@adithya1972.bsky.social
Receptor Biochemistry🧫🧑🔬 PhD Candidate Leibniz Institute of Plant 🪴Biochemistry,Halle(Saale),Germany🇩🇪
The hidden danger of Biorender
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
Very nice application of our constitutive active BIR3-RK chimera from @hohmannulrich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1105/tpc....) to dissect the contribution of ERECTA to vascular differentiation. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Congrats to @lauraragni.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social @bayerlab.bsky.social
21.11.2025 18:16 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
21.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 424 🔁 85 💬 9 📌 8Congrats Zarah!
12.11.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love this slide from Máximo González that really captures the complexity in how we achieve plant phenotypes #PMS2025
05.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Investigating Plant Immune Proteases for Enhanced Pathogen Resistance: advertisement for the RISE-DAAD position at daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship Start of the internship: between May 15 and July 15, 2026 Duration: Up to 3 months Funding: monthly scholarship of 992 € + health insurance, accident and personal liability insurance Deadline: The application must be submitted by November 30, 2025
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
06.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
29.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 80 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 11
No matter how advanced you become in bioengineering, the rake awaits us all. The most important thing to do in this godforsaken field is to learn deeply from failure, maintain intellectual humility, and speak up about your struggles. You never know who is out there ready to help.
27.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 58 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Fig. 1.Four classes of roles of immune proteases illustrated via examples. (i) Pathogen perception: Required for Cladosporium Resistance-3 (Rcr3) protease is inhibited by the fungal avirulence effector Avr2. The Rcr3-Avr2 complex is recognized by the immune receptor Cf-2, triggering a defence response (Kruger et al, 2002). (ii) Regulation of the immune response: METACASPASE 4 (MC4) is activated by calcium upon wounding or pathogen attack. MC4 cleaves tonoplast-located ProPEP1 releasing PEP1 to the apoplast where it is perceived by PEP RECEPTORS (PEPRs) thereby initiating defence responses (Hander et al, 2019). (iii) Counteracting pathogen effectors: soybean aspartic protease GmAP5, degrades the Phytophthora sojae virulence factor glycoside hydrolase family 12 (GH12) protein, XEG1 (Xia et al., 2020). (iv) Direct pathogen attack: secreted aspartic proteases (SAPs) cleave Pseudomonas syringae MucD protein thereby suppressing bacterial growth (Wang et al., 2019).
💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social
Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
25.09.2025 05:40 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
In the beautiful Freiburg, South Germany home to the Black forests 🌳to learn more about proteomics based mass spectrometry by ProteoCure Training School hosted by @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social
Excited to be attending and knowing more about it!
LAR tree showing deep gene duplications. Source: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.06.668978
The LAR gene (key to proanthocyanidin biosynthesis) occurs in two copies in many plant species — a great example of how gene duplication drives plant evolution #FlavonoidFriday shorturl.at/5uMtv & doi.org/10.1101/2025...
05.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Day 1 - Leucorea Wittenberg IPB Retreat
Excellent talk by guest speaker Prof.
Ekkhard Neuhaus from Kaiserslautern🧬🧪
@ipbhalle.bsky.social
What a treat! Ekkehard Neuhaus is our guest of honour at the @ipbhalle.bsky.social retreat taking place today and tomorrow at the Leucorea in Wittenberg
02.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Thinking of starting a plant genome sequencing project?
Check out this step-by-step guide:
Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences
📖 www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Jie Huang ( #PlantChemetics lab) and I wrote a dispatch on Zhang et al.'s work (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) describing a #protease effector that cleaves the extracellular domain of a plant receptor-like kinase, and it's none other than BAK1!
Enjoy!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ldGk3QW8S...
📣We offer a #PhDPosition in a trilateral program “Future Proofing #Plants to a Changing Climate" with Martina Ried-Lasi (funded by @dfg.de, @ukri.org-BBSRC, NSF, USDA-NIFA).
🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...
📅Apply now!
#PlantSci #SciJobs #PlantSciJobs #PhD #PlantBiology #BiologyPhD
Last week to apply for this exiting position!
11.08.2025 09:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!
Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
📣We offer a #PhDposition @dfg.de-funded #RTG2670 BEAM: "Beyond Amphiphilicity - Self-Organization of Soft Matter via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions" with @marischuster.bsky.social.
🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...
📅Apply now!
#MolecularModelling #Proteases #SciJobs #PhDjobs
There is still time to apply 👇
#MSCA #Postdoc #Biotech #Bioinformatics #Genomics
As predicted! Plant pathogens cleave immune (co) receptors to avoid perception!
02.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Really happy to be at the 20th Plant Science Student Conference #PSSC2025 @leibnizipk.bsky.social
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
The thrill of punching the "submission" button!
This time a review with the lab first PhD student @adithya1972.bsky.social and great colleagues from @ipbhalle.bsky.social Martina Ried-Lasi and Anna Bannmüller. Grateful for the good work of the students and with fingers crossed!
Picking strawberries 🍓 with the lab ☀️🕶️
20.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
