The SFP's new Board of Directors met in Paris and elected its new Executive Committee: Congrats to Mathias Choquer (@mathiaschoquer.bsky.social), President; Maryam Khalili (@maryamkhalili.bsky.social), Treasurer; and Maël Baudin (@baudinmael.bsky.social), Secretary General. 📷 @mrmbuee.bsky.social

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @carlmesarich.bsky.social and Ashleigh Mosen from Massey university @inrae-bioger.bsky.social to discuss projects and collaboration. Carl Mesarich gave a seminar on avirulence effectors of Venturia inaequalis and Fulvia fulva and on their switch to virulence

Nicolas Lapalu et al. developed a new method to improve the prediction of eukaryotic genes and demonstrate its utility using the genome of the fungal wheat pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-25-0077-TA

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n

Elza Neau's PhD defence is just starting on 'multiple roads to multidrug resistance in plant pathogenic fungi: the case of Zymoseptoria tritici'. A PhD supervised by Sabine Fillinger and Anaïs Laleve at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and funded by @parissaclay.bsky.social

#TansleyReview: Unraveling complexity in #ClimateChange effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions Afkhami et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Congratulation @Camille Rabeau who defended her PhD today on innovative ways to identify new resistance sources to Leptosphaeria maculans in rapeseed. A great co supervision with Audren Jiquel @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and Sébastien Faure @innolea. Good luck Camille with your new position as breeder

Now published in Plant Pathology. 'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The first article of Camille Rabeau (CIFRE PhD student @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and @innolea) now on bioRxiv. Camille characterized Leptosphaeria maculans effector genes expressed during stem colonization of rapeseed and identified new resistance sources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free! 🍄🍄🍄 www.cell.com/current-biol...

#SFP2025 Anne Genissel from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the evolution of plasticity of Zymoseptoria tritici

#SFP2025 Amandine Le Ruyet from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the mode of action of a biocontrol molecule, the 4PBA

#SFP2025 is just starting. Lets talk about plant pathology!

Current methods for profiling #HistoneModifications require cell isolation & don't work with all tissue types. @jellevda.bsky.social &co adapt Targeted DamID (TaDa) to profile cell-type-specific #histone marks throughout the genome, in vivo, without cell isolation 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Dw8sUD

Stand up for Science

Really strong candidate for the coolest story of the year (I know it’s still just march)!!! Kudos @svenklumpe.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social & all involved 👏

Have a look at the EPLM team posters today at #ECFG17 on the regulation of Leptosphaeria maculans effector gene expression (P2.409) and on the identification of rapeseed resistances triggered by late effectors (P2.138).

@INRAE_Bioger is well represented at the #ECFG17. See oral presentations CS1.3.7 and CS1.7.2 this afternoon, and posters P2.138 and P2.409 tomorrow.

@inrae-bioger.bsky.social is ready for a great @ecfg172025.bsky.social

New Publication: Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) | @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This year, our invited speaker is Jean Guy Berrin @jgberrin @BBFlab on Fungal carbohydrate enzymes #FungIDF

5th Symposium on Fungal Genetics Île de France is just starting. Thanks to our sponsors #Univ_paris_cite #IJMonod #SFGenetique #institutpasteur #cnrs

Proud to see that story out! Our demonstration that part of the Leptosphaeria maculans effector genes are under the dual control of a chromatin-remodeler and a specific transcription factor. A work performed by @ColinClairet during his PhD, co-supervised with @soyer_jessica. x.com/NewPhyt/status…

Congratulations to Axelle Deroubaix from @INRAE_Bioger, winner of the best poster at #JJC2024. A thesis supervised by @LMetabolites

Last talk of the #JJC2024 by @henri_lebrun on the KP4 and KP6 effectors of Zymoseptoria tritici which are toxic to fungi. @INRAE_Bioger

Camille Rabeau from @INRAE_Bioger and Innolea presenting a poster on the identification of resistances to Leptosphaeria maculans recognizing effectors expressed at late stages of infection. #jjc2024

Marc-Henri Lebrun on the improved annotation of Zymoseptoria tritici genome using Iso-seq and RNA-seq. A project led with @NicolasLapalu @INRAE_Bioger. #JJC2024

Great talk by Elza Neau from @INRAE_Bioger on generalist resistance mechanisms to fungicides in Zymoseptoria tritici

Thanks to our invited speaker @PlantoPhagy inaugurating the #jjc2024 with a great talk on comparative cell biology approaches to identify new autophagy mechanisms

Great PhD defense of Mathilde Gorse on the influence of rapeseed resistance genes on the fungi associated to Leptosphaeria maculans during its infection cycle. Congratulations to her supervisors @MBalesdent and Valérie Laval @INRAE_Bioger

So happy to spend the day with scientists from the Paris area working on fungal genetics and related topics thanks to the Fungal Genetics in Île de France network #fungIdF

#fungIdF Alberto Ballin from @IJMonod on glucose signalling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

#fungIdF Cassandre Deculty from @institutpasteur also on the regulation of extracellular vesicles biosynthesis in Cryptococcus neoformans

#fungIdF Alicia Piffer from @institutpasteur on the role of Calcium in the regulation of extracellular vesicules production by Cryptococcus neoformans

#fungIdF @ClementineLouet from @INRAE_Bioger characterizing structural diversity of Leptosphaeria maculans effectors in order to propose knowledge-driven rapeseed resistance management

#fungIdF Second talk about multidrug resistance by Elza Neau from @INRAE_Bioger using strains obtained through experimental evolution

#fungIdF Starting the afternoon session with two talks about multidrug resistance. First Simon Patry Leclaire from @INRAE_Bioger on multidrug resistance regulation in Zymoseptoria tritici.

#fungIdF Nelson Mounguengue from @institutpasteur on the role of chromatin modifiers in Candida albicans morphogenesis

#fungIdF Adrien Hamandjian coming from @UnivLyon1 talking about the Spitzenkorper of Botrytis cinerea.

##fungIdF Yannis Reignier @JacquesMonod on mechanisms of repair in the fungal cell wall

#fungIdF Elsa de Fellipo @IdeevL on sex chromosome evolution in fungi

#fungIdF Chloe Girard @I2BCParisSaclay about the role of RNAi machinery on the regulation of sexual reproduction in Sordaria macrospora

#fungIdF 4th edition of the Fungal Genetics Symposium IDF starting @JacquesMonod by a presentation of @EGladyshev from @institutpasteur on homology directed epigenetics silencing