#IS-MPMI Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time.
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Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Coaker group University of California, Davis We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research program focused on immune receptor engineering and spatial analyses of plant pathogens interactions using computational and imaging approaches. The position will involve integration of molecular, imaging, and computational approaches. Relevant publications from the laboratory include Nature Plants (2025, PMID: 40721669), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024, PMID: 38814867), and Cell Reports (2023, PMID: 37342910). https://www.coakerlab.org/ Qualifications: • Ph.D. in plant biology, molecular biology, genetics, computational biology, or a related field • Strong background in genomics and/or computational biology • First author publications in peer-reviewed journals • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment • Experience in plant innate immunity is preferred Application Instructions: The position is initially available for two years, with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Salary is based on the University of California postdoctoral salary scale (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/represented-oct-2025-scales/t23.pdf). The salary range for this position is $69,073-$82,836 US Dollars/year. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a brief statement of research interests (~1 page), and contact information for three references to glcoaker@ucdavis.edu. The research statement should describe your previous work, how your expertise aligns with ongoing research in the lab, and potential future research directions.
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...
Very proud to share our new paper led by Mathias Brands from my team at @UniCologne! With Markus Pauly team @HHU. Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
The venue of the MAdLand Meeting 2026: The Alte Mensa in Göttingen, Germany
‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2026 is now open!
Join us in Göttingen from Sep 29–Oct 2, 2026 to discuss the latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2026 #Evolution
🌱 Learn more and register here:
madland-meeting.de/2026/
⏰ Applications close soon for a #Postdoc Researcher to join the Group of Dr Sarah Guiziou working on plant #engineeringbiology and intergrase circuits. 🌱🧬🧫
You should have a PhD in biology, #bioengineering, or biochemistry, with experience in plant or engineering biology.
Research Associate/Research Fellow on the discovery of resistance genes with effectoromics, with a focus on genes that lead to resistant plants for indoor farming systems for Brassica. #scijobs @VivianneTwit ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
If you are passionate about Plant Molecular/Developmental Biology and Genetics and hold an MSc. in plant biology, we can offer you a 4-year PhD position at @leibnizipk.bsky.social, starting earliest by 01.07.2026.
➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/4snhyjvy
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.
medium.com/p/dont-peris...
The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Great to see this paper in its final published form!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Beautiful new review on how autophagy is hijacked by pathogens by Enoch & @tolgaboz.bsky.social
"𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦-𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴?"
Yes, there are - watch this space :-)
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...
A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇
@thesainsburylab.bsky.social
Two shoots of the liverwort, Diplophyllum albicans, under the compound microscope at around x100 total magnification. They have dark reddish-brown stems and green leaves. There are small, black spots on some of the leaves along with tiny open networks of brown, anastomosing hyphae.
A ruptured black-brown fruitbody of Bryobroma caudatum with two hyaline, globose immature asci emerging from it. The fruitbody is sitting on a fragment of leaf tissue with mycelium on top of it. Image at x1000 magnification.
Some ellipsoidal, hyaline ascospores beside a ruptured fruitbody of the fungus. One with a tail is indicated by an arrow.
The mycelium of B. caudatum and related species is formed of conspicuous brown hyphae that mostly grow on top of the anticlines of the host cells, occasionally forming tiny pin haustoria that penetrate the cell walls (not easily visible unless sections are made). The host cells cytoplasm is intact and the underlying cells are living, with chloroplasts and oil bodies. Image at x1000 magnification.
Nice to find good material of a tiny fungus, Bryobroma caudatum, on the liverwort Diplophyllum albicans yesterday. The fungus produces tiny fruitbodies up to only 75 microns diam. and spores with little tails. The distinctive mycelium forms a network over the host cell walls without killing them.
New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A door with a name tag. The tag has a logo with the text SciLifeLab. Below is my name and text "Assistant Professor. Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences. Stockholm University". Through the glass wall you can see the office in a state of disarray
Still cannot fully believe it, but today is officially my first day as a PI at @scilifelab.se and Stockholm University! The lab is open, time to fill it with science..
#newPI
It’s an APH @APH_ISP special today!
Barbara Kunkel @WashingtonUniv on virulence gene expression regulation of Pseudomonas syningae
We are very close to reaching the registration cap for MECS2026. Given the strong interest, we have increased the number of participants from 100 to 120 and extended registration until April 12. Please note, however, that we can no longer accept poster submissions.
The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social
royalsociety.org/science-even...
What if plant immunity doesn’t stop bacteria from arriving - but from staying?
Excited to share our new Dangl Lab paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535583123), asking a fundamental co-evolutionary question: which flagellar function is targeted by plant immunity?
#Coevolution #Plant-Microbiome #PNAS
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...
An overview of bacterial multicellular formations: biofilms, filaments, free-floating aggregates, motile collectives and fruiting bodies. For each form, we mention an analogous eukaryotic multicellular form (respectively animal epitelia, filaments in fungi, Volvox, Dictyostelium/social animals, Dictyostelium and other slime moulds)
How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea?
And how does it evolve?
We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity".
Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq
Sharing and comments are much appreciated.
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Ad banner: germinating plant, Utrecht University, VACANCY: Postdoc position in Experimental & Computational Plant Biology
I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project!
1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)
So honoured to be featured in this MPMI spotlight!
Grateful to @carahaney.bsky.social for all the incredible support and mentorship along the way❤️
www.ismpmi.org/Community/In...
Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill. Overlay text: Abstracts close in 7 days
📣 Call for abstracts from global #plantsci community working on plant development!
⏰ Abstracts close in 7 days (due Monday 30 March)
Registration fees due later (15 June)
Register at:
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
New review out! This might be the most up-to-date textbook on plant surface receptors and signaling. Great job, @brunongou.bsky.social !
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Wow… they didn’t try to hide it at all 😬
Preprint: Identification and structural characterisation of a picornavirus integrin receptor with an essential role of two distinct glycans for virus infection
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
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@jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting.
As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes.
It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th.
Registration 🔽
nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org
