Associate Prof @UWBiology Seattle. How do plants recognize and resist pests 🐛? We study receptor function + evolution in plant innate immunity. steinbrennerlab.org
Adam Steinbrenner
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Now out in Science Advances.
Inceptin Receptor helps attract predatory wasps in two years of field experiments.
Next steps: can we tune both receptor recognition and volatile blend traits in crops + companion plants?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Save the Date! SIP19 will bring the international insect-plant interaction 🌱 🐛 community to @w-u-r.bsky.social, 22 to 26 August 2027: event.wur.nl/sip19/home
Keynote Speaker: @nkwhiteman.bsky.social, Christelle Robert, @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social, @sunsicker.bsky.social,
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Adam Steinbrenner
Good reporting from @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social on the reopening on the Indiana University labs.
Adam Steinbrenner
The investigation and shutdown drew considerable attention because of Professor Roger Innes’s defense of Chinese researchers convicted of illegally importing research material.
How do predatory wasps find their caterpillar prey?
In our new preprint on Biorxiv we show that the host plant's immune system detects herbivory to sound the alarm. 🌱🐛
See thread from @nataliagupa.bsky.social -- a surprising role for a plant PRR in indirect defense against herbivores.
Alexander Haverkamp
A plant receptor detects caterpillar attack and triggers emission of chemical cues to attract predatory wasps.
I am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
Natalia Guayazán Palacios
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667524v1
