Farewell to YuSeng Huang who is joining Thorsten Langner lab as a PhD student next month.

New insights in this paper: CAX1/3 calms the evoked calcium level in cytoplasm, which signals through CBL–CIPK under growth condition. In contrast, it signals through BIK1/PBL upon PTI activation. I’m still curious about the scenarios where only ETI is activated.

Using tools—like shells and rocks—to open their often thick-shelled mollusk prey increases foraging success in sea otters and protects their teeth from damage by allowing them to eat prey that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. This week in Science: scim.ag/6YT

More than 1.4 petabytes imaging data…. Fascinating…

The NRC0 gene cluster of sensor and helper NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across asterid plants (Toshiyuki Sakai, Mauricio P Contreras, Claudia Martinez-Anaya, Daniel Lüdke, Sophien Kamoun, Chih-Hang Wu, Hiroaki Adachi) buff.ly/3Rj0thr

A tightly regulated copper-inducible gene expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana Chiang et al. Chih-Hang Wu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) 📖 ow.ly/wLNY50SOkXu

Happy 80th to IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所)! Bing-Jen Chiang Yi-Feng Chen Hung-yu Hank Wang wen-chi (Wendy)

Wonderful K-MPMI international symposium in Seoul. We really enjoyed our time here. Hung-yu Hank Wang Liang-Yu Hou Yi-Feng Chen Bing-Jen Chiang. Big thanks to Keehoon Sohn Cecile Segonzac Hiroaki Adachi. Look forward to to the next one in Japan.

I've been secretly working out so much that I didn't even realize it

A breakthrough in plant gene delivery!🌱 Our new study shows that R. rhizogenes strain A4 outperforms traditional agro strains in transient gene expression, especially in solanaceous crops like tomato and pepper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb… 📄Published in Plant Biotechnology Journal

Single-cell-resolved calcium and organelle dynamics in resistosome-mediated cell death biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants