Starting Monday: Python course at the University of Bonn 🚀 Teaching Plant Sciences master’s students how to handle big data with Python & apply AI to real-world problems 🌱💻 Slides & materials: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #Python #AI #DataScience #PlantScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Systematics!🪱 When: 16th April, 2026 Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST Register here or using the QR code below -> forms.gle/qh5ZmA9MgqUb... Looking forward to seeing you there!!!

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, professor of Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University (my PhD advisor!), has published “Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions" with Purdue University Press. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🌿 Plant Bioinformatics! 💻🧬 How do we turn massive plant data into biological insight? We cover genomics, transcriptomics, sequence analysis, phylogenetics, statistics, and reproducible research practices. Plant science is data science. 🌱 Materials: github.com/bpucker/Plan... @puckerlab.bsky.social

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

I've been hearing from more and more people who received peer reviews that were clearly written by AI. It's frustrating, and no one knows what to do. I have some thoughts. blekhman.substack.com/p/so-your-pa...

1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

We invite you to submit your Database Articles! 💻 We welcome submissions of manuscripts describing new or updated #databases & online reference tools; this is a great opportunity to share your useful resource with the #PlantScience research community! More details: academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/da...

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...

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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!