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Professor, Molecular biologist, plant-microbe interactions. Views are my own.

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Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

25.02.2026 09:35 👍 35 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 1

A scalable approach to inoculate plant viral vectors into plant tissue using non-pathogenic, transgenic galls https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706162v1

18.02.2026 15:08 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions Resurrect Bio

Following the successful completion of the Series A funding round, our plant disease resistance start-up Resurrect Bio @resurrectbio.bsky.social is hiring for its London lab:

(1/2) AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions

jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/resurrect/ai...

18.02.2026 15:15 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

10.02.2026 13:59 👍 34 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 0
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Genetically modified purple tomatoes get green light to be sold in Australia Purple Bliss tomatoes, which get colour from the genes of snapdragon flowers, could become the first fresh GM food available in Australian stores

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

04.02.2026 16:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La garderie enrichit le microbiome des bébés | OHdio | Radio-Canada Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Les années lumière : La garderie enrichit le microbiome des bébés

Notre membre Centre SÈVE @ilafores.bsky.social était aux Années Lumière @iciradiocanada.bsky.social pour commenter une recherche sur l'impact des garderie dans l'enrichissement du microbiome
@usherbrooke.bsky.social @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

03.02.2026 14:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
PhD Opportunities | Faculty of Natural Sciences | Imperial College London

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London
🌱 Start: Oct 2026
📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
🇬🇧 UK/settled status only
💰 Fully funded (48 months)
ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology
🙏 Share with interested candidates!

23.01.2026 09:32 👍 21 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
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New Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀

This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱

To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com

12.01.2026 20:41 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20th – 31st July… Inviting Early Career Researchers to join international experts in discussing the latest approaches and discoveries in Plant-Microbe Interactions …

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬

Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers.

APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info
www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

14.01.2026 17:50 👍 29 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 4
LinkedIn This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher).
Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact
Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e

Please re-post.

07.01.2026 21:24 👍 30 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 1
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Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale Offre d'emploi : Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale, Sherbrooke, Campus principal, Université de Sherbrooke

Ten days left to apply for the Faculty position in #plantscience in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the department of biology #usherbrooke.

www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

05.01.2026 22:14 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Why you might see purple tomatoes at the grocery store next year Gardeners and shoppers could soon see a common grocery staple with a distinctive new colour next year.

Looking forward to this www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

25.12.2025 04:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu

19.12.2025 14:48 👍 46 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 4
Application process - Canada.ca

Want to establish your research program in Canada?
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.

www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

12.12.2025 20:21 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

10.12.2025 10:52 👍 46 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 2
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CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026.
www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards

25.11.2025 23:04 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi? Biological Market Models are common evolutionary frameworks to understand the maintenance of mutualism in mycorrhizas. ‘Surplus C’ hypotheses provide an alternative framework where stoichiometry and ...

See also a framework for understanding this interaction based on a surplus carbon hypothesis
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

20.11.2025 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution In this Perspective, Karst et al. discuss how both the popular media and scientific literature have inflated the extent of evidence for various roles of mycorrhizal fungal networks in forests.

See this review for an analysis of how these biases are propagated

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

20.11.2025 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Kicking off the annual meeting of the #CentreSÈVE with @j-karst.bsky.social. Great insights on how plants and fungi interact, as well as important analysis of how value-soaked analogies affect our interpretation of scientific studies

20.11.2025 16:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale Offre d'emploi : Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale, Sherbrooke, Campus principal, Université de Sherbrooke

The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology.

www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

18.11.2025 20:00 👍 3 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Début du symposium BiSP/McrHub @usherbrooke.bsky.social.

05.11.2025 14:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants Using advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling, the authors were able to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.

Beautiful work by Ingrid Berenice Sanchez Carrillo on the in situ structure of the Arabidopsis nuclear pore complex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

31.10.2025 19:52 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs!
Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)

30.10.2025 14:11 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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Happy thanksgiving!
Me: did you know that canned pumpkin pie filling is actually squash, of the species Curcubita moschata? Jack'OLantern pumpkins are Curcubita pepo. But the definition of pumpkin is flexible.
My Daughter: we were just discussing how long it would take for you to mention that today.

14.10.2025 02:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Omics Data Analysis in the Field of Microbial Systems Biology | Ressources humaines | Université Laval

Want to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...

09.10.2025 09:00 👍 10 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

Il est encore temps de s'inscrire aux Journées Centre SÈVE!

‼️Date limite : 6 octobre 2025

🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025

📍 Hôtel Chéribourg, Orford

✨ Nos conférencier-ères invité-es: Pre Justine Karst @j-karst.bsky.social (@ualberta.bsky.social) et Pr Frank Sainsbury (@griffith.edu.au)

26.09.2025 14:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This work thanks to a fantastic group of grad students, including @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social @antoinepelletier.bsky.social @s-gauthier.bsky.social, 3 @usherbrooke.bsky.social undergrad coop students and collaborators Rosaëlle Perreault and @ilafores.bsky.social

15.09.2025 13:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social from @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social. We investigated the link between induction of chloroplastic ROS and the production of SA in defense and its suppression by effectors, as well as the importance of ABA in this phenomenon
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15.09.2025 13:45 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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An Innovative Binding‐Protein‐Based dsRNA Extraction Method: Comparison of Cost‐Effectiveness of Virus Detection Methods Using High‐Throughput Sequencing Viral diseases represent a threat to global food production. Managing the impact of viruses on crop production requires the ability to monitor viruses, study their ecology and anticipate outbreaks. D...

Report from our collaborators now published: an improved method using the dsRNA-binding protein B2 from flock house virus to enrich viral RNA for sequencing. Quicker and much cheaper that previous methods and commercial kits.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

11.09.2025 12:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0