Petteri Karisto

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
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Nothing beats the feeling of killing some plants with nasty pathogens creating flashy symptoms. #plantpathology #carrot #postharvestdiseases #epidemiology

RV SVEA a large blue and white research vessel passes between two rocky headlands heading out to sea

Jobs thread - Lots of aquatic research related jobs open here at SLU Aqua Sweden right now (with a few bonus aquatic jobs in other departments). Around half are English language roles. Come and work with us🙂 1/n

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

Fig. 4. Lesion growth plotted against lesion area and lesion age. Yellow curves represent linear or nonlinear quantile regression fits; green lines show loess-smoothed trends. X axis limits were set to display all data points within the 99th percentile; models were fitted, and predictions are shown only within this range, due to limited data beyond this threshold. All coefficients of the regression models were statistically significant (P < 2.2 × 10−16).

Using deep learning-based image analysis, Jonas Anderegg et al. tracked 6,889 individual lesions caused by #Zymoseptoria tritici on 14 wheat cultivars across two field seasons, enabling 27,218 precise measurements of lesion growth in the field: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-05-25-0187-R

Hi! Is the website address incorrect in the above post and picture? It doesn't work for me, but I find the relevant content at www.bspp.org.uk

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Join us at Plant Pathology 2026 (PPATH2026) and Early Careers Plant Pathology 2026 (ECPP2026).

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The Fifth Forum for the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change will take place on 28 May 2026 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

You can find more information about the Forum and surrounding activities on the Mission Portal: mission-adaptation-p...

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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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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!
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Oh look, more evidence of MDPI and Frontiers being troublesome publishers that you should avoid.

🚀 Reminder: €50 million funding call for climate adaptation innovation

The European Innovation Council and the Mission are offering successful applicants up to €2.5m in grants to solutions that boost Europe’s climate resilience.

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Carrot storage diseases predominantly caused by mixed fungal infections Fungal pathogens often cause severe post-harvest losses in stored carrot yields. In 2020 and 2021, carrot samples were collected in Finland from 26 fields with different soil types. The proportion of ...

In the 2nd, we studied pathogens in the symptomatic carrots and found out that *carrot storage diseases seem to be predominantly caused by mixed fungal infections.* Majority of symptoms hosted multiple known pathogens, up to 5/5 that we studied. Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

High microbial diversity in the rhizosphere and soil improve carrot (Daucus carota L.) postharvest storability Postharvest diseases can cause significant losses in carrot ( Daucus carota ) yield during storage. In this study, the effects of soil quality and microbial diversity in the field bulk soil and rhizos...

The first MS, led by Sannakajsa, presents how *high microbial diversity in the rhizosphere and soil improve carrot (Daucus carota L.) postharvest storability.* Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two manuscripts out in bioRxiv 🥳 They describe our work on carrot storage diseases and factors behind it. Big thanks to project leaders Terhi Suojala-Ahlfors and Satu Latvala, and to other co-authors Minna Haapalainen, Sannakajsa Velmala, @tainapennanen.bsky.social & Minna Pirhonen.

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.

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The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

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Telomere-to-telomere Genome Assembly of the Clubroot Pathogen Plasmodiophora Brassicae Abstract. Plasmodiophora brassicae (Woronin, 1877), a biotrophic, obligate parasite, is the causal agent of clubroot disease in brassicas. The clubroot pat

Telomere-to-telomere Genome Assembly of the Clubroot Pathogen Plasmodiophora Brassicae url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Happy May Day eve from empty late-afternoon office!

What am I doing working late before holidays? Well, plating a few dozen Pythium samples from lettuce roots collected on Monday. @marikara.bsky.social shows a great example of possible symptoms: small roots and slow growth despite green color. 😊

Luke is recruiting eight new postdoctoral researchers for cutting-edge research

📣OPEN #RESEARCH #POSTDOC POSITIONS!📣
-Ecohydrology
-Agroecology and soil microbiology
-Land use and fish populations
-Diverse farming practices
-AI in primary production
-Bio-based products, sidestreams
-Policy design and ESG implementation

Here at @luke.fi, Finland 💙💚. You´ll love it!😊
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Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?

We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!

Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs

Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

This week we launched field work on our forest demonstration sites at SW Finland! #ClimateAdaptation solutions and roadmaps coming up for end-users through our #Precilience #EuHorizon project @luke.fi

Lol. I almost commented about the duplication :D :D I also noticed a repeating pattern of duplicated word "many" in your messages. Could the author please clarify this? ;)

So many words and so few answers to the justified concerns about irregularities in publications. You could simply clarify and correct the work, if you could.

The forest pathology theme continued this week as I joined @eterhone.bsky.social and other @luke.fi forest pathologists for an inspection of a forest regeneration site. Learning about forestry, forest pests and pathogens, and more ❤️ #ClimateAdapation #HorizonEurope #Lakkakääpä @mip4adapt.bsky.social

Two weeks ago we had a wonderful consortium meeting of #Precilience project in Tartu, Estonia. It was great as ever, insipiring people and disucssions, learning a lot of new facts and ideas. This is definitely the best part of my role as project coordinator! 🥰🤯🤓

Imagine not having duplications 🤯

Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities&rsquo; ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF&rsquo;s strategy, the call wi...

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you.

Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

The Forest Resources and Management Research Unit, which collects and analyses data on the Swiss forest in order to improve the understanding of the conditions of the forest and to develop scientifically based solutions for its sustainable management, is looking due to retirement by April 1st, 2026, or by arrangement, for a Head of Research Unit Forest Resources and Management 90 – 100% (f/m/d) As an internationally respected personality, you will manage the research unit with around 80 international employees strategically, scientifically and operationally. You will also represent the research unit internally and externally, maintain regular contact with external partners and stakeholders and advise the Directorate with your expertise. You will take on a leading role in national and international research initiatives (programs, projects) and committees and will be involved in collaboration with authorities and specialist organizations. You will support and develop activities at the interface between research and practice on an ongoing basis. The coordination and development of the six research groups and the management of your own projects are also part of your varied and highly demanding duties. You are at an advanced stage in your scientific career and have extensive and successful experience in leading heterogeneous groups and coordinating interdisciplinary research projects. You have a strong record in the development and funding of research projects, an excellent publication record and an established international network in your area of expertise. You are an initiative, integrative and committed personality with negotiating skills and a well-structured way of working. In addition, you are motivated to develop the research unit scientifically and have convincing communication skills with fluency in English and at least one Swiss national language, though German is an advantage.

#Sciencejob Alert! Scientific career with excellent publication record, international network & leadership experience? Fluency in English and one Swiss language? We are looking for a new head of the #forest #resources and #management #research unit. apply.refline.ch/273855/1725/...