David Pires
@david1822.bsky.social
🪱 Nematologist at INIAV, IP | 🎓 PhD candidate at the UEvora | 🛡️🌱 #Biocontrol | 🍄 Fungi-nematode interactions | 💬 Opinions are my own | 🏳️🌈 He/him |
➡️ https://sites.google.com/view/davidpires/
➡️ https://sites.google.com/view/davidpires/
Pinned
🚨 New paper is out! 🌿
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
Reposted by David Pires
From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism - a perspective written by 11 scientists, six of whom are Nobel laureates
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism - a perspective written by 11 scientists, six of whom are Nobel laureates
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Le nématode du pin Bursaphelenchus xylophilus est un ver microscopique capable de tuer certains conifères en bloquant la circulation de leur sève.
Il a récemment été détecté en France pour la 1e fois, dans les Landes. Des mesures de restriction sont mises en place pour empêcher sa propagation.
Il a récemment été détecté en France pour la 1e fois, dans les Landes. Des mesures de restriction sont mises en place pour empêcher sa propagation.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Le nématode du pin Bursaphelenchus xylophilus est un ver microscopique capable de tuer certains conifères en bloquant la circulation de leur sève.
Il a récemment été détecté en France pour la 1e fois, dans les Landes. Des mesures de restriction sont mises en place pour empêcher sa propagation.
Il a récemment été détecté en France pour la 1e fois, dans les Landes. Des mesures de restriction sont mises en place pour empêcher sa propagation.
Reposted by David Pires
Engineering microbes to soak up more carbon, boost crop yields and restore former farmland is appealing. But synthetic biology fixes must be done thoughtfully.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/enginee...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/enginee...
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Engineering microbes to soak up more carbon, boost crop yields and restore former farmland is appealing. But synthetic biology fixes must be done thoughtfully.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/enginee...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/enginee...
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DYK that while working for the USDA, Dr. Fatma Kaplan was introduced to beneficial nematodes and learned that they used the same class of communication signals as plant-parasitic nematodes do? Learn more about Pheronym's journey in this podcast episode 🎧 joegardener.com/podcast/nema...
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
DYK that while working for the USDA, Dr. Fatma Kaplan was introduced to beneficial nematodes and learned that they used the same class of communication signals as plant-parasitic nematodes do? Learn more about Pheronym's journey in this podcast episode 🎧 joegardener.com/podcast/nema...
🚨 New paper is out! 🌿
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🚨 New paper is out! 🌿
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems.
👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
Reposted by David Pires
Reposted by David Pires
⚠️ The spread of the pinewood nematode is a development of great concern to the future of European forests.
🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks.
#Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks.
#Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
🚨 First detection of the pinewood nematode in France
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
⚠️ The spread of the pinewood nematode is a development of great concern to the future of European forests.
🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks.
#Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks.
#Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
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The first #NEMEMERGE #newsletter is out 📩💥
🔝The project has reached one year and a half of implementation and we have come up with a good number of #advancements & #results🪱.
To read the 1st issue👉🏾 bit.ly/4i9XOmm
To subscribe👉🏾 bit.ly/49ZdQNE
@w-u-r.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
🔝The project has reached one year and a half of implementation and we have come up with a good number of #advancements & #results🪱.
To read the 1st issue👉🏾 bit.ly/4i9XOmm
To subscribe👉🏾 bit.ly/49ZdQNE
@w-u-r.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The first #NEMEMERGE #newsletter is out 📩💥
🔝The project has reached one year and a half of implementation and we have come up with a good number of #advancements & #results🪱.
To read the 1st issue👉🏾 bit.ly/4i9XOmm
To subscribe👉🏾 bit.ly/49ZdQNE
@w-u-r.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
🔝The project has reached one year and a half of implementation and we have come up with a good number of #advancements & #results🪱.
