Pierre Buscaill

Amazing! So well deserved, congratulations Megan!

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

Le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête: Dealing with anxiety as an academic Leading a lab means marching like a village chief while quietly watching for budget meteors and attacks by Reviewer #3. Here is a playbook…

I just published: Le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête: Dealing with anxiety as an academic

Here is a playbook to turning irrational academic dread into strategy and momentum.

#AcademicChatter

medium.com/p/le-ciel-va...

A man giving a talk at a lectern with an MPMI logo

Reiner van der Hoorn is first up on the last day of #2025ISMPMI.

Clever use of blue/white screening to identify a bacterial inhibitor of plant beta-galactosidase. Pseudomonas-produced glycoserin mimics galactose!

Also found that glycoserin production stems from purine biosynthesis.

Thank you
And thank to all the team involved especially the main investigator Tifaine Folletti

We're hiring!
Join the Plant Pathology journal as a freelance Technical Reader.
Part-time, flexible hours
Apply by 15 July to plantpath@bspp.org.uk
www.bspp.org.uk/join-the-pla...
#EditingJobs #PlantPathology #AcademicPublishing #Freelance

🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs!
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.

Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏

The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato Abstract. Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most destructive bacterial diseases for which no effective treatment exists. There

📜 The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato

🧑‍🔬 Weiqi Zhang, @bactodeath.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Tomato

Bacterial pathogen deploys the iminosugar glycosyrin to manipulate plant glycobiology The extracellular space (apoplast) in plants is a key battleground during microbial infections. To avoid recognition, the bacterial model phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 produces ...

Pseudomonas syringae secretes the iminosugar glycosyrin to block plant immune recognition. It mimics galactose to inhibit β-galactosidase, disrupt flagellin sensing, and rewire host glycobiology!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved!
#PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab

What does this look like to you?
This is #Phytophthora palmivora (magenta) infecting roots of barley seedlings. All roots are attacked. In the magnification you see small spores attaching along roots. But new sporangia are mostly emerging at the root tips. Image: @matt-macleod.bsky.social

🧬⚙️ INSIGHT: 'Biological functionality of non-functional protein kinases' – Matthieu H A J Joosten et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

🔎👀 TropEco Lab is hiring, please share! 🚨
🌍🌴 Position: Senior Research Associate / Research Associate in Field and Molecular Ecology.
🪲🐝🦋 Task: You will use iDNA & eDNA to build bee-plant and dung beetle-mammal networks in the Brazilian Amazonia, Ghana, & Malaysia.
Further details -> bit.ly/4lurR9z

Happy International Plant Appreciation Day!
BSA member and past board member Chris Martine of Bucknell University shares why he supports the Botanical Society of America.

💚 Give an unrestricted gift today! crm.botany.org/makeadonation
🌿 Share your plant story with #LetsGoPlants & #IamaBotanist!

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana hosts diverse microbial communities collectively known as the microbiota. The plant microbiota is generally taxonomically structured. Some of the members can promo...

‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv.

Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mind blowing talk from @spoel-lab.bsky.social at today’s @ipbhalle.bsky.social seminar.
Thanks Steven for showing mostly unpublished data and for the insightful and very pleasant chats the past two days.

Plz RP.
The Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network (OMGN) Meeting 2025 is now open for registration!

Join us in Cologne to discuss the latest in oomycete biology, genomics & host interactions.

Saturday 12 July, before MPMI conference

#OMGN2025 #PlantPathology

🔗 omgn2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana Click on the article title to read more.

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana Click on the article title to read more.

Thrilled to see this out! 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

🌿🧬 Silencing immunity genes boosts transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana!

Congrats to all involved! A #PlantChemetics story first on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, now in @PlantBiotechJ.

#TransientExpression #MolecularPharming

TSL - Join our team. Predoc internship, plant immunity research at the single-cell and spatial resolution. Tatsuya Nobori Group, Apply by 25 April 2025

VACANCY: Predoc Internship Nobori Lab, UK
Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution

Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science?
Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

Pls repost 🚨I'm looking for someone excited about #proteindesign and #synbio to join my lab @Durham_Uni
at the CPBM @cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social
to undertake a PhD using #synthetic knottins as novel #bioinsecticides. If you're interested please get in touch and check out the advert below 👇

Happy to share our new preprint on the role of the metacaspase AtMC1 in immunity:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635616v1

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana Agroinfiltration of Nicotiana benthamiana is routinely used for transient gene expression in plant sciences and molecular pharming. Here, we depleted transcripts of 21 different immunity-related genes through virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) to identify genes that hamper transient expression in juvenile plants. These experiments uncovered that silencing of ethylene insensitive-2 (EIN2), receptor-like kinase CERK1, transcription factor regulator nonexpressor of pathogenesis-related genes 1 (NPR1) and isochorismate synthase (ICS), increases transient GFP expression by 2-, 4-, 4- and 11-fold, respectively. Accordingly, the npr1a/npr1b double mutant of N. benthamiana does indeed facilitate increased protein accumulation when transiently expressed. These results indicate that glycan perception through CERK1, and ET and SA signaling pathways via EIN2 and NPR1/ICS, respectively, contribute to suppressed transient gene expression in frequently used juvenile N. benthamiana plants. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

Thrilled to see this out!

Silencing immunity genes boosts transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana! 🌱🧬
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Congrats to Issy and everyone involved! #PlantChemeticsLab #Agroinfiltration #TransientExpression #MolecularFarming

Lestrimelitta robber bees standing on the entrance tube

Melipona flavolineata stingless bee guards standing on their nest entrance tube

🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝

Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.

📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau

@leverhulme.bsky.social

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you never heard the story of Le Pen’s Hitler Youth dagger, it’s worth reading about it. kamounlab.medium.com/tales-from-t...

Research Fellow - School of Biosciences - 104926 - Grade 7 This post-doctoral role is associated with Dr. McDonald’s UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, and will explore the biochemistry of the Starship transposases. These transposases are the enzymes responsible ...

I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 PhD Opportunity!

🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!

👨‍🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social

📅 Apply by January 6th

🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology