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#shoutout After 3 years, now we launched a new version of our lab website (still under construction): thedinglab.com Can you please help us by commenting below on what we can further improve for our website so we can pass them on to our designer? Thanks in advance!

An honour to announce our next speaker in line for our 2024 Plant Stress Biology Leiden seminar series: Dr. Sebastian Schornack Sebastian Schornack Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) Cambridge University hosted by DingLab & Balazadeh Lab - Leiden LeidenBiology Universiteit Leiden supported by Graduate School EPS Thu 31 Oct IBL 1.4.35

A plant pathogen that kills....people: Burkholderia gladioli pathovar cocovenenans produces bongkrek acid is a respiratory toxin produced in fermented coconut or corn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongkrek_…

Thanks for sharing such wonderful work w/ us. Learning a lot from Sebastian Schornack today about P. palmivora as a system to study host-microbe interactions & and happy #holloween Interesting (co-)evolution of SCAR proteins in plants - preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

A cytoplasmic osmosensing mechanism mediated by molecular crowding–sensitive DCP5 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

it's a good time to gradually switch to bsky.app/profile/dingla…

My talk "How to science (and how not to science)" presented at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; course "How to pick a scientific problem" organized by Shamik Mazumdar and Simon Stael. November 18, 2024. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

How do plants protect themselves from infection? 🌲 🌽 🌱 A new plant cell atlas created by Salk Professor Joe Ecker and team revealed a rare cell state called PRIMER, which acts as a plant defense strategy hub. With the publicly available atlas, scientists are now closer to

I am very excited to share our new preprint on a hydrophobic core in the coiled-coil domain crucial for NRC resistosome function. Huge thanks to Hung-yu Hank Wang, 李金騰 Kim, Atles Goh, and Tolga Bozkurt for their incredible efforts! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#teaching #rewarding An e-mail that came in today made my day! It's been three years of teaching since I started LeidenBiology Universiteit Leiden With the help from my teaching mentor The Claessen Lab & support from my colleagues Han de Winde @handewinde.bsky.social Du Chao & many #TAs Himanshu Chhillar, I have

Thrilled to share that part of my PhD has now been published in Cell Reports shorturl.at/dULB9 Big thanks to all the co-authors & all lab members DingLab & special thanks to my supervisors Pingtao Ding (he/him) Jonathan D G Jones

#proudPI congrats, Himanshu Chhillar! Well done and well deserved! LeidenBiology Universiteit Leiden

🎉 Small milestone to share: Our work has now passed the final correction stage and is moving forward to publication. I am super grateful to everyone involved — my team members DingLab, collaborators, reviewers and the editorial team. Stay tuned for the final version

Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation - Schulman - Plant Biotechnology Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb…

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity Our new preprint is now online, 1 July⬇️ Grateful to an incredible team: Himanshu Chhillar Leonardo Jo Amey Redkar Kaisa Kajala Jonathan D G Jones Affiliations: Universiteit Leiden Utrecht University National Centre for Biological Sciences

Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture Our new review is now online Nature Biotechnology nature.com/articles/s4158… Great team work from Richalynn Xin, Bob Toshiyuki Sakai & Jorge A full-text view-only is accessible via

RIP John. What a gent.

Very happy to contribute to this satellite meeting on -Building careers in #MPMI through Mentoring. It was great to share thoughts and learn from colleagues. Thanks to the organisers Jawahar Singh, PhD and others #2025ISMPMI