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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza

@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social
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Plant biologist interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions, among many other things. PI of the MoRE lab at CRAG (Barcelona,Spain), opinions are my own.

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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy to see this out!, nice collaboration with AM symbiosis experts Lanfranco and Ballestrini Labs. We complemented their expertise in LMD by implementing @cragenomica sRNA recovery from LMD samples, library preparation and analysis. Results coming out soon! link.springer.com/protocol/10....
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Co-extraction of Small RNAs and Total RNA from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Roots Using Laser Microdissection
Understanding gene expression at the cellular level is essential for dissecting plant–microbe interactions. Laser microdissection (LMD) is a powerful approach for isolating specific plant cell t...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Virome-wide ubiquitin ligase discovery reveals diverse mechanisms of immune evasion @science.org @harvardmed.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wait no longer to apply!, exciting science, world-class facilities and a great supervisor!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Very excited to share our latest results on the evolution of plant antiviral defense at the meeting from @scb.iec.cat Societat Catalana de Immunologia. Come to discuss our findings @cragenomica.bsky.social if you are around on Thursday!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I am thrilled to share our last work on the evolution of plant antiviral immunity @cragenomica.bsky.social !. Please, let us know what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.648 98/2026.05.18.725958v1 🧵
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Very excited to be tomorrow @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social telling our latest work at the Molecular Reprogramming and Evolution (MoRE) lab @cragenomica.bsky.social on the co-evolution of plant development and Immunity, come to join us tto discuss about it if you happen to be around!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I think it should be mandatory that the submission date and the whole time frame of the papers from submission to acceptance is clearly disclosed in all manuscripts
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Central Eukaryotic defense components, including plant NLRs, might have been domesticated after HGT from bacteria!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We are looking for a new Director @cragenomica.bsky.social to help us keep growing and making even cooler science, come join us!, Application details www.cragenomica.es/sites/defaul... please, help us spread the word!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are very lucky today having @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social sharing with us the work of his lab @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today's sampling was great!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#PlantJob do you have experience in metabolomics and want to help us to get to the next level in our research @cragenomica.bsky.social , if so, please consider applying to this post to manage our facility!, please, help us spread the word! recruitment.cragenomica.es/jobs/genomic...
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Metabolomics Platform Scientific Lead (Ref. 20/2026) | CRAGJobs
CRAG is inviting applications for an Established Researcher (R3) position funded under the ESTAB 2024 programme (Modalitat C) of AGAUR.
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions?, the MoRE Lab is open to support MSCA applications. Please, check if you are eligible, send your CV and motivation letter including up to three possible references to ignacio.rubio@cragenomica.es
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...
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Symposium | International Young Talent Attraction for Junior Group Leaders
CRAG is launching an international call to showcase the Center’s opportunities to outstanding early-career researchers interested in establishing their first independent research group.
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
micro RNAs rule!, amazing biotech potential for plant miRNAs. Very cool paper from Bin Han' and Jiawei Wang's lab on miRNA156 contribution to rice perenniality www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Resetting of a tandem microRNA156 enables vegetative perennial growth in rice
Annual cultivated rice was domesticated from perennial wild rice, yet the genetic mechanism of perennial growth habit remains unclear. Using introgression lines of wild and cultivated rice, we identif...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Happy to be sharing our research back home in a couple of weeks! @mbgcsic.bsky.social
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We are very lucky today for having @joopvermeer.bsky.social @cragenomica.bsky.social sharing with us the super cool research about plant organogenesis going on in his lab
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@cienciagob.bsky.social lo de pedir a un ciudadano de la UE un certificado de residencia en España para poder SOLICITAR una beca FPU, ademas de no tener sentido es discriminatorio. Es asi como internacionalizamos nuestra ciencia?. La conversion d notas es un chiste, 10 en Italia es 9´5 aqui?
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Today at my Biking seminar series, the one and only @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social telling about evolutionay dynamics of NLRs and other plant immune components youtu.be/6D3_OSLc6fw?...
