GraphVelo allows inference of multi-modal single cell velocities and molecular mechanisms biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- A trade-off between investment in molecular defense repertoires and growth in plants (Science) anna-liisa laine Michael Giolai (Summary by Ching Chan ntnuchanlab) plantae.org/a-trade-off-be… #PlantaePSRW

📢 Applications now open! New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 #npnextgen 4–7 August 2025 Uni of Birmingham, UK Applications close on 27 January 2025. Early career researchers – apply now! 👇 newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/… Wiley Plant Science BIFoR

Two decades ago, researchers started an experiment that would challenge the prevailing scientific understanding of plant communities. While modern agriculture treats diversity as inefficient, the Jena Experiment proved the opposite: complexity is the key to resilience.

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Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now Cell Host & Microbe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 cell.com/cell-host-micr…

New RESEARCH ARTICLE - Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties By Yang Song, Roeland Berendsen & colleagues nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) & Alvaro Sanchez Lab! Stay tuned!

University Lecturer Job in Plant Biology at University of Helsinki in Finland, See details at: agristok.net/2025/01/01/uni… via Agristok

📣 NEW VACANCY: Predoctoral Internship in the Cyril Zipfel group For: ▶️ Students considering future PhD studies ▶️ ‘Year-in-industry’ undergrads 🌱📷 with an interest in plant science research ⏳Apply soon! Application review already starts 6 Jan '25 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl…

Awwww did someone take your hard work and use it to train a model to mimic your expertise without compensation

#ERGAReads | How familiar are you with k-mer-based techniques? This publication provides an in-depth #review of their theoretical foundations and practical applications in #biodiversity genomics, with a special focus on #genome modeling. ➡️genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (Saskia Hogenhout, John Innes Centre) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.

Very happy to have contributed to this together with Anita Bollmann-Giolai & Sílvia Busoms! Wild Brassicaceae with differing in salinity tolerance (same plant species), harbor distinct microbiomes with strains that can promote growth under salt stress. Preprint: doi.org/10.22541/au.17…

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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New #AlphaFold materials now live! Earlier this year, with Google DeepMind, we held the AlphaFold Education Summit to increase capacity and enable more researchers to use the #AlphaFold system and database. View the free course materials: ebi.ac.uk/training/mater… EMBL-EBI

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

Very happy to share our newest preprint! We show that plant genotype drives microbiome recruitment under extreme abiotic stress (serpentines vs. non-serpentines) and identify key microbial taxa that explain how microbiomes can enable stress adaptation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…