To read the 1st issue👉🏾 bit.ly/4i9XOmm
To subscribe👉🏾 bit.ly/49ZdQNE
@w-u-r.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Reposted by David Pires
Nematode worm
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nematode worm
Reposted by David Pires
🚨 First detection of the pinewood nematode in France
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚨 First detection of the pinewood nematode in France
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
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Absolutely excited for #VNC25 tomorrow! Featuring talks from ECRs, 2 workshops, a murder mystery, and a pub with games. We are excited to have registrations from 55 countries! If you are interested in joining the YNN board, come along to our info session from 16:00-16:25 CET.
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Absolutely excited for #VNC25 tomorrow! Featuring talks from ECRs, 2 workshops, a murder mystery, and a pub with games. We are excited to have registrations from 55 countries! If you are interested in joining the YNN board, come along to our info session from 16:00-16:25 CET.
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Please share. U Vermont is now advertising the soil ecology position that was vacated when I retired in 2024, and was caught in a hiring freeze last year. The job posting number is F3517PO. A direct link to the announcement: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/83858
Assistant Professor of Soil Ecology
Officers of Instruction - Tenure Track
www.uvmjobs.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Please share. U Vermont is now advertising the soil ecology position that was vacated when I retired in 2024, and was caught in a hiring freeze last year. The job posting number is F3517PO. A direct link to the announcement: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/83858
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🆕 Our new paper is out in The ISME Journal!🌱🧬🦠 We uncover how epigenetic regulation drives chemical crosstalk between plants & microbes — key to sustainable agriculture. Proud collaboration with our friends of Dr. Mengcen Wang's lab @ZJU
@itqbnova.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
@itqbnova.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Epigenetic landscape underlying plant-microbiome chemical communication
Abstract. Chemical communication, a universal mode among the interactive members within dynamic plant-microbiome systems, fundamentally drives coevolutiona
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🆕 Our new paper is out in The ISME Journal!🌱🧬🦠 We uncover how epigenetic regulation drives chemical crosstalk between plants & microbes — key to sustainable agriculture. Proud collaboration with our friends of Dr. Mengcen Wang's lab @ZJU
@itqbnova.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
@itqbnova.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Reposted by David Pires
New paper !! 🌱
Transcriptional re-programming of defense responses in Capsicum annuum roots induced by the interaction of the endophyte fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita
Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#plantsciences #transcriptomics
Transcriptional re-programming of defense responses in Capsicum annuum roots induced by the interaction of the endophyte fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita
Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#plantsciences #transcriptomics
Transcriptional re-programming of defense responses in Capsicum annuum roots induced by the interaction of the endophyte fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne inc...
It is currently poorly understood how endophyte colonization and nematode parasitism affect host plants. To address this, we explored the transcriptio…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New paper !! 🌱
Transcriptional re-programming of defense responses in Capsicum annuum roots induced by the interaction of the endophyte fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita
Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#plantsciences #transcriptomics
Transcriptional re-programming of defense responses in Capsicum annuum roots induced by the interaction of the endophyte fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita
Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#plantsciences #transcriptomics
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Le nématode du pin, ver ravageur qui a déjà sévi au Portugal et en Espagne, a fait son apparition dans la forêt des Landes, l'une des plus vastes d'Europe, où la filière sylvicole redoute une prolifération "dévastatrice"
Dans la forêt des Landes, l'apparition du nématode du pin inquiète les sylviculteurs
l.geo.fr
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Le nématode du pin, ver ravageur qui a déjà sévi au Portugal et en Espagne, a fait son apparition dans la forêt des Landes, l'une des plus vastes d'Europe, où la filière sylvicole redoute une prolifération "dévastatrice"
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Nématode du pin : "Un prédateur de plus qui peut obliger à éradiquer tous les arbres d'un secteur"
www.franceinfo.fr/france/nouve...
www.franceinfo.fr/france/nouve...
Nématode du pin : "Un prédateur de plus" qui peut obliger à "éradiquer tous les arbres d'un secteur", alerte le président de la DFCI Aquitaine
Un foyer de nématode du pin a été détecté pour la première fois en France, à Seignosse (Landes) a annoncé mardi le ministère de l'Agriculture.
www.franceinfo.fr
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nématode du pin : "Un prédateur de plus qui peut obliger à éradiquer tous les arbres d'un secteur"
www.franceinfo.fr/france/nouve...
www.franceinfo.fr/france/nouve...
Reposted by David Pires
Nématode du pin : détecté dans les Landes, il fait trembler la forêt et les autorités
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/sdXU
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/sdXU
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Nématode du pin : détecté dans les Landes, il fait trembler la forêt et les autorités
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/sdXU
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/sdXU
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Nématode du pin dans les Landes : la traque va s’amplifier
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/vZLX
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/vZLX
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Nématode du pin dans les Landes : la traque va s’amplifier
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/vZLX
🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/vZLX
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Bad news for the French Pine forests! 😩
First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).
#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology
agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).
#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology
agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Bad news for the French Pine forests! 😩
First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).
#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology
agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).
#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology
agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
🚨 The detection of the pinewood #nematode in France🇫🇷 exposes the flaws of current management strategies, focused on delaying rather than creating actual solutions, like we highlighted in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1007/s106...
📰 News: www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...
📰 News: www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...
Multiple factors associated with forest decline in the context of control measures for the pinewood nematode - European Journal of Plant Pathology
Forest decline is a complex phenomenon; however, there is often a tendency to oversimplify by attributing it to a single cause, neglecting the interaction of multiple factors. Ever since the detection...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🚨 The detection of the pinewood #nematode in France🇫🇷 exposes the flaws of current management strategies, focused on delaying rather than creating actual solutions, like we highlighted in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1007/s106...
📰 News: www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...
📰 News: www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...
✍️ I’ve just filled out the @femsmicro.org survey, a great chance to make sure microbiologists’ voices are heard across Europe! 🌍
Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe. FEMS is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of microbiologists.
Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.
Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.
Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
October 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
✍️ I’ve just filled out the @femsmicro.org survey, a great chance to make sure microbiologists’ voices are heard across Europe! 🌍
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❓Interested in the fundamentals of effective research communication?
❗️Here is a webinar that will discuss these questions and more:
💻IUFRO Masterclass in Research Communication and Pathways to Impact
🗓️17 November 🕔17.00 UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#ForestScience #ScienceCommunication
❗️Here is a webinar that will discuss these questions and more:
💻IUFRO Masterclass in Research Communication and Pathways to Impact
🗓️17 November 🕔17.00 UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#ForestScience #ScienceCommunication
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
❓Interested in the fundamentals of effective research communication?
❗️Here is a webinar that will discuss these questions and more:
💻IUFRO Masterclass in Research Communication and Pathways to Impact
🗓️17 November 🕔17.00 UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#ForestScience #ScienceCommunication
❗️Here is a webinar that will discuss these questions and more:
💻IUFRO Masterclass in Research Communication and Pathways to Impact
🗓️17 November 🕔17.00 UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#ForestScience #ScienceCommunication
✍️ Open letter signed ✅
Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
✍️ Open letter signed ✅
Reposted by David Pires
🪱 Virulent vs. avirulent #nematodes
✅A #virulent nematode population can infect & reproduce on plants carrying resistance genes.
❎An #avirulent population cannot overcome plant resistance and fails to reproduce.
Watch #video 🎦 bit.ly/3WfIAlI @xsorribas.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
✅A #virulent nematode population can infect & reproduce on plants carrying resistance genes.
❎An #avirulent population cannot overcome plant resistance and fails to reproduce.
Watch #video 🎦 bit.ly/3WfIAlI @xsorribas.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Virulent & avirulent nematode populations
YouTube video by NEM-EMERGE
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🪱 Virulent vs. avirulent #nematodes
✅A #virulent nematode population can infect & reproduce on plants carrying resistance genes.
❎An #avirulent population cannot overcome plant resistance and fails to reproduce.
Watch #video 🎦 bit.ly/3WfIAlI @xsorribas.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
✅A #virulent nematode population can infect & reproduce on plants carrying resistance genes.
❎An #avirulent population cannot overcome plant resistance and fails to reproduce.
Watch #video 🎦 bit.ly/3WfIAlI @xsorribas.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu