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Lena Maria Müller

@lmueller.bsky.social

Assistant professor, Salk Institute. Cell-cell communication | peptides | receptors | plant-fungal interactions | mutualism. https://mueller.salk.edu/

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If you are enjoying #2025ISMPMI then you might also be interested in joining the Plant Peptide and Receptor Meeting #PPRM2025, 8th-10th September in Edinburgh. We have a great lineup of speakers and a diverse and inclusive community. More info here pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk

15.07.2025 07:33 — 👍 30    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions This review provides a comprehensive overview of signaling peptides regulating beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. It highlights recent a

Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

01.07.2025 17:52 — 👍 35    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions Interactions between organisms, such as those between plants and microbes, require extensive signaling between and within each organism to detect and recognize the partner and elicit an appropriate response. Multiple families of small signaling peptides regulate plant interactions with beneficial or pathogenic microbes, and sometimes both. Some of these signaling peptides transmit information between different cells or organs of the host and allow plants to orchestrate a coordinated response towards microbial mutualists or pathogens. However, not only plants produce signaling peptides required for the interactions. Microbes themselves also secrete peptide signals, which are detected by host receptors and required for infection. Among these are microbial peptides mimicking those of plants, allowing mutualistic or pathogenic microbes to hijack endogenous plant signaling pathways and evade the host immune system. In this review, we provide a comprehensive summary of current knowledge on host- and microbe-derived signaling peptides and their cognate receptors regulating mutualistic and parasitic plant-microbe interactions. Furthermore, we describe how microbes hijack endogenous host signaling pathways, and discuss possible crosstalk between the plant signaling pathways controlling mutualism with those modulating immune responses to pathogens.

Great review from @lmueller.bsky.social -> Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic

09.05.2025 14:16 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely thrilled to share our story—please take a moment to check it out! Huge thanks to all the contributors and my amazing supervisor @lmueller.bsky.social . This was truly a team effort! #peptides #mycorrhiza

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

15.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings 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...

Here is the link to the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

15.04.2025 00:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.

We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

14.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 120    🔁 47    💬 6    📌 3
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🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

31.01.2025 11:52 — 👍 44    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 0
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Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics - IRBV is located in the Montreal Botanical Garden, one of the largest in North America. job with Université de Montréal / IRBV | 12835129 Tenure-track Assistant Professor position to develop a research program related to quantitative genetics of plants or plant-associated systems.

Plant Biology faculty position @umontreal.ca @irbv.bsky.social : Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

23.01.2025 21:45 — 👍 16    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1
People at a conference. A quotation from a New Phytologist next generation scientists delegate reads '#npnextgen really is an excellent way to meet inspiring people and broaden your outlook on science.'

People at a conference. A quotation from a New Phytologist next generation scientists delegate reads '#npnextgen really is an excellent way to meet inspiring people and broaden your outlook on science.'

Don't miss your opportunity to attend New Phytologist next generation scientists, the FREE meeting for early career researchers in plant science. #npnextgen

4–7 July 2025
Birmingham, UK

Apply to attend by 27 January!
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

22.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 16    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3
Image text: Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Apply by February 7, 2025! Recipients receive: $6000 summer stipend, ASPB membership, $700 for materials, Travel support to Plant Biology 2026. Featuring ASPB logo on a plant themed background.

Image text: Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Apply by February 7, 2025! Recipients receive: $6000 summer stipend, ASPB membership, $700 for materials, Travel support to Plant Biology 2026. Featuring ASPB logo on a plant themed background.

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).

Learn more and apply by February 7, 2025 👉 https://surf.aspb.org

21.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2
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DISCOVER Symposium - Salk Institute for Biological Studies Applications are open! Program Overview & Goals The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences Symposium for a Diverse Inclusive Scientific Community Offering a Vision for an Ecosystem Reimagined (DISCO...

This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
www.salk.edu/about/our-co...

21.01.2025 22:28 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Realising the promise of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biofertilisers through more applied research Click on the article title to read more.

Matt Salomon and I just published a commentary on @lizkoziol.bsky.social’s recent paper in New Phyt on AMF products. These products are lacking - but whose responsibility is it to further their quality and function for agriculture - academia or industry?

