It was a pleasure hosting Shirasu Lab@RIKEN during his visit. Engaging scientific discussions and lively dinner conversations made it a memorable experience! Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) Erh-Min Lai KaWaiMa@lab IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所)

Excited to announce that Dr. Erh-Min Lai (Erh-Min Lai) will officially assume the role of Director at IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所), 中央研究院 Academia Sinica, starting Jan 10, 2025! 🎉 📅 Handover Ceremony & Tea Reception 🕒 3:00 PM, Jan 10, 2025 📍 A134 Lecture Hall, Agricultural Technology Building

Final painting of the year! ‘Tony Maxwell’, 2024, 30 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Made in honour of Prof. Tony Maxwell’s retirement this month after 24 years at John Innes Centre doing groundbreaking science, including work on DNA gyrase, a topoisomerase that helps supercoil dsDNA.

I moved to #Bluesky - Sadaf Shadan.bsky.social . I look forward to seeing you there.

Well done, Erika and Yasu!

New! Well done, Max! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The inner workings of the world's weirdest flower, Hydnora: that fringe of tooth-like “bait bodies” at the top attracts beetles that become temporarily trapped underground in the hollow chamber beneath, where they pick up pollen. The beetles are later released, and take the

We described this new species today: Orobanche andryalae, from the Canary Islands. Welcome to science you beautiful thing ✨

Disruption of the mRNA m6A writer complex triggers autoimmunity in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

A collaboration paper is out! We revealed a part of the mechanism underlying symbiosis between plants and soil fungi, which is important for crop production. Happy to contribute to this study! Caroline Gutjahr Dave Nelson nature.com/articles/s4146…

“For groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.”: Jeffery Dangl, Jonathan Jones, and Brian Staskawicz, Wolf Prize Laureates in Agriculture 2025, have revolutionized our understanding of plant immunity and disease resistance. Celebrate their

Very excited to see my first first author paper published in PNASNews . We found the first effector regulator in plant-parasitic nematodes! Congratulations to all authors and co first author Clément Pellegrin. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Well done, Bruno and Yasu!!!

Steven Runo Shirasu Lab@RIKEN RIKEN Any plan for the next weekend? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

慶應義塾大学理工学部生命情報学科の准教授に着任いたしました！念願のテニュアです！榊原先生の後任としてバイオインフォマティクス研究室を運営していきます。今年度は修士一年が一人と、学部四年が六人です。頑張ります！

「NAIST Edge BIO」第30回を公開しました。 バイオ領域の各研究室で取り組んでいる「最先端」の研究プロジェクトや研究成果について紹介しています。 今回は #植物共生学研究室 若竹 崇雅 助教 「寄生植物は宿主にどう入り込むのか？」です。 bit.ly/427UeS4 #NAISTバイオ

We’re excited to host the 16th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference #ENFC2025 in Oxford! 🌱✨ Invited speakers are set, now we’re waiting for your abstracts! Key dates: 🗓️ 30/04 – Early Bird Registration 📝 01/05 – Abstract Deadline More at👉web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad978…

本会会員の久保康之氏（摂南大学）Yasuyuki Kuboが日本農学賞・読売農学賞を受賞しました💐受賞研究は「ウリ類炭疽病菌の付着器侵入の分子機構に関する研究」です🥒受賞講演ではきっかけとなった実験結果から最近の成果までを紹介くださり、久保先生が積み上げた知見の大きさを改めて実感しました✨

It was a great honour to give the Barbara McClintock lecture at Cornell this week

[IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) Seminar] 2025-04-29 11:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Gitta Coaker Gitta Coaker (Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, USA) Title：Exposing Pathogen Variation: Engineering Plant Immunity and Investigating Spatial Defense