Such an honor to be a part of this amazing team!

Finally published! Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species. Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...

By combining molecular genetics with cell-ablation experiments, we found that vascular cambium stem cells and xylem-identity cells form an interchangeable unit, a stem cell niche. Meticulous work by @xixizhang9001.bsky.social, Ondrej Smetana, Jing Zhang & Xiaoyu Wang 1/x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Was great visiting Ka-Wai @kawaima.bsky.social at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Thanks for having me and for all the joyful, fruitful, and productive discussions!!

New members in the lab! RTNakanoLab is growing and is eager to explore the frontiers in the field of plant-microbiota interactions. If you are interested on joining us, do not hesitate to let us know!

Riyohei Thomas Nakano (@luckystrike1984.bsky.social) is presenting new work about the mechanisms of disease suppressive microbes. Have identified AhcY mutant and looking into downstream effects. #2025ISMPMI

Microbiome session at #2025ISMPMI: @dorruss12.bsky.social kicks off the session. Using barcoded mutant libraries, he identified bacterial colonization genes. Among them was an efflux pump family - hypothesize that they help commensals survive glucosinolate breakdown products during plant defense.

Read Nakano's latest review in PCP discussing 'Long-Term Consequences of PTI Activation and Its Manipulation by Root-Associated Microbiota' 🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantMicrobiome

It was lovely to meet and share what we’ve been up to! Happy to be part of Nakano lab alumni! 🤗

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

RTNakano Lab Reunion - it’s always good to see the former members of the lab enjoying their life. Gözde and Zoe are doing their PhD with Stan Kopriva and Bart Thomma, stay tuned for their upcoming work!!

Had a great time at MPI-MP Golm - thanks a lot for having me, Marco @incavirus.bsky.social !! Now heading back to Köln to get ready for the IS-MPMI Congress…

I'm thrilled to have the chance to give a talk at Yang and Paulo's concurrent session at the IS-MPMI Congress@Köln. It was a last-minute change, and I'm not on the online program yet, but I will be there to introduce our current work on host immune manipulation by commensals!

I’m not really living in Bluesky and only spontaneously visiting. I heard there’s no political BS but only peaceful and productive scientific chats. Now i do see a number of DJT photos on my timeline…

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

Listening to @incavirus.bsky.social 's inspiring and exciting talk. Vertical transmission of virus is regulated by AGO, while I’m curious about its impact on the fitness of the entire holobiome!

Already submitted an abstract to IS-MPMI Congress, and now I have registered and paid the registration fee. Wait for me Cologne, I am coming back!!

So far my best favorite paper in 2025

And here’s the kicker: this specialization helps bacteria spread! Flagella-equipped bacteria exit the infected tissue, ready to colonize new areas. This coordinated strategy is crucial for the pathogen's success.

Individual bacteria specialize, some suppress immunity while others escape early to spread infection before the plant tissue collapses. It's a division of labor! The study highlights how phenotypic heterogeneity allows pathogens to adapt to host environments dynamically.

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

A flu lineage has likely gone extinct since 2020 🧵

Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv. Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

📜 Multilevel analysis of response to plant growth promoting and pathogenic bacteria in Arabidopsis roots and the role of CYP71A27 in this response 🧑‍🔬 Anna Koprivova, Daniela Ristova, Stanislav Kopriva, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience

I am happy to introduce this bioRxiv. Stomatal opening is crucial for gas exchange, but it unavoidably offers invasion by pathogens. We found that by coronatine (COR), Pto DC3000 exploits CYP707A1 activation in Arabidopsis thaliana, encoding an enzyme that degrades ABA, for stomatal invasion.

this is really cool

Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to announce that the first JSPP-ASPB joint symposium will take place at #plantbiology2025 in Milwaukee this summer. Five rising stars from Japan and the US will showcase their latest research, facilitating a melting pot for future collaborations. Please drop by and enjoy!!

It is real! 🤩 I can touch it (after I printed it). Huge Congrats to everyone involved! 😀

If I haven’t met Stan, I would have left academia a lot earlier. He’s the one who kept encouraging me and convinced me that this is where I belong. He’s the one who believed me and that belief is what kept me going forward.

VACANCY ⬇️ If you haven't yet - apply this week! Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first. Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Terrific MSc thesis defense by Zoe on her research carried out in the lab of @luckystrike1984.bsky.social; next stage will be her PhD research in the framework of @mibinet.bsky.social under the guidance of @hroevenich.bsky.social

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📣Paper Alert! New publication @science.org by the group of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social, colleagues @ucph.bsky.social & others on the Casparian strip and its role in metabolic trade between plants & bacteria. 👏Learn more 👉https://bit.ly/4bJe4Yd www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So honored to be a part of this great team. Kudos to Tonni @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social al Defeng and all involved. Congrats, guys!!

I’m one of the luckiest PIs in the world to have the privilege of setting up my lab with this extremely talented MSc student. Huge congrats to Zoe and I wish you the best of luck in your PhD journey!!!

PCP Poster Award Winners receiving their certificates from Tetsuya Higashiyama, EIC, at the conference reception. Well done to these amazingly talented students - the future’s looking bright for #PlantScience! #EarlyCareer #JSPPKanazawa2025 #JSPP

Extremely enjoyed the time with my former @mpipz.bsky.social colleagues, discussing about the root immunity and its link to leaf immunity at the JSPP conference @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social. Thanks a lot @kenichitsuda.bsky.social and @kschlaeppi.bsky.social for joining us!!

💪 A strong message from early-career scientists on the benefits of supporting & publishing in #SocietyJournals: "By choosing to support these journals [as authors, reviewers, & editors], we can reinforce our academic growth and benefit from their re-investment back into the scientific ecosystem."

📜 MYB68 regulates suberin patterning and radially distinct endodermal differentiation 🧑‍🔬 Leonie Kraska, @luckystrike1984.bsky.social, @tonnigrube.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Suberin #PassageCells #PlantDevelopment #PlantRoot

📜 Long-term consequences of PTI activation and its manipulation by root-associated microbiota 🧑‍🔬 @luckystrike1984.bsky.social, Tomohisa Shimasaki 📔 Plant & Cell Physiology 🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome

📜 Taste of microbes: the terroir explained by rhizospheric microbes Commentary by 🧑‍🔬 @luckystrike1984.bsky.social for @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome

So excited to share our latest work about the role of ER bodies and Trp metabolism in root microbiota assembly via root-secreted specialized metabolites, spearheaded by a talented and dedicated PhD student Arpan (now a postdoc with Stephane Hacquard). nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here I am, no matter where it is.