Very excited to share our latest preprint about coevolutionary dynamics between NLRs and their inhibitor! Solanaceae helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade the inhibition by cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 Mya (1/12) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Lovely to visit Mojgan Rabiey University of Warwick today, thanks for invitation 🤩#womaninstem 🌱🧫

It was great having you, thanks for visiting and for your brilliant seminar 😊

ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024, wonderfully organized

Michelle Hulin in a newPI who recently hopped across the pond (UK to Michigan) presents about the role of prophages in host range evolution in plant pathogenic Pseudomonas. @icppb2024 US microbiology and plant pathology folks: invite her to give a seminar !

Thank you Tiffany Lowe-Power tlowepower on 🟦🌥️ 🥰 happy to finally meet you! It was a pleasure to present our work! ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024

📢 I am recruiting! Post doc position available for a 4-year project working on quorum sensing in acute oak decline bacteria 🦠🌳 Please share! ce0164li.webitrent.com/ce0164li_webre…

Thank you ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024 for a fantastic week of talks, catching up with old friends and making new ones 😊. Boris Vinatzer thank you for arranging a fantastic conference and sharing your corner of Virginia with us!

Anna has been an excellent REU student! A pleasure to have in the lab this summer 🤩 #womaninstem

Happy to share our study on the critical role of the lipopeptide syringomycin in promoting Pseudomonas syringae virulence across land plants. Project led by Kris Grenz and KhongSam Chia, John Innes Centre and collaborators 🌿 Alexa Tyszka 🌿 & Joseph Walker biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Our lab's undergraduate REU student Anna presented her summer project yesterday at the MSU Mid-SURE symposium! #proudPI

I’m ✨excited✨ to announce I have been awarded a NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship for the remainder of my PhD (Timothy Miles)! I can’t get rid of this obligate pathogen just yet…. 🍇 stay tuned for updates and new grievances canr.msu.edu/news/psm-phd-c…

A postdoctoral position is available once again! We are seeking an individual who can start ASAP in the US to work on Cotton foliar pathogen diagnostics and disease modeling shorturl.at/mEb4s The Previous candidate is no longer able to join. Questions [email protected]

New faculty orientation 💚🤍 MSU

I am very excited to announce the Pountain Lab is hiring a postoc in bacterial single cell gene expression and pathogenesis! Please retweet to put the word out. See here for the details: uth.edu/postdocs/open-…

First week of teaching at MSU complete! 🌱🧬👩🏼‍🏫

We are pleased to share our latest paper! We looked at the transcriptomic landscape of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las), the citrus HLB pathogen, in seed coat vasculatures.🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Dr. Wenbo Ma