Big celebration at TSL for Neftaly Cruz Mireles's impressive new paper! "The phosphorylation landscape of infection-related development by the rice blast fungus" is the result of Nef's exciting PhD research & the combined expertise from Nick Talbot, TSL Proteomics & TSL Bioinformatics

📌Are you ready for your next career step? We are hiring a research scientist (required postdoctoral experience) to join Pests and Diseases CSIRO (Canberra, Australia). To learn more jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2…

Very happy to see the peer-reviewed version of our recent preprint online on New Phytologist ! We found that the nucleotide binding domain of sensor NLRs is sufficient to activate downstream NRC helpers! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

📄 New Publication: The nucleotide-binding domain of NRC-dependent disease resistance proteins is sufficient to activate downstream helper NLR oligomerization and immune signaling Mauricio Contreras Hsuan Pai 白暄 Sophien Kamoun Clémence Marchal Hiroaki Adachi tsl.ac.uk/publications/1…

Together with my colleague Jose Rufián as guest editors at JoVE, we are pleased to invite contributions to the newly released methods collection dedicated to pioneering methods in plant-microbe interactions. For more info ▶️ app.jove.com/methods-collec…

Last call 📢 There is still some time left (deadline 17.06) to apply for the #PhD position in #theustunlab. More info below in the post or here: theustunlab.com/positions/

1,5 month left to apply. Reviewing & interviews to start August 🌱⏱️ Please share!

Very excited to share our latest preprint about coevolutionary dynamics between NLRs and their inhibitor! Solanaceae helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade the inhibition by cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 Mya (1/12) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

I am thrilled to share our story of paired NLRs behind Yr84-mediated resistance in wheat. Many of you heard some pieces from my oral talks at the conferences, but finally we are ready to present it in a manuscript! Curtis Pozniak biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very excited to share our latest paper! We solved the structure of the helper NLR NRC2 activated by the virus resistance protein Rx using cryo-EM. It forms a hexameric inflammasome-like resistosome! 1/14 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A tightly regulated copper-inducible gene expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana Chiang et al. Chih-Hang Wu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) 📖 ow.ly/wLNY50SOkXu

Out now from the Open Wild Wheat Consortium: ‘Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome’. 46 Tauschii genomes shed new light on the bread wheat D genome history. Almost 40% of the D genome gene content resulted from secondary hybridization events. nature.com/articles/s4158…

How can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function? In our new pre-print, we explore this question using the plant #exocyst 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I feel excited and honoured that European Research Council (ERC) selected my project for funding! 🎉 With our #ERCStG "FRIENEMIES" we will investigate the #evolution of plant-fungus interactions from pathogenic to beneficial in land plants ZMBP Universität Tübingen #EvoMPMI #PlantSci

Today I presented my talk and poster at #NoCaSS2024. It’s a short summary on AIMapper, the automated pipeline we have been building together with Tarhan Ibrahim to streamline the screening for AIMs in pathogen proteomes. You can find the poster on Zenodo! zenodo.org/records/137099…

The final version of our Fusarium review is now online! First time contributing to composite review figures—huge thanks to Amey Redkar and all the co-authors for this opportunity! Also big thanks to the AR illustration team for polishing our submission 😊 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

The artist Hsuan Pai 白暄 encounters her art in the wild at British Society for Plant Pathology! Worn by the legend Megan McDonald on top of it 🤯

I am super excited to share our latest preprint on novel agrobacterial strains enabling hyper-efficient transient expression in N. benthamiana and other solanaceous plants! This work is a collaborative effort between my lab, Erh-Min Lai, and Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻)! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our latest discovery of the autoactive CNGC15, sufficient to enhance root endosymbiosis in legume and field grown wheat: nature.com/articles/s4158… Thank you to everyone involved! Special shout-out Nicola Cook, G.Gobbato, collaborators @DaveLawson101 , Cristobal Uauy

A plant pathogen effector blocks stepwise assembly of a helper NLR resistosome biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants