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Omg wtf

The student representatives at max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen Standing in the stairs smiling

I started my term as PhD rep for the doctoral students at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this month! Excited to be a representative voice for the around 80 students here ☺️

Car go boom

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

That's really cool! Nice setup 😄 plant science for the masses 🥰

Run Defensefinder on it! Which antiphage genes would this weirdo have?

It's very easy and there are a bunch of established protocols that work well. I don't see why one would pay that much per sample for just RNA. I've done probably upwards of 3000 extractions in the past year (of total nucleic acid), this would be pricey

Why kit? I use two methods, one is citric acid extraction+ethanol precipitation, the other is column based guanidine HCl with sodium acetate and etoh washes. The latter is more pricy cause I use 96-well columns, but also the purity is as good as it can get.

Wow, I didn't know they were that much bigger!!!

Americans don't want pedestrian cities and the car lobby is way too strong

Hyped!

Er de egentlig dyktige, disse lederne?

Kartoffelsalat and beer? Sounds great!

Wow, I can really relate to John's early life. RIP legend.

Not that surprising a nature journal is acting exactly like the predatory journals 🤣

Lmao that abstract is buzzword central

Great review, thanks Aude!

Unless you compare the WT to the "WT" (teosinte vs domesticated)

General vs specific response?

Wow!

Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses Chloroplast tethering to the pathogen interface via membrane contact sites promotes focal callose deposition and strengthens plant immunity.

Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses (Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Zachary Savage, Vojtěch Pražák, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Hard to make policymakers act when it's usually their greed and corruption that is the cause

How long is that? Be sure to check for potential off-targets with blast on genome!

Cool concept! How do you make it reproducible between batches if you need fresh soil isolate (I'm assuming)? I'm guessing if you split the soil into a few different tubes then let that sit for a few weeks the microbiota might start looking different just by chance🤔 Also would it work for syncoms?

Our latest work is out! We set out to see if we could recreate soil-nurturing plant growth in vitro. The plants looked happy and we see microbiome-induced cell-type-specific responses! A modest step but a fun challenge 😁

Lost and found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer Plant immune receptors hold great promise for engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance, but their effectiveness is very limited by restricted taxonomic functionality (RTF). In this issue of Cell ...

Lost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer

@isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

A presentative pose in front of the town sign for Höchst, Austria

My favorite nucleus stain

Also I just learned that the dye is from Höchst outside Frankfurt, not in fact Austria where this is. But the sign is blue!

Yup exactly that 🤝

Using long hairpins too for my research right now ☺️ My strat for doing it in Arabidopsis is cloning it with golden gate and putting fluorescent seed as marker. Unique overhangs works best for assembly, doing same overhangs for all fragments (to make inverts) had pretty crap cloning success.