Yan Ma

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...

The hybrid origin of potato tuberization.

From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations Zach!!

Check out our new preprint all about Pirsonia, a tiny killer of bloom-forming Coscinodiscus diatoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#protistsonsky #marinemicrobes 🌊🔬

Congratulations 🙌 nicely done!

I'm off to ASPB #PlantBio2025 tomorrow, with a poster and talk on using X-ray imaging in Plant Biology. New soybean imaging to share, like this fly-through animation of the meristematic region from an XRM scan. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers!
Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social .
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
1/4 #PlantScience

Possible Horizontal Transfer of Drosophila Genes by the Mite Proctolaelaps regalis There is strong inferential evidence for recent horizontal gene transfer of the P (mobile) element to Drosophila melanogaster from a species of the Drosophila willistoni group. One potential vector of...

I need you, and I can't stress this enough, to read this paper by Margaret Kidwell et al. on horizontal transfer of P elements from mites to flies and back...from *1991*: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

let me know what you think! feedback always good!

Thanks Tim!

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My last day at the @gmivienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Here’s what I accumulated at my (office) 🚪 🧵 1/advice from my daughters

Love all these inspirations on the wall! But we will miss you the most, the embodiment of these inspirations. Thank you for being there and best wishes for road ahead!

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity

Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️

With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social

For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼

#openscience @erc.europa.eu

Congrats to Clemens Plaschka, who was selected to become a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO bsky.app/profile/embo...), becoming the eighth out of 14 IMP faculty members to receive this honour. More on Clemens Plaschka and his research: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

🔬👨‍💻📰 #SReD is out!
Automated structural detection for #ImageJ & #FIJI, from nano to macro ✨🐘. No training data, no bias - texture analysis with GPU acceleration!⚡️
Brainchild of @afonsomendes92.bsky.social and adventure w @christlet.bsky.social lab + friends.

Check: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Silvia Ramundo, Group Leader at the GMI, who has been awarded an ASTRA Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in recognition of her research on chloroplast biology!

Read more: https://thegmi.science/049300

Congratulations @sramundo.bsky.social so well deserved! Great achievement!!

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️

Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱

@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

Big congratulations to all the newly elected @embo.org Members!
A special shoutout to @impvienna.bsky.social #ClemensPlaschka for this well-deserved recognition.
Your contributions to life sciences continue to inspire and I count myself lucky to work with you!

Thanks! Yes definitely, the key is to have a clear cell type specific read out!

Next up in #ICAR2025 is @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social on plant signalling specificity, focus of her postdoc work with @nikogeldner.bsky.social, and her new work on insect galls on plants (using Arabidopsis as a model!) as independent PI @gmivienna.bsky.social !

Exploring the untapped potential of single‐cell and spatial omics in plant biology Advances in single-cell and spatial omics technologies have revolutionised biology by revealing the diverse molecular states of individual cells and their spatial organization within tissues. The fie...

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n] 

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

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

Big congrats, well deserved Wenbo!

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

Big congrats @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social , well deserved!

When the pressure is on, Archaea go multicellular! A new @science.org study reveals surprising organizational capacity in archaea.

🍞“It’s like rising sourdough loaf”: tinyurl.com/yc2nxmr6

#Archaea #Multicellularity @archaeon-alex.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social

Congratulations 🙌

And an unexpected reunion with @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social …!! We first met as PhD/postdoc in Rhodes, then paths crossed for a couple of times elsewhere, and reunited in Japan as fully independent PIs… good luck with your new journey at GMI!