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Despite these difficult times, I wanted to share the peer-reviewed version of our latest manuscript, including some new and exciting results! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thanks FEBS for the support! The funds will allow us to expand our investigation of nucleolar dynamics in budding & fission yeast - a project led by the lab’s Twitter-less scientific officer Ricardo Carvalho with theory support from our colleague Thomas Quail

Was honored and moved by the heartwarming ceremony in Berlin yesterday. Thank you to the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt Foundation! More than ever I am convinced that science is the strongest universal bridge to connect people and cultures

@MPI_Bio Congratulations Gal Gal Ofir , well deserve! Looking forward to exciting new discoveries!

Fascinating talk from Sebastian Eves-van den Akker today at our friday seminar series @MPI_Bio today on plant parasitic nematode phenotyping!

Thrilled to share this chapter of my PhD thesis! We built on previous work by @MoffettPeter and show that the 150 amino acid nucleotide binding domain of sensor NLRs is sufficient to activate downstream NRC helpers! 🧵1/13 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci

A PhD position is available in my group at SLU starting in 2024 thanks to a new grant from Vetenskapsrådet. The application deadline is 31 Jan. 2024. The preferred start date is late spring or summer 2024. Apply via this link: slu.se/en/about-slu/w… More details in thread 👇

Here's some good news in these challenging times: we’re proud to announce that Dr. Einat Segev of the Plant and Environmental Sciences department has been elected to join the EMBO Young Investigator program. Best of luck! EMBO YIP

Elated to be joining this year’s cohort of EMBO Young Investigators! Proud of the whole lab & thankful for the chance to science w/ some exceptional folks @MPI_Bio.

Super excited to share our new pre-print by Sabonis, Avraham et al. on type II Thoeris system which produces a new type of signaling molecule His-ADPR! An amazing collaboration with the Sorek Lab and the Kranzusch Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Somatic mutations introduce new phenotypes that are often used in modern plant breeding. Our work now provides insights into somatic mosaicism at the cellular level. We show that in trees, most mutations are specific to cell layers of the meristem. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Science wins! MEPs vote in favour of supporting greater use of New Genomic Techniques (#NGTs) in the EU. This is a huge step toward more sustainable agriculture. Thank you to everyone who has taken action toward this outcome. 💚🎉

We also discover NARP2, an alternative NAD+ reconstitution pathway utilizing classical NAD+-salvage enzymatic reactions, which is used by phages to rebuild NAD+ during infection to overcome defense.

What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by Marleny García Lozano & out today in Current Biology! cell.com/current-biolog… 🧵1/n

Exited to announce the publication of our work showing that activated type I Thoeris SIR2 effector ThsA forms helical filaments in nature. Thread below nature.com/articles/s4158…

New preprint! Ben Adler and I @doudna_lab, in collaboration with Emily Armbruster and @JoePogliano, unveil a mechanism for Hachiman immunity. The punchline - Hachiman is a genome integrity sensor. College of Chemistry @igisci HHMI biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 1/14

After an incredible time in the labs of Tal Dagan and Sorek Lab, it's time for a new exciting chapter! I am deeply honored the WeinLab will be part of the Systems_Immunology_WIS department at the Weizmann Institute. Can't wait to begin this journey!

We’re All Stardust: A few days before his wedding, this Weizmann PhD student received a once-in-a-career opportunity: he was able to observe one of the brightest supernovas in decades using Hubble bit.ly/supernova-wis-… Ido Irani 🇺🇦🇮🇱 Erez

See ya later The Sainsbury Laboratory and John Innes Centre! It's been great being a part of the community here for the last ~6 years! Thank you everyone. Excited to now be starting fresh with Durham University and beginning some exciting new research!

I really enjoyed this EMBL "Plant Genomes" symposium last week, a small conference with some of the very best talks I have heard on novel functions emerging at multiple phylogenetic scales 🌲🌿🌸🌾 Some highlights below 🧵 embl.org/about/info/cou…