Adam Mott
@adammott.bsky.social
Scientist working on plant cell surface receptors and immune regulation using network and systems biology. Thoughts are my own.
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CSPB 2025 Student Publication Ragai Ibrahim Awardees. If you’re a graduate student who has published a paper in 2025 you can self nominate for this award. See www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards for full details and nomination form.
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CSPB 2025 Student Publication Ragai Ibrahim Awardees. If you’re a graduate student who has published a paper in 2025 you can self nominate for this award. See www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards for full details and nomination form.
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CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026.
www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards
www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026.
www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards
www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards
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Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
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In 1996, almost thirty years ago, Stephan Clemens & Wolfgang Barz described a methylenedioxy bridge formation reaction, converting calycosin to pseudobaptigenin. Today, we have identified the enzyme catalyst from red clover! 🍀 @UTSC @UtscBiology
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In 1996, almost thirty years ago, Stephan Clemens & Wolfgang Barz described a methylenedioxy bridge formation reaction, converting calycosin to pseudobaptigenin. Today, we have identified the enzyme catalyst from red clover! 🍀 @UTSC @UtscBiology
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Pantoea ananatis-triggered systemic resistance requires root sensing through the LORE receptor kinase in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.688997v1
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Pantoea ananatis-triggered systemic resistance requires root sensing through the LORE receptor kinase in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.688997v1
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The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology.
www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale
Offre d'emploi : Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale, Sherbrooke, Campus principal, Université de Sherbrooke
www.usherbrooke.ca
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology.
www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
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Our ten years of work is finally out in Current Biology! We reveal a new mode of action of the bacterial phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange in Brassicaceae
Kang et al. show that coronatine hijacks the ABA hydroxylase CYP707A1 in A. thaliana
to override stomatal defense. While CYP707A1 also enables rapid light-induced stomatal
opening, C. rubella and E. s...
www.cell.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Our ten years of work is finally out in Current Biology! We reveal a new mode of action of the bacterial phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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My department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
academicjobsonline.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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T3SS activity comes at a cost—bacteria that use the system pay with reduced growth. We found how Yersinia balance costs and benefits: at higher densities, they actively suppress T3SS activity and adhesion, switching from colonization to replication and dissemination.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@kit.edu
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@kit.edu
Yersinia actively downregulates type III secretion and adhesion at higher cell densities
Author summary Bacteria can use the type III secretion system (T3SS), a molecular syringe-like device, to manipulate host cells by injecting effector proteins. Yersinia enterocolitica, a pathogenic ba...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
T3SS activity comes at a cost—bacteria that use the system pay with reduced growth. We found how Yersinia balance costs and benefits: at higher densities, they actively suppress T3SS activity and adhesion, switching from colonization to replication and dissemination.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@kit.edu
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@kit.edu
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🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Career – Schneeberger Lab
schneebergerlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
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"The expanding world of plant NLR pairs"
Cheng-Wei Sang, Yan-Mei Zhang, Sai-Xi Li, Jian-Qun Chen, and Zhu-Qing Shao in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cheng-Wei Sang, Yan-Mei Zhang, Sai-Xi Li, Jian-Qun Chen, and Zhu-Qing Shao in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The expanding world of plant NLR pairs
Three recent studies, by Zhu et al.,Klymiuk et al., and Hu et al., identified paired nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) in w…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"The expanding world of plant NLR pairs"
Cheng-Wei Sang, Yan-Mei Zhang, Sai-Xi Li, Jian-Qun Chen, and Zhu-Qing Shao in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cheng-Wei Sang, Yan-Mei Zhang, Sai-Xi Li, Jian-Qun Chen, and Zhu-Qing Shao in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production!
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production!
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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Regular registration ENDS on November 12th for the
@cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social
#CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
@cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social
#CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Regular registration ENDS on November 12th for the
@cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social
#CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
@cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social
#CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
Cool new paper on receptor specificity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature
An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Cool new paper on receptor specificity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
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A short thread:
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A short thread:
CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis
Nature Communications - Binenbaum et al. demonstrate that precise CRISPR-based targeting of a key chromatin mark (H3K4me3) can switch on genes, boost disease resistance, and unlock meiotic...
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
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The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
Globe & Mail reports “the budget is expected to include up to $1-billion to attract high-quality talent and researchers from the United States and elsewhere”
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
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Who is excited for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM?! I know I am!
See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social
Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social
Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Who is excited for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM?! I know I am!
See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social
Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social
Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
To everyone who managed to submit their NSERC DG application today
a man in a suit and bow tie is giving a salute in front of a chalkboard .
Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie is giving a salute in front of a chalkboard .
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November 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To everyone who managed to submit their NSERC DG application today
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🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs!
#VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support.
Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters.
Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi...
#SupportOurScience
#VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support.
Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters.
Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi...
#SupportOurScience
forms.gle
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs!
#VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support.
Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters.
Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi...
#SupportOurScience
#VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support.
Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters.
Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi...
#SupportOurScience
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Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
go.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
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MPK3- and MPK6-mediated phosphorylation of STOP1 triggers its nuclear stabilization to modulate hypoxia responses in Arabidopsis url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
MPK3- and MPK6-mediated phosphorylation of STOP1 triggers its nuclear stabilization to modulate hypoxia responses in Arabidopsis
Competition between phosphorylation and ubiquitination of the transcription factor STOP1 controls its accumulation in the nucleus, thus modulating hypoxia
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October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
MPK3- and MPK6-mediated phosphorylation of STOP1 triggers its nuclear stabilization to modulate hypoxia responses in Arabidopsis url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
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By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The @cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting EARLY BIRD registration/ABSTRACT submission DEADLINE is TODAY (Oct 24)! #CSPB_ERM
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Discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members & $40 for PDF members! @laurierbiology.bsky.social
See you at Laurier next month!
event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
Discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members & $40 for PDF members! @laurierbiology.bsky.social
See you at Laurier next month!
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The @cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting EARLY BIRD registration/ABSTRACT submission DEADLINE is TODAY (Oct 24)! #CSPB_ERM
event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
Discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members & $40 for PDF members! @laurierbiology.bsky.social
See you at Laurier next month!
event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
Discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members & $40 for PDF members! @laurierbiology.bsky.social
See you at Laurier next month!
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Excited to welcome speakers and delegates to Black In Plant Science 2025, today in Leeds! Thanks @newphyt.bsky.social & other sponsors! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Excited to welcome speakers and delegates to Black In Plant Science 2025, today in Leeds! Thanks @newphyt.bsky.social & other sponsors! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social