The role of plant receptor-like kinases in sensing extrinsic and host-derived signals and shaping the microbiome.

Mini-review by @carahaney.bsky.social and @jumpy-botanist.bsky.social‬

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2️⃣ PhD Positions in the lab:
📢 #1: Microbiome Diversity and Evolution in Leafhoppers Across Canada
📢 #2: Morphological Changes in Plant Roots Induced by Plasmodiophorid Effectors

📨 To apply submit :
* A cover letter
* Your curriculum vitae
* Academic transcripts
Applications: [email protected]

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)

Please spread the word about our Special Collection focused on Pseudomonads! @asm.org #JBacteriology

Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants

Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions.

Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Preprint alert: Here we report MMF1 - "a microbiota receptor” - through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth.

Happy reading...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our manuscript describing MYCroplanters, a high-throughput Arabidopsis phenotyping tool is out today in Plos Pathogens from first authors Melissa Chen and Leah Fulton! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Proud mentor moment: when a star postdoc mentee (now new PI!) supervises two star undergraduate students and you just get to sit back and watch the science happen.

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time.

And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

Congratulations Tera!!!!!

Excited to share our new preprint and high-throughput tool, “Order among chaos: high throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system” from Melissa Chen and Leah Fulton www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ROOT & SHOOT is offering free bystander intervention trainings for plant biologists. Learn how to respond when you observe harmful interactions. Free, very useful training (1 or 3 hours). Feb 12 or 15, again in May. #PlantScience
For more info and to sign up see rootandshoot.org/2024-bystand...

TT faculty searches at UNH! 👀 Horticultural Crop Physiologist (abiotic/biotic stress, nutritional quality, postharvest, climate change adaptation) & Plant Pathologist (biology, Eco/Evo, epidemiology, biorational, New England Ag.). jobs.usnh.edu/postings/59021 jobs.usnh.edu/postings/59023

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We are excited to open applications for a Working Group on Culturally Responsive Mentoring in #Plantscience. We're looking for a diverse set of volunteers across all career stages (undergraduates to established mentors) to help develop this program. Apply by Jan 10. rootandshoot.org/working-grou...

Overdue post, I'm excited to announce that the Haney Lab has moved to the University of Pittsburgh. UBC was a fantastic first lab home, but I am happy to be back in my hometown. Lots of opportunities to join us in a beautiful and affordable city! #PlantImmunity #Microbiome 🧪🌾🦠🧫

Love the question! There is no animal homolog, but as there is functional similarly in other innate immune pathways in plants and animals (i.e., flagellin recognition), maybe there is a functionally similar pathway in animals.

How do organisms maintain an appropriate immune response to their microbiota? Excited to share our newest paper about a plant mutant that shows autoimmunity specifically to normally beneficial microbes, suggesting organisms have mechanisms to prevent this. rdcu.be/drhtQ

Letter to the editor "Finding umbrella trees: cultivating inclusion and more than survival in a post-affirmative action academy" by Beronda L. Montgomery/@BerondaM now available in corrected proof stage.

Check it out!

Our UW Biology dept has led seminal research on evidence-based teaching practices: active learning, equitable classrooms, and other topics

We're now seeking tenure-track faculty member to build a new, exciting education research program

Please share with colleagues!
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