Pingtao Ding (he/him)
@dinglab.bsky.social
Plant diseases threaten ecosystems worldwide.
Our mission is to decode disease resistance mechanisms—a vital step toward safeguarding plant health and ensuring a sustainable future.
☞ A plant immunity lab focusing on gene regulation
☞ www.thedinglab.com
Our mission is to decode disease resistance mechanisms—a vital step toward safeguarding plant health and ensuring a sustainable future.
☞ A plant immunity lab focusing on gene regulation
☞ www.thedinglab.com
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Are you expecting a new age of microbiome engineering
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Are you expecting a new age of microbiome engineering
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
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🚀 New preprint!
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean
Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes
Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🚀 New preprint!
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean
Humbly share our latest work led by @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social my phd student
And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
Uncoupling hypersensitive cell death response and disease resistance activated by effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683861v1
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Humbly share our latest work led by @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social my phd student
And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
To my all friends: I’m partially recovered & feel nervous to present our latest work in an upcoming international plant immunity Conf in Sanya. Thanks to all the supports I received from my family, friends, mentors and colleagues during this difficult time. Look forward to seeing some of you soon!
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
To my all friends: I’m partially recovered & feel nervous to present our latest work in an upcoming international plant immunity Conf in Sanya. Thanks to all the supports I received from my family, friends, mentors and colleagues during this difficult time. Look forward to seeing some of you soon!
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Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
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September 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."
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My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p
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We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com
130 bryophyte genomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
130 bryophyte genomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com
130 bryophyte genomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
130 bryophyte genomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice work!
Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A large scale analysis of the epigenetics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis shows transgenerational stability
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
A large scale analysis of the epigenetics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis shows transgenerational stability
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Nice work!
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Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.
I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.
Molecular_Bio - YouTube
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September 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.
I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.
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Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Schüler and colleagues summarize our current knowledge of magnetosome formation and organization within the cell, and they explore their function, diversity and potential applications.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
September 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
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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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congratulations @brunongou.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social and colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Congratulations @brunongou.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social and colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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For sure great news for plant science, but it's actually *even better* news because you missed at least one! @tinaschreier.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For sure great news for plant science, but it's actually *even better* news because you missed at least one! @tinaschreier.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to #early-career scientists working with plants awarded with ERC-2025-StG @ecologybasel.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Huge congratulations to #early-career scientists working with plants awarded with ERC-2025-StG @ecologybasel.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction
In stress-induced androgenesis, BBM and its downstream effector BAR1 mediate microspore
reprogramming to trigger haploid embryo formation. Ectopic expression of BBM or BAR1
in microspores bypasses str...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
July 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.
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First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology