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Michael Giolai @michaelgiolai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New preprint: airborne eDNA + nanopore sequencing can detect biodiversity in ~3 hours. Across 77 air samples from 13 London sites, we found 1,916 species (bacteria to plants to animals), with communities shifting seasonally. Happy to have contributed to this one. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Richard Leggett @richardmleggett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Really pleased to have this preprint out covering air metagenomics in urban environments. It's part of a long-standing collaboration between @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @nhm-london.bsky.social
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📞 I'll never forget the call telling us our @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Challenge proposal had been funded! 🎉 We're incredibly grateful for €10M to study how biodiversity shapes soil health and resilience across Finland, Sweden & Denmark. 🌱🪱🦠 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life... @helsinki.fi
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
There are still a couple of days left to apply for a position as an Ecological Statistician in @rececochange.bsky.social!!
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Ecological Statistician
Ecological Statistician
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Agnos Biosciences @agnosbiosciences.com · 08/04/2026
Hello Bluesky! We are Agnos Biosciences, a new spinout from the @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @nhm-london.bsky.social offering our AirSeq pathogen detection technology.
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our paper with @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social out now in @oikosjournal.bsky.social 🥳 In the picture we are hard at work collecting data on Mount Calanda 🗻
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our Editorial in @embojournal.org ‘EMBO Press co-evolves with molecular ecology and evolutionary biology’ is available online now doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social - PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit... - Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto... Earliest start date: 01/05/2026. We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT
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Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12
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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 09/02/2026
How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist? Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle
Proportion of fast genes, as a trait mapped on the bacteria-wide phylogeny
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
EVENT - OPEN Friday Seminar - HOPWOOD LECTURE: Prof. Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich - "Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research" 🗓️ 13 February 2026 ⏰ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 💻 Register to join online: okt.to/s7xUb5
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Open Postdoctoral Researcher position in Biodiversity Economics for a new collaboration between @rececochange.bsky.social and Environmental and resource economics group @helsinki.fi DL 18 February jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This article is now published! academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... We’ve added a few new analyses. First off, we show that, while gene presence absence variation (PAV) scales with evolutionary distance in both plants and animals, the base level and rate of accrual are both twice as high in plants.
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Evolutionary and methodological considerations when interpreting gene presence–absence variation in pangenomes
Abstract. While graph-based pangenomes have become a standard and interoperable foundation for comparisons across multiple reference genomes, integrating p
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Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Can plant pathogens boost vector fitness? Together with @hassansalem.bsky.social, we review how phytopathogens can spread further by moonlighting as insect symbionts 🪲 More on this nifty lifestyle in @annualreviews.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts
Herbivorous insects can shape the epidemiology of disease in plants by vectoring numerous phytopathogens. While the consequences of infection are often well-characterized in the host plant, the extent...
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
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Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Does local adaptation shape community assembly? Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠 doi.org/10.32942/X2G... @erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577
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Ralph Hückelhoven @huckelhovenr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thank you @marioncmueller.bsky.social, @binebrumm.bsky.social, Eric Kemen, Yiheng Hu and Thomas Lahaye for this nice common effort on effector diversity. Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution
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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
What can we learn from comparing ~2,000 fungal genomes? Find out about: 🍄evolutionary transitions 🍄lifestyles 🍄genome dynamics 🍄sampling gaps 🍄efforts to uncover the remaining fungal dark matter New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Stephen Mondo and Igor Grigoriev www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Victorian-style AI slop. A small girl in a blue dress whose name is not Alice for copyright reasons stands in a forest and stares up at an absurdly giant mushroom, surrounded by many other biologically inaccurate fungi. The scene attempts to hint at fungal diversity, scale, and deep evolutionary relationships. Roughly what happens when you reanalyze ~2,000 fungal genomes and realize how much biology is still hiding in the woods.
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New paper led by @hannasusi.bsky.social shows biodiversity responses to carbon farming are highly context-dependent—varying by management, index and taxa 🌱🪱🐞🐦. Abundance is the most sensitive early indicator for detecting biodiversity impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
TF-MINDI is out! A new method to learn cis-regulatory codes through rich embeddings of TF binding sites. TF-MINDI decomposes motif neighbourhoods, and works downstream of any sequence-to-function deep learning model. We deeply study the enhancer code in human neural development, check out the thread
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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New alleles of Arabidopsis BIK1 reinforce its predominant role in pattern-triggered immunity and caution interpretations of other reported functions - Nature Plants
Thorough genetic analyses by four laboratories reinforce the central role of the protein kinase BIK1 in plant immunity. Other unrelated functions proposed for BIK1, however, are associated with genome...
