Van Schepler-Luu
PI/ Group leader/Scientist II/ Plant Pathology and Host Plant Resistance.
Expertises: plant-microbes interactions, microbiome, genome editing, pathogen genomics, plant breeding
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- 2025 Research Highlights from our International Rice False Smut Consortium. minixites.preview-beefreecontent.com/zwM5 We sincerely thank the John Templeton Foundation for supporting the Consortium and all 25 members from 12 countries for developing solutions to combat this rice disease.
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuIt’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuContrasting responses of rhizosphere microbial guild to nitrogen enrichment are associated with mycorrhizal plant type - ScienceDirect
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuMy 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 😊
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- Call for Papers on Rice Genomics! As IRRI celebrates 65 years of rice science and 20 years since the first rice genome was sequenced, we invite research contributions to a special issue of The Plant Genome to commemorate these milestones. 🗓 Deadline: 31 December 2025
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuSometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuMSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology. Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Please email me if you have any questions.
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuInterested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
- Our new review is out in Briefings in Bioinformatics Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world @ccwendling.bsky.social @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bib/...
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuHow diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Van Schepler-Luu👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-Luu✨ #Ambizione: The SNSF is awarding 76.4 million Swiss francs to 92 early-career researchers. They will receive an average of 830,000 francs to lead their first independent research project at a higher education institution in Switzerland. 🚀 ℹ️https://buff.ly/WGvNr7E
- 🔬 History of IRRI–JIRCAS Bacterial Blight and Blast Near-Isogenic Lines: Cornerstones of Global Rice Pathology 🌾 Read the full article published on IRRI book and Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1689... Read the report on Rice Today ricetoday.irri.org/inside-the-g...
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuHere is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs. My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuWe are searching for a professor in Biology Didactics (W2) at Osnabrück University. The research focus should be on organismic biology, biodiversity, organismic interactions in ecosystems and human-environment interactions. Link to (German) advertisement 👇 shorturl.at/aKKAB
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuExciting opportunities to establish your group at JIC! Come join our vibrant research community in Norwich! 🔹 Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions (path to tenure-track) tinyurl.com/yk576jms 🔹 GL in Discovery Plant Sciences (tenure-track or tenured) tinyurl.com/mwbs4dhn
- scheplerluu.com/new-release-... New Release: Manual on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation (First Edition) - Dr. Van Schepler-Luu
- Our MS student, Mark Allan L. Perez, is presenting his thesis work at the 2025 annual Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) meeting and symposium on July 16. He will present his work on the use of bioinformatics and AI tools in pathogen effector studies.
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuNew tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
- Dear colleagues, could you please help answer this short survey about the global impact of rice false smut? forms.office.com/e/NzCdmaKGsJ This survey aims to assess the global significance of rice false smut in terms of its prevalence, economic and environmental impact, and stakeholder perceptions
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- IRRI is celebrating 65 years of advancing rice science, and the IRRI Plant Pathology is proud to be part of this journey since 1960 Join us tomorrow for our Open House, where we’ll showcase our latest research on rice diseases and how we contribute to IRRI’s mission of ensuring global food security
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- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuNew year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuJan 1, and my first day as an Asst. Professor at Berkeley. The lab opens in just a few weeks and I am currently staffing at all levels- www.lotuslofgren.com/new-page-1
- Reposted by Van Schepler-LuuNew RESEARCH BRIEFING - Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome By Yang Song & Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Van Schepler-Luuwww.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social
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- This year, our retreat was at a beautiful Laiya beach! Thank you everyone from the Plant Pathology and Host Plant Resistance Group for their hard work, and dedication! We have a fantastic year with new grants, new members and new discoveries. I am looking forward to our fruitful year ahead!
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