A collection of perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology is now published in @ThePlantCell . academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... Happy to have contributed the chapter, “Spatial transcriptomics in plants: where next?”

Attention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cytokinin-mediated trichome initiation in Nicotiana benthamiana upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens infiltration

Infiltration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana has become a standard method for transient expression in plants. Like many Solanaceae species, N. benthamiana develops on i...

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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 👇

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...

Fusarium oxysporum–induced ABA signaling triggers root vascular remodeling for plant defense | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fusarium oxysporum–induced ABA signaling triggers root vascular remodeling for plant defense | PNAS

Root vascular pathogens like Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) severely impact agriculture by colonizing the xylem, thereby disrupting the transport of water...

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Collaborative project with Leah Cowen lab, led by Bradley Laflamme, on the Beta-Carboline, 1-CABC and its efficacy as an antifungal and potential strobilurin agonist. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @utoronto.ca journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A β-carboline natural product induces oxidative stress in Fusarium graminearum and limits the virulence of multiple fungal phytopathogens | mBio

Fungal diseases are a major threat to global food production, and many crop pathogens are becoming resistant to existing fungicides. This study identifies a promising new strategy to combat these infe...

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We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

New preprint day!! @laurafabre.bsky.social took 1k RNAseq samples and built an atlas of lncRNAs across four Aspergillus species, expanding the gene content of each by up to 20% and discovering a novel modulator of aflatoxin production. w/ @kellerlab.bsky.social.

Exciting news! After a wonderful four years at @uni-jena.de, I'm excited to announce the next chapter as a group leader at @fzborstel.bsky.social and professor at @uni-kiel.de.

Balance of the Microverse@microverse.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social on her next career step! From July 1, she joins @fzborstel.bsky.social & @uni-kiel.de as Group Leader and Professor. We'll miss her interdisciplinary spirit and fungal expertise. Best of luck in Kiel and Borstel, Amelia! 🦠💻

‼️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...

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Wenbo Ma FRS has been awarded a highly competitive @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her exciting new project sRNA-Defense, which will allow her and her team to uncover new roles for sRNAs in defending plants from pathogens 🧬🌱 www.tsl.ac.uk/news/srna-re...

First 👀 on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, now online in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Communications: A structurally unique effector shared between vascular wilt fungi drives cotton and olive defoliation #Verticillium #Fusarium @lfaino.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Team Thomma@teamthomma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Just in time for the RNA localisation conference, we uploaded a manuscript describing the link between endosomal mRNA transport and local mitochondrial activity. Great collaboration during MibiNet www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @mibinet.bsky.social #EMBOrnaLocalization

Last chance!! Abstract submission deadline is tonight at 11:59 eastern. 📆 Don't miss this chance to share your fungal research and network with the Canadian Fungal Research community!🍄

CanFunNet@canfunnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Only three days to register and submit an abstract! We look forward to seeing you all at our low-cost virtual meeting! #CFN26

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Juliette de Meaux @meauxjuliette.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have openings at the University of Cologne, come and join our consortium in Plant Ecological Genetics TRR341!Applications open soon for 10 PhD position. Description here: trr341.uni-koeln.de/join-us #TRR341 #PlantEcologicalGenetics

Interested in how #fungi came about on this planet? If so, take a look at my new article that just came out in @annualreviews.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

The Origin and Early Evolution of Fungi: Challenges, Inferences, and Principles

Fungi are widespread on our planet and essential for life as we know it, but how did they come about? Their last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago, but its characteristics, and t...

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Nearly a year after our symposium on Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations, I’m happy to share the fruit of some of our discussions. The fungal RIP hypermutator mechanism has deep eukaryotic roots www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We hope to spark interest in this underappreciated mechanism.

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Apply if you’d like to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

Happy to share our work! 🍄🍇 Botrytis cinerea grapevine-specialized strains harbor a specific repertoire of transposons. While retrotransposon-derived small RNAs do not appear to play a significant role in virulence on grapevine, a new giant transposon—a #Starship— confers arsenic resistance.

bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Role of transposons in the specialization of Botrytis cinerea to grapevine: Insights into small RNAs and a new Starship https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.30.728154v1

Are you correlating natural product #metabolomics and bioactivity data? Annoyed by the lack of tools that also integrate #antiSMASH results? Meet #FERMO, our metabolomics data analysis webtool (fermo.bioinformatics.nl), now finally published in ACS Meas Sci Au doi.org/10.1021/acsm...

FERMO: A Dashboard for Biochemometric Prioritization of Molecular Features from Mass Spectral Data

Many natural products can selectively modulate biological processes, making them prime candidates for drug discovery. However, the complexity of biological samples makes clear attribution of activity ...

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After a short hiatus from social media, I am back with some exciting news: I have recently been appointed assistant professor for Natural Product Research at the University of Vienna and have started my own research group: ZdoucLab.org!

Zdouc Lab

Microbial Natural Products Meet Data Science. The Zdouc research lab at the University of Vienna investigates naturally occurring, specialized molecules called natural products. These small molecules ...

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Congratulations @estukenbrock.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 Well deserved!

MPI for Evolutionary Biology@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina. Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-... #EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina

Our team @leibniz-hki.de at the FEBS 2026 Advanced Course on human fungal pathogens #hfp2026 🥳

Excited to share my review in Nature Reviews Microbiology on soil fungal ecology. Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems Hope people will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Review, Rillig explores the diversity of fungi in the soil ecosystem, their ecological interactions and diverse ecological roles in terrestrial ecosystems as well as anthropogenic factors that...

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One more week to apply 👇🏻

Slavica Janevska@slavi-jan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 Check out this excellent #Postdoc opportunity @leibniz-hki.de which is part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA #COFUND. Consider applying to join my lab if you’re interested in opportunistic infections caused by #Fusarium (research area 5). Call ends 26 May 2026 www.fellows4fungi.eu

Thrilled to see this finally out!! Our new work suggests #Starships helped #Colletotrichum acquire the genes needed to infect lupin. A glimpse into how fungal pathogens emerge through horizontal transfer and genome reshaping. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Fungi #Genomics #Pathogenicity #evolution

New preprint out! We generated haplotype-phased genome assemblies for two poplar rust fungi. These resources open new opportunities to explore rust genome architecture, haplotype diversity, and TE-driven evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meet Jan Van Kan, one of our plenary speakers! Dr. Van Kan's research focuses on necrotrophic fungal pathogens of plants investigating molecular mechanisms of infection, and the development of strategies to combat plant diseases. Register today for #CFN25 to hear more from Dr. Van Kan.