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Posts by Malick Mbengue

Elle aurait été sénatrice, une petite formation aurait suffit 🤔

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Postdoctoral position on the mechanisms involved in the variability of mycorrhizal responses in wheat. An 18-month postdoctoral position is available on a collaborative project between the research units "Laboratory of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions (LIPME)" and "Genetics, Diversity, and Ecophysiology of Cereals (GDEC)". The objective is to study 1) the impact of wheat genetics and plant nutritional status on the tripartite interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), common wheat, and Zymoseptoria tritici, the pathogenic fungus responsible for septoria leaf blotch; 2) the potential trade-offs between resistance stimulation and growth stimulation by mycorrhiza; and 3) the underlying molecular mechanisms. Preliminary data showed that there is genetic variability in wheat for the stimulation by mycorrhiza of resistance to septoria leaf blotch and for mycorrhizal nutrition. The specificity of these responses will be tested using different strains of AMF and Z. tritici. The various factors (strains, plant genotype, and nutritional status) will be analysed under controlled conditions through a series of experiments, each combining some of these factors. The underlying molecular mechanisms will be studied using transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches on the most contrasting genotypes and conditions. You will be based at LIPME on the INRAE Toulouse campus in Auzeville-Tolosane. You will interact with the on-site genomics, metabolomics, and microscopy platforms. You will benefit from the expertise of the EFIS team (LIPME) on wheat mycorrhiza and you will be trained in phenotyping septoria leaf blotch under controlled conditions, by the IPM team (GDEC) at the INRAE Clermont-Ferrand campus.

Fancy a post-doc to study the variability of of mycorrhizal responses in wheat? jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-28865
Join the LIPMe !

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Voici l'annonce d'un congrès que nous organisons avec @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social les 24 et 25 Juin.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site indiqué!

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Join us in Toulouse !!

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The statue of Liberty has a big sister called Tragedy (1851). Same era, different vibe. Seems fitting these days...

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Recruitment of SERK co-receptors determines signaling specificity within the systemin peptide family www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

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Postdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling.

My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA:
🔹 Bioinformatics / AI
🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics
🔹 Proteomics
Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
📅 Closing date: 27 February
Apply via JIC website:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/
Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏

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A novel pathosystem between Aeschynomene evenia and Aphanomyces euteiches reveals new immune components in quantitative legume root-rot resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

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Congrats Madeleine!

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Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants Symbioses have been fundamental to colonization of terrestrial ecosystems by plants and their evolution. Emergence of the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis was followed by the diversification o...

1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants"

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!

A thread ...
#PlantScience

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Beware giving this site your unpublished data Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...

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Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.

Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

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I wished I could have written something like this. Rude, fun and meaningful.
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EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

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I repeat, the Common Signalling pathway for symbiosis is on fire! Kudos to our colleagues from Toulouse 🍄🌿

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EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common SymbiosisPathway www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....

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The Common Signalling Pathway is on fire ! Kudos to our colleagues from Aarhus.

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Glycan recognition by a plant sentinel immune receptor Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

If you like RLKs stories, this one is a great read ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Fig. 2.Confocal microscopy of N. punctiforme strains. Filaments from the indicated strains were taken from cultures grown in BG110 medium (not induced; A) or after incubation for 24 h in the presence of Anthoceros agrestis exudates (hormogonia induction; B) and visualized by confocal microscopy. Merged (2 channels) show the overlay of autofluorescence (magenta) and GFP fluorescence (green). Merged (3 channels) represent the overlay of magenta autofluorescence, bright field, and green GFP fluorescence. Hormogonia are identified as short filaments with small cells. Scale bar=20 μm.

Fig. 2.Confocal microscopy of N. punctiforme strains. Filaments from the indicated strains were taken from cultures grown in BG110 medium (not induced; A) or after incubation for 24 h in the presence of Anthoceros agrestis exudates (hormogonia induction; B) and visualized by confocal microscopy. Merged (2 channels) show the overlay of autofluorescence (magenta) and GFP fluorescence (green). Merged (3 channels) represent the overlay of magenta autofluorescence, bright field, and green GFP fluorescence. Hormogonia are identified as short filaments with small cells. Scale bar=20 μm.

💡🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 💡🔬

Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social

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« prestige journals manufacture scarcity like luxury brands—limiting slots, not predicting impact. Science becomes a lottery where tenure is the prize, truth an afterthought » WSJ

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Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇

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Petit livre et texte important. Merci @thomashochmann.bsky.social pour cet éclaircissement

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Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G...

Happy to share our newest paper fresh from the press. Have a look, how cells prepare to host symbiotic infections. We really appreciate the reviewers comments. Enjoy the microscopy and other experiments by the lead PostDoc Morgane Batzenschlager & collaborators. elifesciences.org/articles/88588

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Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

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As promised, @eveteyssier.bsky.social PhD defense starting now!

If you want to learn about her work, just check her last post!

Go go go Eve!

10 months ago 14 2 0 0

We have a new PhD in town. Congrat Dr. @eveteyssier.bsky.social. A great talk and a great discussion made a proud supervisor :) Good luck with your future projects!

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The timing could not have been better. Congrats Eve!! Another great soon-to-be PhD (H-24) from the @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social

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A plant Lysin Motif Receptor-Like Kinase plays an ancestral function in mycorrhiza | PNAS Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) with soilborne Glomeromycota fungi was pivotal in the conquest of land by plants almost half a billion years ago. In flo...

I’m very happy that my main PhD work, under the supervision of @malick-mbengue.bsky.social, found a home in @pnas.org
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)

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Without irony, I’d like to thank Reviewer 2 for the support.

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Indeed, a very efficient way to stack up editings in Marchantia!

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