We are pleased to share our latest paper! We looked at the transcriptomic landscape of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las), the citrus HLB pathogen, in seed coat vasculatures.🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Dr. Wenbo Ma

How can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function? In our new pre-print, we explore this question using the plant #exocyst 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am happy to announce that I'll be starting my research group at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) this November! If you are enthusiastic about plant development and hormones in shaping form, please apply for the post-doc position advertised here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48137/

Check this out, postdoc opportunity Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) with our newest group leader. Looking forward to having you as a colleague!

The SplitsTree App: interactive analysis and visualization using phylogenetic trees and networks | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…

We have the pleasure of hosting Thorsten Langner, a GRDC International Visiting Fellow from Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, at CCDM for the next two months 🌾🧬 Thorsten will be sharing his expertise on cereal blast and chromosome evolution with the team. Welcome, Thorsten! KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 James Hane

OUT NOW 👉 Single-cell detection of copy number changes reveals dynamic mechanisms of adaptation to antifungals in Candida albicans Anna Selmecki University of Minnesota UMN Medical School nature.com/articles/s4156…

How do you quantify the natural variation of plant immunity? Thrilled to announce the preprint publication of our superb collaboration effort led by Gautam Shirsekar, plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱, Luisa Teasdale, and Kevin Murray on inferring NLR biodiversity across natural Arabidopsis accessions. 🌱

Interested in plant cell death? Great - we have a PhD position for you, available from January 2025 : jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/…

Sam Mugford from Saskia Hogenhout lab at the John Innes Centre presenting some work on insects-plant interactions 🪳🌱 (incl. some data from Matteo Gravino ), at our seminar series TULIP LRSV Plants Microbes Environment

Some news 🎉 Elated to share that our work will soon be supported by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant! There will be openings to join the lab, so if you are keen to learn how plant pathogens double as insect mutualists, do reach out! Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen #ERCStG

Cool project and excellent support from the group anf SFB consortium SFB_1403 ! Apply!

VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group, focusing on the complex plant signalling networks that govern interactions between soil microbes and crops okt.to/37dmlx Closing date - 1 October 2024 Contract - 36 months, full-time

Our team member ⁦Andre Kuhn⁩ just started his own lab at the ⁦SILS⁩ In Amsterdam. A wonderful step, and we are both proud and sad to see him leave. Andre will be hiring soon, and is a great scientist and mentor! Watch out for opportunities

Interested in root nodule symbiosis signalling? Postdoctoral research position available to join us; Application deadline October 1st. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

I'm not saying this because Isabel Monte is my friend ;) but I think 'FrieNemies' is the best ERC acronym I've seen + the coolest project! If you are interested in how fungi goes from Enemies to Friends of plants, watch out for Isa's lab here in beautiful Tübingen Universität Tübingen!

A gap-free genome assembly of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans, a vascular wilt pathogen. #FusariumGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly Scientific Data nature.com/articles/s4159…

Today I presented my talk and poster at #NoCaSS2024. It’s a short summary on AIMapper, the automated pipeline we have been building together with Tarhan Ibrahim to streamline the screening for AIMs in pathogen proteomes. You can find the poster on Zenodo! zenodo.org/records/137099…

We will also be presenting our work on ATG8 and AIM discovery in viruses at British Society for Plant Pathology #PPATH2024 and #ECPP2024 next week at Oxford!

GW: ultra-fast chromosome-scale visualisation of genomics data. #ChromosomeVisualization #GenomicsData bioRxiv Bioinfo #Bioinformatics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…