Martina Ried-Lasi
@martinaried.bsky.social
Group Leader Symbiosis Signalling Lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social Molecular factors that integrate biotic and abiotic interactions, Inositol Phosphates, Receptor-like Kinases, Plant Nutrition
Awesome! 👏 Finally, science has convinced sufficient politicians to approve the new NGT-rules to enable CRISPR-based plant breeding! Time to celebrate!🎉🎊🥂🧬✂️🌱 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
New genomic techniques for plants to boost innovation in sustainable agriculture | News | European Parliament
Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.
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I am thrilled to share this story on how cocktails can help your protein research 🍸. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/6
Polychrome activity profiling distinguishes Cys proteases and their isoforms in plants
Activity-based profiling with fluorescent probes is a powerful tool for the functional characterization of whole enzyme classes in crude proteomes. Here, we discovered that probe cocktails consisting ...
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Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw
Interested to join us to study plant proteostasis? We study host translation controlled by condensates 🧬, cell-type specific proteostasis ♻️, proteotoxic stress in the context of biotic and abiotic stress 🦠🔥🧂 👉 Build your own project in @theustunlab.bsky.social ⏳ Sept 9 #MSCA #Postdoc
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4mo agoBig opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw
A team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @fz-juelich.de has developed an AI-model that predicts where regulatory proteins bind to plant DNA in order to switch genes on and off. The study has been published in "Nature Communications". ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/mryxendn ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/37kpbpzh
Super excited to share that my PhD research paper is finally out! @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @parkergroup.bsky.social
Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host‐derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition
Iron acquisition is a critical challenge for plants, especially in iron-deficient soils. Recent research underscores the importance of root-exuded coumarins in modulating the root microbiome communi.....
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We are hiring! The CRC TRR 341 "Plant Ecological Genetics" is looking for a new scientific coordinator for the next funding period🌱 Please find more information including how to apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Plants: Practical guidelines for multiplexing, label-free imaging and data analysis by Thomas Ott and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint out 🌱 We present a new T-DNA vector system for Arabidopsis that supports clean, genomically mapped, single-copy T-DNA insertion with predictable cell-type/conditional gene expression. @mokhalil.bsky.social + Gehring labs biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/16
Rational design of T-DNA vectors enables predictable, single-copy integration in Arabidopsis thaliana
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is the dominant method for plant transgenesis, yet it frequently produces multi-copy, structurally complex T-DNA insertions associated with transgene silencing, u...
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PhD position in Plant Biology at @igzleibniz.bsky.social in Prof. Ph. Wigge's research group on temperature sensing via prion-like domains in plants. Start: earliest possible date | 3 years | TV-L E13 (65%) Info/apply: igzev.de/en/career/jo... #JobsInPlantScience #PhDPosition #JobAd #WeReHiring
Antidepressant effects of GLP-1 analogs mediated by microbes Liraglutide reduces depression via GLP-1R-independent, microbiota-dependent mechanism. Liraglutide enriches L. delbrueckii, ⬆️endocannabinoid 2-AG to normalize activity in emotional brain regions www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Microbiota-driven gut-brain signaling underlies antidepressant effects of a GLP-1 analog
Bian et al. show that the GLP-1R agonist liraglutide alleviates depression via a GLP-1R-independent, gut-microbiota-dependent mechanism. Liraglutide enriches Lactobacillus delbrueckii, elevating 2-ara...
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New research in Science reveals that the Venus flytrap's snap is triggered by a rapid softening of the epidermal cell walls, uncovering the physical mechanism behind this remarkable movement. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4fXQ9sn
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Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form symbioses with ~70% of plant species, building hyphal networks that exchange nutrients for host-derived carbon. These tubular networks move ~1 billion metric tons of ...
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"Barn owl color morphs hunt differently in moonlight" Learn more in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol... Kim Schalcher, @pbecciu.bsky.social, @owlsforpeace.bsky.social & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social
Last day, if you want to submit your #plantsci poster abstract considered for a poster talk at #BT2026, the International Conference of our @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social (DBG) ⏰Deadline is 11 June 2026, 23:59 (CEST) bsky.app/profile/plan...
German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbstract submission deadline extended for 2 types of posters to present your #plantsci work at our #BT2026 to an international plant science audience 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📅 6-10 Sept 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BT2026ext
We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...
After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Ethylene Biosynthesis Shape Infection and Nodule Initiation in Medicago Truncatula
Spatially reprogramming of the expression of ACS genes in Medicago truncatula coordinate localized changes in ethylene levels and response across root tiss
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my image is featured on the cover of New Phytologist! Interested in receptor proximity labeling and how receptors coordinate meristem regulation? Find out more here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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Really proud of this work led by Ruben Eichfeld! We show how a CBM domain gain/loss can rewire fungal chitinases, turning them from antifungal enzymes into immune-suppressing effectors that support plant symbiosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Domain gain or loss in a fungal chitinase enables specialization towards antagonism or immune suppression - Nature Communications
Gain or loss of a particular domain contributes to functional specialization of a conserved chitinase in beneficial root endophyte towards microbial antagonism or host immune suppression.
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Hiring: Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science — CRC 1664 SNP2Prot, MLU Halle. Lead your own group + budget, funded PhD, world-class protein-structure facilities. 5 yrs, E14. Apply by 7 July 2026. snp2prot.uni-halle.de #ProteinScience #SNP2Prot #AcademicJobs
When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment
A plant receptor detects caterpillar attack and triggers emission of chemical cues to attract predatory wasps.
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Just two weeks in, I just send in the first evaluation of a very interesting manuscript, which exceeded my expectations. Great stuff! We are accepting manuscripts to make a nice topic on the Evolution of Protein Families, in plants or related to plants (pathogens!). Join the Evolution!
Arjen ten Have@darwinianascent.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy to present this novel research topic in Frontiers in Plant Science. Plant protein families in plants are often large due to whole-genome duplications and specialised metabolism. Open for submissions, or just send us an abstract for a preliminary evaluation. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Plant protein families are an exciting research focus. If you are investigating their evolution, understanding their diversification, or interested in related topics, Frontiers of Plant Science has a new research topic open for submission👇. Join us. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | The Evolution of Protein Families
Most proteins belong to evolutionary lineages commonly referred to as protein families, although this fundamental feature is often overlooked in everyday res...
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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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So what happens if we remove all four copies of the NITRILASE receptor? Thanks to Anita (add) and Xi's effort, we now know that quad nit plants phenocopy the atg plants: they start undergoing cell death during viral infection☠️.
Latest work from our group on powdery mildew susceptibility is finally out! We show that host RALF signalling, cell wall organization, and apoplastic pH regulation are required for successful fungal colonization. Surprisingly, the function of RALFs is only partly dependent on FERONIA. #TRR356
New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 2mo agoRALFs, likely combining cell wall and signalling functions, support powdery mildew infection of #Arabidopsis 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Leicher et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
