The UC Davis Nematology team is ready for Picnic Day, the annual campus open house! 🪱 We’re so excited to talk about plant-parasitic, animal-parasitic, and free-living nematodes. Thanks to the The SCN Coalition, U.S. National Science Foundation, UC Davis Entomology and Nematology for supporting our booth!

I had a blast at #ESN2024 !Amazing to gain exposure to the advanced technology, mysterious nematode biology, and current nematology issues as well as meet cool nematologists at this knowledge festival 🪱
Many thanks to Shahid, ESN, and the Dept. of Entomology and Nematology (UCD)!

#Dune 's Shai-Hulud, sandworm of the desert planet Arakis, covers Science Magazine Science Advances. Oh, it's a nematode.

Apple's juvenile phase lasts 4-7 years. We shortened it to 6-9 months (3-4 fold) using an early flowering transgene

We have made a significant progress in developing disease-resistant lines from wild 🍎🍏 in just a few years

Resources & time use ⬇️
Sustainable 🍎 production👍

Thankful for this lab family of Nematologist. It’s crazy to think how small our lab was when I started and where we are now 4 years later. Representing our new nematode swag from UC Davis 🪱🌱

Joined Siddique Lab as Fulbright visiting scholar

Showcasing animal and plant parasitic nematodes at the #ucdavis Biodiversity Museum Day. Shahid Siddique lab, Department of Entomology and Nematology. Great display! Appreciative crowds! #BugSquad tinyurl.com/mr37tjue

We had Biodiversity Day at UC Davis today and got to show off some of our nematode collection. It was great to see how many people were excited to hear and learn about nematodes! Shahid Siddique

End of the beginning ? Chromosome ends of root-knot nematodes are quite different from everything else described so far in living forms...discover more by about their genomes by reading our paper just published in Nature Communications
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy to announce Prof. Jason Bond as the new director of #UCDavis Bohart Museum, which houses the 7th largest insect collection in North America! And thank you to Lynn Kimsey, who's retiring after serving as the museum’s director & curator for 34 years! caes.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-…

👥 Two major conferences have had their early-bird registration & abstract submission deadlines extended! Act fast! 🚨
1⃣ 35th European Society of Nematologists Symposium: esn24cordoba.com/registration/
2⃣ 20th International Plant Protection Congress (@ippcathens2024): ippcathens2024.gr/registration

Our paper is out in Nature com!
Well done, Bruno!
I'm so proud of this work!
Evolutionary trajectory of pattern recognition receptors in plants

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Postdoc position in plant-fungal interactions. Please spread the word.

A Saturday mycorrhizal treat - I'm so pleased to share our latest The Leverhulme Trust Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research research Chris Bell Emily Magkourilou Urwin Lab Leeds into the interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic nematodes in Nature Communications, OA here: rdcu.be/dw3NU - short🧵...

!!! preprint alert !!!

The SUbventral-Gland master Regulator (SUGR) of nematode virulence is central to a feed forward loop for host entry.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to first authors Clément Pellegrin and Anika Damm (and welcome to twitter Anika!) and the whole team

Drs Ching-Jung Lin (林靖容) & Shahid Siddique review #dietary habits of parasitic #nematodes and their implications for agriculture and medicine. UC Davis Plant Pathology UC Davis Entomology and Nematology UC Davis

authors.elsevier.com/a/1iTZN5Eb1xFU…

Sampling for RKN in watermelon Universidad de O'Higgins

🚨 Abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 15, 2024! Please, check all the relevant info on the website: esn24cordoba.com

Learn about how suberization in the tomato root is in the exodermis and NOT the endodermis (!!!) - its gene module and function with the environment + a tomato single cell root map: doi.org/10.1038/s41477… and UC Davis press: bit.ly/48LqXy7 by the great -Alex Cantó Pastor