Thank you very much to Editor Martin Balcerowicz (@transcription.bsky.social) for highlighting our work in the September issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social! Article: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Research Highlight: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social

The Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipAV targets plant U-box proteins and induces proteasomal-dependent degradation of BIK1 New Phytologist (@newphyt.bsky.social) 👉 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Response to “The action of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE2 in plant growth inhibition” The Plant Cell (@theplantcell.bsky.social) 👉 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Tailored translation: Local tRNA activation to match protein composition needs The Plant Cell (@theplantcell.bsky.social) 👉 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

The nuclear pore complex acts as a hub for pri-miRNA transcription and processing in plants Nucleic Acids Research 👉 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

We’re filming our new institutional video at IHSM Mayora! 🎥🌱🎬 We’ll post it on our website (www.ihsm.uma-csic.es) as soon as it’s ready; stay tuned!

Injectisome assembly primes Pseudomonas aeruginosa for Type III secretion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

New RNA Modifications Newsletter (October) is out! 🚀 open.substack.com/pub/rnamodif...

#HiringCBGP ‼️ 🌱 The Center for Plant Biotechnology & Genomics (CBGP, UPM-INIA/CSIC) is #hiring! We’re seeking a Head of the Translational Biology Unit/Knowledge Transfer Office to drive innovation, IP protection & industry partnerships. 📍 Apply now: shorturl.at/wI8IW

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

Happy to share our work on a T6SS effector with ADP ribose cyclase activity, published in JBC @asbmbjournals.bsky.social Great work of Julius Martinkus @jmartinkus.bsky.social and (always) great collaboration with @dukasju.bsky.social and @laurentterradot.bsky.social www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Open position !! Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social. To apply at the E level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... To apply at the post-doc level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

I am happy to see this out! Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context. We summarize the current knowledge on this. Hope you enjoy~ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

So proud of my MBio student Kieran and my team for this exciting work @DrShannonGreer @warwicklifesci.bsky.social #phage #Pseudomonas #biocontrol doi.org/10.1111/1751...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the very first monument in the world dedicated to Alexander Fleming — the Monumento a A. Fleming in Gijón, Spain, unveiled on September 18, 1955, with his widow Amalia Fleming in attendance. @ucm.es @microbioblog.bsky.social @who.int @fao.org

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world' @pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍 #ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

JB Editor's Choice: Richardson & Pascal do a deep dive into the many iterations of bacterial two-hybrid systems and their uses in bacteria - a must read for those looking at protein-protein interactions. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market? Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718

New Article! Purifying recombinant proteins from Nicotiana benthamiana for structural studies

🌱 Bacterial tricks to hack the plant immune system and cause disease More information here ⬇️ www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/comunicacion...

Today's the last day to apply for the Plant Cell Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program, usually postdocs or senior PhD students! It's a fantastic opportunity, a great learning experience & a lot of fun too. If you aren't quite ready, in June 2026 Plant Physiology will open its own call for AFEs 👍

Living with temperature changes: Salicylic acid at the crossroads of plant immunity and temperature resilience www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social from @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social. We investigated the link between induction of chloroplastic ROS and the production of SA in defense and its suppression by effectors, as well as the importance of ABA in this phenomenon nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded. Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... Thx for sharing!

GoldenBraid2.0 E. coli: a comprehensive and characterized toolkit for enterics #microsky #synbiosky academic.oup.com/synbio/advan...

Class IV plant U-box proteins function redundantly to optimize protein accumulation of receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 (Ruoqi Dou, Virginia N Miguel, Lauren E Grubb, Mansuba Rana, Brandon Saltzman, Jacqueline Monaghan) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

🌱 ¿Quieres realizar tu tesis doctoral desarrollando un atlas del transcriptoma single-cell y la caracterización funcional de reguladores del desarrollo y maduración del fruto de fresa? Ofrecemos un contrato de la convocatoria FPI asociado al proyecto PID2024-155863OB-I00

#PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

🌱 Would you like to start your PhD research to study the role of m6A in axillary bud dormancy? We are hiring a PhD student (FPI) related with the project PID2024-156806NA-I00 👨‍🔬 With the researcher Laura Arribas-Hernández 📆 Until Sep 30th More information ⬇️ www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/empleo

🌱 ¿Quieres realizar tu tesis doctoral estudiando las funciones biológicas de las proteínas con un dominio SMP en puntos de contacto ER-cloroplasto y ER-TGN? Ofrecemos un contrato de la convocatoria FPI asociado al proyecto PID2024-159647NB-I00 👨‍🔬 Con la investigadora Noemi Ruiz López

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

Dissecting microbial communities with single-cell transcriptome analysis www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org! #phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬 Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) could cause 10 million deaths by 2050. At PLAS-FIGHTER, we are working to change this! 🔎 We study how plasmids spread resistance to open up new avenues for future containment and diagnostic strategies. Find out more 👇 plasmidlab.es/project/ #AntibioticResistance

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫 🌱 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @microsky.bsky.social @plantsky.bsky.social

Delighted to share our recently published work! Ever wondered how Klebsiella (and others) deals with capsule production’s costs ? The paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Thread👇

#NewResearch This study uses Salmonella strains genetically engineered to express minimal effector subsets and mass cytometry to characterise infection of the spleen, revealing bottlenecks overcome by these effectors #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The discovery of genes underlying interesting traits for #PlantBreeding is one of the most important & difficult tasks here @kwsgroup.bsky.social. We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist to help us with this! #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

Phenotypic heterogeneity of capsule production across opportunistic pathogens | mBio #microsky #phage #phagesky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...