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Canadian Society of Plant Biologists@cspbscbv.bsky.social · 2d ago

Feeling some FOMO after seeing all the amazing work graduate students members are doing? Want to be eligible for awards at the next meeting? Were you sad because you couldn't attend the CSPB Mixer (or did you promise our Comms Director you would renew / join to get in?). Join today!

We want your science! Publish in our @plantdisease.bsky.social journals! 💚 @mpmijournal.bsky.social @plantdiseasej.bsky.social @phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social @phytofrontiers.bsky.social @planthealthprog.bsky.social

3 days of Microbial Ecology and Evolution, starting tomorrow! 🤩 #MEEHubs2026 meehubsmorelia2026.org Of you' re attending from another hub, check our online poster on multiomics to elucidate the effects of #Phythophthora on the 🥑 #microbiome and #metabolome (no. 171). #microsky

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Awesome MPMI Symposium at #PlantHealth2026. Translating Molecular interactions into disease management. First up - Sheng Yang He. Effectors that induce watersoaking and nutrient release coupled with inhibitors of these processes. 1/n 🧵

#PlantHealth2026 is underway, and what better time to share our latest research on the clubroot pathogen! 🌱 🎉 Congratulations to Melaine on her third first-author paper and the final research chapter of her PhD, now out in @mpmijournal.bsky.social Link: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... 1/3

A Clubroot Pathogen PBS3-Like Effector Manipulates Hormonal Crosstalk to Alter Root Morphology in Arabidopsis and Canola | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

Plasmodiophora brassicae, the causal agent of clubroot disease, actively manipulates host hormone pathways to promote infection. Previous studies identified PbGH3 as a putative GH3-like effector with ...

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🚨 Faculty Cluster Hire in Crop Design/Synthetic Biology at @universityofga.bsky.social! 🌱 We're hiring 3 open-rank faculty for the Institute of Crop Design. Work in AI, synthetic biology, genome engineering, quantitative genetics, or crop design? Come join us! 🔗 tinylink.net/l48Ms

Field trials with transgenic plants are never simple. One of the requirements is that there can’t be any Brassicaceae within a 200 m radius of the trial site. And guess what are many weeds? Brassicas! 🚫🥦😅 We’re fortunate to have the facilities and support to make this research at @ulaval.ca 💪💛

🚨🪲🧬🦠 We have a new preprint out! Link: doi.org/10.64898/202... Insects and microbes are more connected than we realize. Some insects owe part of their ability to feed on plants to genes acquired from bacteria millions of years ago 🤯 See what we found about glycoside hydrolases in leafhoppers.

At an Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Minisymposium (it’s real and it’s spectacular) Pierre Deslingchamps gives a talk about the anomeric effect. 1st “question” is from Mike Sinnott, who reads for 3 mins from a clipboard of notes he’s taken, beginning with “I just want to set the record straight”

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last wk.

Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses

We remind the SMBE community that applications for the second edition of the SMBE Fellows Program are ongoing. Apply before August 15. 🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program #society

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · last mo.

We're excited to announce the second edition of the SMBE Fellows Program! ✍️ 🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program The SMBE Fellows Program provides mentorship to early-career researchers in scientific writing for evolutionary and molecular biology by writing Highlight articles for MBE and GBE. #society

@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...

Scientific Director (f/m/x)

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

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100% this!

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · last wk.

If I were an Early Career Researcher (#ECR) today, I wouldn’t join a lab that doesn’t #preprint (the PI agreed to keep paying me until my paper is finally published). It now takes ages to get papers through peer review, and without preprints you’re putting your future in someone else’s hands.

Très heureux de voir mon équipe impliquée dans la belle initiative: « La science, pas si compliquée! » de l' @ulaval.ca 🔬💚 Cette fois, c'est Jordanne qui répond à la question : 🦟 Pourquoi les maringouins piquent-ils? 💡 Découvrez sa réponse ici: nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2026/07/29/p...

Pourquoi les maringouins piquent-ils?

