Very excited to announce that the work lead by Lanying Zeng and Junjie Zhang is now online in Science!! The paper details the molecular mechanism of type IV pili detachment by ssRNA phage PP7, which may be common among other ssRNA phages science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🧬🦠Reminder: PhD/Postdoc openings in my lab!🔬🧫Please RT.

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‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy nature.com/articles/d4158…

'Here we use a bottom-up synthetic approach to systematically refactor the tumor-inducing plasmid, wherein the majority of AMT machine components are encoded, into a minimal set of genes capable of plant and fungal #transformation '
#Agrobacterium #pTi
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/3 Excited to share our work published in nature!

We uncover how phages inhibit CRISPR-Cas immunity via RNA anti-CRISPRs (𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗿𝘀)!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are delighted to announce that our research done at ⁦IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所)⁩ on Ustilago maydis PR-1-like proteins has been officially published in ⁦Nature Communications⁩ ⁦ doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

The HOMEODOMAIN-Like protein HDL mediates chromatin organization and rewires leaf epidermal patterning biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Data visualization: how to choose right chart or graph

📷: TapClicks

Nasir Mehmood Yes, I will be on P2.1-042 on Monday and Tuesday.

Martin Mayta researchgate.net/figure/a-d-Con…

You can make an entire figure in R using the patchwork package. A tutorial is available at my GitHub to generate this exact figure (github.com/cxli233/Online…). It covers controlling layout, relative heights/widths of panels, hierarchical assembly, and position of letter labels.

[PubMed] Structural disruption of Ntox15 nuclease effector domains by immunity proteins protects against type VI secretion system intoxication in Bacteroidales dlvr.it/Sr53Xh

Characterization of TelE,a T7SS LXG Effector Exhibiting a Conserved C-Terminal Glycine Zipper Motif Required for Toxicity journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.112…

Dr Erh-Min Lai Erh-Min Lai,my PI, is a presenter in this PlantGENE Virtual Workshop. She is one of the key contributors in global Agrobacterium research. She collaborates within Taiwan such as Dr Chih-Hong Kuo Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) (my co-advisor) & abroad such as in USA. Join PlantGENE

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A glycine zipper motif is required for the translocation of a T6SS toxic effector into target cells
EMBO Reports EMBO Reports

embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

New bioRxiv preprint.
Here, we showed that RBOHD-mediated ROS directly suppresses the T2SS of a potentially harmful Xanthomonas, thereby converting it into a commensal. Interestingly, this 'tamed' Xanthomonas increases the host benefit.
doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Happy to share that, I passed my Ph.D. defense. Credit to my advisor Dr.Erh-Min Lai for her unreserved guidance. I would also like to thank co-authors of the paper, current and former labmates, thesis committee, friends and families.

IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) science education website is now online!
research.ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/home-en/

This site introduces plant/microbe science and scientists to enhance scientific literacy, encourage research engagement and drive innovation forward.

2- Grateful to all authors Jemal Ali Manda Yu Li Kang and Yee-Wai for contribution to this important yet challenging work. Big congratulations to 1st author PhD candidate Jemal, all the hard work has paid off, time for graduation👨‍🎓