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Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Lisa Mahdi on stage at #iMMM2025 on how the core microbiota cooperate with beneficial fungi to inhibit pathogens and how dysbiotic communities instead have high competition within their members.

Everyone is excited to see how many new clues about symbiotic genes are emerging from the sequencing of individual cells/cell nuclei... Now on stage: Hector Montero from Uta Paszkowski's lab, RIKEN, Yokohama.

Pierre-Marc Delaux talking about universal signaling pathways for plant intracellular endosymbiosis at the #iMMM2025

Enjoying the excellent talks and posters at the #iMMM2025

Nice to walk around Cologne with Antonio di Pietro and Gregor Langen!

Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social

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

🎓👏 Congratulations to Dr. @nickdunken.bsky.social Nick Dunken on the successful PhD defense in the lab of @algazuccaro.bsky.social at the University of Cologne and @mpipz.bsky.social! Welcome to the circle of doctors!
#phdone #plantscience #sciencecareer

Happy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16)
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Thank you for keeping us all informed throughout the conference...great job!

Great to catch up on plant cell death ...

Arabidopsis thaliana CELLOX1 limits fungal colonization in roots. Nice talk by Giulia Peruzzi at #2025ISMPMI, @ceplas.bsky.social

Nice talk by Thomas Ott on molecular mechanisms that steer INFECTION THREADS progression along a defined cellular trajectory at #2025ISMPMI.

Excellent stories and beautiful microscopy today from Sebastian Schornack and Uta Paszkowski #2025MPMI. On the topic of strategies of microbial colonization, chaired by Armin Djamei and Amey Redkar.

Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan enables mutualistic colonization of monocot roots Intracellular accommodation of mutualistic fungi in plant roots depends on selective remodeling of host cell walls while minimizing activation of plant immune responses. In this study, we identify a h...

Our latest article in bioRxiv. A very good and comprehensive paper by Mathias Brands, Vicente Ramirez, Laura Armbruster et al. on the deconstruction of acetylated xylan in symbiosis. If you would like to learn more, please talk to Mathias at #2025ISMPMI, poster P-239.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoying TEAM scientific discussions at the #2025ISMPMI.

Purine-Based Infochemicals and Immunometabolites: A Comparative Review of Emerging Signaling Pathways in Plants and Animals Abstract. Purine-based metabolites serve as essential mediators of signaling, immunity, and host-microbe interactions across biological kingdoms. This revi

Our new review in FEMS Microbiology by Nick Dunken and Tim Thomsen is online. Purine-Based Infochemicals and Immunometabolites: A Comparative Review of Emerging Signaling Pathways in Plants and Animals url: academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...

just happy to see everyone at the #2025ISMPMI.

JSPS Research Fellowship The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship supports you as a highly qualified postdoc from Germany in conducting your research in Japan – regardless of discipline.

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested!
www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

Eifel moors in bloom: Dactylorhiza maculata putting on a stunning show.

We are excited to share our new story with you! We show how losing a binding domain can flip an antimicrobial fungal effector into a host immune suppressor, highlighting functional specialization along the saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum. Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Forza CEPLAS 3!

Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice The root-associated bacterium Exiguobacterium R2567 regulates tiller number by producing cyclo(Leu-Pro), which activates the rice strigolactone signaling pathway.

Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A gnotobiotic system reveals multifunctional effector roles in plant-fungal pathogen dynamics Plants host diverse microbiota that influence physiological processes and can enhance resilience against invading pathogens that, in turn, evolved effector proteins to manipulate host microbiota in th...

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The world does not need more destruction. It needs those brave enough to protect what is still whole, and wise enough to repair what is not. Let us speak not with the echo of violence, but with the voice of those who remember. Now is the time — not to destroy the world, but to choose not to.

-Humanity is saved not by force, but by calm, care, and the memory of what makes us one- We must remember: we are not enemies. We are reflections of the same light, drawing from the same ancient source. 👇

As Maslow warned: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.” But we are not bound to this. There is another way — one older than war, deeper than fear. 👇

The danger is not only in battle, but in the readiness for it. “War consisteth not in battle only,” wrote Thomas Hobbes, “but in a known disposition thereto.” Even silence becomes war when our hands are clenched and when we place all faith in power, we lose the path. 👇

We live in a time when a single decision can undo entire worlds. The weapons we create do not sleep — they wait. J. Robert Oppenheimer, after the first atomic test, recalled the ancient words: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” 👇