VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @philcarella.bsky.social Group, working in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions).
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Closing date - 10 February 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - Full-time, 3 years
John Innes Centre
Congratulations to Sonomi Yamaguchi for her paper at @nature.com. Sonomi discovered Clover defense and explained how nucleotide signals control each step of viral sensing, immune regulation, and viral restriction – named for her beautiful "four-leaf" structures 🍀
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Benthamiana rhapsody 🎶 🌱
How benthi is the go-to system for cracking the activation mechanism of an Arabidopsis TIR-NLR immune receptor— that’s the rhapsody.
Congrats He Zhao and Selvaraj for this wonderful collaboration 👇🏼 doi.org/10.64898/202...
1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨
It is my pleasure to share:
"Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants"
Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#PlantScience
A thread...
1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽
Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social !
and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Kranzusch Lab
We found that TIR domains in animal immune proteins, including the human TLR4, are enzymes that cleave NAD+ to produce the signaling molecule cADPR
Read our new preprint by talented Bohdana Hurieva: “Conserved catalytic activity of immune TIR domains in animals”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London
🌱 Start: Oct 2026
📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
🇬🇧 UK/settled status only
💰 Fully funded (48 months)
ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology
🙏 Share with interested candidates!
CPK28 was already present in the first land plant, and presents a paradox: the Marchantia version can perfectly replace the Arabidopsis version for immunity, but does not seem to participate to immunity in Marchantia ...
A lot more molecular data here =>
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations Sylvain and @nemopeeters.bsky.social !
Jiorgos Kourelis
Research highlight by @natplants.nature.com on our study at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social :
Fungi genes to fight fungi !
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www.biorxiv.org
Baptiste Castel
Baptiste Castel
Maxime Bonhomme
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🆕 version work @sylvain-vicente.bsky.social and collaborators #BIOSP #MathNum @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Re-evaluation of STAMP modelling, introducing time-resolution. Works also on Animal-bacterial infection models. #infection #Ralstonia #Pseudomonas #Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
