Honour McCann
@honour.bsky.social
Max Planck Research Group Leader // Plant pathogen emergence and evolution // http://instagram.com/honourmccann // Opinions my own etc
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Honour McCann
@honour.bsky.social
· Dec 19
Is your favourite fruit at risk?🍌
Watch & learn from Dr. Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social as she dives into the impact of the pathogen Ralstonia syzygii on banana plantations in our new video.
For more on #PlantPathogen #Evolution, visit: www.bio.mpg.de/48883/plant-pathogen-evolution-honour-mccann
Watch & learn from Dr. Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social as she dives into the impact of the pathogen Ralstonia syzygii on banana plantations in our new video.
For more on #PlantPathogen #Evolution, visit: www.bio.mpg.de/48883/plant-pathogen-evolution-honour-mccann
Plant Pathogen Evolution: Bananas
YouTube video by MPI for Biology & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
youtu.be
Check out the team battling the bananapocalypse! 🍌 Fantastic collab on Ralstonia emergence in Indonesia.
Thanks for the video and support @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social + @maxplanck.de
Thanks for the video and support @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social + @maxplanck.de
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What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presenting Dr. Daria Evseeva! Daria defended her thesis at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social last week and earned her doctorate - with distinction! She worked on a historic outbreak of Ralstonia in Martinique, the origins of the banana outbreak in Indonesia, and the evolution of intermicrobial antagonism.
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Presenting Dr. Daria Evseeva! Daria defended her thesis at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social last week and earned her doctorate - with distinction! She worked on a historic outbreak of Ralstonia in Martinique, the origins of the banana outbreak in Indonesia, and the evolution of intermicrobial antagonism.
I will be so chalant when they tell me off for snacking in the new lecture hall 😅😂
@honour.bsky.social casually having a snack while presenting her work on Ralstonia wars. As nonchalant as it gets 😎
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I will be so chalant when they tell me off for snacking in the new lecture hall 😅😂
There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
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It was an amazing sciences day at #2025ISMPMI!
Right after the “Population, biology, ecology and genomics” session, I had the opportunity to have lunch and discuss about this topic with the co-chair @honour.bsky.social
Right after the “Population, biology, ecology and genomics” session, I had the opportunity to have lunch and discuss about this topic with the co-chair @honour.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It was an amazing sciences day at #2025ISMPMI!
Right after the “Population, biology, ecology and genomics” session, I had the opportunity to have lunch and discuss about this topic with the co-chair @honour.bsky.social
Right after the “Population, biology, ecology and genomics” session, I had the opportunity to have lunch and discuss about this topic with the co-chair @honour.bsky.social
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Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One of my favourite serendipitous results from the lab came about because we were long-read sequencing bacterial:
Vibrio cholerae, which is "supposed to" have TWO circular chromosomes (3 + 1 million base pairs) often has just ONE fused chromosome (4 Mbp).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/n)
Vibrio cholerae, which is "supposed to" have TWO circular chromosomes (3 + 1 million base pairs) often has just ONE fused chromosome (4 Mbp).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/n)
Prevalent chromosome fusion in Vibrio cholerae O1 - Nature Communications
The pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae typically has two circular chromosomes. Here, Cuénod et al. analyse 467 clinical isolates and identify several independent chromosome fusion events that are li...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
One of my favourite serendipitous results from the lab came about because we were long-read sequencing bacterial:
Vibrio cholerae, which is "supposed to" have TWO circular chromosomes (3 + 1 million base pairs) often has just ONE fused chromosome (4 Mbp).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/n)
Vibrio cholerae, which is "supposed to" have TWO circular chromosomes (3 + 1 million base pairs) often has just ONE fused chromosome (4 Mbp).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/n)
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Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.28.662111v1
July 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Black Forest Lab Retreat! Great hikes, exploding kittens* and milk-washed cocktails. *The card game
June 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Black Forest Lab Retreat! Great hikes, exploding kittens* and milk-washed cocktails. *The card game
This is what a multi-floor meeting looks like at the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social. Love a good science lobby 😁
May 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is what a multi-floor meeting looks like at the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social. Love a good science lobby 😁
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New Paper out!
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We wanted to know how much genetic variation exists for Zymoseptoria in a single wheat field.
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We wanted to know how much genetic variation exists for Zymoseptoria in a single wheat field.
Zymoseptoria tritici Show Local Differences in Within-Field Diversity and Effector Variation
apsjournals.apsnet.org
April 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
New Paper out!
apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10....
