Our fantastic SPP2125 DECRyPT community in sunny Cologne

Hello world! A 2-year postdoctoral position is available in my group MPIPZ Cologne. If you like microbe-microbe interactions, microbial genetics, and single-cell omics, this position is for you! Apply here -> jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/d03… Deadline -> Jan 15th Please share 🙏

Check out our latest review from @parkerlab_MPIPZ: "Plant NLR immunity activation and execution: a biochemical perspective" (doi.org/10.1098/rsob.2…). We discuss recent breakthroughs in NLR protein structures and signalling and how they shape plant immunity outputs!

Today, the EU Parliament European Parliament is debating on new regulations of #NGTs . Plant scientists MPIPZ Cologne say it's time to vote YES to New Genomic Techniques. Trust in #Science and trust in #NGTs

Science wins! MEPs vote in favour of supporting greater use of New Genomic Techniques (#NGTs) in the EU. This is a huge step toward more sustainable agriculture. Thank you to everyone who has taken action toward this outcome. 💚🎉

Take a look and let me know what do you think on my first baby as PlantaeFellow 2024. American Psychological Association Picture a Scientist Plantae ASPB #inclusion #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInScience #LGBT #psychology

One third of the world's plant microbiome research potential boarding the Titanic at #PMS2024 .....

New PhD position in plant-microbe interactions! Our newly established DFG Research Unit "MadFungi" will study mechanisms of competition in plant-colonizing fungi: portal.uni-koeln.de/en/universitae… Within MadFungi, our lab is offering a PhD position: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/…

Hello friends, I am making a movie for the start of #ICAR2025 in Ghent next year! I need your help to make it a community project! Please retweet + comment your favorite Arabidopsis live imaging video to be featured in the movie. Anything from macro to single-molecule, tell me!

The virtual issue: "The chemical language of plant–microbe–microbe associations" is out New Phytologist! All selected articles are available here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111… See also our editorial (with Francis M. Martin): nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Big thanks to all authors and Holly Slater!

Bacteria implanted into fungi offer clues to the origins of complex life go.nature.com/3zHTBEE

From gene to phenotype in plant-nematode interactions! A very entertaining talk by Sebastian Eves van den Akker at the SPP2125 conference DECRyPT.

Great talk by Jana Ordon at SPP2125 DECRYPT meeting on Xanthomonadales - friend and foe. Is immunosuppression relevant in the community context?

Lara Van Dijck presented that the conversion of plant secondary metabolites by a fungal root endophyte helps the host to cope with iron stress, an excellent story! A nice addition to the ability of bacteria to improve the iron metabolism of plants.

A nice overview of social and environmental challenges: a fast track to effective bradyrhizobia for soya cultivation in northern latitudes by Sofie Rhizosphere PSB.

Discovery of host factors contributing to Sphingomonas-mediated plant protection against Pseudomonas syringae by Andrea Ghigi from the group of Julia Vorholt at SPP2125 DECRyPT.

Great team, great science, great friends at DECRyPT SPP2125, ETH, Uni Tübingen, MPIPZ Cologne, Universität zu Köln, Universität München .....

....Everything is everywhere and the infected plant selects... 😉 by Roeland @RL_Berendsen at the SPP2125 DECRyPT. nature.com/articles/s4156…

New preprint 🌱✨of work by Anton Amrhein and myself, with help from Stéphane Hacquard & @_A_H_B_. Success of a detrimental Pseudomonas strain depends on the precolonized root community and on exometabolites, and is likely a result of intra-genus competition. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition Van Dijck et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…