🏅 Cuatro investigadores del #CSIC reciben los Premios Nacionales de Investigación 2026, concedidos por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades  🏆 Crisanto Gutiérrez Armenta, Jesús Martínez de la Fuente, Pablo Alonso González y Ana Novoa Pérez  ¡Enhorabuena! 👉 http://tiny.cc/xvl7101

🚨 Want to do your PhD or postdoc with us? Taking candidates for @GVA APOSTD (postdoc) & CIACIF (predoc) applications 🧬 long reads · single-cell & spatial · multi-omics · AI for biology 🧑‍⚕️🐭🐙🌍 human disease · model & non-model species · One Health 📩 conesalab@gmail.com, don't wait until the deadline!

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?”

MAPK cascades play crucial roles in #plant #growth, #reproduction, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. This🔥new #OpenAccess #review in #JIPB explores their role as an essential signaling hub in activating plant immunity. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci

Decoding MAPK cascades in plant immunity: Activation, regulation, integration, and pathogen manipulation

This review focuses on mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation and summarizes how plants regulate and integrate MAPK signaling in modulating plant immune responses. It also examines the ef...

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Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached

Para los agraciados con una JAE intro que quieran hacer el MSc en Málaga: nuestro grupo oferta un plan de formación en epitranscriptómica de plantas 🌱🧬🧪 en el IHSM La Mayora @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social Si estás interesado, escríbenos a: laura.arribas@csic.es

IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social · last wk.

Ya se han resuelto las JAE INTRO 2026, y uno de los planes que ofrecemos trata de 🔍 la regulación del desarrollo de plantas mediante modificaciones en el RNA 🌿 🧬 (JAEINT26_EX_1196), con Laura Arribas-Hernández 👩‍🔬. ¿Quieres unirte a su grupo (shorturl.at/Uke4M)?

Another #PlantSciJob here at KWS. You can follow @kwsgroup.bsky.social for regular job postings. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs 👇

KWS Group@kwsgroup.bsky.social · last wk.

Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Back to la Mayora for a short visit

📢 Session proposal submissions are now open for #FEMSMICRO2027! Join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia (5–8 July 2027) under the theme Growing Microbial Futures and help shape the scientific programme. ⏰ Submit by 30 Sept 2026 (23:59 CEST) buff.ly/iXYOjPp #FEMSMICRO

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

New Editorial: "Europe’s two tiers of genome editing" rdcu.be/fu1Ur Nature Plants has existed for 11.5 years, during which time the European Union has been constantly struggling towards a clear stance on genome engineering. Perhaps they have finally found it. #PlantScience

New Resource: "N1-methyladenosine mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/fu1P1 Global landscape of m1A mRNA methylation; uncovering physiological and molecular functions of m1A through the identification of novel m1A writers and readers in Arabidopsis. #PlantScience

🌱 From Nature: Salicylic acid helps plants balance defense and growth by controlling the stability of enzymes that break down the immune hormone. (Natalie Hamada, M. Palayam, J. Moe-Lange, G. Wyatt, S. Chang, A. Hu, S. P. Dinesh-Kumar, P. Zerbe, Nitzan Shabek) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Salicylic acid modulates its catabolic enzymes via proteasomal degradation linked to SCF-associated proximity networks - Nature Communications

Salicylic acid (SA) controls plant immunity but requires tight regulation. Here, the authors show that SA modulates its own inactivation by controlling the stability of its catabolic enzymes through c...

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Here we delve deeper into what makes a flagellin “silent” - see Michael Bell’s cryo-EM structure of a silent flagellin from the flagellum of Roseburia hominis- it has a different charge distribution compared to FliC and it dissociates rapidly from TLR5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kinetic and structure-based comparisons of silent and stimulatory flagellin interactions with TLR5

The bacterial protein flagellin is the sole ligand of the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Flagellins with strong agonism bind TLR5 at their D1 and D0 domains, while poor agonist si...

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Join us on July 21 to discover how single-cell approaches have uncovered division of labor within 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘦 populations during the next Advances in Phytobacteriology webinar. Register: https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/resources/Webinars/Pages/Phytobacteriology-July26.aspx #apswebinar

📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics

My postdoc director called my work "phenomenological" and forbade it. I walked to a museum, found Tinbergen had shared a Nobel for work of exactly that kind, and finished the study anyway. On temperament, luck, and what the system selects against 👇 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/a-certain-...

A certain cast of mind

The argument about research culture leaves out something personal, and no reform reaches it.

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Fantastic #VOM2026 in Prague! 3 posters on phage ecology & evolution in plants: 🌾 Phage–bacteria co-evolution in rice paddies – #SarahDelafosse 🦠 Phageome as plant disease biomarker – @mariandm.bsky.social 🌳 Apricot phageome (from @chloe-feltin.bsky.social 's work) Great science, great vibes!

Fresh out of the lab! Our new preprint is now up on BioRxiv, exploring how the beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida controls its T6SS nanoweapon. It turns out the Gac/Rsm pathway acts as a strict molecular brake on the system. 👇 (1/4) Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Annotate gel image using #tidyplots See the code at: tidyplots-book.pages.dev/more-custom-... #stats #dataviz #phd

Took me a while, but we finally have a new lab website: ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/ I will do my best to keep this one up to date.

Dagdas Lab — Evolutionary Cell Biology

How cells clean house across the eukaryotic tree of life. Autophagy & cellular quality control at Heidelberg University.

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QutRNA2: robust tRNA modification discovery from Nanopore direct tRNA sequencing 💫💫https://academic.oup.com/nargab/article/8/3/lqag065/8725956?login=false

QutRNA2: robust tRNA modification discovery from Nanopore direct tRNA sequencing

Abstract. Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential for protein synthesis and are extensively modified to ensure their structure and function. Direct RNA sequenc

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Our latest work is out in @natcomms.nature.com! Clinical adaptation of #PseudomonasAeruginosa can drive pyruvate secretion, where it scavenges ROS, dampens immune activation and promotes persistence, highlighting bacterial metabolism as an active player in infection🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Del 5 al 10 de julio, Málaga acoge el International Symposium on Plant Lipids (ISPL 2026), el congreso internacional de referencia dedicado al estudio de los lípidos vegetales 📍Organizado por investigadores del @institutograsa.bsky.social y la Universidad de Málaga www.ispl2026malaga.com/ISPL2026

Summer Spectacular!🌸 View our latest issue: academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/6 Stunning cover photo of a dahlia 'Yuino' flower containing bicolor petals caused by naturally occurring RNAi Photo credit: Dr. Toshiyuki Fukuhara, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan #PlantScience

"Why paying peer reviewers works" Very cool initiative by @biologyopen.bsky.social and EiC Daniel Goerlick. Paying vetted(!) peer reviewers increased turnaround time & quality of #PeerReview! I continue to be a big fan of the Company of @biologists.bsky.social & their work. 👍 #SciPub

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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This week we had Rosa Lozano-Durán from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social here at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Einbeck Headquarter. A fantastic opportunity to hear about her research & discuss future cooperation to tackle virus diseases of our crops. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

What is the impact of phage biocontrol on plant immune responses and bacterial virulence? Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social

Borjana Arsova@borjana-a.bsky.social · last mo.

‪ #Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection ✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection. ✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Well, that was neither how it was advertised nor how it was received by many…

QED Science@qedscience.bsky.social · last mo.

We agree that being in The 1% isn't and shouldn't be the goal of science. The 1% was intended to highlight one very small subset of manuscripts, not define what good science looks like.

After 2 months of hard work by @shanshuo.bsky.social with huge support by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social,help by @nico-slz.bsky.social & a bit myself (😅) we did "finalise" our paper & are finally "𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸" 🤞 Here is the last version of our paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #openscience

Autophagy acts as a spatial organizer of cell-type-specific plant immunity

Effective plant immunity requires precise spatial coordination of immune responses across cell-types to restrict pathogens while preventing tissue damage, yet the intracellular pathways that organize ...

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Şuayb Üstün@suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2) 🔬We show that EDS1 is degraded by autophagy during Pst infection - most likely in the mesophyll 🌱🦠 Our model: autophagy recycles EDS1 during infection. Without this turnover, EDS1 accumulates (explaining elevated SA in atg5?!) but EDS1-dependent HR fails. 🔄💥 Ready to submit 🤞