A new preprint involving the labs of @jonathandgjones.bsky.social and @kamounlab.bsky.social unveils the structure of the largest plant resistosome to date 🌱

The octameric WAI3 resistosome was found in wheat, but similar arrangements can be found in other plants 🌾

Check it out 👉 buff.ly/yBhLYz6

Biotic interactions Plenary: Jyothilakshmi Vadassery - how do plants tell when insects 🐛 are munching on them and how do they fight back? Rapid immune response ⛑️
#arabidopsis #icar2025 #omnomnom

#ICAR2025 Plenary 4 on biotic interactions with excellent talks by Hailing Jin, University of California Riverside, USA; Jyothilakshmi Vadassery, NIPGR, Delhi, India; and Yu-hang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The Ca2+ Channel CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL13 (CNGC13) regulates systemic wound signalling and immunity against Spodoptera herbivory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.16.660006v1

Nice talks to round out the 4th plenary session on biotic interactions at #icar2025 by Jyothilakshmi Vadassery and Yu-hang Chen on calcium signaling in herbivore- and bacterial-plant interactions. Roles for CNGC13/19 channels and ZAR1/Sr35 resistosomes in these systems, respectively.

Reflections from a great Arabidopsis meeting #ICAR2025

What happens when insect #herbivores get the munchies?
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@jyothivadassery.bsky.social reveals the latest research on calcium channels in immunity signaling in plants🪴

pm plenary session #ICAR2025

See related review: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy New Year

The big 4 of grant writing:
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social are now accepting applications or fully-funded biology #PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biology and Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. The new cohort starts September 2025.

Find out more about the projects you could be working on: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de
#IMPRS

Discovering science bluesky:)