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s
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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
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TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20th – 31st July…
Inviting Early Career Researchers to join international experts in discussing the latest approaches and discoveries in Plant-Microbe Interactions …
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Here @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social in action collecting this impressive dataset on Calanda
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Out now 🥳 our study led by @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social! With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social. Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m excited to share with you the first @rececochange.bsky.social newsletter, highlighting recent research on biodiversity change, policy-relevant insights and news from across the REC community 💚🌍 Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...
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REC Newsletter 1/2026
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The Alexander von Humboldt foundation has a call for Climate Protection Fellowships. Information event is tomorrow! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i... If you are interested in working on a project related to quantitative disease resistance and climatic trade offs, I could possibly be host!
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Info event: International Climate Protection Fellowship
If you would like to learn more about the International Climate Protection Fellowship, join our online event by Zoom and get all the information on the programme and the application process first-hand...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of #NLR #evolution research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #plantscience
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Marjan Ghotbi @marjanghotbi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Think you need large volumes for microbial experiments? Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
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From microscale to microbial insights: validating high-throughput microvolume extraction (HiMEx) methods for marine microbial ecology
Abstract. Extracting and directly amplifying DNA from small-volume, low-biomass samples would enable rapid, ultra-high-throughput analyses, facilitating th
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 05/01/2026
New Article: "A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eXEMY Non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis, are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjacent genes.
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Wenna Ding @wennading.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
How have mountain building and climate change shaped alpine biodiversity over millions of years? Check out our new study in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change
The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras was shaped by general responses to orogeny and climate change.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
📢 One month left to apply to speak at the #47NPS: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life! Deadline for abstracts and travel grant applications: 2 February 📍 Córdoba, Spain 📅 2–5 June 2026 👉 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience
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Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
Explore how extreme heat affects plants and other ectothermic organisms that underpin ecosystem productivity.Abstract submission now open
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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · 02/01/2026
New online! Keystone concept revisited: insights into microbial community dynamics and control
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Keystone concept revisited: insights into microbial community dynamics and control
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 02 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01266-8In this Perspective, Garza et al. revisit the keystone concept and discuss its relevance for microbial keystone taxa and functions. For this, they explore the different mechanisms behind keystoneness, cover the strengths and weaknesses of current keystone prediction methods, present recent findings on keystone taxa and functions and explore the role of keystones in community control.
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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Giannis Stringlis @gstringlis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Thanks a lot for highlighting our work🙏🏻
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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Evolution of protein domains and protein domain combinations provides insights into the origin and diversification of land plants www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
⏰ Reminder! Applications for the International Undergraduate Summer School at Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social close January 16! Spend eight weeks working with expert scientists and technologies in plant, microbial, and data science.
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International Undergraduate Summer School | John Innes Centre
The Undergraduate Summer School is a unique opportunity for undergraduates from all corners of the world to spend eight weeks at our internationally renowned research centre, partnering with fellow…
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s... #plantscijobs 1/4🧵
Photo of the interior of award-winning Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University building. Glass walls look into the research labs and naturally lit staircase and walkway with study boxes looking into the Botanic Garden
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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A guide to designing cell-surface receptors in plants
Cell-surface receptors perceive environmental cues and trigger appropriate responses. In plants, these receptors comprise ectodomain, juxta-membrane, …
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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
From lab benches to farmyard 🌱🐑 Meet Anita Bollmann-Giolai, a postdoc studying plant–microbe interactions—and living them daily on her farm. A dedicated scientist and seasoned farmer, she bridges research and real-world biology tinyurl.com/5n6henhx #wearebio #wearefml
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Saskia Hogenhout @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New preprint on pop #genomics of #spittlebug—the main insect vector of Xylella, the bacterium that has ravaged olive groves in southern Italy 🇮🇹 🫒 Take-home: problematic insect vector may be less widespread than initially thought—important implications for disease control 💥 👇
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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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