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Group Leader Position in in Molecular Phytopathology

📢Happy to see our latest publication 📜on the 3D genome of #Verticillium, previously on bioRxiv, now online in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/dzvgv 🎉🍾. Great work by David T Vittorio Martin Kramer Gabriel Lorencini Fiorin David E Cook & Michael F Seidl

The April 2024 issue of The Plant Cell is now online! ASPB Oxford University Press buff.ly/3GvIUT4 #PlantSci

It was just a weekend project, exploring the intricate aspects of 3D animation. Now, the "blender" trichome is on the April issue's cover of The Plant Cell .

Time to ditch BioRender? I had no idea they were claiming copyright to the figures we make with it, even after we pay for use of the service.

@z_bernasconi uses gain-of-virulence mutants on wheat powdery mildew resistance genes to identify avirulence genes. AvrXpose uses subsequent irradiation of an avirulent isolate with UV-C light on susceptible 🌾 leaves. Read Here: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-0…

Are you still struggling with the manual curation of TEs? Do you want to know the magic of cleaning TE MSAs with only a single button click? Welcome to try TEtrimmer (paper will come soon) github.com/qjiangzhao/TEt… I am also looking forward to discussing this with you in #ICTE2024

Panagiotis Sarris @RogerInnes1 And here is a sister submission. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Just at the same time

Powdery mildew effectors AVRA1 and BEC1016 target the ER J‐domain protein HvERdj3B required for immunity in barley - Li - 2024 - Molecular Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mp…

This has been a long time coming: our revised work on #Blumeria hordei rapidly overcoming #mlo resistance biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Major revelations compared to version 1: - loss of the medA orthologue does NOT affect conidia - variations in mlo-virulent strains appeared rapidly

Paper out today: “RNA-guided RNA Silencing by an Asgard archaeal Argonaute”. A wonderful, multidisciplinary project co-led with Daan C. Swarts Joo_Lab, spearheaded by Carolien Bastiaanssen Pilar B U Kijun Kim @FinocchioGiada & Yanlei Feng. nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

Exciting news! Our TEtrimmer preprint is now available. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… For each output TE sequence, you get a report plot like this! Explore more about TEtrimmer on our GitHub: github.com/qjiangzhao/TEt…

Genetics and genomics in Blumeria Avr gene cloning. I guess this is cool: Avirulence depletion assay: combining R gene-mediated selection with bulk sequencing for rapid avirulence gene identification in wheat powdery mildew biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m excited to share my first work on appressoria! “Dihydroxyhexanoic acid biosynthesis controls turgor in pathogenic fungi” @bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now accepted: A fungal plant pathogen overcomes mlo‐mediated broad‐spectrum disease resistance by rapid gene loss - New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Lambros Frantzeskakis Florian Kuemmel et al.

A fungal plant pathogen overcomes mlo-mediated broad-spectrum disease resistance by rapid gene loss Kusch et al. Stefan Kusch 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

The peptide hormone PjCLE1 stimulates haustorium formation in the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

It is out: "Analyses of transposable elements in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi support evolutionary parallels with filamentous plant pathogens" Nicolas Corradi Ken_Mugambi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

With the help of many collaborators, we describe functions of phosphatidylinositol-monophosphates in barley disease susceptibility and resistance.

Here's the thing. We have **NO IDEA** how to pick good graduate students. I served on admission committees for 10+ years, and chaired a few, and what I learned is that all the spreadsheets of grades and test scores and recommendations and essays and publications and interview