Team_Zuccaro
Interested in molecular plant-microbe interactions, symbiosis, cell death, immunity and metabolism, effector biology, microbiota, CEPLAS, views are my own
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroWei Shi @wshisky.bsky.social & Merle‘s work is online. Wei really pushed this work from scratch and Merle linked it to MLA diversification…3rd (co-)first author paper in her PhD. Very proud PI! And only possible through collaboration with G. Döhlemann, @grandpahiro.bsky.social &, Matt Platre. (1/x)
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroNew Article: "Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development" rdcu.be/eYiMF With Research Briefing rdcu.be/eYiM7
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroThis position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
- The Weisberg Lab at Oregon State University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in molecular microbiology to study mobile genetic element host range and transmission in microbial communities. Please see the full job description here: files-dev.cqls.oregonstate.edu/Weisberg_Lab...
- Now online: Effector biology and immunometabolic (re)programming: microbial strategies for compatibility: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroLatest preprint from the lab!
- A novel pathosystem between Aeschynomene evenia and Aphanomyces euteiches reveals new immune components in quantitative legume root-rot resistance. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- A beautiful and comprehensive schematic representation of fungal cell wall structures and biosynthetic proteins: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroHappy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroPlease RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroCongratulations to @steidele.bsky.social who unscrambled complex transcriptional networks in barley double stress responses. Thanks to @itisalist.bsky.social and @daisybio.de for the support: doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroWe are #hiring! This IMPRS PhD project @algazuccaro.bsky.social group @unicologne.bsky.social explores plant–microbiome interactions. 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 5, 2025 ✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de ℹ️ IMPRS: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs 🔗 Group: ag-zuccaro.botanik.uni-koeln.de
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroA fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroMy former colleague Patricia Zecua, me and the Zuccaro group published a new story about how autophagy restricts cell death and regulates root colonization by beneficial fungi: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroWe are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroTWO positions open in our group. 1 postdoc and 1 PhD position. Join us for some exciting evolutionary plant biology! #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
- Huge thanks to Balakumaran Chandrasekar and Amey Redkar for hosting a fantastic Indo-German Plant-Microbe Interactions meeting at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan. Exceptionally well organized!
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroCall for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
- Lisa Mahdi on stage at #iMMM2025 on how the core microbiota cooperate with beneficial fungi to inhibit pathogens and how dysbiotic communities instead have high competition within their members.
- Everyone is excited to see how many new clues about symbiotic genes are emerging from the sequencing of individual cells/cell nuclei... Now on stage: Hector Montero from Uta Paszkowski's lab, RIKEN, Yokohama.
- Pierre-Marc Delaux talking about universal signaling pathways for plant intracellular endosymbiosis at the #iMMM2025
- Enjoying the excellent talks and posters at the #iMMM2025
- Nice to walk around Cologne with Antonio di Pietro and Gregor Langen!
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroComing out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro🎓👏 Congratulations to Dr. @nickdunken.bsky.social Nick Dunken on the successful PhD defense in the lab of @algazuccaro.bsky.social at the University of Cologne and @mpipz.bsky.social! Welcome to the circle of doctors! #phdone #plantscience #sciencecareer
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroHappy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Great to catch up on plant cell death ...
- Arabidopsis thaliana CELLOX1 limits fungal colonization in roots. Nice talk by Giulia Peruzzi at #2025ISMPMI, @ceplas.bsky.social
- Nice talk by Thomas Ott on molecular mechanisms that steer INFECTION THREADS progression along a defined cellular trajectory at #2025ISMPMI.
- Excellent stories and beautiful microscopy today from Sebastian Schornack and Uta Paszkowski #2025MPMI. On the topic of strategies of microbial colonization, chaired by Armin Djamei and Amey Redkar.
- Our latest article in bioRxiv. A very good and comprehensive paper by Mathias Brands, Vicente Ramirez, Laura Armbruster et al. on the deconstruction of acetylated xylan in symbiosis. If you would like to learn more, please talk to Mathias at #2025ISMPMI, poster P-239. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Enjoying TEAM scientific discussions at the #2025ISMPMI.
- Our new review in FEMS Microbiology by Nick Dunken and Tim Thomsen is online. Purine-Based Infochemicals and Immunometabolites: A Comparative Review of Emerging Signaling Pathways in Plants and Animals url: academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...
- just happy to see everyone at the #2025ISMPMI.
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroHey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...
- Eifel moors in bloom: Dactylorhiza maculata putting on a stunning show.
- We are excited to share our new story with you! We show how losing a binding domain can flip an antimicrobial fungal effector into a host immune suppressor, highlighting functional specialization along the saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum. Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
- Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
- Forza CEPLAS 3!
- Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Are we mature enough to stop ourselves? We still build weapons faster than trust. But in each choice, each voice, we can grow. Maturity is not a given — it’s a decision. This is a call to remember who we are before we forget what we could lose. 👇
- We live in a time when a single decision can undo entire worlds. The weapons we create do not sleep — they wait. J. Robert Oppenheimer, after the first atomic test, recalled the ancient words: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” 👇
- The danger is not only in battle, but in the readiness for it. “War consisteth not in battle only,” wrote Thomas Hobbes, “but in a known disposition thereto.” Even silence becomes war when our hands are clenched and when we place all faith in power, we lose the path. 👇
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View full threadThe world does not need more destruction. It needs those brave enough to protect what is still whole, and wise enough to repair what is not. Let us speak not with the echo of violence, but with the voice of those who remember. Now is the time — not to destroy the world, but to choose not to.
