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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Congrats to Siddharthan Lakshmanan for his successful MSc defense today! Great work on gramillin sensitivity in barley and lots of great discussion on ionophores and how they are sensed by plants 😀🌿👨‍🔬 All the best in your PhD journey at U of T!

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm excited to share that I've joined the Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department at UC Riverside as an Assistant Professor. I feel very lucky to work alongside some amazing researchers here and I'm looking forward to setting up the lab to keep working on Fusarium!

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congrats to all of the 3 minute thesis presenters @ASPB2026! Good job to Sid who represented our lab well!

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Plant Hydathodes Detect Microbial Patterns to Close Hydathode Pores and Restrict Leaf Entry | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... Hydathode pores—tiny openings at leaf edges which are thought to be open for pathogen entry—can detect microbial signals and shut temporarily! 💪🪴

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Congrats Emily on successfully defending your Master's thesis! Lots of great discussion on tar spot resistance in corn. Time to celebrate 🥳🌽

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Congrats to Marielle on defending her MSc thesis!! She did a great job presenting her work on Fusarium mycotoxin regulation during plant infection. Well done! 👩‍🔬

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What a fun day we had making a protocol video on plant-toxin interactions with Martin from JOVE. Thanks to Whynn for getting it all ready - the lab was sparkling! 😀🌾Video coming soon app.jove.com/t/69026/eval...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/10/2025

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Welcome back Emily, Marielle and Sid from CSPB in Halifax! Thanks for doing a great job representing the lab and sounds like it was a great meeting 😀

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Check our MSc student's work on barley dormancy, which just came out! His work on the SD1 locus in Canadian barley suggests that the underlying AlaAT1 regulates hypoxia sensitivity. Congrats Lochlen! acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Congrats to our MSc student Sid Lakshmanan for winning an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for his work on gramillin resistance! Well done :)

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Congrats to Sid and Marielle for receiving the Duff Travel Bursary to attend the annual CSPB meeting in Halifax!

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Check out our newest paper on plant immunity in barley- and how the bacterial leaf streak pathogen avoids detection. Congrats to the team! Transcriptional Profiling and Genetic Mapping of Barley Responses to Bacterial Flagellin | apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Which of our trainee speakers will win this gorgeous mug at the BLS meeting in Minnesota this week? Only time will tell. Looking forward to seeing everyone !

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

More jobs! Who wants to do some phenomics with me at AAFC? emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

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Research Scientist – Precision Agriculture

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Liz Brauer @lizbrauer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Anyone looking to run a research lab in plant physiology? Check out this position at Agriculture Canada in Brandon Manitoba emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

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Research Scientist – Plant Physiology

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