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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 1d

Our @elife.bsky.social Version of Record is now out 🎉 : elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Congratulations to @sohambio.bsky.social , @asimjaved.bsky.social , and @jiaxuwu.bsky.social on this beautiful work. We also wrote an easy-to-read eLife Digest for a general audience 👏

image promoting the paper representing a field, the pathogen and computer predicting proteins

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 5d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 6d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 8d

NEW ARTICLE ON BIORXIV🎉

Tour de force by Pedro Jimenez-Sandoval and al. from Julia Santiago's group. We have found that two layers of DAMP signaling actually exist. External DAMPs (from cell wall) prepare the immune landscape without being primers themselves.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Glycan recognition by a plant sentinel immune receptor

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

www.biorxiv.org

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 18d

Living in Switzerland 🇨🇭

Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 19d

May I even dare to say, this is what fascism is. I feel quite anxious for all Americans who are dealing with this sh** everyday. Hope this will not last more than four years…

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 23d

New story out! Side project from the PhD that turned out to be quite interesting. Are chloroplastic ROS the initial trigger for SA biosynthesis in its originating organelle in plant immunity?

Please, have a read and find out for yourself 😀!

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com:
Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Read thread below 👇

Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature Communications

Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.

doi.org

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yearly trip to Türkiye?

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 24

One of the best environment on Earth to do science and living!

Johannes Larsch @jlarsch.bsky.social · Jul 21

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 21

America has voted for it, now the rest of the world has to pay for their decision…

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 18

Jean Greenberg and then Wenbo Ma

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 18

Please don’t! We missed you in Cologne!

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 13

Will miss you here! But enjoy Quebec’s Summer Festival for me 🤩

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Jul 7

Getting the presentation ready for #MPMI2025!

Who's joining this year?

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · May 13

If you are member of the IS-MPMI society, you will have received the option to vote for the next president and members of the board of directors. This is an encouragement to vote. Also, I am running for one of the two director positions.
www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · Apr 25

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?

We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!

Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs

Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

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International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions @ismpmi.bsky.social · Mar 24

The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress is the must-attend event for anyone passionate about groundbreaking plant-microbe science. Take advantage of early bird registration and get the best deal before April 30!

Register: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

#2025ISMPMI #PlantScience #ScienceNetworking

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

www.science.org

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Mar 14

Congratulations again Edel 🧪💪🎉

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Mar 12

Everything's rolling great! Looking forward to sharing a fresh Kolsch with you!😀

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Mar 12

Congrats @minyaaa.bsky.social! It seems so cool to do discovery at the same time as doing art!

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Mar 12

Very cool and novel principle for plant-bacteria interactions. Worth the read!

Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Mar 11

Yesterday we have just submitted our manuscript - you can find an updated version of our #preprint led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social "Bacteria use processing body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" with some new data on #bioRxiv 🤓 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · Mar 10

Interesting how they can still say MALE but not FEMALE...

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