Are you interested in viral evolution, within-host diversity, and how multi-scale process impact viral ecology and transmission? Check out this conference organized by Anice Lowen and Yannis Michalakis in beautiful Roscoff, France, next October: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Into the wild: a long-term study of begomovirus community dynamics in a natural landscape go.shr.lc/4BltCOm

Into the wild: a long-term study of begomovirus community dynamics in a natural landscape

Begomoviruses have been the subject of many evolutionary studies that explored their temporal dynamics; however, most of the studies relied on sequences retrieved from public repositories rather than ...

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Happy to share the results of our first attempt at single-cell proteomics using Arabidopsis protoplasts, led by @sara-stolze.bsky.social, with support from @brukercorporation.bsky.social and Cellenion. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Advances in single-cell proteomics: label-free quantification of over 3500 protein groups from individual Arabidopsis thaliana seedling cells

Sara Christina Stolze, Anne Harzen, Christoph Krisp, Hirofumi Nakagami; Advances in single-cell proteomics: label-free quantification of over 3500 protein

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A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social! Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅 Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Our lab's first preprint! The antiphage protein Tiamat is an ATPase and DNase with homologs across the tree of life. What started as undergrad Shirley Yuan's summer project grew into a paper and a collaboration with @jpkbravo.bsky.social's group. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EPSO welcomes the European Commission’s call for evidence on Category 1 NGT plants and provides input regarding the necessary information for the verification process. #PlantScience #Biodiversity #Food2040EU #Bioeconomy #LifeSciences bit.ly/4hXxNqP

Very excited to share the first preprint from my PhD with the community! This is also the first paper from the Plant Immunogenomics group with @galofir.bsky.social, so stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n 🧵

NO VEIN is an ancestral immunity protein involved in plant-virus interaction

The conservation of immune systems from prokaryotes to eukaryotes can guide discovery of immunity genes across the tree of life. Most studies to date have focused on metazoan systems, while the extent...

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Our group's latest preprint shows TurboID can be adapted for studying extracellular elicitor-receptor interactions in plants. Hopefully useful for the apoplastic MPMI community www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by former PhD @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social

A TurboID-based proximity labelling method for detecting extracellular protein interactions in plants

The apoplast is a primary location for interactions between plants and invasive pathogens and is the site where many pathogen-secreted effectors are perceived by cell surface immune receptors to activ...

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Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Proteome profiling of plant Cajal bodies uncovers kingdom-specific components

Abstract. Membraneless organelles (MLOs) in eukaryotic cells, such as the nuclear Cajal body (CB), have been notoriously difficult to biochemically isolate

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📣📣Paper Alert! New paper @nature.com from the Marques group @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues on Rhynchospora tenuis - 🌿a plant that reproduces sexually but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA🧬 Congratulations! 👏 🥳 Read more👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-marques-2... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis - Nature

Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.

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I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369

Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59

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So excited and incredibly grateful for this opportunity! 🦠🌱🧬

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

The shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity An honor to highlight remarkable discoveries from many labs over the past 12 years that unite previously disparate fields of how animal cells and prokaryotes defend against viruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fzwyB

Shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity - Nature

The Review describes shared ancient, conserved mechanisms between human antiviral immunity and bacterial anti-phage systems, outlining universal principles of pathogen sensing, signalling and effector...

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Super happy to finally share our preprint with the community! 🎉 Fungal extracellular vesicles deliver RNA cargo into host cells - but how do they get through the plant cell wall? This question puzzled us and the field for years… 🧵 1/6

Fresh preprint online from our group! We find that stomatal maturation IS possible in the embryo, when they lack ERECTA signaling, but then still, only at the cotyledon tip. A thread. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ERECTA signaling controls the timing of Arabidopsis Guard Cell maturation at the embryonic leaf tip

While cell identities are established early during embryogenesis, these cells remain immature until germination, and the mechanisms enforcing this developmental pause are poorly understood. Embryonic ...

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New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications

Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...

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📣 New preprint! 🧵 Fantastic work led by @antonkraege.bsky.social Fact: Cerato-platanins are everywhere in fungi. Found across the fungal kingdom, implicated in everything from development to virulence to immune activation. But what do they *actually* do? We finally found the answer 👇

How does a geminivirus replicate its genome using a pick&mix strategy with host proteins? 🦠🦠🌱🧬 Our new preprint identifies plant proteins repurposed by geminiviruses to carry out rolling-circle replication. Congrats @chaonan123.bsky.social , who spearheaded this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us on July 21 to discover how single-cell approaches have uncovered division of labor within 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘦 populations during the next Advances in Phytobacteriology webinar. Register: https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/resources/Webinars/Pages/Phytobacteriology-July26.aspx #apswebinar

This week we had Rosa Lozano-Durán from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social here at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Einbeck Headquarter. A fantastic opportunity to hear about her research & discuss future cooperation to tackle virus diseases of our crops. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity

The type II secretion (T2S) system is conserved across the Xanthomonas lineage, yet its contributions to pathogenicity and secreted protein repertoires are poorly defined. We demonstrate that T2S syst...

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My very first #IS3DV conference, amazing place, exciting science, and fantastic people. Looking forward to the next one already!

GeminiTeamLab@geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What an amazing #IS3DV conference (isdv2026.com) in Ilhéus, Brazil! A big thanks to Murilo Zerbini&team for the fantastic organization — we’re looking forward to IS3DV 2029 in Málaga! (ssDNA virus enthusiasts, stay tuned!) @lauramepul.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social

Obrigado Brasil!! Grateful to be part of such an inspiring global #IS3DV community. Thank you all for making these days so special and unforgettable. See you in 2029 in Málaga! 🦠💚

GeminiTeamLab@geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What an amazing #IS3DV conference (isdv2026.com) in Ilhéus, Brazil! A big thanks to Murilo Zerbini&team for the fantastic organization — we’re looking forward to IS3DV 2029 in Málaga! (ssDNA virus enthusiasts, stay tuned!) @lauramepul.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social

What an amazing #IS3DV conference (isdv2026.com) in Ilhéus, Brazil! A big thanks to Murilo Zerbini&team for the fantastic organization — we’re looking forward to IS3DV 2029 in Málaga! (ssDNA virus enthusiasts, stay tuned!) @lauramepul.bsky.social @huangtan.bsky.social

A highly significant step for European plant sciences: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/pres...

Neue genomische Techniken für Innovationen in nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft | Aktuelles | Europäisches Parlament

Das Parlament nahm heute neue Vorschriften an, die den Zugang zu neuen, klima- und schädlingsresistenten Pflanzen erleichtern.

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Key human defenses against pathogens were forged billions of years ago in microbial battles with viruses. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/3RTyCap