Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For everyone who still believes that MDPI is a legitimate publisher. More fake science in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social. Hard to imagine that such obvious image manipulation wasn't picked up in the "review process". #sciencecrisis 030
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026🚨safe the date🚨 our SNP2Prot SFB @snp2prot.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social will host an international conference next summer (June 21st-23rd 2027) with a fantastic line-up of international experts. Registration opens October 17th. 02619
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... 35067
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot." 14340
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Our new plant transformation and tissue culture core facility @unihalle.bsky.social is officially open for business! 🥳🍾 2140
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026We offer state-of-the-art labs and facilities including plant growth and transformation, protein production, microscopy and computing facilities! 010
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026We will continue to study how plant pathogenic fungi coevolve with their hosts plants to cause disease and how we can use this knowledge to develop resistant crop plants. 140
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Now that it's official i've got some news! Our group has moved from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to @unihalle.bsky.social where I am now leading the department for phytopathology and plant protection 🍄🌾🧬 67419
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Where is this type of work heading? We propose an experimental framework for predicting and testing of evolutionary outcomes of pathogen effector—host target interactions. This has implications for preparing for the next disease outbreak and plant disease resistance breeding. 052
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Two of these homoplasic amino acids are located in the binding interface to host HMA proteins! Interestingly, previous functional studies already suggested an adaptive role of these sites. elifesciences.org/articles/8709 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 221
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We found three cases of homoplasy! For example, check how Methionine at position 78 (ATG) mutated independently into Leucine: CTG in APikL1 and TTG in APikl4 and APikL5. Evolution keeps coming up with the same solution over and over. Convergent evolution at its finest level! 122
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Remarkably, only the naturally occurring D66N (Asp to Asn, GAT to AAT) expanded the binding spectrum! Basically, natural selection has picked the only one mutation that confers the phenotype! 132
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025In our case, the ancestral GAT can mutate into codons that can encode 7 other amino acids (via single nucleotide mutations). 121
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We previously demonstrated that the effector APikL2 of the blast fungus acquired a mutation (Asp to Asn, GAT to AAT) in an effector-target binding interface that expanded its binding spectrum to plant heavy-metal associated (HMA) domain containing proteins. journals.plos.org/plospathogen... 120
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We performed "rewinding the tape" experiments based on ancestral sequence resurrection of an effector from the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae to reveal how historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped effector evolution. 121
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Full house at our friday seminar today @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social featuring Edwige Moyroud from @slcuplants.bsky.social on the evolution and development of pattern formation in flowers. 0162
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The last speaker of #efpp2025 is @derekseveri.bsky.social on the challenges and opportunities of plant colonising beneficial bacteria 110
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Starting the afternoon session #efpp2025 is Blanca Landa presenting the BeXyl project in response to the threat caused by Xylella fastidiosa in Europe 100
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Amazing talk this morning #efpp2025 by @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on spatial multiomics in plant pathogen interaction! 293
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Dilantha Fernando closing today's plenary session #efpp2025 presenting progress on R-gene mediated control of canola blackleg disease 010
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Now speaking at #efpp2025 is Aiming Wang on disease control of tomato brown rugose virus 000
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Next up at #efpp2025 is @ssoubeyrand.bsky.social adressing the question how we can utilise diverse types of surveillance data for modelling plant disease spread 030
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Day 2 of #efpp2025 kicking off with Armin Djamei on gall formation in the Ustilago maydis / maize pathosystem 081
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Our next speaker #efpp2025 is Antonio Di Pietro presenting a beautiful experimental evolution approach to track TE movement in Fusarium. 074
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Daniel is looking for postdocs. Highly recommended if you're interested in plant pathogen evolution! 012
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Next plenary speaker #efpp2025 is @danielcroll.bsky.social about the importance of geographic breadth and migration in plant pathogen evolution 272
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Next up #efpp2025 is Sarah Gurr talking about challenges in food security caused by the global spread of plant pathogens 161
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The first speaker this morning is Monika Höfte telling us about the role of lipopetides in pseudomonas #efpp2025 050
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025European plant pathology conference #efpp2025 is kicking off in beautiful Uppsala 0101
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Continuous technical advances contributed to the success of genomics in plant-microbe research and exciting developments keep happening to this date! 110
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Lesson 1: Plant pathogens are in constant coevolutionary conflict with their hosts Lesson 2: Plant pathogen genomes are highly diverse Lesson 3: Plant pathogen genomes are non-randomly “organised” Lesson 4: Diverse mechanisms drive genomic diversity in plant-pathogen populations 120
Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The first langner lab Xmas party! 🤩 I feel incredibly lucky and happy to have such an amazing crowd of young scientist and incredible people around me! 0202
