Van Schepler-Luu

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APS President Karen Garrett welcomed attendees to #PlantHealth2025 & honored our 2025 Fellows. Keynote Dr. Van Schepler-Luu (IRRI) shared how global networks are tackling rice diseases & boosting food security.

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Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity for an Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions has arisen at the John Innes Centre. To read the full job description for this role…

Exciting opportunities to establish your group at JIC! Come join our vibrant research community in Norwich!

🔹 Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions (path to tenure-track)
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🔹 GL in Discovery Plant Sciences (tenure-track or tenured)
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New Release: Manual on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation (First Edition) - Dr. Van Schepler-Luu We’re excited to announce the publication of the Manual on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation (Telebanco-Yanoria et al., 2025), now available from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Th...

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Our MS student, Mark Allan L. Perez, is presenting his thesis work at the 2025 annual Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) meeting and symposium on July 16. He will present his work on the use of bioinformatics and AI tools in pathogen effector studies.

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Dear colleagues, could you please help answer this short survey about the global impact of rice false smut?

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This survey aims to assess the global significance of rice false smut in terms of its prevalence, economic and environmental impact, and stakeholder perceptions

Strengthening Coordination in Rice Pathology Through Global BioNET - Dr. Van Schepler-Luu April 30, 2025 — BioNET leads from 16 countries across Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East and Southern Africa met virtually to align and accelerate activities across the Global BioNET network. The g...

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Uncalled4: a toolkit for nanopore signal alignment, analysis and visualization of DNA and RNA modifications.

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IRRI’s Plant Pathology and Host Plant Resistance Group holds open house to mark 65 years of milestones Marking its 65th year, the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) Plant Pathology and Host Plant Resistance group, led by Dr. Van Schepler-Luu

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IRRI is celebrating 65 years of advancing rice science, and the IRRI Plant Pathology is proud to be part of this journey since 1960

Join us tomorrow for our Open House, where we’ll showcase our latest research on rice diseases and how we contribute to IRRI’s mission of ensuring global food security

Excited to share our overview on SynCom construction published in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

@xinmingxu.bsky.social & @neftalyl.bsky.social together with Caja Dinesen & Adele Pioppi summerize 86 publications on SynComs for plant promotion

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Home A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes - rrwick/Autocycler

New year, new assemblies!
I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes!
It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention.
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Jan 1, and my first day as an Asst. Professor at Berkeley. The lab opens in just a few weeks and I am currently staffing at all levels- www.lotuslofgren.com/new-page-1

Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

New RESEARCH BRIEFING -
Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome

By Yang Song & Roeland Berendsen

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Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science - Novo Nordisk Foundation Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem ScienceThe Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking a Scientific Manager with a background in biodiversity, landscape ecology, environmental- or ecosystem sc...

A new position has been created at the Novo Nordisk Foundation- Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science.

This is a great opportunity to shape the future research support for the discipline. Please apply.

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This year, our retreat was at a beautiful Laiya beach!
Thank you everyone from the Plant Pathology and Host Plant Resistance Group for their hard work, and dedication! We have a fantastic year with new grants, new members and new discoveries. I am looking forward to our fruitful year ahead!

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Dr. Van Schepler-Luu on LinkedIn: #planthealthinititative #amazingpathotracer Rice demand in Africa grew from 10 to 40 million tons between 1990 and 2018, with a 6% annual increase over the last decade (USDA, 2019). Addressing yield…

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The list of varieties were prepared by curating varieties with whole genome sequence and md-density marker genotyping results using key traits of interest, in this case,the presence or absence of favorable alleles associated with resistance genes for bacterial blight.

PathoTracer, a high-throughput genomic surveillance tool for rice pathogens

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