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Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 25d

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals

This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

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

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Sep 2

How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?

Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social

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

PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content

Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!

The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥

Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.

#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · Aug 13

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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Shanshan Wang @shanshanwang3.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you Baptiste

Shanshan Wang @shanshanwang3.bsky.social · Aug 4

This helps disentangle the complex relationship between plant development and immunity.

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 2

3/3 In addition, Shanshan's work highlights the value of developmental mutants: Core‬‭ immune‬‭ responses‬‭ are‬‭ robust‬‭ despite‬‭ altered‬‭ leaf‬‭ architecture in cue 1 mutants, which also use a cryptic‬‭ defense‬‭ pathway that includes sucrose-responsive‬‭ modules.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 2

2/3 By focusing on very early time points, Shanshan found mesophyll cell populations that not only prioritize a defense-over-growth strategy vs. a growth-over-defense strategy, but also that these cell populations behave more similarly during ETI than PTI.

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Shanshan Wang @shanshanwang3.bsky.social · Aug 4

Super excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 This project has been an incredible learning experience, thanks to the amazing lab and wonderful people I get to work with. Huge thanks to my supervisor! @plantevolution.bsky.social

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 2

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.

Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.

#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 2

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.

Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.

#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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