Van Schepler-Luu

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

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Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi The Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi 2e is an indispensable resource for undergraduate students and early-career researchers seeking a comprehensive introduction to the field of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). It provides a foundational understanding of AMF biology, classification, and ecological significance, presenting up-to-date information and protocols in a clear and accessible manner.

Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set Apomixis, a form of clonal seed reproduction, offers a transformative approach to agriculture by enabling the stable fixation of hybrid vigor and elite heterozygosity across generations. However, the ...

Another gene (a sperm specific transcription factor) was found to induce parthenogenesis in rice when ectopically expressed in the egg cell. I can't find the gene ID in the preprint though.

"Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set"
(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).

Oomycetes manipulate plant innate immunity through galacturonide oxidases - Nature Communications The oomycete Phytophthora infestans is a damaging crop pathogen. Here, the authors show that a group of P. infestans secreted enzymes play roles in penetration and colonization of host plants by oxidi...

Novel insights into CAZY pathogenicity factor AA7 involved in plant immune-modulatory function: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Save the Date: #PPATH2026, Norwich, 8–10 September 2026 @BS_PP

A quantitative microbiome atlas reveals hidden diversity, eukaryotic keystones, and evolutionary trade-offs in plant rhizospheres. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

PhD in Biostimulants & Nitrogen Use Efficiency at UniLaSalle & Gaïago, France A fully funded CIFRE PhD position is open at UniLaSalle Rouen, France, in collaboration with Gaïago. The research focuses on biostimulants and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in wheat and maize to support sustainable and resilient agroecosystems. Start date: January 2026.

PhD in Biostimulants & Nitrogen Use Efficiency at UniLaSalle & Gaïago, France

A fully funded CIFRE PhD position is open at UniLaSalle Rouen, France, in collaboration with Gaïago. The research focuses on biostimulants and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in wheat and maize to support sustainable and…

We have a diverse, international PhD program with English as our working language. We have 20+ fully-funded positions in this call for talented MSc students. Start your application by 10 October
training.vbc.ac.at/p...
@univie.ac.at
@impvienna.bsky.social
@imbavienna.bsky.social

The Plant Genome Call for Papers Rice Genomics <em>The Plant Genome</em> is an open access journal providing the latest advances and breakthroughs in plant genomics research, including genome analyses and engineering.

Submit here: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

The Plant Genome Call for Papers Rice Genomics <em>The Plant Genome</em> is an open access journal providing the latest advances and breakthroughs in plant genomics research, including genome analyses and engineering.

Call for Papers on Rice Genomics!

As IRRI celebrates 65 years of rice science and 20 years since the first rice genome was sequenced, we invite research contributions to a special issue of The Plant Genome to commemorate these milestones.

🗓 Deadline: 31 December 2025

Happy to have contributed to this nice review

Glad to be part of this team calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect microbial life, which sustains all forms of life on our planet.

in @natmicrobiol.nature.com

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

Our President Elect, Saskia Hogenhout, discusses her lab's work on aphid effectors, which are secreted during feeding and suppress plant immunity by recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies. #PPATH2025

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Published:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Assistant Professor in Plant Science Contribute to innovative Plant Science research using world-class facilities to unravel how plants cope with stressful abiotic environments.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...

MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology.

Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Please email me if you have any questions.

Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social
@sebwielgoss.bsky.social
@oxunipress.bsky.social

PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...

How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?

Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Quantification and Determination of Compatible Bacterial Consortia This study presents a mathematical model to identify compatible bacterial consortia by analysing antagonistic and coexistence relationships. Introducing the Bacterial Coexistence Index (BCI), it eval....

Quantification and Determination of Compatible Bacterial Consortia

in #MicrobialBiotech

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Harnessing soil microbes to weather rock and fight climate change Discover how Bacillus subtilis strain MP1 accelerates silicate weathering in agricultural soils, locking away 7.3 tonnes of CO2 per hectare annually through standard agricultural practices.

The latest feature in #TheMicrobiologist explores research that is using bacteria to lock away carbon in soil. www.the-microbiologist.com/features/har...

Ambizione: a boost for research careers In 2025, the SNSF will be funding 92 projects by early-career researchers with an average of 830,000 francs each.

✨ #Ambizione: The SNSF is awarding 76.4 million Swiss francs to 92 early-career researchers. They will receive an average of 830,000 francs to lead their first independent research project at a higher education institution in Switzerland. 🚀

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🔬 History of IRRI–JIRCAS Bacterial Blight and Blast Near-Isogenic Lines: Cornerstones of Global Rice Pathology 🌾

Read the full article published on IRRI book and Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1689...

Read the report on Rice Today ricetoday.irri.org/inside-the-g...

Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.

My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

We are searching for a professor in Biology Didactics (W2) at Osnabrück University. The research focus should be on organismic biology, biodiversity, organismic interactions in ecosystems and human-environment interactions.

Link to (German) advertisement 👇

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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.

What were your key takeaways from this morning's session?

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...

scheplerluu.com/new-release-... New Release: Manual on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation (First Edition) - Dr. Van Schepler-Luu