A new preprint is OUT! 🚨
Thrilled to finally share our work on how decoy diversification underpins the regulation of an NLR-mediated autoimmunity.
Check out the full story on @bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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See a brief review summarizing the use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) for revealing the ecology of specialized metabolites
[my holiday break writing exercise]
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#MicrobiomeEcology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)
📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London
🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible)
🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics
📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded)
📍 South Kensington, on site
ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk
🔗 kourelislab.com
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology
🙏 Share with interested candidates!
Our paper on the YprA family of helicases and their roles in bacterial defence is now out!
We describe ARMADA, a defence system synergise with Druantia and show that both systems spread horizontally on a novel type of mobile genetic element that we call SPIDERs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are excited to release the BAT!🦇🚨
We've used this phylogenetic analysis pipeline in our lab for years, and grad Ben Sheppard now presents a Github release and preprint.
I run BAT analyses almost daily. It makes exploring gene families routine, customizable, and fun🧵
Bacteria and archaea possess an enormous variety of antiviral immune systems that often share homologous proteins and domains. YprA-family helicases a…
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So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵 and link to the original preprint thread on X👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Ákos T Kovács
Jiorgos Kourelis
Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...
Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih
📢 EffectorGeneP is finally here! Stop missing small, single-exon or orphan genes from your favourite pathogen genome. Current tools only annotate 15%-78% of effector genes, EffectorGeneP finds 95% - including the large AvrSr26 family in stem rust. #Bioinformatics 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Very exciting news, congratulations! :)
Ye Jin (Jennie) Ahn
Sofya Garushyants
🌿🧬Bryophytes have a larger gene family space than vascular plants. New super pangenome analysis of 123 genomes reveals new immune receptors & microbial genes acquired through horizontal transfer
Small in size. Big in genetic toolkit #plantscience @natgenet.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adam Steinbrenner
www.biorxiv.org
Andrew Roger
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
Excited to share that I will start my lab this summer as an ECL Unit Leader at RIKEN CSRS!
We will study perception by cell-surface receptors across diverse plant species.
I’ll be recruiting soon, so please reach out if you’re interested!
