Thrilled to share a comprehensive review from our lab National Centre for Biological Sciences on Molecular dialogue during Fusarium oxysporum interactions in Annual Reviews. We discuss genomic features, crosstalk, host range, lifestyles, host-resistance & rhizosphere interactions #root #fungi🍄 🌱💚👇

Personal news: after months of stress, my U.K. visa is approved. I’m heading to Oxford University. Thinking of my grandmother, who was married off at 16. My mom, who the Taliban banned from school in the 90s. My sisters in Afghanistan, who cannot study. You’re with me. ❤️

Immunity vs symbiosis. How do similar receptor kinases initiate differential signalling pathways? Take a chance to read our latest preprint exploring conserved symbiotic motifs present in the intracellular domain of NFR1. Simona Radutoiu ENSA Novo Nordisk Foundation

Scientists should get paid for thinking time nature #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

Unique opportunity for a group leader combining the fields of #AI and #plantscience research at VIB VIB Plant Science VIB.AI ! Spread the word and check it out! jobs.vib.be/j/89923/group-…

LaySunMa （馬麗珊） and I are editing the 2025 special issue on Biotic Interactions of Current Opinion in Plant Biology. We highlight research on both the plant and pathogen sides and focus on the apoplast. Have a look! sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

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A major decision by USDA that may have important consequences in future for sustainable agriculture

"Valuable thinking time often comes when I gaze at the sea, letting the waves wash away distractions. In those quiet moments, clarity emerges, and my best ideas surface. 🌊✨ #Mindfulness #Creativity"

🟩Endophytes Shield Plants with Antimicrobial Chitinase GH18‐CBM5🟩 Eichfeld et al. published New Phytologist Alga Zuccaro MycoCosm OIST shorturl.at/3dbNO I am happy to be part of the amazing study! 🙏

Effector dynamics in root-endophyte and intermicrobial interactions 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… by Eichfeld et al. Alga Zuccaro #PlantScience

Students who have access to course books and books and notes without equipment, outperformed students who were supported by GPT-based tutors. Generative AI Can Harm Learning SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very excited to share that we will be supported to study the integration of novel traits into regulatory networks for the next 5 years. #ERCStG

This nice collaborative effort shows that the Arabidopsis LORE PPR receptor, when activated in tomatoes can confer resistance to bacteria, fungi and oomyctes. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Let me present our lab’s latest publication, which is also a big chunk of Sruthi s PhD thesis and part of Simon’s PhD thesis. I am so happy to see this online in EMBO Reports now. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…..

"My voice is now a crime," says an Afghan woman. Can the Taliban reconcile their interpretation of Islamic law with international human rights? irishtimes.com/world/asia-pac…

And - it - is - finally - out ! A great story from Yan Ma - in case you haven’t seen it yet. Again, congratulations to all involved!nature.com/articles/s4147…

Next up in the session ‘Sensing and Signaling‘: Florian Altegoer Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf on G-protein coupled receptors in Ustilago maydis #MBF2024

Discovering How Maize Root Bacteria Metabolize Host Exudates – A Story Of Red Art, Teamwork, and Serendipity communities.springernature.com/posts/discover…

Synthetic biology enabled engineering of expanded recognition from QvFLS2 (Quercus variabilis) and FLS2XL (Vitis riparia) into homologs with canonical perception. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…