Jordanne Jacques, professionnelle de recherche en entomologie, répond à une question du public posée dans le cadre de la série La science, pas si compliquée!

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Listen to the interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦@edelplopez.bsky.social · last wk.

Early morning at CBC Québec AM talking about our exciting work on the diversity of leafhoppers in the Canadian Arctic 🦗❄️ Always a pleasure to share how biodiversity research helps us better understand our rapidly changing northern ecosystems. 📄 Research article: share.google/LsV9N9aFCcOa...

Last week, I had the chance to work with @virgimiguel.bsky.social on an incredibly exciting project that the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Early Career Committee is putting together! Thank you for the invitation and for the opportunity to talk about our research. Can’t wait to share more. Stay tuned! 🌱

Early morning at CBC Québec AM talking about our exciting work on the diversity of leafhoppers in the Canadian Arctic 🦗❄️ Always a pleasure to share how biodiversity research helps us better understand our rapidly changing northern ecosystems. 📄 Research article: share.google/LsV9N9aFCcOa...

Internacional lab, International snacks 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇦🇷

Very happy to see this work is out now. Thanks @edelplopez.bsky.social for the support, also thanks @sohambio.bsky.social and @asimjaved.bsky.social for their kind suggestions and encouragement ☺️

Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦@edelplopez.bsky.social · 2w ago

New preprint out! 🌱 Bravo @jiaxuwu.bsky.social ! 🎉 Here we used RenSeq to characterize the repertoire and allelic diversity of NLRs across five canola lines developed for clubroot-resistance breeding 🧬 Let’s make sense of the complex genetics behind clubroot resistance! 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

New preprint out! 🌱 Bravo @jiaxuwu.bsky.social ! 🎉 Here we used RenSeq to characterize the repertoire and allelic diversity of NLRs across five canola lines developed for clubroot-resistance breeding 🧬 Let’s make sense of the complex genetics behind clubroot resistance! 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

RenSeq and whole genome sequencing uncover allelic diversity of clubroot resistance genes in commercial breeding canola lines

Clubroot disease, caused by the obligate biotrophic pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae, is a major threat to canola (Brassica napus) production worldwide. Clubroot–resistant (CR) cultivars remain the m...

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Legend has it that if you had a piece of cake, you’ll publish in @plantphys.bsky.social before #PlantBio27 🤭

On the news! nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2026/07/21/d...

Découverte de 25 espèces de cicadelles dans l'Arctique québécois

Une étude de l'Université Laval révèle une biodiversité insoupçonnée de cet insecte dans l'Arctique canadien et fournit un point de référence pour le suivi des changements climatiques

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I had a super packed afternoon at #PlantBio26 🌿 From a cool @ismpmi.bsky.social session to photochemistry, the science has been incredible 🧫🌱🧪 Great to see so many exciting talks and inspiring research!

Excited to see our @elife.bsky.social study featured by Hybrigenics at #PlantBio26, together with the groundbreaking research from @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social 🌿 Thanks for the spotlight!

Day 2 of @aspbofficial.bsky.social / @cspbscbv.bsky.social #PlantBio26 🌿 The meeting has been packed with outstanding science, and inspiring discussions. My highlights so far: 🪴 Heather McFarlane 🍄 Shelley Lumba 🧬 @plantophagy.bsky.social Looking forward to another fantastic day of plant bio! 🌱

Ottawa, here I go! Can’t wait to see the @aspbofficial.bsky.social/ @cspbscbv.bsky.social gang! 🌿🧬

Microaggressions in peer review never cease to surprise and frustrate me. Sometimes, the (insert here 😅) privilege behind certain comments practically jumps off the screen.

People often say I travel a lot. Funny enough, I took my first flight at 24 years old… and it was only six years ago. 🫣 One of those facts isn’t true. Which one do you think it is? 😅

Happy to be back home 💚

New #preprint from the lab! "Root rot by Phytophthora cinnamomi shifts the composition and structure of avocado rhizosphere fungal communities" doi.org/10.64898/202...

Can’t wait to see the face of my students trying these delicious salty liquorice Danish delicacies🤭