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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · 27d

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Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota - Nature Plants

The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens, probably contributes to...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Aug 8

A meaningful moment in my plant pathology journey, fueled by my passion for nematology, bacteriology, and biotech. Grateful for support from UCD Plant Pathology, APS, industry partners, and especially the guidance and lab support from Drs. Shahid Siddique & Gitta Coaker. #PlantHealth2025 🪱🦠🌱🌺

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm deeply thankful to APS for the Travel Award and to my advisor and lab for their support. This encouragement means a lot and inspires me to keep learning and sharing with the community.

American Phytopathological Society (APS) @plantdisease.bsky.social · Aug 3

A great morning with our student and early career members at the APS Foundation Breakfast!

Thanks to your support, the APS Foundation continues to grow the future of plant pathology through funding, mentorship, and opportunity.

#PlantHealth2025 #APSFoundation #FutureOfPlantPathology

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American Phytopathological Society (APS) @plantdisease.bsky.social · Aug 3

Snapshots from yesterday's APS Gives Back: Native Roots Volunteer Experience field trip. Thank you volunteers!
#PlantHealth2025

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Tianrun Jerry Li @jerrytli.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s my great honor to be part of this project and happy to see this part of my thesis work finally out in Nature Plants!

Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants

Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...

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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · Jun 29

Amazing talk (and videos) in plenary 2 from Xiangyi Ding ( @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social ) about biophys constraints in cytoplasm. #Celegans cytoplasm is more like jelly than honey (human cells), plus found gene that constrains this mess particle diffusion. #worm25

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Giant KASH proteins and ribosomes synergistically establish cytoplasmic biophysical properties in vivo

Understanding how cells control their biophysical properties during development remains a fundamental challenge. While cytoplasmic macromolecular crowding affects multiple cellular processes in single...

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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · Jul 1

Inspirational talk from Pam Padilla highlighting ways to broaden impact of our research to broader communities. #worm25

Strategy to Broaden Impact:
> Communication research impact
> Engage with political representatives
> Advocate for higher education
> Counter misinformation
> Assign high value to teaching
› Engage with diverse communities

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Historic Worm Comedy Show ✨

Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

My name on the winner list of the raffles 👀

Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

#worm25 was such a special experience for me as a first-time attendee. I felt truly honored to speak in the parasitism sessions and grateful for the chance to meet Nobel laureates. It felt almost unreal! Loved the comedy show 😍 and I was so happy to win a worm atlas shirt 👕.

Happy to catch up with Lesilee and Laurel (my C. elegans mentors 😍 the ones who taught me how to culture worms). I also got to meet Jui-Ching, a professor at NTU Medical School (Taiwan) who graduated from Lesilee’s lab.

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Jul 2

I went to the poster yesterday at #worm25 and it's fantastic. Would love to try the method in the future. 🙏

Pavak Shah @shahlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

New preprint! Grad student Clover Stubbert and undergrad Cherry Soe worked out a serum-free media that sustains eggshell-less C. elegans embryos all the way through development, now making it possible to access any embryonic developmental stage with small molecules
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Long-term ex ovo culture of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

The genetic tractability, transparency and invariant development of the C. elegans embryo have led to its broad adoption as a model system for the study of cell and developmental biology. Its impermea...

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Baris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Jun 9

That's cool! Looking forward to seeing more in the future 🤩🙏

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UCDavisPlants @ucdavisplants.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 From Heliyon: Multitasking proteins in Xanthomonas secretomes may play hidden roles in virulence and plant-pathogen interactions. (Renata de Almeida Barbosa Assis, Abhaya M. Dandekar)
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#plantpathology #plantscience

Exploring multitasking proteins in Xanthomonas secretomes: Insights into mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions

Recent advances in large-scale functional genomic analysis have significantly increased interest in multitask proteins. The role of these proteins in Xanthomonas phytopathogens, a model for plant-path...

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Erh-Min Lai-IPMB @erhminlai.bsky.social · May 13

Happy to write this News & Views highlighting a groundbreaking study on #Agrobacterium. By combining mathematical modelling with quantitative live-cell imaging, the study uncovered a density-dependent synergistic and antagonistic effect on #AMT

Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · May 12

New OA Article: "Quantitative dissection of Agrobacterium T-DNA expression in single plant cells reveals density-dependent synergy and antagonism" rdcu.be/elJ5z

News & Views: "Cooperation and antagonism in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation" rdcu.be/elJ5F

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · May 9

👀 EFR-mediated PTI restricts transient transformation and genome editing, but not T-DNA integration.
This study combines floral stage targeting 🌷, immune evasion 🛡️, and Agrobacterium engineering 🔧 to boost plant genome editing efficiency.
#Agrobacterium
#GenomeEditing
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Floral Stage Optimization and Immune Evasion Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Genome Editing in Arabidopsis

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation via floral inoculation (AMT-FI) enables genetic engineering without tissue culture. It is widely used in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, yet its efficiency ...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · May 5

Overcoming gene functional redundancy 👀 Cool!
#CRISPR
#tomato

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Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications

Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Apr 27

Proud of Siddique Lab undergrads at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference! Aarish gave a fantastic talk (rainbow effect says it all!), Emma, Lisa, and Katelin rocked their posters. Shoutout to Jonathan from Coaker Lab for his awesome damage receptor talk! Cheers to all the inspiring souls!

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Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋） @yichangsung.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our Research Briefing on the tandem kinase proteins paper is online now!
Curious about the story behind our TKP paper?
📄 Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄 Research article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics

Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · Apr 23

Story behind our recent paper on tandem kinases is out! Written by @yichangsung.bsky.social. #MPMI #PlantBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics

Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Apr 17

Fantastic work👏 Plant tandem kinases are so cool 😎

Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋） @yichangsung.bsky.social · Apr 15

🌾 Excited to share our research on plant tandem kinase proteins (TKPs)! It’s been fascinating to explore how TKPs interplay effectors to activate plant immunity. Big thanks to my supervisor @gittacoaker.bsky.social, my undergrad student Suji Baik, and our collaborators—it's truly a team effort!

Wheat tandem kinase RWT4 directly binds a fungal effector to activate defense - Nature Genetics

This study shows that RWT4, a wheat tandem kinase, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly binding to the pathogen effector AvrPWT4 and activating host defense.

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · Apr 15

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A plant CLE peptide and its fungal mimic promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis via CRN-mediated ROS suppression | PNAS

CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-related (CLE) peptides have emerged as key regulators of plant–microbe interactions, including arbuscular mycorr...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is so cool 😎
✨first regulator of effector production in PPN✨

Anika Damm @anikadamm.bsky.social · Mar 11

Very excited to see my first first-authored paper published in @pnas.org . We found the first regulator of effector production in plant-parasitic nematodes! Congratulations to co first author @clempellegrin.bsky.social and all other authors. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Ching-Jung Lin @chjlin.bsky.social · Mar 18

Two exciting papers from Shirasu Lab utilizing the *juice* of my favorite biological players—Agrobacterium and nematodes—to investigate receptor profiles!
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Congrats to the authors! 🥳🤩

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · Mar 8

Nice turnout for Agriculture today too!

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