Meenu Singla-Rastogi
@msr20.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate I Innes Lab I Indiana University Bloomington I Assistant Features Editor (MPMI and The Plant Cell Journals) I Research Focus - RNA interference and Plant-Microbe Interaction
Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. Check out our Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI speakers. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Check back for how to apply to give a Rising Stars of IS-MPMI talk.
Announcing our new free Webinar series sponsored by GetGenome: Road to Jeju. The series will feature 7 webinars with Legends and Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. Sign up to attend the first talk by Roger Innes on June 17. lnkd.in/gw4pKp4K Rising Star info coming soon. please repost!
Congratulations to IU biology major Owen Black ‘28 for receiving the coveted Goldwater scholarship! “The biology department has provided me with great professors thus far, teaching me valuable information for my research the past two years.” @inneslab.bsky.social @msr20.bsky.social go.iu.edu/NHwF7C
IU biology major earns prestigious Goldwater scholarship
IU Biology news: IU biology major earns prestigious Goldwater scholarship
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The Pea Aphid's Secret Weapon Uncovered! 🤫 Our Commentary highlights the discovery of aphid effector Ap4—a single salivary protein—that manipulates the plant's defense system to boost pest's reproductive success. apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... @msr20.bsky.social @mpmijournal.bsky.social
What does it take to transform a scientific discovery into a thriving enterprise? Jay Keasling, renowned synthetic biologist, professor, and entrepreneur, has pioneered new ways of engineering biology while also founding multiple companies. Free webinar Oct 3. view6.workcast.net/register?cpa...
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 👍
The Plant Cell@theplantcell.bsky.social · last yr.📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... #plantscience
How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Nuclear lamina phase separation orchestrates stress-induced transcriptional responses in plants @cp-devcell.bsky.social from Yangnun Gu's lab www.cell.com/developmenta...
I'm excited for the final plenary at #PlantBio2025! Cara Haney, Tatsuya Nobori, Gary Stacy, and Meenu Singla-Ragstogi speaking on Molecular Exchange between Plants and their Interacting Microbes. 🌱🦠 @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @carahaney.bsky.social @msr20.bsky.social
A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚 #PlantBio2025
#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference! 👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u... Apply by September 15 #PlantBio
The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today
Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.
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I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge. medium.com/p/stop-displ...
Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a scientific Congress called for better support of early-career scientists — but what followed sent mixed signals…
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One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health. Deadline 29th August for applicants who don’t need a visa. David Sainsbury 50% Fee Scholarships available for 22nd September 2025 entry. www.tsl.ac.uk/msc
It's exciting to see the New plant biology/agriculture members of the National Academy of Sciences, especially former NAASC member @inneslab.bsky.social ! #nas162 Robin Buell Alice Cheung Christoph Benning Roger Innes Hailing Jin Uta Paszkowski (international) www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
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IU biologist Roger Innes, newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is advancing research on plant immune systems that could increase crop yields and reduce costs for farmers. @inneslab.bsky.social @msr20.bsky.social @luciaborniego.bsky.social Read more: go.iu.edu/8tDD
We’re thrilled to announce the speakers for our IS-MPMI 2025 satellite meeting: "Building Careers in MPMI through Effective Mentoring" 📍 13 July 2025 • Cologne, Germany 🌟 Sebastian Schornack 🌟 Anne Pfeiffer 🌟 Rosa Lozano-Durán 🌟 Kenichi Tsuda 📢 Join us for inspiring talks
📣Be sure to vote in ASPB's 2025 Elections!🌱 #ICYMI watch the Meet the President-Elect Candidates Webinar! 🗳️Vote now for President-Elect and elected members. The voting deadline is June 18, 2025 👉excom.aspb.org. #plantscience #WeAreASPB
American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 ASPB members: The 2025 ASPB election is open! Help select the society’s next leaders and vote now for President-Elect and elected members.🌱 👉 The deadline is June 18, 2025. buff.ly/iVvSuIE. #plantscience
IN BRIEF: The complex immune puzzle: A deeper dive into the MORC1-mediated broad-spectrum defense signaling pathway (Meenu Singla-Rastogi) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Big news for #GreatLakes region plant scientists! Travel awards are now available for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference! Trainees can apply for a $300 travel grant to support their trip to Lansing, MI! #GLPSC2025 Learn more & apply by April 30: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025
Our latest analysis of plant EVs led by Ben Koch with the help of Brian Rutter, @luciaborniego.bsky.social, @msr20.bsky.social, and Dillon Gardner is now available open access. LOTS of new data added to our previous bioRxiv posting. Check it out isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Arabidopsis Produces Distinct Subpopulations of Extracellular Vesicles That Respond Differentially to Biotic Stress, Altering Growth and Infectivity of a Fungal Pathogen
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by mammalian cells are highly heterogeneous in content and function. Whether this is also true for EVs secreted by plant cells is not yet known. To address this,...
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Just published! Barbara Valent honors H. H. Flor by exploring how rice blast fungus evades plant resistance via AVR gene changes—driving boom–bust cycles—and warns of rising wheat and ryegrass blast threats from similar shifts and crossbreeding. Read the article: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
Plants have a secret weapon against certain bacteria! Arabidopsis plants engineered to produce tiny RNA molecules can target and suppress bacterial genes, specifically those making the bacteria more infectious. These RNA molecules, found outside plant cells, come in three forms: protein-bound, en...
Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium.
Published in Nature communications
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Happy to share that my PhD work has finally been published in @natcomms.nature.com Nature Communications. Here, we elucidated that plant-encoded small RNAs target virulence genes of phytopathogenic bacteria, which lack a conventional eukaryotic-like RNAi machinery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium - Nature Communications
This study shows that plants can secrete vesicular and non-vesicular small RNAs outside cells to direct silencing of a virulence factor in an interacting bacterium. This antibacterial gene silencing p...
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Iron's redox states (Fe2+/Fe3+) are critical in fungal pathogenesis, influencing ROS production during plant-pathogen interactions. Aliyeva-Schnorr et al. developed p-TEMPO and MPNBD dyes to visualize Fe2+/Fe3+ distribution in #Colletotrichumgraminicola hyphae. Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
Tan et al. developed efficient base editing vectors, achieving high A-to-G conversion rates in Arabidopsis thaliana and successfully targeting multiple genes, including NLRs, to modify protein function, demonstrating the potential of base editing 🧬 Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
Very happy to see my colleague Julia Vorholt being recognized with the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize for her groundbreaking work on the plant leaf microbiome. novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/pion... #plantscience
