Postdoc position alert - in Alex Cantó-Pastor's NEW lab at Yale. While we will miss him greatly, a new postdoc will be sure to benefit from his mentorship and will get to participate in a very exciting project at the intersection of development and immunity. Alex Cantó-Pastor

Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳 Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!  biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can grafting tomato onto Solanum torvum reduce crop and yield losses due to Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica? #OpenAccess bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Absolutely delighted to share that I have been awarded an #ERCStG! In maxSYMize, we will explore how plants regulate carbon allocation to beneficial mycorrhizal fungi, and whether we can optimize carbon delivery for enhanced symbiotic benefits. Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge University

Whoa - ggpubfigs is now my most starred repo!! Thank you everyone!😊😊🫶🫶💙💙 x.com/jlsteenwyk/sta…

Hot off the press New Phytologist We have discovered that the sorghum mutant bmr12—impaired in monolignol synthesis—exhibits enhanced resistance to sugarcane aphid infestation. Sajjan Grover lise pingault De-Fen Mou Heena Puri nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

This nice collaborative effort shows that the Arabidopsis LORE PPR receptor, when activated in tomatoes can confer resistance to bacteria, fungi and oomyctes. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Let me present our lab’s latest publication, which is also a big chunk of Sruthi s PhD thesis and part of Simon’s PhD thesis. I am so happy to see this online in EMBO Reports now. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…..

Advertising this amazing tutorial that Rob Lanfear (no longer on this site) put together: "For phylo nerds interested in concordance and discordance: iqtree.org/doc/recipes/co…"

We are looking for a Postdoc! Our lab offers a staff scientist position. If you share our fascination with plant-microbe interactions, take a look: ag-doehlemann.botanik.uni-koeln.de/sites/ag_doehl…

nature.com/articles/s4155… Woah! "At the deepest phylogenetic levels, ancestral habitat reconstruction analyses suggest that eukaryotes may have first evolved in non-marine habitats and that the two largest known eukaryotic assemblages arose in different habitats."

I have an immediate opening for a postdoc.

Our oceans(' fungi) have learnt how to EAT PLASTIC! youtu.be/BeaQA0GQqrI?si… via YouTube

Interesting...the virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor is bacterial, not archaeal. nature.com/articles/s4156… This may be evidence that a bacteria engulfed an ASGARD archaea, rendering it immune from viruses, not the other way around as is typically assumed. Cool!

Activation of an atypical plant NLR with an N-terminal deletion initiates cell death at the vacuole | EMBO reports embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Full article: Fungal cryopreservation across 61 (mushroom-forming) genera: Practical application and method evaluation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What about Burning Man? At least 19 people contract fungal infection after California music festival, officials say New research shows that cases of valley fever, which in rare cases can be fatal, have risen dramatically in recent years theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Pectin methylesterase activity is required for RALF1 peptide signalling output I wonder if pathogen pectinases can also release RALF1 resulting in defense or susceptibility responses...

Antagonistic interactions between maize seeds microbiome species and the late wilt disease agent, Magnaporthiopsis maydis frontiersin.org/journals/funga…