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Ksenia Krasileva: The evolution of plant immune system
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Interested on how plants diversify their developmental strategies and immunity and how that impacts the evolution of the microbes they interact with?. Do you have a good CV (9/10 at least) and looking for a PhD? reach out if eligible for this program shorturl.at/zJQ3h
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Joan Oró grant to hire research staff in training FI 2026
Grant for public and private universities of the Catalan university system, research centres, hospital foundations and Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) to hire research staf...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today at my biking sessions...plant symptom recovery under viral infection youtu.be/5wbs_RLn6O4?...
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Plant Defense and Viral Counter Defense Mechanisms Regulating Symptom
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The MoRE lab @cragenomica.bsky.social wishes you all the best for 2026!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Very happy to share this study in collaboration with @jaz-humphreys.bsky.social and @frannybarbs.bsky.social , with our little contribution, on the role of Ck on Sugar-mediated gemma formation @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha
Liverworts can clonally propagate by producing compact shoot structures called gemmae, which develop within basket-like structures known as gemma cups. It was previously reported in Marchantia nepalen...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Cool bonus from participating on the IMCBio event today @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social is to attend to an amazing seminar by the one and only @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social !, what an awesome coincidence!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Audentes fortuna iuvat...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We have today @cragenomica.bsky.social Michael Holdsworth @n-end-rules.bsky.social sharing with us the latest cooking at his lab about proteostatic regulation
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Cristina Barragan @cbarragan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#plantjob If you are interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and have a PhD degree obtained between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, come join us and apply to the "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contracts!. Drop a mail with your CV + motivation letter!
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Isabel saur @izzysaurlab.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We are very lucky to day @cragenomica.bsky.social for having @grandpahiro.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social sharing with us his fantastic science revolving about the diversificarion of plant immune systems.
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Very nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway
The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years (Delaux and Schornack 2021). Because of their intracellular nature, the est...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I was very lucky to have the chance to organize what it turned to be a fantastic workshop last ICAR2025 with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and two talented ECRs, Katarina and Hantao, including very exciting talks. You can find a nice summary of what happened in this blogspot!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you happen to be at #ICAR2025 you can not miss this workshop in which I will be sharing the stage with really amazing colleagues to talk about antiviral immunity!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#ICAR2025 we start our panel discussion around some questions
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#ICAR2025 we start with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social introducing our workshop, let's the fun begin!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Congrats on the @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social award for dissemination to @natanellae.bsky.social ! Well deserved!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Tomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How cool is that!, bacterial canibalism to cope with hard times!
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#PlantScience I will be talking about evolution of plant development and antiviral immunity #ICAR2025 along with amazing colleagues!, come join us on Friday 20th! @cragenomica.bsky.social
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Happy to attend a seminar by Eric Schranz from @w-u-r.bsky.social talking about his work on rice genomics
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Join this exciting #ICAR2025 workshop on plant heterogeneity and novel imaging/sequencing tools, with an excellent speaker lineup you won’t want to miss!
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EvoDevoSigNet @evodevosignet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social @cragenomica.bsky.social is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies
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EvoDevoSigNet @evodevosignet.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Exciting!, the second EvoDevoSigNet meeting will take place next June 2nd to 4th!, come join us for the talks and networking for free (details in the advertisement!!), supported by @cienciagob.bsky.social
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Did you know that plant species that pioneer land colonization, such as the bryophyte M. polymorpha, are infected by RNA viruses and show similar/dissimilar antiviral defense programs to those found in crops and other vascular plants?. Check out our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Conservation of molecular responses upon viral infection in the non-vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha - Nature Communications
Assessment of the evolution of plant-virus interactions suggests rapid reshaping of plant viromes after land colonization, along with rerouting of general defense responses to newly acquired vascular ...
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Really happy to attend to a seminar by the one and only @brunocontrerasm.bsky.social telling about his work on discovering regulatory sequences
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Conservation of the role of the SERK-BIR module in Marchantia polymorpha. Nice tour de force from @grandpahiro.bsky.social et col @currentbiology.bsky.social !
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Our work on cryptic infection of giant viruses was published today in @ScienceMagazine . We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami & NIOZ scientists. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga
Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant viruses remains unknown. Here we describe a 617 kbp integrated giant viral element in the model green alga C...
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