The Phytobiomes Journal Focus Issue on the Phytovirome is now available! This special issue sets the benchmark for current phytovirome research, offering key insights into plant-associated viruses. Explore now: apsjournals.apsnet.org/toc/pbiomes/9/1

#cannabis aphid infestations are fast and furious. We’re counting thousands per experimental plant 🌱

My lab is hiring a postdoc to work w/ a multidisciplinary team of scientists across the U.S. to investigate the impact of organic matter amendments on micropredator diversity, pathogen survival, & soil & plant health. Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5355… Please re-share.

We are hiring! auemployment.com/postings/52163 anyone recently graduated/soon to graduate postbac researchers looking for opportunities in computational biology are welcome to reach out to us.

New review out from OHMC's Carolee Bull et al! 🌱 Naming plant pathogens isn’t as simple as it sounds. A cross-kingdom breakdown of how fungi, nematodes, viruses & more get their official names — and why it matters for science, ag, & regulation. Read it 👉 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

I’m excited to share that I successfully defended my Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and International Agriculture and Development last week. 1/2

🌱It has common wisdom that twisted mutants in Arabidopsis trace back to skewed microtubules, but is this true of twining vines? In this new #OnyenedumLab preprint, we find the counterintuitive result that, no, longitudinal microtubules prevails😱 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now published online in New Phytologist 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/nph.70… This work was spearheaded by Shuang Yang from Xiaoming Pang's group in Beijing Forestry University who came to The Sainsbury Laboratory working with Dr. Wenbo Ma and myself. Jujube Witches' Broom Phytoplasma effector🧵⬇️(1/8)

Glassman lab at #asmmicrobe2025 come see ⁦Fabi Pulido-Chavez⁩ and ⁦Ehsan Sari⁩ posters on Friday, my and ⁦Dr. Dylan Enright⁩ posters on Saturday and ⁦Basubi⁩ poster on Sunday! #fire #fungi #bacteria 🔥🦠🌲

An 8-year field study, led by Tim Paulitz and Olga Mavrodi, shows wheat roots dynamically engineer their microbiomes in response to varying environmental conditions—a breakthrough for crop resilience strategies. Read the press release to learn more: apsnet.org/about/newsroom…

Congratulations Prof. & Dr. Isabelle Laforest-L. (she/her/elle) !

🌿🦠 New from the Kevin Hockett lab Penn State News: Phyllosphere microbiomes on tomato plants rapidly shift under pathogen pressure, enriching disease-suppressive microbes & antagonistic genes. Read it 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.118… #Microbiome #PlantHealth #Phyllosphere

From concept to marshaling the forces for readiness, nothing compares to an undivided team of One Health Microbiome Center academics & industry partners designed to unsilo their field and set a new standard for microbiome science education and accreditation. Let us go North psu.edu/news/huck-inst…

New MEC study on how endemic diseases unfold in agricultural fields, describing an integrative approach that links measurements of pathogen diversity and dynamics in the field with local climatic conditions. Wiley Ecology & Evolution 🔗: buff.ly/Riep5dx 📷: Zachary Snipes 1/2

The One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support to graduate students in the microbiome sciences. psu.edu/news/huck-inst…

Excited to be attending my first APS in Hawaii! 🌺 #planthealth2025

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱MSU MSU-PSM Department sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A host has never been just a host. A host has always lived as a multiscale holobiont made from context-sensitive cells of host and microorganisms. It is ultimately this dynamic composition that determines forms, functions, and their endless variations. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…