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Maite Saura
@maitesaura.bsky.social
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸 --- Postdoc at @PSB_VIB and @UGent. Working on plant-biotic interactions at single cell level. Interested in roots, EvoMPMI, single cell and bioinformatics
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 27d
Back in June at ICAR2025, @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social and I organised a Workshop, where we invited ECRs Hantao Zhang and Katarína Heldesová with travel support to co-organise. Here’s their blog post reflecting on the session & their experience—check it out! plantae.org/icar2025-wor...
ICAR2025 Workshop | Plantae
At the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2025) in Ghent, the workshop “Resolving Heterogeneity in Plants with Imaging and Omics” brought together researchers from across the world…
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 27d
It was easy with this amazing team!!
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
give me some time...:p
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
Gracias Nacho!!
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
Thank you!!
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(9/9) This work was a joint project between the labs of @bertderybel.bsky.social, Tom Beeckman, Tina Kyndt and Carolina Escobar. Huge thanks to all co-authors, especially PhD students Melissa and Almudena. @psb-vib.bsky.social 🌾🌱
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(8/9) We hope this approach inspires others to study complex plant–pathogen interactions across species, using single-cell transcriptomics to uncover molecular mechanisms in systems that are otherwise very hard to track!
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(7/9) These orthologous genes were previously linked to auxin distribution across tissues. Strikingly, mutating them in both rice and Arabidopsis reduced infection by >30%. This offers a promising opportunity to engineer resistance in both dicots and monocots.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(6/9) Next, we looked for the TFs driving the transcriptional reprogramming captured in our dataset. AtATHB2/OsHOX28 emerged as prime candidates, specifically expressed under infection and predicted by MINI-EX to be enriched only during infection.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(5/9) In fact, this population of cells correspond to the giant cell precursors, that a few days later will develop into the giant cells induced by the nematode.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(4/9) Within the nematode clusters, we found a subpopulation of cells characterized by the expression of the orthologous genes AtEXPA4 and OsEXPA7.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(3/9) We found clusters that were exclusive to RKN infected roots, which we call “nematode clusters”, and they appear to be transcriptionally very similar between Arabidopsis and rice.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(2/9) We used single-cell transcriptomics in Arabidopsis and rice roots, comparing mock vs. RKN infection, to capture the transcriptional reprogramming underlying this process from the very early stages.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
(1/9) Root-knot nematodes (RKN) are plant parasites that induce giant cells inside root galls. The origin of giant cells is a 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 organogenesis process, occurring from very few cells when the nematodes invade their hosts.
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 28d
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · Aug 20
And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...
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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · Aug 7
Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.
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martinalegris.bsky.social @martinalegris.bsky.social · Jul 7
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · Jun 16
Tomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · Jun 9
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · Jun 9
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · Jun 5
See you in beautiful Ghent in two weeks!!
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Apr 29
My tidyverse gene co-expression workflow reached 200 stars on GitHub.

github.com/cxli233/Simp...
GitHub - cxli233/SimpleTidy_GeneCoEx: A simple gene co-expression analyses workflow powered by tidyverse and graph analyses
A simple gene co-expression analyses workflow powered by tidyverse and graph analyses - cxli233/SimpleTidy_GeneCoEx
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Apr 13
Dual and spatially resolved #drought responses in the #Arabidopsis #leaf mesophyll revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

A #CommunityResource by Berrío et al.
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Arabidopsis mesophyll cells display two distinct drought responses.
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Bert De Rybel @bertderybel.bsky.social · Feb 2
A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators
Accurate scRNA-sequencing cluster annotation in less-studied plant species remains a major challenge due to the lack of validated marker genes. Ke et al. provide an orthology-based annotation pipeline...
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · Jan 13
Next month I will be in #LausanneGenomicsDays2025 talking about plants, nematodes and single-cell 🌾
If you're curious about my postdoctoral research at @psb-vib.bsky.social in the labs of @bertderybel.bsky.social, Tom Beeckman , and Tina Kyndt, join me!
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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · Jan 9
Register now for the #LausanneGenomicsDays2025 which take place on Feb 6-7, 2025! We have a great line-up of speakers who apply #genomics 🧬to tackle exciting questions in #biology and #medicine. For more info & registration: wp.unil.ch/gtf/lgd-2025/
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