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

24.12.2024 07:47 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
New Phytologist Special Issue: Mycorrhizal research now. View of the soil mycorrhizal community in a hypothetical forest dominated by oak species associated with different types of mycorrhizal fungi.

New Phytologist Special Issue: Mycorrhizal research now. View of the soil mycorrhizal community in a hypothetical forest dominated by oak species associated with different types of mycorrhizal fungi.

Special Issue: #Mycorrhizal research now

By integrating molecular, physiological, and ecological perspectives, this collection untangles interactions between #plants and #fungi and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems.

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/242/4

24.12.2024 11:00 — 👍 67    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 3
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New carefully conducted study from
@michela-audisio.bsky.social finds little evidence for previous, spectacular claims of massive carbon transfer between roots of trees (but support for plant-fungus carbon transfer).

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

06.12.2024 08:13 — 👍 101    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 3

Hi new folks, I share my list of #amf 🍄🧪 sci people. Please let me know who I missed.
🌎🦠 #mycosky
go.bsky.app/scQ6YL

24.11.2024 14:22 — 👍 60    🔁 22    💬 11    📌 0

We are hiring! Two assistant prof level jobs in biology. Focusing on cellular and molecular biology, microbiology, and metabolic physiology but all good candidates will be considered. cas.gsu.edu/about/employ...

04.12.2023 00:20 — 👍 13    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 1
Snowy swiss alps

Snowy swiss alps

Interested in foliar and soil microbiomes under climate change and assisted migration? Our new PhD position at
the Swiss Federal Institute WSL with lots of time at @univie.ac.at is now open. Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1589/...

DM or e-mail questions!

04.12.2023 07:45 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

The Biology Dept at Queen's U, Canada is hiring 2 faculty, either Assistant or Associate:

i) Indigenous Science - joint with Envt'l Studies
ii) Director of the Queen's University Biological Station

Find details here: biology.queensu.ca/jobs/

#evolution #ecology #conservation #IndigenousSTEM

04.12.2023 17:10 — 👍 15    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 0
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We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the
Salk Institute

🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling
🍄 plant-fungus interactions
🍀 symbiosis
🤩 great team and amazing views

Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf

10.11.2023 13:56 — 👍 18    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 1
Tenure Track Professor, Department of Biology The Biology Department at Wesleyan University seeks a tenure-track professor (open rank) in evolutionary developmental biology and broadly related areas. The successful candidate will develop an activ...

Wesleyan University is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in evo-devo. Great job!
careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10102

20.11.2023 15:39 — 👍 2    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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My lab (blogs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...) is looking for a postdoc to study host and pathogen diversity and interactions at the interface of wild and working landscapes in Oregon! Come and join us! gradschool.oregonstate.edu/sites/gradsc...

20.11.2023 18:28 — 👍 11    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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Please re-post! The University of California Riverside is recruiting an assistant professor on the genetics and genomics of 🌾 🍊 🥑 🍇 🍅 🌽 plant resistance to nematode pests. Note: prior experience with nematodes is not necessary! I will be chairing the search: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01804

13.11.2023 21:18 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

Wonderful mentor, amazing science and a spectacular institute - makes me wanna do a postdoc all over again

11.11.2023 06:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the
Salk Institute

🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling
🍄 plant-fungus interactions
🍀 symbiosis
🤩 great team and amazing views

Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf

10.11.2023 13:56 — 👍 18    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 1
FSU - Biological Science Department of Biological Sciences website

Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.
 
Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...

07.11.2023 21:55 — 👍 23    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 2
Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824
Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄

06.11.2023 01:36 — 👍 37    🔁 56    💬 1    📌 1
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Funding alert!

A new Royal Society independent postdoc fellowship scheme launches next week.

Lots of funding and very prestigious.

Only for applicants of black heritage.

Good to see the RS putting substantial money behind a plan to diversify research.

royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

03.11.2023 13:50 — 👍 37    🔁 55    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Mary 😊

02.11.2023 12:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our UW Biology dept has led seminal research on evidence-based teaching practices: active learning, equitable classrooms, and other topics

We're now seeking tenure-track faculty member to build a new, exciting education research program

Please share with colleagues!
apply.interfolio.com/130335

01.11.2023 18:40 — 👍 8    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

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