The Invasive Species Collaborative @ VT is thrilled to announce an invasive species-based cluster hire Virginia Tech for 7 new tenure track faculty! We are seeking individuals who possess the skills to bridge disciplinary divides, drive innovative solutions, and engage in team science. 🧵

Preprint alert! How does pathogen population respond when challenged with host defense and ozone stress? Can we predict pathogen evolution under altered environment? We seek answers to these questions in this manuscript. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper is finally out in Lance Microbe. In this study we tracked the source of a SARS-CoV-2 cryptic lineage from the main treatment plant in a WI city all the way to a single set of bathrooms... using nothing but wastewater sampling and sequencing. 1/ thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Happy to see this work finally out! A great collaboration with Marie-Agnès Jacques, Jeff Jones, Boris Vinatzer, Tal Pupko, and Joint Genome Institute! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Bioinformatic postdoc position in identification of both plant & animal pathogens using genomic & metagenomic sequencing. Become a member of a team of computer scientists, plant pathologists, and veterinary pathologists at Virginia Tech. lnkd.in/eHFVPTJz.

It was amazing to catch up with Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana alumni at ‘International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria’ ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024. Navdeep Kaur Sehgeet Kaur Amanpreet Kaur #PhD #womeninSTEM #bacteria

I had a blast at the ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024 🌱! It’s the end of a great week meeting so many great scientists and the start of new collaborations! Thank you for the opportunity to give a talk about my favorite pathogen and the great organization✨✨

Really nice to meet you again!

A pangenomic atlas reveals eco-evolutionary dynamics that shape type VI secretion systems in plant-pathogenic Ralstonia @TLowePower #plantpathology #plantdisease #scicomm #openaccess journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

In Lisbon for Neobiota 2024, my first time. Looking forward to all of the invasive species science. Also let’s chat if you’re interested in joining Invasive Species Collaborative @ VT as we have 3 positions open now!

Ever wondered how we’ve transformed from decoding a few hundred DNA bases to unraveling the entire human genome in just days? 📜🔬 My latest article on takes you on a fascinating journey through the evolution of sequencing technologies! linkedin.com/pulse/mapping-… via LinkedIn

Happy to share my first manuscript from my PhD! I’ve been fascinated by the functional diversity of FLS2 and how certain variants can recognize immune-evaded flg22 from important plant pathogens. In this work, we employed various approaches to engineer expanded flg22 perception.

Plant pathogen detection and disease diagnosis technologies have undergone significant advancements. Read the Review article by Jaime Cubero et al. to learn more: INIA-CSIC Science at Melbourne IAS-CSIC ETSIAAB / #AlimentaElFuturo IA2 ANOVE doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-…

We have a FULLY-FUNDED PhD OPPORTUNITY between StrathPharm&Bio SIPBS CompBiol (me) & James Hutton Institute CMS James Hutton (Ashleigh Holmes & Sonia Humphris) investigating how bacterial pathogens cause disease: Project: shorturl.at/CzSTv Apply by 2025-01-06: shorturl.at/iLvLz

mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

For any plant pathologists or fungus enthusiasts doing DNA barcoding, here’s a one-tube rapid DNA extraction method from diseased tissue or tiny immersed fruitbodies that might be useful for DNA-based identification of plant pathogens. The method was developed by Dong et al.

Postdoc opportunity at UC Berkeley to work on a collaborative project between UC Louvain, Virginia Tech, and UC Berkeley. The goal is to characterize Xylella fastidiosa diversity on forest & agriculture trees/shrubs in temperate climates. Message me for details. APSbacteriology 🧫🌿🌾

Assistant Professor position Virginia Tech in Plant Resilience to Water Stress. Many opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in VT School of Plant and Environmental Sciences Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center Global Change Center ~ at Virginia Tech and many more cross-campus initiatives and ARECs across the state careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…