Preprint: Cortical microtubules act as a template to organize nano-scale patterning of exocytosis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Image: Colocalization of TUA5 (green) and KEULE (magenta) in epidermal cells.

A scalable method for modulating plant gene expression using a multispecies genomic model and protoplast-based massively parallel ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

A new open postdoc position in population genomics! RTs appreciated. On the demography of human beings and crop plants. Attached is a group picture during a lab retreat in Lichtenstein. Job description here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/… NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science URPP Evolution in Action

Interactions of sequence diverse effector proteins of wheat powdery mildew control recognition specificity by the corresponding ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Obligate biotrophic fungi cause some of the most devastating diseases on cereals. They are also highly difficult to study…. It is truely remarkable how well described the barley and what powdery mildews are. Here the current knowledge and summary of great resources. Enjoy!

Neurospora crassa as a model system for fungal immunity! 🍄🦠New pre-print and my first, first author paper from the Ksenia Krasileva lab where I dissect N.crassa’s interaction with Pseudomonas biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (A 🧵)

Super happy to share this: A recombinant, interspecific hybrid of two fungal maize pathogens helps us to understand how effector gene regulation determines infection style and tumorigenesis. Huge congrats to Janina Werner and everyone involved! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Improved reconstruction of transcripts and coding sequences from RNA-seq data biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Happy Friday - looking forward to next week!!! Our #Wheat Pathogens EWG has a new #webinar up! 20th of MAR: “Understanding mechanisms of crop pathogen emergence using large genome panels ” by Daniel Croll Have a look here! 👇👇👇 buff.ly/45ttOjL KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 Reem Aboukhaddour

Super excited to share our newest paper, out in Current Protocols! A collab btwn FABI & Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄 With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful!

The "Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular, and Genomic Details of Cereal Crop Diseases" focus issue is now available online! This MPMI focus issue explores major pathogens and pests of wheat, rice, barley, maize, and oats—offering new insights into exploitable pathogen weakness and

Powdery mildews, particularly those infecting barley and wheat, serve as valuable models for studying obligate biotroph effector biology. Merle Bilstein-Schloemer, Marion Müller, and Isabel M. L. Saur summarize current insights into their effectoromes, highlight available omics

SVbyEye: A visual tool to characterize structural variation among whole-genome assemblies academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/daewoooo/SVbyE…

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department DMF UNIL Université de Lausanne! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/applica…

Please RT: Open PhD Position @TUM Ralph Hückelhoven (Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RICs in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more

Kudos Chih-Hang Wu et al! Cell biology at its best applied to an important question!

Virulence on Pm4 kinase-based resistance is determined by two divergent wheat powdery mildew effectors biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_genetic

Check out our latest preprint on virulence on Pm4 controlled not by one, but two effectors! Avirulence vs. Suppression, a beautiful example of the arms race between wheat and mildew. Work led by Zoe Bernasconi, Aline Herger, PilarCaro and Lukas Kunz🌱🦠🧬!!!👇🧵

Finally published. A big thank you to all contributors: Barley resistance and susceptibility to fungal cell entry involve the interplay of ROP signaling with phosphatidylinositol‐monophosphates - Weiß - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…