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroRegistration is open for the 7th International Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting (iMMM 2025), 16th - 18th September 2025 VENUE: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, BioCenter, Planegg-Martinsried near Munich, Germany. #iMMM2025 www.genetik.bio.lmu.de/immm-2025/in...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroHurry up, if you want to submit your abstract to the Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions organised by @algazuccaro.bsky.social and Paul Schulze-Lefert, taking place from 13-17 July 2025 in Cologne 📆 Deadline is March 26 www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
- Jonathan Gershenzon on glucosinolates diversity and ecology at our Cologne Spring Meeting.
- It turns out that glucosinolates are selective and affect bacterial community to select beneficial one. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Valid for aliphatic and indole derived glucosinolates? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social I want to emphasize 5 additional points:
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroPlz 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/
- Latest story from Pia Saake: Plant Lipids Mediate Immune Responses to Fungal Lipids in Barley! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroNice one from @algazuccaro.bsky.social led by Pia "S. indica lipid extract induces PTI responses in barley. Ergosterol emerged as the primary immunogenic component and detected in the apoplastic fluid of S. indica-colonized barley roots" #PlantImmunity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroFrancis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
- Let's see some FACTS: understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroOK folks--here is the answer. They are not simply removing programs because of their political biases--they are terminating existing NIH grants. Yours or mine could be next! 🧪
- Alaaf! An "almost" normal working day in Cologne ...
- The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join 1,400+ experts! More info: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C... #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroThe MadFungi🍄 research unit funded by @dfg.de kicked off this week with our meeting in Cologne @unicologne.bsky.social. We're excited to see what great science we'll achieve over the next four years.
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroGunther Döhlemann starting the MadFungi research unit (for5682.uni-koeln.de) kick off meeting involving groups from @hhu.bsky.social, @unibonn.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de, @kit.edu and of course @unicologne.bsky.social (eg. @teamthomma.bsky.social, @algazuccaro.bsky.social ). Let‘s go
- Mitochondria are swapped between cells, contrary to an earlier dogma that they stayed with their cells of origin www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- A pair of LysM receptors mediates symbiosis and immunity discrimination in Marchantia: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroObligate biotrophic fungi cause some of the most devastating diseases on cereals. They are also highly difficult to study…. It is truely remarkable how well described the barley and what powdery mildews are. Here you find an overview on the current knowledge and summary of great resources. Enjoy!
- Reposted by Team_Zuccarowww.nature.com/articles/s41... See our new review in Cell Death and Differentiation led by Matthew Wengler on regulated cell death in Magnaporthe @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro📣New year, new preprint @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🎉! A study led by the brilliant @yukiyosato.bsky.social showing that Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae and drive virulence evolution. 🧵[1/12] doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓 Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroWe're recruiting: 1 PhD student, 2 postdocs and 2 lab assistants! Application deadlines in January. More details here: www.phytopathology.uni-kiel.de/en/open-posi...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroAttention! The IPB is looking for a new Head of Department in a joint appointment (W3 Professorship) with the University of Halle. This is an exceptional position. Come join us and shape the future of the IPB! berufungsportal.uni-halle.de
- Leaf Mimicry! That's interesting... the shape of the leaves of this climbing plants adapts to the host species...the programme that controls it must be worth looking at... Why is there no molecular data? www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroPlant Science Research Weekly: December 20, 2024 plantae.org/plant-scienc... . Enjoy the last PSRW of 2024, out one day before the solstice (“maximum tilt day”). We highlight root development (form fitting function / cambium positioning / exodermis / root cap shedding) (1/2)
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroGreat to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro📜 Resilient plants, sustainable future 🧑🔬 Seung Y. Rhee, @apmweber.bsky.social, et al. 📙 Trends in Plant Science 🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant... #️⃣ #PlantScience #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Sustainability #PlantStress #PlantResilience
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroThe tips of plant roots continually shed cells as they grow. How does this affect their relationship with symbiotic organisms that want to colonise the roots? buff.ly/49k4biq
- In the past years become evident that emerging properties in plant-microbe interactions, such as 1. NLR resistosomes forming ion channels, 2. the cooperative activities of effectors or 3. holobionts that drive interkingdom microbial synergies, highlight how complexity creates new functionalities.🧵👇
- Reposted by Team_Zuccaro📜 A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization 🧑🔬 Nick Dunken, @algazuccaro.bsky.social, et al. 📔 Cell Host & Microbe 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroDNA degradation product deoxyadenosine has an important role in plant root colonization by S. indica and two fungal enzymes, a plant transporter and a TIR-like protein are involved in that process. Very happy to have contributed to that story, congratulations to everyone involved!🎉
- Our latest paper is online: "A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization". Two fungal enzymes acting cooperatively are key players in this process. Thanks to the fantastic team of scientists. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Our latest paper is online: "A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization". Two fungal enzymes acting cooperatively are key players in this process. Thanks to the fantastic team of scientists. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroRegistration for the 2nd PlantACT! conference 7-9 April 2025 is open, check out the conference website. Great lineup of speakers. www.plantactconference2025.cbgp.upm.es
- Reposted by Team_ZuccaroFirst bsky post to highlight our recent collaboration with @algazuccaro.bsky.social in elife! We show that rapid corpse clearance after root cap cell death is paramount to control microbial colonization of the Arabidopsis root. Kudos to Nyasha Charura & all involved! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
