Beuzón & Ruiz-Albert Lab

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Our researcher Rafa Morcillo is co-organizing the workshop “Scientific Communication in Practice” within the ROOT-BENEFIT COST Action.
📍Larissa, Greece | 📅4–6 March 2026.
Scientists, communicators & creatives join forces to create impactful science outreach materials.

Model for membrane trafficking in the immune response to powdery mildew fungi.

#TansleyInsight article: Plant immunity depends on endomembrane trafficking

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Thordal-Christensen et al.

@sohini-d.bsky.social #PlantScience

Cover of Microbiology Outlooks featuring an article by Dr Damien Meyer on integrating game dynamics with within-host evolution genomics.

Is virulence a fixed trait? This first commentary in Microbiology Outlooks considers why it may be better understood as a context-dependent evolutionary strategy. Discover the Open Access article: https://doi.org/10.1099/mout.0.00001

👩 En el #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer #8M destacamos el talento, la dedicación y la aportación de todas las mujeres que trabajan en el #CSIC

🔬 Su compromiso es clave para impulsar una ciencia al servicio de la sociedad

Seguimos trabajando por un entorno más igualitario 👇

CSIC Igualdad – Un compromiso colectivo – CSIC | Aprende En una institución gubernamental como el CSIC, al igual que en toda la administración pública, la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres es más que un concepto ético o una aspiración social; la igualdad entre las personas es un pilar fundamental para que las instituciones funcionen adecuadamente y p...

Hoy, Día Internacional de la Mujer, el CSIC reafirma su compromiso con una ciencia más inclusiva y con la integración de la perspectiva de género en la investigación.

👉 Conoce el itinerario CSIC Igualdad:

Conmemoramos el Día Internacional de la Mujer destacando las voces y perspectivas de mujeres que lideran centros e institutos del CSIC en Andalucía, junto con las delegadas del CSIC en Andalucía y Extremadura, quienes comparten su visión, experiencia y compromiso con la ciencia y la igualdad

#8M

@ismpmi.bsky.social

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ?

We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

🥼 Publicada la Resolución Provisional de la convocatoria 2025 para obtener el #certificadoR3 de investigador/a establecido/a. Reconoce la trayectoria, calidad e independencia de investigadores/as nacionales e internacionales.

www.aei.gob.es/sites/defaul...

PELOTA at the Crossroads of Ribosome-associated quality control and Silencing: Coordinating Development, Stress, and Immunity in Plants Abstract. Ribosome-associated quality control (RaQC) pathways, including no-go decay (NGD) and non-stop decay (NSD), are essential for maintaining translat

❗️Excited to share our new review in J Exp Bot on PELOTA and ribosome-associated quality control in plants 🌱

We explore how translation surveillance connects with RNA silencing, development, and plant immunity.

Great work by PhD student Gemma Sans-Coll 👏

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Nice job Karen!

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution

@natrevgenet.nature.com

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

🎬 We have a brand new institutional video!
Learn who we are and what we do at HSM La Mayora (CSIC-UMA)

Don’t miss the full version (less than 6 minutes) ⬇️
www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/comunicacion...

starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

See our newest manuscript dissecting emergent functions in a multispecies biofilm (metabolite cross-feeding, siderophore induction and cross-species utilization) that translates to plant growth promotion
Great work by @jiyuxie.bsky.social and Xinli Sun
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants Abstract. Proteostasis relies on the coordinated control of protein synthesis, folding, modification and degradation, and an increasingly clear picture is

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:

We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.

This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

Today, Cyril Zipfel from UZH/TSL came to Málaga to give a lecture on plant immunity 🌱🦠 to MSc students at University of Málaga @univmalaga.bsky.social, lucky them!, and then to meet with researchers of IHSM La Mayora @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social 😊

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.

“they should be careful not to deprioritize the kind of curiosity-driven, investigator-led research that has a strong track record in advancing humanity’s knowledge, producing the types of innovation that prosperity and well-being depend on.”
🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nat Plants: Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity (2026) Plant cell surface pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) perceive non- or altered-self elicitors to induce immune responses. PRRs relay information across the plasma membrane and trigger downstream signalling via receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases such as BOTRYTIS-INDUCED KINASE 1 (BIK1). BIK1 associates with several PRRs and acts as a key executor of immune responses through the phosphorylation of substrate proteins. However, a comprehensive understanding of how BIK1 targets specific substrates and a full repertoire of these substrates are lacking. Here we defined the substrate specificity of BIK1 and used these data to predict candidate substrates in Arabidopsis. Using high-throughput biochemical and genetic screening of these candidates, we confirmed many as direct BIK1 substrates in vitro and novel regulators of plant immunity. Among the BIK1 substrates identified are MULTIPLE C2 DOMAIN AND TRANSMEMBRANE REGION PROTEIN 3, which we reveal regulates flagellin 22 (flg22)-induced plasmodesmata closure and immunity, and members of the largely uncharacterized CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE-LIKE family, which we uncover as novel negative regulators of immunity. In parallel, we interrogated intracellular NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT (NLR) immune receptors for potential BIK1 phosphorylation motifs and identified multiple NLRs as direct BIK1 substrates. We reveal that BIK1 phosphorylation regulates NLR oligomerization, thus controlling a key activation step for these immune receptors. Together, our unbiased biochemical screens shed light on the central role of BIK1 as a key kinase shaping multiple layers of plant immune signalling. Cell surface receptors perceive immunogenic elicitors, triggering downstream signalling via receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases such as BIK1. Here the authors define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

New Publication: Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity (2026)

https://www.tsl.ac.uk/publications/163635

🔊III Andalucía AGRO-HUB PhD students Meeting

📍IBVF, Seville
🗓️12-13 march 2026
Deadline for registration: 7 Feb

@csicdivulga.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social @eezcsic.bsky.social @ibvf-sevilla.bsky.social @institutograsa.bsky.social @irnase.bsky.social @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social

📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

New #IBVF_Seminar 2026 by Pablo Manavella from
@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social titled "Tiny transposons, big effects: How MITEs organize chromatin to shape gene expression and plant traits" 🌱 @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
@unisevilla.us.es

📆 19/02/2026 at 11:00h
🌍 Salón de Grados cicCartuja2 (IBVF)

Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria Noise in bacterial stress responses is often dismissed as mere randomness. While true stochasticity exists, much variation reflects hidden variables—cell state, history, and microenvironment—that are ...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I just want to shout out @somssich.bsky.social for making the lovely set of #PlantScience feeds––I think he's one of the reasons we have such good engagement in our particular 🌱community here.