Group leader at @ipbhalle.bsky.social Plant - Microbe Interactions 🌱🦠🍄 She/her
@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...
Scientific Director (f/m/x)OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to leaoeawnr.onlyfy.jobs
How does a geminivirus replicate its genome using a pick&mix strategy with host proteins? 🦠🦠🌱🧬 Our new preprint identifies plant proteins repurposed by geminiviruses to carry out rolling-circle replication. Congrats @chaonan123.bsky.social , who spearheaded this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!
Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
Excited to share our now published paper @cp-cell.bsky.social highlighting advances in modeling the evolution of protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer. Big thanks to Zhidian Zhang, Olivia Tang, @eunbelivable.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social and @sokrypton.org!
Expanding the scope of protein language modeling to protein-protein interactions with MSA PairformerProtein language models have excelled at modeling individual proteins, but extending
these capabilities to protein complexes remains a major challenge. MSA Pairformer,
a parameter-efficient protein la...www.cell.com
Fusarium oxysporum infection activates ABA signaling to drive root vascular remodeling, creating structural barriers that restrict pathogen spread. Developmentally encoded defense. #PlantImmunity www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...www.pnas.org
🎉 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 to @josephineherbst.bsky.social (@unihalle.bsky.social), winner of the 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 for early-career group leaders at the 39th German Molecular Biology of Plants Conference (#MBP2026)! 🌱
We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität GöttingenWebseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingenwww.uni-goettingen.de
Excited to see our new preprint on bioRxiv! 🌱🤖 We used AI protein design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN) to build brand-new sensor domains from scratch and installed them in a rice NLR immune receptor engineering recognition of a Fusarium effector FoSSP17
yuxuan-xiOur new preprint is out! Using AI-guided design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN), we engineered a plant immune receptor to recognise non-cognate pathogen effectors. Huge thanks to our amazing co-authors for making this possible! doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our new preprint is out! Using AI-guided design (RFdiffusion + ProteinMPNN), we engineered a plant immune receptor to recognise non-cognate pathogen effectors. Huge thanks to our amazing co-authors for making this possible! doi.org/10.64898/202...
Computational design of de novo integrated domains enables rational control of pathogen effector recognition in plant NLR immune receptors.The rapid evolution of plant pathogens poses a persistent threat to global agricultural sustainability, often outpacing the discovery and deployment of natural disease resistance genes. While bioengin...doi.orgTook me a while, but we finally have a new lab website: ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/ I will do my best to keep this one up to date.
Dagdas Lab — Evolutionary Cell BiologyHow cells clean house across the eukaryotic tree of life. Autophagy & cellular quality control at Heidelberg University.ydagdas-lab.github.io
We are excited to invite all current and former members of the Kamoun Lab, together with their lab members and our collaborators to the Kamoun Lab Alumni Meeting on Monday, 7 September 2026 ahead of the ECPP and BSPP at the Assembly House, Norwich.
PhD project on Blast Fungus host pentration open in my #Proteomics group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for an October 2026 entry. Collaborative project with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social. Deadline: 30th July. Open to Home Fee status applicants. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...
Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus (MENKE_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training PartnershipMENKE_S26DTP3biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
My PhD thesis has been submitted and reviewed, and my PhD defence is on the horizon! But today I start my next chapter as a postdoc in the Molecular Plant Immunity lab led by @clemmar.bsky.social at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! Here I will continue to dive into the form & function of plant NLRs 🌱
‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
Our latest work on immune receptor engineering for enhanced pathogen recognition is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... #NLRs #Effectors #Exo70
Engineering an Exo70 integrated domain of a barley NLR for improved blast resistanceEngineering the barley NLR RGH2 enhances recognition of blast pathogen effectors from rice and wheat, leading to improved disease resistance.academic.oup.com
I am thrilled to share this story on how cocktails can help your protein research 🍸. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/6
Polychrome activity profiling distinguishes Cys proteases and their isoforms in plantsActivity-based profiling with fluorescent probes is a powerful tool for the functional characterization of whole enzyme classes in crude proteomes. Here, we discovered that probe cocktails consisting ...www.biorxiv.org
🌱 A big step for plant breeding in Europe The EU has approved the #NGT Regulation — creating “clear conditions for applying modern breeding approaches”, says our CEO Felix Büchting. A step towards more resource‑efficient, sustainable agriculture 🌎 Our Press release: www.kws.com/corp/en/medi...
Preprint: Plant pathogens cleave 2’cADPR to suppress TIR immune signaling Inspired by knowledge on how phages inhibit bacterial immunity, we now show that disease-causing bacteria inhibit plant immunity in a similar way. A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Plant pathogens cleave 2'cADPR to suppress TIR immune signalingSmall molecules produced by TIR (Toll-interleukin-1 receptor) domains are essential for plant immune signaling. A central TIR-derived signal is 2'cADPR, a cyclic ADP-ribose (ADPR) molecule that is gen...www.biorxiv.org📚 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 "How to frustrate a plant pathogen" 🐛 From structural genomics to AI-driven protein design, this review explores new strategies for engineering broad-spectrum resistance against plant pathogen effectors. ✍️ Knight, Heddle and @adamrbentham.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
How to frustrate a plant pathogenPlant pathogens deploy large families of structurally related but sequence-diverse effector proteins to manipulate host cells, allowing them to evade immune recognition whilst maintaining the capacit...doi.org