Departmental Group Leader - Plant Immunogenomics π±π§¬π¦
Max Planck Institute for Biology - TΓΌbingen
Plant immunity and other small things
β°οΈπββοΈfar not fast
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When a protist engulfed a cynaobacterium, Earth changed forever!
@jandevries.bsky.social, @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social,
@heche.bsky.social & colleagues review the origins and
evolution of archaeoplastids, the lineage that arose from this event, including plants & co
www.cell.com/current-biol...
π Our synthesis on whatβs going on in the field of TE control and RIP in the fungal world!
Out now in Trends in Genetics!
We have openings at the University of Cologne, come and join our consortium in Plant Ecological Genetics TRR341!Applications open soon for 10 PhD position. Description here: trr341.uni-koeln.de/join-us #TRR341 #PlantEcologicalGenetics
Rational design of T-DNA vectors enables predictable, single-copy integration in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730999v1
We used genomic LLMs to find 330 genes with repeated functional shifts as grasses adapted and diversified. Great work by Sheng-Kai Hsu to make cross-species trait mapping tractable across 700+ complex genomes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
When did liverwort oil body cells originate? Here, Susan and I provide quantitative evidence that they emerged by at least the Middle Devonian (~390 Ma!), shedding light on a key anti-herbivory defense mechanism of early land plants!
𧬠New preprint! We clustered 5.6 million bacterial genomes into genomically cohesive units (GCUs) 500Γ faster than existing tools. (In just 14 hours, 16.5 GB RAM using 48 CPUs). π¦ πMeet gemsparcl πβ¨!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
