PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

“Rpp2 Encodes a TIR-NBS-WH-LRR Protein that Confers Resistance to Phakopsora pachyrhizi in Soybean,” by Katerina L. Holan et al. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-02-26-0013-R #soybean #soybeanrust #Phakopsora #diseaseresistance

The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling

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We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

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Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome go.nature.com/45fpXCZ

New in @embojournal.org from @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social's lab: HIR2 assembles into giant ring-like complexes at the plasma membrane, shaping receptor dynamics and immune signalling. Genetics + biochem + super-res imaging + AF3 modelling, all in one! Check it out👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and plasma membrane organization - The EMBO Journal

Plant plasma membrane proteins are organized into distinct domains; however, the principles that govern this spatial organization are not fully understood. HYPERSENSITIVE-INDUCED REACTION (HIR) protei...

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if you want to read our full story on alarmone and plant immunity: bsky.app/profile/fede...

Fede Aballay 🇦🇷@fedeaballay.bsky.social · 2w ago

The preprint of our work on ppGpp–immunity crossroads is out! We delved deeper into the regulation of plant immunity by alarmone ((p)ppGpp) in Arabidopsis and found surprising stuff 😱. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks for the opportunity! it was my first experience speaking to a big english-speaking audience and, thankfully, it went out good! 🫶🌱🧫

International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions@ismpmi.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 TODAY! Our Rising Stars of IS-MPMI take the virtual stage at 3PM UTC. Join us to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from Nhi, Urooj, Adrian and @fedeaballay.bsky.social. There's still time to register 👉 uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See you there! #PlantScience

We just had the first of three Road to Jeju Rising Stars Webinars. Missed it? Watch it on our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEi...

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🚨 TODAY! Our Rising Stars of IS-MPMI take the virtual stage at 3PM UTC. Join us to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from Nhi, Urooj, Adrian and @fedeaballay.bsky.social. There's still time to register 👉 uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See you there! #PlantScience

📣 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 👇

⏳Just 2 days to go! Our Rising Stars of IS-MPMI are live this Wednesday, 29 July, 3PM UTC! The latest in plant-microbe interactions, from early career researchers around the globe. Free & open to all. Register now 👉 uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions@ismpmi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...

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...

⏳ Only 5 days left to register! Our Rising Stars take the (virtual) stage Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC — the latest in plant-microbe interactions, from researchers around the globe. Free & open to all 👉 uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions@ismpmi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited to see our new preprint on bioRxiv! 🌱🤖 We used AI protein design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN) to build brand-new sensor domains from scratch and installed them in a rice NLR immune receptor engineering recognition of a Fusarium effector FoSSP17

@yuxuan-xi.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our new preprint is out! Using AI-guided design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN), we engineered a plant immune receptor to recognise non-cognate pathogen effectors. Huge thanks to our amazing co-authors for making this possible! doi.org/10.64898/202...

I am glad for being selected to present at this webinar series. 🌱 Also, I am honored to represent Argentina🇦🇷

International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions@ismpmi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Have you checked out the new IS-MPMI website? 👀 Fresh look, same mission: your hub for all things molecular plant-microbe interactions. Member resources, event info, webinar recordings, and more, all in one place. Explore it here: Ismpmi.org

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Join us July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. lnkd.in/gMeN7F94 Join us on July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to our sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

Important news! The new ISMPMI website is live! Visit the site to get society news, watch posted videos, listen to our podcasts, become or manage your membership and more. ismpmi.org

IS-MPMI - International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Diverse Backgrounds Common Interests Connecting leading scientists and researchers around the world in microbiology, nematology, plant pathology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics,...

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June 2026 newsletter highlighting a few of @getgenome.bsky.social recent activities and opportunities. Remember, you can find this and our previous newsletters here getgenome.net/network

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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#RoadtoJeju #LegendsofISMPMI #watchparty Did you have a Road to Jeju Legends of ISMPMI party like Eugenia Segretin's lab in Buenos Aires? Post your watch party! We kicked of the Webinar series with Roger Innes.

📣 We are hiring! In the collaborative research center 'Plant Ecological Genetics' @teamthomma.bsky.social searches a PhD candidate to study the role of plant-associated microbiota in plant density responses and inter-plant competition. See project A07: sl1nk.com/b7z0doc Deadline July 10!

Watch the Q&A on youtube for Legends of IS-MPMI webinar by Prof. Roger Innes — "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Sponsored by GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences Co , The British Society for Plant Pathology & The New Phytologist Foundation. youtu.be/phUOjFR8ukY

Road to Jeju Webinar Question& Answer with by Roger Innes.

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Watch the first Road to Jeju Webinar sponsored by GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences Co ,The British Society for Plant Pathology and The New Phytologist Foundation. Roger Innes discuses Leaf Surface RNA: how does it get there are what does it do? youtu.be/UbEBDfwWmDE