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Pingtao Ding (he/him)
@dinglab.bsky.social
Plant diseases threaten ecosystems worldwide.

Our mission is to decode disease resistance mechanisms—a vital step toward safeguarding plant health and ensuring a sustainable future.

☞ A plant immunity lab focusing on gene regulation

☞ www.thedinglab.com
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John A. Macdonald was, quite literally, in his own time, a cartoon villain
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Bruce Hammock was a scientific legend, brilliant and kind. He was always happy to talk and collaborate without ego. Like many others, I will miss him. 💔
Bruce Hammock: 1947-2026
UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bruce Hammock at his desk, Feb. 24, 2009.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!

🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.

Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?

@cellpress.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?

🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🌳Interested in doing a PhD within the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de?🌲

We are hiring a doctoral researcher for the project "Stand Density Management for #Forest Adaptation to #Drought

Application link: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

Website: uni-freiburg.de/futureforest...
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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The projects were on

1) chickpea exodermis with me (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

2) effector-triggered immunity with @dinglab.bsky.social (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

3) far-red responses with @ronaldpierik.bsky.social.

What a crazy diverse set to see shared biology in! (2/4)
Spatiotemporal transcriptional networks control the plasticity of chickpea root exodermis
Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates plant responses to stress and influences the differentiation of root barrier cell types, such as the endodermis and exodermis. Despite the importance of the exodermis in ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...
Postdoc (m/f/d) position on synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Our latest collaboration with Fiedler lab @fmp-berlin.de and Panse labs UZH out on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. Using bead-adsorbed, non-hydrolyzable inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) analogs, we isolated many putative PP-InsP-binding proteins from Arabidopsis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
An inositol pyrophosphate interaction screen provides insight into the regulation of plant casein kinase II
Inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are key nutrient messengers in plants, but their protein receptors remain poorly defined. Using a systems-level affinity screen with biotinylated InsP₆, InsP₇, and I...
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Great thanks to all my family, friends, mentors and colleagues for your love and continuous support in the last 8 months since I was sick. After a long break and many therapy sessions, today I went back to the office for the first time and started my work reintegration plan gradually. 🩷🩷🩷🙏🙏🙏
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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We deeply analyzed barley double stress responses and discovered this:
Transcriptome and hormone regulations shape drought stress-dependent Fusarium Head Blight susceptibility in different barley genotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.689882v1
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Are you expecting a new age of microbiome engineering
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Do get in touch or share 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
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November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🚀 New preprint!
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean
Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes
Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...
biorxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Humbly share our latest work led by @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social my phd student

And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
Uncoupling hypersensitive cell death response and disease resistance activated by effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683861v1
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
To my all friends: I’m partially recovered & feel nervous to present our latest work in an upcoming international plant immunity Conf in Sanya. Thanks to all the supports I received from my family, friends, mentors and colleagues during this difficult time. Look forward to seeing some of you soon!
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.
Molecular_Bio - YouTube
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September 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM