Team Thomma

Wow. Really really useful paper and also really awesome thread / summary.

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨

Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)

Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇

doi.org/10.1093/fems...

@utrechtpmi.bsky.social VICI! The Plant-Microbe Interactions group will hug this guy to pieces! Roeland Berendsen received a prestigious VICI grant from NWO (Dutch Research Council). Congrats Roeland! Looking forward to some very nice #NPEC experiments!
For more: lnkd.in/eyr9a-tP

@thaisdalsasso.bsky.social is applying new tools to address the evolution and functional diversification of secreted proteins of fungal plant pathogen. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

An advertisement for a PhD position studying "Revealing the mechanistic basis of defence peptide antibacterial specificity." It shows fruit flies infected by green-fluorescent protein expressing bacteria, and describes the project and way to apply.

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social.

This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share!

Apply: adum.fr

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:

We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.

This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf!

If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/

Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required

The annotated blueprint: integrated functional genomic resources for a model tetraploid wheat Triticum turgidum cv Kronos Triticum turgidum cv Kronos is a tetraploid wheat cultivar that underpins one of the most widely used community platforms for functional genomics. Over the past decade, researchers have generated c. ...

Out in New Phytologist!

The annotated blueprint: integrated functional genomic resources for a model tetraploid wheat cv. Kronos 🌾
chromosome-scale genome, high-conf annotations, manually curated 1000+ NLRs, ~3000 remapped datasets

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#Plants #Genomics #FunctionalGenomics

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

Hamer + Spijker. Tijd voor verandering van de PhD stelsel op Nederlandse Universiteiten. Lees dit opiniestuk van @erikvansebille.bsky.social in het Digitaal Universiteitsblad van @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany.

Registration opening soon!

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment Abstract. Plants and bacteria have coevolved over hundreds of millions of years, forming complex associations ranging from mutualism to pathogenicity that

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment

in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Reviews by @zakisaati.bsky.social et al

academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

📣 A fantastic resource for the study of population genomics of transposable elements. Congratulations to all @johannconfais.bsky.social ! Also very happy to see the Brachypodium resource being used for this purpose!
It's 🌈🌈 again! #TEsky #goBrachy

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere

Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social
@cornepieterse.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
#plantscience

This one has been a long time in the making. So many contributions and years of hard work went into bringing this project to the finish line. I’m really happy to finally share our new story. Thanks to everyone involved, and a very special thanks to @teamthomma.bsky.social and @lfaino.bsky.social

Distinct modes of sequence evolution and epigenetic modifications underpin the origins of Starship-mediated variation in Pyricularia fungal plant pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702382v1

Dihydroxyhexanoic acid biosynthesis controls turgor in pathogenic fungi Many plant pathogenic fungi penetrate host surfaces mechanically, using turgor pressure generated by specialized infection cells called appressoria. These appressoria develop semipermeable cell walls ...

Out in @science.org this week, two fungal enzymes synthesise DHHA, which controls cell wall porosity and turgor in plant pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#mycology
#plantscience

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Welcome to 🦋 Luigi Faino! @lfaino.bsky.social

Finally we made it

Kudos to the many contributors whose efforts over the years made this work possible, including:
@adoddi.bsky.social
@yukiyosato.bsky.social
@mfseidl.bsky.social
and many co-authors not on @bsky.app

Finally, a crystal structure was solved for the f. sp. vasinfectum homolog by X-ray crystallography at 1.5 Å resolution, revealing a novel effector fold 💠

Fusarium D homologs from f. sp. vasinfectum (infects cotton) and radicis-cucumerinum Iinfects cucurbits) induce wilting on cotton and on cucurbit plants

D homologs occur in V. alfalfae and V. longisporum, but not other Verticillium spp. Beyond, homologs solely occur in some Fusarium spp; a pattern that suggests horizontal gene transfer. Surprise: the Verticillium D gene occurs on Ar1h2 haplotype Starships! 🚀 😱

While D pathotype strains carry identical D homologs, diverged D-like homologs occur throughout the V. dahliae population with 91% to 82% amino acid similarity that do not seem to cause defoliation