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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📢 Postdoc opening — Antony-Babu Lab @txresearch, College Station TX. Lead field pathology + pathogen genomics of cotton soil-borne disease: field → genome → diagnostics. @USDA_ARS funded. PhD req'd. Apply 👇 tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AgriLife_Res... #PlantPath #Genomics

Lead field pathology + pathogen genomics of cotton soil-borne disease: field → genome → diagnostics. @USDA_ARS funded. PhD req'd.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

New Publication Alert: We are back with one more publication in our Fusarium pathobiome series, in #Frontiers_in_Microbiology. We demonstrate the genetic potential and the growth effect of a stable core microbiome of Fusarium wilt. Thanks to all the collaborators. Read more; doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

One of my absolute highlights being presented at the #IS-MPMI2025 congress this year. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Thanks @plantdisease.bsky.social and everyone who participated in the discussion.

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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Congrats Carolyn Young! My first #APS #PlantHealth meeting was in 2022, and since then I've had the tradition of taking a selfie with Carolyn Young. This year it was more special with Carolyn' APS fellow award. Congrats!!!

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🌱 At #PlantHealth2025, we’re going beyond pathogens Join our IDEA CAFÉ: Beyond Pathogens: Rethinking Microbial Dynamics in Plant Health Decline On August 5th, 10.00 – 10.45 AM #IdeaCafe #APS #Microbiomes #PlantPathology #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobialEcology #Dysbiosis #Pathobionts #Hyphosphere

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Two of our undergraduate summer interns presented their work at the #IPMB2025 #PLPM poster session. Congratulations Victor Fraga and Saurav Mathur for your hardwork throughout your summer #REEU. @santonyb.bsky.social #microbiomes #pathobiomes #syncoms #PFAS #atrazin

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I was warned, but I never took it seriously. Most of my time is spent deleting emails.

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Is the rise in the number of fake profiles in the last couple of days on bluesky an indication of the app's growth?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17/11/2024

Tenure Track Faculty Opening at Carnegie Mellon in Decarbonization, Climate Change Adaptation, & Related Fields. Please share airb your networks or consider applying. One reason I left a think tank for CMU is because CMU has a lot of folks working on energy & climate. 🔌💡 apply.interfolio.com/154848

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"One of these days I will make a #phylogenomic tree of all trees used as #Christmas trees, and make a 3D model of it with each branch from the wood of those trees" - my thought every year in Nov/Dec for the past 15 years. Maybe someone has already done this. Have they?

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Spatial Genetics Lab @spatialgenetics.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

New paper from our group! We found that maize plants from push-push fields had a higher relative abundance of metabolites toxic to insect herbivores. This suggests that maize plants growing with companion plants are "stronger" than maize plants growing alone. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Push–Pull Intercropping Increases the Antiherbivore Benzoxazinoid Glycoside Content in Maize Leaf Tissue

Push–pull technology refers to a promising mixed cropping practice for sustainable agricultural intensification, which uses properties of intercrop and border crop species to defend a focal crop again...

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Jessica A. Savage @savageplantphys.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I am looking for 1-2 new master's students in the summer/fall 2025 or spring 2026. Research can either tie to our current work on phloem physiology or plant phenology. Please email me if you want to know more!

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Joel Sachs @sachslab.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I'm so excited to announce that my department is now hiring TWO ECOLOGISTS at the Assistant Professor Level. We will be really excited to substantially expand research in ecology in our EEOB Department at UCR. Please Repost and share widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

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Assistant Professor of Ecology

University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Next year's Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025 will be held here in the bracing and beautiful port city of Liverpool 31st March – 3rd April! Watch out: abstract submission deadline is earlier than previous years, on the 12th November... microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

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Annual Conference 2025

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Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

New preprint alert: We define two new metrics V-score and VL-score for genomes and protein families with applications in viral genomics and ecology. These metrics for KEGG, Pfam, eggNOG, VOG, PHROG, are publicly available-https://anantharamanlab.github.io/V-Score-Search/. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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V- and VL-Scores Uncover Viral Signatures and Origins of Protein Families

Viruses are key drivers of microbial diversity, nutrient cycling, and co-evolution in ecosystems, yet their study is hindered due to challenges in culturing. Traditional gene-centric methods, which fo...

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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Time to return to this platform more regularly! And if you know anyone looking for a PostDoc position in phage-host interactions - still one work week left to apply 👇🏼🧬✨

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

This is my first post and I wanted to start with a positive note. This news is three weeks old now. Thanks to AgriLife for the Dean's Outstanding Achievement Award.

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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

#Bacteria & #Fungi Come Together in #Endosymbiosis Study www.labroots.com/trending/cel... www.nature.com/articles/s41... "After several generations, the health of the fungi began to improve. They were changing and adapting to their new resident bacteria. The bacteria also changed."

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