Now at #ICPP2023 our own Şuayb Üstün 🌱👨🏻‍🔬 from Ruhr-Universität Bochum presents a fantastic work on how plants balance bacterial infection, proteotoxic stress and photosynthesis 🌱🦠

Cool review from the Dangl lab! My alternate title - "Why the heck are microbes not doing everything already in agriculture?" check it out here: cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092…

Great to be iGEM Headquarters in Paris with our team from UNIL. iGEM_UNIL_2025 Université de Lausanne @DMF UNIL École de biologie (inactif)

New pre-print! My first research project with Sara Mitri is now live. Interactions underpin our understanding of ecosystems, but can change in hard-to-explain ways. Here, we show that many of these variations can be predicted from underlying mechanisms: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New collaborative review by our NCCR Microbiomes covering the N+1/N-1 concept we are working with accross diverse microbiomes 🦠 "From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mm…

Identifying microbiota community patterns important for plant protection using synthetic communities and machine learning Nature Communications from Julia Vorholt Julia Vorholt nature.com/articles/s4146…

Passive phloem loading and long-distance transport in a synthetic tree-on-a-chip nature.com/articles/nplan… #plantsci ♻️

Very pleased to share our work where we show: i) presence of spatial microbiota niches and metabolite accumulations along the root, ii) contribution of SWEETs to the spatial patterning, iii) interdependency among metabolites: Cell Host & Microbe cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Super happy to share the 1st paper of my PhD. Out in FEMS, with the incredible Marie Simonin and more. Using SynCom inoculation on seeds, we characterized their transmission to seedlings. SynComs strongly outcompeted potting soil microbiota.🦠1/8 doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Very important and comprehensive review! It's really nice that you included both the plant's and the pathogen's perspective in the context of climate change👌 Congrats @CharlesRLev & co !! 👏

Happy to see this work finally out! A great collaboration with Marie-Agnès Jacques, Jeff Jones, Boris Vinatzer, Tal Pupko, and Joint Genome Institute! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

💥 LET'S DO THIS!! #pint24 Pint of Science World is starting today!! 💥 Thousands of events around the world, scientists and passionate volunteers chatting about science for 3 nights in 25 countries/513 cities. Can't wait to see all the events on social networks, my marathon starts now!

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

Thank you John Innes Centre Susan Schlimpert for organizing this symposium! I had a really great time sharing my research, listening to amazing talks and discussing with the vibrant community here 🦠🌱 And thanks to Tatsuya Nobori for the nice chat & showing me around The Sainsbury Laboratory

#Xanthomonas pathogens are stuck in hydathodes for weeks(!) and cannot traverse to the xylem vasculature if they lack four specific cell wall degrading enzymes. Tremendous effort and beautiful “Xantho-blots” by @MishaPaauw Harrold van den Burg biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of our opinion article in TrendsPlantSci, with Marie Simonin, Gontran Arnault and Matthieu Barret. Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering🦠1/6 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jx3-4rGdjaO…

Thrilled to finally share! The plant microbiota triggers dose-dependent immune responses that feed back to influence bacterial colonization. This affects non-pathogenic and pathogenic strains, impacting microbiota homeostasis. Out today in Nature Plants: doi.org/10.1038/s41477…