We wanted to know how much genetic variation exists for Zymoseptoria in a single wheat field.
apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10....
We wanted to know how much genetic variation exists for Zymoseptoria in a single wheat field.
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Congratulations to @hassansalem.bsky.social on the #ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 The project explores how beetles use symbiotic relationships w/ microbes to digest plant material, & compare this to gene transfer for digestive enzyme acquisition. 🪲tinyurl.com/bdhrdnes
Evolutionary insights to come!
Evolutionary insights to come!
ERC Consolidator Grant for Hassan Salem
Max Planck Research Group Leader Hassan Salem has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how beetles use symbiotic relationships with microbes to digest plant material and how this stra...
tinyurl.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Congratulations to @hassansalem.bsky.social on the #ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 The project explores how beetles use symbiotic relationships w/ microbes to digest plant material, & compare this to gene transfer for digestive enzyme acquisition. 🪲tinyurl.com/bdhrdnes
Evolutionary insights to come!
Evolutionary insights to come!
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📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢
We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.
Learn more below!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/7
We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.
Learn more below!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/7
The phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato - Nature
A haplotype-resolved pan-genome of autotetraploid European potato founder lines shows high nucleotide diversity at remarkably low haplotype diversity, which is probably the result of hybridization eve...
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢
We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.
Learn more below!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/7
We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.
Learn more below!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/7
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Pseudomonas syringae secretes the iminosugar glycosyrin to block plant immune recognition. It mimics galactose to inhibit β-galactosidase, disrupt flagellin sensing, and rewire host glycobiology!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved!
#PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved!
#PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab
Bacterial pathogen deploys the iminosugar glycosyrin to manipulate plant glycobiology
The extracellular space (apoplast) in plants is a key battleground during microbial infections. To avoid recognition, the bacterial model phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 produces ...
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Pseudomonas syringae secretes the iminosugar glycosyrin to block plant immune recognition. It mimics galactose to inhibit β-galactosidase, disrupt flagellin sensing, and rewire host glycobiology!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved!
#PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved!
#PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab
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New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
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It was a great honor to give a seminar yesterday @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social. Thanks for inviting me and for all the great & stimulating chats I had throughout the day! So inspiring to learn about the newest research done in the Ley lab, and on the S-layer and on plant pathogens ! #microsky
The classic Tübingen photo 😄 @olayarendueles.bsky.social visited the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and told us about the impact of extracellular polysaccharide on phage and plasmid-mediated HGT 👌
April 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It was a great honor to give a seminar yesterday @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social. Thanks for inviting me and for all the great & stimulating chats I had throughout the day! So inspiring to learn about the newest research done in the Ley lab, and on the S-layer and on plant pathogens ! #microsky
The classic Tübingen photo 😄 @olayarendueles.bsky.social visited the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and told us about the impact of extracellular polysaccharide on phage and plasmid-mediated HGT 👌
April 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The classic Tübingen photo 😄 @olayarendueles.bsky.social visited the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and told us about the impact of extracellular polysaccharide on phage and plasmid-mediated HGT 👌
Thanks for the awesome talk and fun visit @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social !
March 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thanks for the awesome talk and fun visit @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social !
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Applications due this Friday 3/21/25 for a one-week, hands-on summer school on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales at the U of Maryland, June 23-27, 2025.
Travel awards available & no fee for participants.
Open to MS/PhD/Postdocs, space is limited.
Apply: bit.ly/phageschool2...
Travel awards available & no fee for participants.
Open to MS/PhD/Postdocs, space is limited.
Apply: bit.ly/phageschool2...
Reminder: application deadline upcoming for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
March 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Applications due this Friday 3/21/25 for a one-week, hands-on summer school on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales at the U of Maryland, June 23-27, 2025.
Travel awards available & no fee for participants.
Open to MS/PhD/Postdocs, space is limited.
Apply: bit.ly/phageschool2...
Travel awards available & no fee for participants.
Open to MS/PhD/Postdocs, space is limited.
Apply: bit.ly/phageschool2...
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This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated.
umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...
umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...
Postdoctor, 2 years, in predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance
The Department of Molecular Biology seeks a postdoctoral researcher who will work with forecasting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance. The employment is full-time for two yea
umu.varbi.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated.
umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...
umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...
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I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
microbiologysociety.org
February 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
March 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@estukenbrock.bsky.social on tour at the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social 😎 Thanks for the visit and great talk!
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@estukenbrock.bsky.social on tour at the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social 😎 Thanks for the visit and great talk!