Alan Wanke
@alanwanke.bsky.social
Post-doc @dromius @slcuplants l PhD @team_zuccaro | plant-fungal interactions🌱| Lindy Hop |🚲-lover | 🇪🇺 | he/him
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TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors analysed a large genomic dataset to trace how jumping genes shaped the global spread of a major wheat pathogen and reveal bursts of activity over decades that drove adaptati...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
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There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!
We warmly welcome Dr. Megan McDonald as Associate Professor of Plant Disease Dynamics. Her research on fungal diseases in crops will strengthen our expertise and collaborations across plant sciences. 🌱
At its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!
It’s been such a pleasure to present my work at #iMMM2025. Thanks for the constructive discussions and comments - this remains my absolute favourite meeting! Looking forward to the next iteration 2027 in Toulouse 🍷
September 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It’s been such a pleasure to present my work at #iMMM2025. Thanks for the constructive discussions and comments - this remains my absolute favourite meeting! Looking forward to the next iteration 2027 in Toulouse 🍷
Check out @alexguyon.bsky.social’s preprint on membrane compositions upon mutualistic & pathogenic colonisation. Brilliant microscopy included!
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Check out @alexguyon.bsky.social’s preprint on membrane compositions upon mutualistic & pathogenic colonisation. Brilliant microscopy included!
Check out @binebrumm.bsky.social’s new study from her times with us in Cambridge!
Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs
Functional divergence of plant SCAR/WAVE proteins is determined by intrinsically disordered regions
Intrinsically disordered regions in SCAR/WAVE proteins drive diverse functions in root hair and leaf trichome development.
www.science.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Check out @binebrumm.bsky.social’s new study from her times with us in Cambridge!
Was great having you with us, @isabelmonte.bsky.social!
And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI
May 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Was great having you with us, @isabelmonte.bsky.social!
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And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI
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**CLOSING SOON**
Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning
Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz
Deadline: 31st March 2025
Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues)
#JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience
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Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning
Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz
Deadline: 31st March 2025
Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues)
#JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience
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March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
**CLOSING SOON**
Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning
Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz
Deadline: 31st March 2025
Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues)
#JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience
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Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning
Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz
Deadline: 31st March 2025
Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues)
#JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience
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Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies
March 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies
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🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature
Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.
nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
Great lab, institute & mentor - come and join us!
Plz Repost. We @slcuplants.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: Alex Guyon]
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/
March 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great lab, institute & mentor - come and join us!
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Are you serious @royalsociety.org?? He is trying to destroy science, spreading dangerous misinformation, inciting violence & your response is to do nothing?
So what’s your purpose then? What do you exist for? Other than being elite?
🧪 #academicsky
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
So what’s your purpose then? What do you exist for? Other than being elite?
🧪 #academicsky
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists
Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Are you serious @royalsociety.org?? He is trying to destroy science, spreading dangerous misinformation, inciting violence & your response is to do nothing?
So what’s your purpose then? What do you exist for? Other than being elite?
🧪 #academicsky
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
So what’s your purpose then? What do you exist for? Other than being elite?
🧪 #academicsky
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The remarkable Starships - large mobile elements capable of moving large genomic regions in fungal populations. Changes everything we thought we knew about horizontal gene transfer among fungi and the mobility of large proportion of pan genomes Aaron Vogan #ECFG17
March 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The remarkable Starships - large mobile elements capable of moving large genomic regions in fungal populations. Changes everything we thought we knew about horizontal gene transfer among fungi and the mobility of large proportion of pan genomes Aaron Vogan #ECFG17
Really grateful to have won a postdoctoral poster award at #Fungal24. If you weren't at the conference or couldn't make it during my slot, the poster is now available on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…. Drop me a line if you have any questions or suggestions 🙏
Congrats to Alan @alanwanke.bsky.social for winning a poster award at the 32nd Fungal Genetics Conference 2024 #Fungal24!
March 23, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Really grateful to have won a postdoctoral poster award at #Fungal24. If you weren't at the conference or couldn't make it during my slot, the poster is now available on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…. Drop me a line if you have any questions or suggestions 🙏
An ode to Evo-MPMI by AmirAli Toghani at our yearly #SchoBozKaKouDeRella symposium
February 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM
An ode to Evo-MPMI by AmirAli Toghani at our yearly #SchoBozKaKouDeRella symposium
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⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 17-19 September 2024 | Cambridge, UK. Theme: Development - Reprogrammed.
Registrations open 1 March.
ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
Organisers @dromius.bsky.social & Alexander Jones
Registrations open 1 March.
ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
Organisers @dromius.bsky.social & Alexander Jones
January 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 17-19 September 2024 | Cambridge, UK. Theme: Development - Reprogrammed.
Registrations open 1 March.
ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
Organisers @dromius.bsky.social & Alexander Jones
Registrations open 1 March.
ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
Organisers @dromius.bsky.social & Alexander Jones
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We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology!
Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students.
Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO
#plantsci
Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students.
Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO
#plantsci
January 23, 2024 at 11:07 AM
We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology!
Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students.
Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO
#plantsci
Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students.
Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO
#plantsci
To a new year of fun science and lovely people!
The fantastic team (missing @binebrumm.bsky.social) at Fen Ditton today for our New Years‘ Lunch.
January 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
To a new year of fun science and lovely people!
Cantabrigians! Do you want to discover more about the intimate relationships between plants and fungi? Interested in learning how to make the invisible visible? 🔎Join Raffy and myself for our course at Cambridge Botanic Garden in May! t.co/6J9UbfgD1I
CLASSROOM COURSE Entangled lives: exploring partnerships between plants and fungi - Cambridge Botani...
t.co
January 20, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Cantabrigians! Do you want to discover more about the intimate relationships between plants and fungi? Interested in learning how to make the invisible visible? 🔎Join Raffy and myself for our course at Cambridge Botanic Garden in May! t.co/6J9UbfgD1I
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📜 Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification
🧑🔬 David G. Robinson, Torgny Näsholm, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #MPMI
🧑🔬 David G. Robinson, Torgny Näsholm, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #MPMI
Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification
There are growing doubts about the true role of the common mycorrhizal networks (CMN or wood wide web) connecting the roots of trees in forests. We qu…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 12, 2024 at 8:15 AM
📜 Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification
🧑🔬 David G. Robinson, Torgny Näsholm, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #MPMI
🧑🔬 David G. Robinson, Torgny Näsholm, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #MPMI
Reposted by Alan Wanke
📜 Thermospermine is an evolutionarily ancestral phytohormone required for organ development and stress responses in Marchantia polymorpha
🧑🔬 Takuya Furumoto, Taku Takahashi, et al.
📔 Plant & Cell Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Takuya Furumoto, Taku Takahashi, et al.
📔 Plant & Cell Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #Phytohormones
Thermospermine is an evolutionarily ancestral phytohormone required for organ development and stress...
Abstract. Thermospermine suppresses auxin-inducible xylem differentiation, whereas its structural isomer, spermine, is involved in stress responses in angiosper
academic.oup.com
January 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
📜 Thermospermine is an evolutionarily ancestral phytohormone required for organ development and stress responses in Marchantia polymorpha
🧑🔬 Takuya Furumoto, Taku Takahashi, et al.
📔 Plant & Cell Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Takuya Furumoto, Taku Takahashi, et al.
📔 Plant & Cell Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantEvoDevo #Phytohormones
Reposted by Alan Wanke
📜Spatial IMA1 regulation restricts root iron acquisition on MAMP perception
🧑🔬 Min Cao, Wolfgang Busch, et al.
📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
🧑🔬 Min Cao, Wolfgang Busch, et al.
📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
Spatial IMA1 regulation restricts root iron acquisition on MAMP perception - Nature
Microorganism-associated molecular patterns such as flagellin lead to suppression of root iron acquisition through localized degradation of the systemic iron-deficiency signalling peptide Iron Man 1 i...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2024 at 8:18 AM
📜Spatial IMA1 regulation restricts root iron acquisition on MAMP perception
🧑🔬 Min Cao, Wolfgang Busch, et al.
📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
🧑🔬 Min Cao, Wolfgang Busch, et al.
📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
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Excited to publish our recent work in Nature Communications@NatureComms!
We showed ROS tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing T2SS, allowing the co-existence and turning it into a beneficial bacterium to host.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We showed ROS tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing T2SS, allowing the co-existence and turning it into a beneficial bacterium to host.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Commensal lifestyle regulated by a negative feedback loop between Arabidopsis ROS and the bacterial ...
The plant immune output reactive oxygen species tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing a bacterial secretion system, allowing the co-existence and turning it int...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Excited to publish our recent work in Nature Communications@NatureComms!
We showed ROS tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing T2SS, allowing the co-existence and turning it into a beneficial bacterium to host.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We showed ROS tames a detrimental bacterial commensal from native microbiota by suppressing T2SS, allowing the co-existence and turning it into a beneficial bacterium to host.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A good start to the year: I am delighted to announce that this week marks the start of my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at @slcuplants.bsky.social, supporting my work on mycorrhizal interactions between Mucoromycotina Fine Root Endophytes and plants. Exciting times ahead!👨🏼🔬🧬
January 9, 2024 at 12:06 PM
A good start to the year: I am delighted to announce that this week marks the start of my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at @slcuplants.bsky.social, supporting my work on mycorrhizal interactions between Mucoromycotina Fine Root Endophytes and plants. Exciting times ahead!👨🏼🔬🧬
Reposted by Alan Wanke
Very excited to announce the 2024 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology GRC organised by @annaselmecki.bsky.social
& myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.
& myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.
December 18, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Very excited to announce the 2024 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology GRC organised by @annaselmecki.bsky.social
& myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.
& myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.