Adam Steinbrenner
Associate Prof @UWBiology Seattle. How do plants recognize and resist pests 🐛? We study receptor function + evolution in plant innate immunity. steinbrennerlab.org
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerNSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerEver wondered if diverse plant species respond similarly when infected by the same exact pathogen? Infect different asterids and rosids with the same Botrytis genotypes and teh short answer, quite differently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @annajomu.bsky.social @ccaseys.bsky.social (1/3)
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThis 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...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThe 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...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerOut First Release in @science.org A pollen ligand, SIPS, binds to the female receptor, SRK. SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK, for interspecific incompatibility, unlike the self-incompatibility factor, which binds to a different, variable region www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerWe (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerA staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerCongratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerNow that Im finally here, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @salkinstitute.bsky.social as a postdoc with @lmueller.bsky.social Keep your eyes open for everything AMF symbiosis, peptide biogenesis, and the apoplast!
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerMy lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerIt's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026. Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner📢Announcement! The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟 It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships & in 🧵
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week? We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!! laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThe GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
- New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Very frustrated with NSF GRFP. A 2nd year grad now ineligible after postponing last year. Her pre-grad app was rejected without review for mentioning crop impacts. I'm a previous recipient and served many years as a reviewer. The fellowship needs serious reform, not half-baked solicitation changes
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerI hate this for the second years who had already been working on applications. Also the USDA fellowship RFA has still not been issued for this year. It is harder and harder to find fellowships to support the newest generation of scientists. 🧪 We are shortchanging our future.
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerMy department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThis looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerHappy to share this review on the diversity of resistance in Triticeae. I learned a lot writing it. Heavy lifting by Yinghui Li, Liubov Govta, and @yichangsung.bsky.social with our long-time collaborator Tzion Fahima. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerMentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱 The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants. Learn how you can help! mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThe Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerWhile full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛 Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Legumes in the subtribe Phaseolinae evolved the INR immune receptor to detect attack by caterpillars through In11 peptide in their spit. INR is strikingly conserved in legumes. 364 tested varieties of cowpea from our original 2020 GWAS are sensitive to In11! elifesciences.org/articles/81050
- We found just a few insensitive accessions among hundreds of tested USDA-GRIN varieties. One variety was associated with lower expression of the INR gene. The low expression INR haplotype turned out to be locally prevalent in varieties from Jujuy province in Argentina.
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View full threadWe hope the work is interesting to those trying to translate PAMP responses to pest and pathogen resistance!
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerVery 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/...
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Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱- Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerToday we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! @theplantjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- How do predatory wasps find their caterpillar prey? In our new preprint on Biorxiv we show that the host plant's immune system detects herbivory to sound the alarm. 🌱🐛 See thread from @nataliagupa.bsky.social -- a surprising role for a plant PRR in indirect defense against herbivores.
- I am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerI am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
- A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerA plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerExcited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerHow do plants detect insect eggs ? 🌱🦋 Our new paper on GLR2.7 and its role in plant defense responses to insect eggs is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social Big thanks to the Reymond Lab @unil.bsky.social and our collaborators ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerJennifer Nemhauser’s and my tribute to our amazing friend and mentor, the extraordinary Joanne Chory. Read about our personal and professional reminiscences. Thanks to all who provided background for this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerGenome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThis will be my closing post for this #2025ISMPMI series. If you're a society member, you have access to ISMPMI rewind and can watch any talk the speaker agreed to have recorded. See you in Jeju, Korea in 2027!
- We recently wrote two Preview articles of exciting MPMI papers in Mol Cell and Dev Cell. Two surprising cases showing different ways to regulate immune receptors in plants -- the cell surface LRR-RK, SYR1 and the intracellular NLR DM2 Short summaries below 🧵🌱 #2025ISMPMI
- First, work from Chang-Bao Li and Chuanyou Li (Shandong Ag U) on regulation of SYR1 receptor. The paralog SYR2 is an induced negative regulator w/ lower binding affinity. @nataliagupa.bsky.social highlighted that the module is only found in Solanoideae www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Second, work from Eunyoung Chae on autoimmunity mediated by the NLR DM2 and DM3 "Dangerous mix". CryoEM structures show a shift in enzyme hexamer stability to be the allele-specific trigger for DM2. We highlight that Alphafold can't predict this structural shift. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
- The original works: SYR2-SYR1: Zhou et al 2025, Dev Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... DM3/DM2: Wan et al 2025, Mol Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerGreat talk by @teamthomma.bsky.social who shows that effectors have antimicrobial activities that are ancesteral - other functions within the host have evolved later on to suppress immunity in plants #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerCompared to other state-of-the-art models such as AlphaFold3, mamp-ml can predict these outcomes with higher confidence, even when a solved structure is not available. We anticipate users can now screen for immunogenic outcomes of receptor-ligand variants before spending time and $$ in the lab.
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- See our latest work on an LRR-RLP receptor and plant-caterpillar interactions this Wed at #2025ISMPMI The legume receptor INR attracts predatory wasps in the field!🍀🐛 💀 @nataliagupa.bsky.social presents in CS: Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interaction (we sneak in among the microbes)
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerDay 2 of #2025ISMPMI closing with two of my favorite: receptors and Phytophthora. Vivianne Vleeshouwers talks about the combined used of effectoromics, PRRs and intelligent receptor design to enhance plant protection against pathogens.
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerFederica Locci on "TN3 might not be the missing link between PTI and ETI, but it does link local and systemic resistance likely due to NADase activity and phloem signals" #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner#2025ISMPMI beautiful confocal microscopy of the Bozkurt-lab reveals that NLRs trigger immunity by interacting with more then only plasma membranes.
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerHow the choice of words makes insect excrement research sound fancy “frassomics”. Finally an insect talk at #2025ISMPMI congress by Dapeng Li. #plantscience #insectscience
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner#2025ISMPMI Qun Liu from the Hogenhout lab shows convincing data that the aphid derived CathB6 recruits EDS1 into p-bodies to promote aphid fecundity. ACD28.9 protein acts against CathB6 activity.
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner🤯🤯 and I ❤️ it! #2025ISMPMI @soreklab.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerIncredibly inspiring talk about the discovery of the more than 200 immune systems in bacteria by Rotem Sorek. From computational discovery in 2018 through functional and structural analyses, even linking bacterial immune systems to that of eukaryotes. #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerShedding light on the structure-function mechanisms of LRR-RPs. Our research merges #AlphaFold3, years of literature and functional validation to reveal diverse ligand-binding mechanisms and a conserved co-receptor association mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerThe next 2 weeks are exclusively for science! I'll be at @salkinstitute.bsky.social as an invited speaker for the Discover Symposium. Then I'm off to Cologne to speak about herbivores! at #2025ISMPMI thanks to a travel award from @maxplanck.de. Follow along as I share all the cool science happening!
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerPlants can sense when their barrier is injured—and repair it! 🌱 This stunning work, led by Hiroyuki Iida, shows that wounding is sensed through the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. I had the pleasure of contributing and see this project grow. Check it out👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerFascinating new study showing that diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through periderm wound sites in plants acts as a signal for initiating barrier repair! More evidence for the importance of oxygen (and associated signalling) in regulating development. Congrats to all on this great work! 🌱 🫧
- How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerHydathode immunity 🌱 - the discovery journey continues ... ⏩ Today: Immune receptor SUT1 confers resistance against #Xanthomonas pathogens in hydathodes. In the latest version, we contrast the tissue-specificity of SUT1 with the well-known ZAR1 resistance. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
- Reposted by Adam Steinbrenner𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦: new editors told us about their research🌱 @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @jennymortimer1.bsky.social Danhua Jiang @mmjulkowska.bsky.social @mehran_plantsci @thepallavisingh.bsky.social Macarena Marín Cristiane Calixto Lucia Colombo @kmerchante.bsky.social
- Love this Darwin quote on display at the Linnaean Society in London: "Trust nothing to the memory, for the memory becomes a fickle guardian when one interesting object is succeeded by another still more interesting" darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerTweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...
- Reposted by Adam SteinbrennerHappy to share that our Helixer deeplearning-based annotation of 230 superasterid genomes is now online on @datadryad.bsky.social 💻🌱 doi.org/10.5061/drya... Check out how we used 69 of them to study the molecular evolution of a plant immune receptor network here! 👇
- 🧵 🥬 Lettuce begin! Super excited to share our new manuscript on contrasting patterns of evolution in sensor and helper NLRs in the NRC network! Tune in for some plant immunology and molecular evolution… 🌱🧬💻 (1/14) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
