIH, behold the future. Silence will not protect you from the incoming anti-science regime when they strip funding across the board. You’ll just be another scoundrel who didn’t speak up. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...