"If you’re a scientist, you’re in the business of producing and communicating knowledge.
It’s worth reminding ourselves: the goal isn’t simply to publish papers. The goal is to produce knowledge that yields predictable outcomes — science that stands the test of time"
04.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The latest publication from our lab!
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
06.06.2025 13:54 — 👍 72 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 0
Functional divergence of plant SCAR/WAVE proteins is determined by intrinsically disordered regions
Intrinsically disordered regions in SCAR/WAVE proteins drive diverse functions in root hair and leaf trichome development.
Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs
21.05.2025 19:27 — 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
Proud to have contributed to this during my MSc thesis @carogutj.bsky.social lab. Thanks to Michi Paries and congrats to all involved!
20.05.2025 11:13 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Sagar!
15.04.2025 06:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely thrilled to share our story—please take a moment to check it out! Huge thanks to all the contributors and my amazing supervisor @lmueller.bsky.social . This was truly a team effort! #peptides #mycorrhiza
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
15.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Excited to share our latest publication in bioRxiv regarding the response of lettuce to a soil microbial consortium 🥬🦠.
@magiovan.bsky.social
03.04.2025 07:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646582v1
02.04.2025 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
11.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 2590 🔁 855 💬 55 📌 42
Conservation of symbiotic signaling since the most recent common ancestor of land plants | PNAS
Plants have colonized lands 450 million years ago. This terrestrialization was facilitated
by developmental and functional innovations. Recent evo-...
Really pleased to transition from 2024 to 2025 with Tatiana Vernie's work on the evolution of the common symbiosis pathway published @pnas.org 🔽
We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
01.01.2025 12:05 — 👍 129 🔁 60 💬 4 📌 3
I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew!
Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
13.12.2024 17:47 — 👍 137 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 3
Cytoplasmic calcium influx mediated by Lr14a regulates stomatal immunity against leaf rust in wheat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627212v1
12.12.2024 10:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
12.12.2024 11:23 — 👍 459 🔁 179 💬 22 📌 38
‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews
Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews
"STOTEN has published more than 7000 research articles in each of the past 3 years and has a respectable impact factor of 8.2."
While the respectable and trustworthy eLife will lose its IF. Insane.
#academia #scientificpublishing
www.science.org/content/arti...
09.12.2024 09:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Although my position as research fellow does not formally include the right to strike, as we are classified under a "non-work" framework, I can no longer tolerate endless precarity or the cuts blocking our careers.
Research is work, and today, I am striking to defend it.
3/3
29.11.2024 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Right now, in Italy PhD and post-doc positions have:
-No real employment contract
-No health insurance
-Low salary,
and this act represents a further humiliation of public research.
2/3
29.11.2024 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Strike Day in Italy against government policies that threaten the future of Universities and Research.
The incoming law will result in:
-drastic reduction in government research fundings
-further fragmentation and instability in the post-doc path to faculty positions.
1/3
29.11.2024 10:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It seems things are changing in Italy about GMOs/NGTs (quite surprisingly to me) and the act of vandalism from last June resulted instead in a huge support to @vittoriab.bsky.social and her group.
Let's hope Italy keeps embracing NGTs for a more sustainable agriculture🤞
28.11.2024 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoctoral fellow - University of Verona, Department of Biotechnology 🦠🔬🇮🇹#Chlamydomonas #microalgae #imaging #calcium #signalling #photosynthesis
Max Planck Research Group Leader // Plant pathogen emergence and evolution // http://instagram.com/honourmccann // Opinions my own etc
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Lover of plants and microscopy.
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Univerisity of Minnesota.
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Associate Professor at Université Laval| Canada Research Chair in Insect Vectors Invasions and Emergent Plant Diseases 🌿🪲 |Chercheur CRIV, IBIS, EDS | Senior Editor Plant Disease | CoFounder Pride in Microbiology 🏳️🌈 - Lab News: @eplopez.bsky.social
PhD in Bioinformatics at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology | Ex-Bioinformatician at @computomics | MS at @uniGoettingen & @LeibnizIPK | 💻🌿🧬
Group leader at MPIMP, Potsdam
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plant immunity, agriculture, cryo-EM
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Research group leader @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Interested in virus-plant interactions, especially those involving vertical virus transmission from parent to progeny and stem cell antiviral immunity. All posts are my own.
PhD candidate @unicologne.bsky.social and IMPRS fellow @mpipz.bsky.social. Fascinated by plant-microbe interaction 🌱🧫 currently, working on bacterial communities, bacterial VOCs, plant mineral nutrients, and camalexin
Postdoc in @parkergroup.bsky.social, studying plant immunity signaling
interested in resistance pathway dynamics in plant immunity @mpipz.bsky.social
PhD Student at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Focused on receptor structures at the plant-microbe-interface
We are a group of scientists with the goal to develop disease-resistant rice varieties for developing countries.
For detailed information you can visit our website or LinkedIn page: www.healthycrops.org
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Plant Virologist | Postdoc in ZMBP,Tübingen @geminiteamlab.bsky.social | EU MSCActions fellow & DFG Walter-benjamin fellow | Interested in Plant-microbe interactions and plant biology | Happy Dad!
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Philosopher of Biology interested in Human Evolution 💀🧬🏺• Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven • PhD from DiBio 🧪, University of Padova • Science Writer and Communicator (Collab MicroMega, Le Scienze, Pikaia)
Plant diseases threaten ecosystems worldwide.
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