Major ascaroside pheromone component asc‐C5 influences reproductive plasticity among isolates of the invasive species pinewood nematode onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

MS metabolomics to explore helminth infections - pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We invite applications for a Head of the Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Core Facility (f/m/d). The Core Facility supports scientists with state-of-the-art quantitative and discovery metabolomics technologies. ice.mpg.de/ext/index.php?…

Clearly the most important 190 phone calls I ever made in a single morning... I finally succeeded to arrange the vaccination for my parents (born 1937 & 1940) by the end of this month - so happy.

Sodorifen Biosynthesis – In silico modeling of the SAM-dependent FPP methyltransferase with cyclase activity from Serratia plymuthica confirms a ring contraction mechanism via a cyclopropyl intermediate and identifies an essential catalytic dyad. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Comparison of lipidome profiles of Caenorhabditis elegans —results from an inter-laboratory ring trial #Metabolomics #MassSpec link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Some current opinions in plant-nematode interactions - really enjoyed working on this over the lockdown/s. authors.elsevier.com/a/1cp1f4tPF3mL…

Novel biological function of male-enriched medium chain β-hydroxy ascarosides (bhas) uncovered: Male pheromones modulate synaptic transmission at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction in a sexually dimorphic manner doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

A very nice review about metabolomic techniques for C. elegans by Liesa Salzer Liesa Salzer and Michael Witting Michael Witting mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/5…

Social cues experienced by the mother determines if offspring develops as hermaphrodite or female: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

micropublication on... Transcriptional Response to a Dauer-Inducing Ascaroside Cocktail in Late L1 in C. elegans ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Editing of ascaroside signals by nematodes, mammals, plants, and microorganisms - and a potential mechanistic basis for complex cross-kingdom interactions.

Have been busy making my own spike protein over the weekend. Nowadays science is last years science fiction.

1‐Undecene from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an olfactory signal for flight‐or‐fight response in Caenorhabditis elegans | The EMBO Journal embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Happy to share our eight key rules for successful data-dependent acquisition in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics …iencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ma… Emmanuel Defossez Julien Bourquin Stephan von Reuss Sergio Rasmann and Gaétan Glauser

Model Organism Research Goes Wild: undark.org/2021/07/19/wil… My latest in Undark Magazine. 1/7

Another class of nematode derived modular compounds with hundreds of glucoside structures exhibits biological functions in starvation survival.

In memory of Prof. Wittko Francke (1940 –2020), who brought us together to study “Tetranorsesquiterpenoids as attractants of yucca moths to yucca flowers“. Results from a collaboration with Armin Tröger, Glenn P. Svensson, Rob Raguso, and many others... doi.org/10.1007/s10886…

A recent paper about Influence of the ascarosides on the recovery, yield and dispersal of entomopathogenic nematodes buff.ly/3nv6sAN

ascr#2 is the primary component of the Caenorhabditis briggsae dauer pheromone. New paper by Sternberg and Schroeder lab. doi.org/10.1093/g3jour…