Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵
𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺:
It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯
So what is its actual role?
We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Required reading for any student of genetics. A lucid and thoughtful piece on term that is far from unambiguous. I encourage sharing widely.
Spatial organization of plant defense at the infection front www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Excited to see our work out in Science today! Using machine learning to identify prokaryotic immune systems www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
/need translation unfortunately🫣
Please check this database😂😂 webofnothing.top you can publish your “dreams” there!!!
We recently had a conversation here about reproducible data analysis pipelines. I put my thoughts into a longer-form article. Whatever you do, it's critical you save and archive your final processed data right before plotting.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/creating-r...
Excited to share our lab's new paper in Current Biology featuring MS student Sydney Schultz's work. We show that a polar alga carries large amount of giant viral DNA in its genome, and many of the viral genes respond to stress - with implications for host adaptation.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Targeting redundant gene families: A multiplexed, tissue-specific CRISPR toolbox for Arabidopsis genetic screens
Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬
Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools.
Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social
Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E
BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X
Happy Imaging!
The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇
Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.
In our recent review, we explore how the spliceosome is targeted by effectors from diverse plant-interacting organisms—and how these effectors can serve as powerful molecular probes to uncover the mechanisms of splicing regulation in plants.
@geminiteamlab.bsky.social
#PlantScience #RNA #Splicing
RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!
Alternative splicing expands the functional portfolio of a plant virus to control the viral cycle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...
Cool story from @meristemania.bsky.social lab on growth-defense tradeoff at the shoot apical meristem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Highly recommended！
Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
FBI frame-up of Indiana University postdoc Youhuang Xiang: Anti-China witch-hunt escalates
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
I'd heard whispers of these arrests for carrying plasmids and bio materials across borders before, but someone just shared this detailed news report with me.
Please be careful.
Who wore it better?
Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…
And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
What could be better than discussing single-stranded DNA viruses with an international community of experts and a trans-kingdom perspective — at an affordable prize?
Doing it in Bahia, Brazil! 🌴🌊☀️
Join us for IS3DV, June 15-19!
isdv2026.com
Cell-type-specific gating of gene regulatory modules as a hallmark of early immune responses in Arabidopsis leaves nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026. Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Abstract For the past two years, I have been contemplating how best to write this review that not only reflects on a few significant and nostalgic moments in my more than three decades of professional career in the molecular plant-microbe interaction (MPMI) field, but also offers my personal outlook on the future aimed at inspiring young scientists to join this exciting discipline. Rather than a comprehensive overview, I would like to place greater emphasis on the “whys” and the “hows” than the “whats”. I finally decided to use technological advancements critical for the development of our field as a thread to connect the past with the future. Founder's Review
"Leaf It to Science: Uncovering Plant Immune Systems Through Technological Advances Open Access"
Reflections on Career, #PlantScience and #PlantImmunity by Xinnian Dong
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
when it started…😎😉❤️🔥
