Sabine Brumm

Going to register today. Hopefully see you there? :)

Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...

Cool new paper on receptor specificity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685811v1

Golden Promise-rapid, a fast-cycling barley genotype with high transformation efficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685778v1

Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉

We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Rab5 GTPases mediate the targeting of ROP signalling to establish polarity for pollen germination @natplants.nature.com

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New Article: "Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants" rdcu.be/eJOWx

Retrograde trafficking route from the plant vacuole; sorting nexins retrieve the plant-specific SNARE VAMP727.

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O

Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

“This collection highlights major discoveries and groundbreaking approaches that have shaped plant pathology. By curating these landmark papers, the issue offers us a valuable opportunity to reflect on the discipline’s history.” —Nik Grünwald https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/landmarksphyto

Independent roles of Arp2/3 complex and RIC4 protein in the control of epidermal cell shape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675338v1

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

"Two Funded Group Leader Positions –Plant Systems Biology at Technische Universitat Munchen, Munchen, Germany"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=leaders_9-23-25.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

Congratulations to the preprint and your new position Alexandra 🎉. What a cool story!

Congratulations Isabel! That’s amazing!

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI

After a refreshing break in the Eifel, I’m also heading to #2025ISMPMI Excited to meet all the friendly faces again and dive into some amazing research.
Come find us at posters P-364 & P-070 to chat about SCARs and their role in plant susceptibility. Let’s talk science! 🌱🧬

That’s amazing Manu. Congratulations!! 🥳 Will I have the opportunity to say this soon to you in person at the MPMI meeting?

Sometimes beakers can also be useful for rescuing beautiful peacock butterflies that enter the office by accident. This guys is now flying around Weihenstephan again.

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Thanks a lot David for the wonderful complement which I can give straight back 😊

For more information, please see the attached advert picture or visit: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens.... Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We will start reviewing applications from the 10th of July onwards.

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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!

This is the amazing work from the super talented @alexguyon.bsky.social. Always loved to see your images in the seminar. Huge congratulations for finalizing the manuscript. Looking forward to reading it!

Strawberry moon in Freising, yesterday

Omaya Dudin Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO