Abstract submissions and travel award applications (for domestic and international applicants) are now being accepted for ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024 icppbbiocontrol2024.org ! Please spread the word! APS Graduate Student Committee APSbacteriology 🧫🌿🌾 APS Office of International Programs Plant Pathology IS-MPMI

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Graduate students APS Graduate Student Committee researching bacterial plant pathogens, biocontrol agents, or related questions: registration, abstract submission, travel award applications, hotel reservations, all is now available for icppbbiocontrol2024.org

It's always so interesting to hear the different ways people conceive of and build proposals. I sort of see mine as passing through a room- Objective 1 closes the door to the previous room, O2 explores the room you are in thoroughly, and O3 cracks the door a bit to the next room.

First preprint from the lab! We have a new tool that automates the annotation of many kinds of bacterial genome and MGE features. It also includes gene databases for plant-associated microbes and an optional Agrobacterium-specific pipeline. Try it out!

The latest episode of APS' Plantopia #podcast discusses #highered, #leadership, and #passion in #plantpathology. Listen here: plantopiapodcast.org/45

Open Access and Reproducibility in Plant Pathology Research: Guidelines and Best Practices | Phytopathology® Congratulations Nik and all the co-authors! 🥳apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH…

Glad to see this "Burning Questions for fire blight research I" is published online today. Part II is under review and will be coming soon! Congratulations to Rex, George and all co-authors! 🔥🦠🌳 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Very happy to see our recent manuscript on microbe-pathogen interactions affecting pathogen behavior is published on Mbio. Congratulations to Amine and @CuiZhouqi! #nifaimpact journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Special issue alert! Read our new Pathogen Spotlight on Erwinia amylovora, covering #genomics, #resistancebreeding, #diseasemanagement, and more. Read now: bit.ly/3TAO20y

Our bacterial genome annotation tool Beav is now published in mSphere! The newest version also supports gbk files as input to add to previous annotations. Available on bioconda. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Excited to learn our non-transgenic canker-resistant citrus generated by crispr genome editing exempted by EPA, by APHIS, for use by growers! They are the 1st to receive EPA exemption for gene-edited plants! ThanksNIFA funding!Thanks@usda_nifa ⁦⁦U.S. EPA⁩⁦USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service⁩

Check out our new Phytobiomes first look paper led by Stephen Taerum! He observed that inoculating plants with a low number of rhizosphere protist isolates consistently established protist community. apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PB…

I'm very excited to share our work in preprint! We show the critical role of Pantoea agglomerans plasmids in onion pathogenicity. Thanks to Gina Shin, Jo Ann Asselin, Paul Stodghill, Lindsey Du Toit and the entire Stop the Rot team!

We are excited to recruit a PhD/MSc student to work on the bacterial plant pathogen P. syringae and its interactions with plasmids and phage. My group utilizes genomics, molecular bacteriology, protein biochemistry and fieldwork to study bacterial evolution 🧫🌱 Please share! 🤩

Beautiful northern light in Connecticut, USA!

Check out our recent publication which characterized the role of foraging pollinators in assembling the flower microbiota and transmitting the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora! Nice work Salma Mukhtar and all! …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

I had a great visit to Off the Wall Orchard in Concord New Hampshire, and learned about their successful story of using protective agriculture to grow organic apples under a humid climate. no water=less disease Thanks Ron for hosting me!🌿🍎