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Guido Van den Ackerveken

@guidopmi.bsky.social
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Translational Plant Biologist at Utrecht University, LettuceKnow, GreenTE, and CropXR | Resilient crops for sustainable agriculture | Plant Immunity | Oomycetes | Fascinated by plant diseases like downy mildews (photo by Hans van Pelt)

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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial Nep1-like proteins | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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...
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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...
Flyer of the Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2026 (September 14-16, Freising, Germany) showing cell-surface receptors on the plasma membrane against a background showing Freising. The QR code will lead to the PPRM2026 website where you can register and submit your abstract by July 29th.
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Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
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UU Plants @uuplants.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!
13th Utrecht PhD Summer School​ 
Environmental Signaling in Plants
Aug 24-26 2026
Speakers: Laura Ragni, Roeland Berendsen, Mariana Silva Artur, Matthew Paul, Ari Sadanandom, Beatrice Giuntoli, Bruno Guillotin, Priya Ramakrishna, Caroline Gutjahr, Niko Geldner, Laura Bacete and Marcel Beukeboom.
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@rsasidharan.bsky.social pays tribute to Rens Voesenek for his major contributions to our field and #plantscience in general. 🌱🌊 Inspiring anectdotes and life lessons from Rens, who was a mentor to many of us. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494
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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The latest paper from our work on DMR6. Genetic suppression of growth reduction in the Arabidopsis dmr6_dlo1 mutant. Results of the forward genetics screen by Tijmen van Butselaar💪🏻. Interested… read the paper😄. onlinelibrary.willen.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Genetic suppressors of the growth‐immunity trade‐off in the Arabidopsis salicylic acid‐accumulating dmr6 dlo1 mutant
This study reveals genetic factors underlying the salicylic acid (SA)-mediated growth-immunity tradeoff in plants by identifying suppressor mutants with restored growth in the background of the highl...
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Gardiner_Lab @gardiner-lab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Ever wonder how flower petals can make such amazing patterns? Me too, and thanks to @nwonieuws.bsky.social, we will get to find out! www.uu.nl/en/news/biol... @petuniaplatform.bsky.social #plantscience #UtrechtUniversity #NWO #flowers #epigenetics
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Biologist Jason Gardiner secures €1 million grant to study how flowers make patterns
A new project aims to build fundamental knowledge about flower pigmentation, with real-world applications. This may help breeders create more stable flowers, fruits, and vegetables. The grant is award...
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Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU @binfutrecht.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Check out the latest paper by the Snoek lab in @theplantjournal.bsky.social, a genetics study involving a large field trial with 200 lettuce genotypes phenotyped by a drone. Great work by Rens Dijkhuizen, Bram van Eijnatten, Sarah Mehrem, @guidopmi.bsky.social & others! doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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From aerial drone to quantitative trait locus: leveraging next‐generation phenotyping to reveal the genetics of color and height in field‐grown Lactuca sativa
Understanding the genetic basis of lettuce color is important because these traits correlate with metabolites such as anthocyanins, which are known to have strong antioxidant properties. Furthermore,....
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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
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John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
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UU Plants @uuplants.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Save the date! The 2026 edition of UU Summer School in Environmental Signaling in Plants will be on 24th-26th August 2026! @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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13th Utrecht PhD Summer School​ ​
Environmental Signaling in Plants
Utrecht University, Netherlands  ​
August 24th-26th 2026  ​​​

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Photo of Utrecht cathedral (Dom) tower.
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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our Translational Plant Biology Team from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is well represented at #2025ISMPMI. Come and see our posters: P077 Inigo Banales, P095 Dmitry Lapin, P235 @scoolen.bsky.social, P412 Bart Schimmel. Too bad I cannot attend this year. Enjoy!
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Silvia Coolen @scoolen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I’m honored to give a talk on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the ‘International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions’ congress in Cologne (July). #MPMI @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social
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UU Plants @uuplants.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A strong showing from Utrecht at #ICAR2025! Catch us as speakers, session chairs and at posters #42, 50 and 240 tonight!
A group of 12 scientists posing in front of the conference venue of ICAR 2025.
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Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I thank all co-authors for this work. By combining phylogenetics, structural prediction, and functional assays, we demonstrate that the isochorismate-based SA biosynthetic pathway emerged during Brassicales evolution.
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Femke Halsema @femkehalsema.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Alle media die dit beschrijven als ‘ruzie’, ‘a shouting match’ enz. geven Zelensky verantwoordelijkheid voor de onvoorstelbaar beschamende behandeling die hem ten deel viel. Hier zat een eervol mens tegenover de ergste bullies van het schoolplein. Verschrikkelijk.
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In memoriam: John McDowell, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute news.vt.edu/articles/202... #PlantScience #Obituary
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In memoriam: John McDowell, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute
McDowell, a global leader in the study of plant-pathogen interactions and professor, passed away Dec. 24 after a 19-month battle with cancer.
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Yang Song @y-song.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our latest research, "Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties," is now published online on Nature Microbiology! 🥔✨ Check out the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Let's connect and grow ideas together!
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Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology
Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Very sad news. Great memories of my fellow downy mildew researcher across the Atlantic. He was a strong supporter of the Oomycete and MPMI communities. John passed away way too soon and will be missed.
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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social
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Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology
Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.
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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What the world really needs is a vibe shift. Most people who don’t farm don’t think much about agriculture, & we’ve fallen into a trap of assuming there’s virtuous agriculture and evil agriculture. But we farm because we need to eat. Let’s use biotech and other tech to make less of a mess.
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Corné Pieterse @cornepieterse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Katherine Denby 🌱🥬 @katherinedenby.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I am looking for a speaker for the "Plant Gene Expression Analysis" workshop at the PAG32 conference in January. There are no funds to support speakers unfortunately. Other confirmed speakers are @tralee-sci.bsky.social, Colleen Doherty and Ronan O'Malley. Please message me if you are interested!
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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is a wonderful paper by @mfseidl.bsky.social and colleagues doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Pangenome graph analysis reveals extensive effector copy-number variation in spinach downy mildew
Author summary Plant pathogens are known to evolve rapidly and overcome disease resistance of newly introduced crop varieties. This swift adaptation is visible in the genomes of these pathogens, which...
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CropXR @cropxr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
CropXR also moved to @bsky.app. We will post most messages on LinkedIn. For now we have our handle. Enjoy the blue sky over the field.
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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi Bluesky. Good to meet everyone here again in #plantscience
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Guido Van den Ackerveken @guidopmi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just posted my last message on X. Wonder why I did not do that earlier :-)
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