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Giuliana Hessler

@giurassicpark.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Zurich in Cyril Zipfel’s group. PhD graduate of Jane Parkerβ€˜s lab at MPIPZ Cologne. Studying signaling mechanisms in plant immunity 🌱 she/her

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Congratulations, Tonni πŸŽ‰ I am looking forward to seeing you around again at UZH!

01.09.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...

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We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

15.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Coming back from 5 days of great science at #2025ISMPMI, I wanted to share some of my highlights, and particularly to mention my favourite presentations by early career researchers.

A thread 🧡 ⬇️

20.07.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Β«Nothing in plant-microbe interactions makes sense except in the light of microbe-microbe interactionsΒ Β» @teamthomma.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI

17.07.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parker Group alumni, from the early 2000s to 2025, the best folks! Grateful for everyone who helped shape the science over the years #2025ISMPMI
Thanks @federicalocci.bsky.social for taking the picture

17.07.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Up next at #2025ISMPMI @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social discussing work on protein language model for receptor engineering.

17.07.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to meet you at poster no. P-405 and to talk about my project at #2025ISMPMI this afternoon! 🌿

16.07.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#2025ISMPMI my poster is up! If you are interested in how a family of plant endogenous peptides can act as both signaling and antimicrobial peptides, pass by my poster P-222 on Thursday afternoon.

16.07.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My poster is up at #2025ISMPMI. Come by P-372 Thursday afternoon if you are interested in fungal evolution, effectors and microbial competitions!

More research by @teamthomma.bsky.social at P-091, P-170, P-299, P-317, P-337 and P-388.

16.07.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Lara Van Dijck (@laravdijck.bsky.social) PhD candidate at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Parker group studying πŸ„πŸŒ±βŒ¬ @parkergroup.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social

If you’re curious about the function of conserved TIR-only proteins in Arabidopsis and barley, come by my poster P018 on Tuesday morning!
Also check out more from @parkergroup.bsky.social:
πŸ”Ή @laravdijck.bsky.social – P240 on Thursday
πŸ”Ή Steven Cheng – P011 on Wednesday
#2025ISMPMI

14.07.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
The fungal effector AvrStb6 regulates the wheat pathobiome Zymoseptoria tritici, the causal agent of the foliar disease Septoria tritici blotch (STB), is a major wheat pathogen in Europe. Although several wheat resistance (R) genes have been identified, Z. tr...

πŸ§ͺβš”οΈ When a fungal effector tries to coexist with plant apoplastic bacteria

My poster’s not up until Thursday, but you can already check it out on Zenodo πŸ‘€
πŸ“Ž zenodo.org/records/1585...

🧾 Poster P-166, Thur 17th, 1:30 pm
#2025ISMPMI

14.07.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great talk at #2025ISMPMI by @federicalocci.bsky.social on a TN protein in systemic resistance. So happy to catch up on @parkergroup.bsky.social projects!

14.07.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!

14.07.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Congratulations, Defeng, Tonni and others :)

21.03.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The post shows a picture of Henriette after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.

The post shows a picture of Henriette after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.

We are happy to announce another PhD success at @mpipz.bsky.social! πŸŽ‰ Dr. Henriette LÀßle has passed her viva in Jane Parkers’s lab. Huge congrats, Dr. LÀßle, and best of luck with your next steps! πŸš€πŸŒ±πŸŽ“

#PhDSuccess #PlantScience #PhDone

18.03.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long!

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

11.03.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Are you interested in receptor kinase signalling and plant immunity?
We have several positions open to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social in Norwich.

#plantscience #mpmi #plantimmunity #sceincejobs

Please get in touch if you have questions

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16.12.2024 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0