Our PhD candidates are having a great time at the MadFungi transcriptomics workshop at the University of Kiel @uni-kiel.de. Special thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social and her team for the great organization!

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

You have some messages 😊 #2025ISMPMI

Our paper on Pseudomonas intra-genus competition in SynComs on Arabidopsis roots is now out @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 If you want to chat about the story, visit poster 374 tomorrow, Thursday #2025ISMPMI journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Bring your #PlantScience publishing questions for our Editors! Catch Holly on our stand at #2025ISMPMI with @hacquardst.bsky.social, Ralph Panstruga, Ari Sadanandom, @pietrospanu.bsky.social and Ertao Wang! 📅 TODAY ⏰ 13:00–14:00 🗺 New Phytologist Foundation stand, poster hall

#2025ISMPMI - 🌱🍄 Come by Thursday afternoon to see my poster (P-336) if you are curious how interkingdom microbial antagonism can be mediated by fungal glycoside hydrolases. Happy to discuss!

My poster is up at #2025ISMPMI. Come by P-372 Thursday afternoon if you are interested in fungal evolution, effectors and microbial competitions! More research by @teamthomma.bsky.social at P-091, P-170, P-299, P-317, P-337 and P-388.

Here, we dissect the processing and release mechanism of the maize phytocytokine Zip1. Our results reveal a two-step mechanism of phytocytokine processing, translocation, activation and clearance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new review in FEMS Microbiology by Nick Dunken and Tim Thomsen is online. Purine-Based Infochemicals and Immunometabolites: A Comparative Review of Emerging Signaling Pathways in Plants and Animals url: academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...

Sophie Sent - Blumeria hordei-Bipolaris sorokiniana coinfection breaks down host barley disease resistance #2025ISMPMI

On Saturday, we celebrated the 6th edition of Soapbox Science Rheinland in the heart of the city! Huge thank-you to our CEPLAS speakers Jana Peter, Ganiyat Akinade and Zarah Sorger @zarizarah.bsky.social for bringing plant science to the public and showing how exciting research can be!

🗣️Forschung trifft Öffentlichkeit – an der Düsseldorfer Rheinpromenade Am Samstag, 28. Juni, werden zwölf Wissenschaftlerinnen aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen @ceplas.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social #ML4Q in kurzweiligen Vorträgen ihre Forschung vorstellen. ➡️ www.hhu.de/news-einzela... @hhu.de

GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647216v1

In diesem Land werden eher die „Omas gegen Rechts“ verboten als die AfD.