Ekkachai Khwanbua

Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration!

Linking below previous thread on our findings

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

High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease - Nature Plants Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in the cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective, resulting in biparental inheritance that can rescue mitochondrial mutations and g...

Mitochondria can indeed be inherited from the father! 🍀
In this new study, we uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial inheritance in Nicotiana tabacum. @natplants.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

(a) The historical record of atmospheric CO2 concentrations from 1950 to 2022 and predictions until 2100 estimated by a collection of Global Climate Models, which assume several CO2 emission scenarios (IPCC 2021). (b) Earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration during the past 40 million years, according to two independent proxy measures (δ¹¹B and alkenones) (Rae et al. 2021).

🌱 Plant, Cell & Environment: Plants may stabilize protein levels under rising CO2 by shifting nitrogen use and metal cofactors, boosting energy efficiency and maintaining carbon nitrogen balance. (Arnold J. Bloom, Xiaoxiao Shi, Nathan M. Hannon)
▶️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Integrative proteomics approaches for data-driven reconstruction of kinase signaling.

Masters of perception: phosphorylation-dependent signaling in plants

#TansleyInsight by Roosjen et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Miltos Tsiantis Interview with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚

Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀

We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!

Fig. 2 MYCs coordinate secretory structure development and specialized metabolite biosynthesis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), citrus (Citrus spp.), and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum).

#TansleyInsight: #Plant epidermis-derived secretory structures: from glandular trichomes to secretory cavities

Xiang et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

We recently published a first story on combining spatial and single cell transcriptomics in barley (see here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Lets go for the next level now, i.e. understanding gene networks and barley meristem development in 4D!

Fig. 6 Most pressing issues and questions in stomatal mechanics.

Modelling stomatal mechanics: a critical review

A #ResearchReview by Tan et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Weighing the options: a test of alternative stomatal optimisation models at high temperatures Stomatal optimisation models centre upon a fundamental tradeoff for plants: opening stomata promotes carbon uptake, but closing stomata prevents water loss. However, stomatal opening can occur at hi...

So proud! Our brilliant PhD student Camille Sicangco's new paper just out in @newphyt.bsky.social : Testing stomatal optimisation models at high temperatures nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 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)

Ali Bati's meme horse in LEGO.

Glad that people _do_ recognize it :-)

manuschwendener.ch/horses

#LEGO #AliBati #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

Check out our latest preprint from @jnvmartinson.bsky.social and @leosong.bsky.social! 🌟🦠

We found that conjugative plasmids can actively eliminate recipient bacteria that resist plasmid acquisition. 🧵

We’re hiring!

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab

“Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

A working model delineating the function of NbLRRP1 in suppressing PTI responses and disease resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana.

A conserved extracellular LRR-only protein disrupts BAK1-mediated immune receptor formation to negatively regulate plant immunity

Zhu et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KJMN84...

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.

Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

PhD position in biology (m/f/d) (1/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a PhD position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social!
If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026.

Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

📣 Our lab is seeking a postdoc to study mutation mechanisms in fungi using cutting-edge sequencing + computational biology. No active posting/grant right now, but we’re excited to host postdoc fellowship applicants in our comparative immunology team.
Interested? Reach out DM email. krasilevalab.org

A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Come and hear me yap about the #LiverwortHunt, a citizen science project which we (@slcuplants.bsky.social) ran in 2021, and was published last year as a part of the Marchantia polymorpha pangenome paper doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Decoding the Arsenal: Protist Effectors and Their Impact on Photosynthetic Hosts | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® Interactions between various microbial pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, and their plant hosts have traditionally been the focus of phytopathology. In recent years, a significan...

Decoding the Arsenal: Protist Effectors and Their Impact on Photosynthetic Hosts | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Defense and growth traits in the climate-chamber experiment, under no herbivory induction or herbivory induction, and under the three temperature treatments: leaf dry matter content; specific leaf area; total glucosinolate concentration; time to half size.

Variation in herbivore defense strategies among plant species differing in elevational distribution and the role of temperature in defense

Dorey et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New preprint from the Whitham lab!

This is part of my PhD work on how elevated atmospheric CO2 affects maize immunity and disease susceptibility. We also discuss how plant CO2 sensing pathways may intersect with the early signaling immune components.

Hope you have a good read!

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Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How do plants fight disease? 🌱 #NASmember Jane Parker studies NLR proteins that help plants sense attackers and launch powerful immune defenses. She shares her latest findings on how these proteins signal plants to resist disease in a new @pnas.org QnAs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...