An international research team led from Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology at Aarhus Universitet are the first to determine the crystal structure of an exopolysaccharide receptor. These results give insight into how plants and microbes communicate. In Nature Communications. tinyurl.com/yym7z9ym

Researchers discover a new and unique class of carbohydrate receptors. Congratulations Jaslyn, Kasper and the entire team! mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-ev…

Distinguishing friends from foes or compatible friends is crucial for legumes. Through a great team effort, the molecular signatures enabling this selectivity have been found, and used to wire novel recognitions in LysM receptors. Congratulations everyone! science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

Ligand-recognizing motifs in plant LysM receptors are major determinants of specificity | Science ⁦@DFIDAgResearch⁩ science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

Our new paper in Microbiology Society Microbial Genomics uses Oxford Nanopore sequencing to complete 8 #Mesorhizobium #genomes. Compares #symbiosis islands with Meso genomes from NCBI and identifies their underlying evolutionary relationship. #microbiology #lotus tinyurl.com/y48nqdv7

Our work about Nod factor recognition by NFR5/NFP -type Nod factor receptors is now published in PNAS. Very happy about it :-) Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology @ENSA_Project pnas.org/content/118/44…

A fun paper!; 14 years on from a serendipitous and at the time frustrating discovery, a remarkable regulatory system uncovered!

Biology and engineering of integrative and conjugative elements: Construction and analyses of hybrid ICEs reveal element functions ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

1/ Another PhD thesis chapter out: “Type I CRISPR-Cas provides robust immunity but incomplete attenuation of phage-induced cellular stress” in @NAR_Open. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

The first gene I ever predicted a function for now has a crystal structure Callum Verdonk Clive Ronson Charlie Bond RdfS DNA-binding protein forms infinite superhelical filaments (maybe in vivo) to stimulate gene transfer. Presented in detail by Brady Johnston

Today was Dr. Megan O'Malley’s last day in the lab.She joined us as one of my first NZ students in 2018 and now leaves a a freshly minted PhD. It’s so sad to see her leave but we wish her the very best for her new chapter with Sherene Loi, MD Peter Mac Research in Melbourne!

An overlooked family of HTH-domain proteins activate and 'anti-activate' gene transfer. Monumental effort from co-1st-authors Dr's Will Jowsey, Dr Calum Morris and Drew Hall in a colab between Clive Ronson, Charlie Bond, Joel Mackay and Josh Ramsay labs doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…