Armin Djamei
- Reposted by Armin DjameiWei 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 Armin DjameiExcited to share that Maria's work on the evolution of the LAR gene has been published in BMC Genomics: Evolutionary dynamics of the proanthocyanidin biosynthesis gene LAR doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Evolution #FlavonoidBiosynthesis #PlantSciences @bpucker.bsky.social @maferrecinos.bsky.social
- Reposted by Armin DjameiNow online: Effector biology and immunometabolic (re)programming: microbial strategies for compatibility: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
- Reposted by Armin DjameiExcited to share that our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social is highlighted by @plantteaching.bsky.social on @plantaeofficial.bsky.social.
- PSRW Jan 16 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) Plasma membrane proteins transduce heat signal; Cycads use heat to attract pollinators; Visualizing viral replication in living cells; Smut fungus uses plant auxin signaling to build galls. @nbellono.bsky.social @mamoonakhan.bsky.social
- Reposted by Armin DjameiWie der Erreger der gefürchteten Kohlhernie die pflanzliche Abwehr gleich zweimal ausschaltet, haben Forschende um Prof. Jutta Ludwig-Müller @tudresden.bsky.social mit Forschenden um @ifeussner.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de im @jxbotany.bsky.social geschildert doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
- Reposted by Armin DjameiCONGRATS to team @effectomics.bsky.social and @steidele.bsky.social . Transcriptional Response of Magnaporthe oryzae Towards Barley-Microbiome Derived Bacteria | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
- Reposted by Armin DjameiWhen the fungus Ustilago maydis infects maize plants, tumour-like tissue growths develop. Researchers led by Prof. Armin Djamei have now discovered that the fungus hijacks a programme in the plant that is responsible for forming lateral roots: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/002-... @effectomics.bsky.social
- Reposted by Armin DjameiRead the paper by Mamoona Khan, et al. 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Armin DjameiA University of Bonn study shows how a maize pest hijacks the plant’s root-building function 🌽 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/002-... @unibonn.bsky.social @effectomics.bsky.social #PlantScience
- Reposted by Armin DjameiTeam around Armin Djamei @effectomics.bsky.social show in @newphyt.bsky.social that the fungus #Ustilago maydis hijacks a programme in the #maize plant that is responsible for the formation of lateral roots www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/002-...
- Reposted by Armin Djamei#2027ISMPMI - Try 2 for Jeju, Korea! Hope to see you there and I’m glad that South Korea gets to host after their turn was missed because of the pandemic. There is a promise of good food 🤤 Though I may need to start saving up now with the state of things… #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Armin DjameiMary wildermuth #2025ISMPMI gives the best introduction to the Powdery mildew fungus :)
- #2025ISMPMI Songyuan Zhang from the Zipfel lab is learning from nature how to engineer new MAMP receptors. Great results.
- #2025ISMPMI Benjamin Menn presents an elegant yeast surface displace screen to identify new carbohydrate binding receptors of plants.
- #2025ISMPMI Thi Bich Luu wants to make a difference by transferring Nod factor susceptibility to barley, maize and other cereals. Taking candidate homolgs of NFR5 receptor and by domaine swapping chimaric receptors are build.
- #2025ISMPMI Rhizobia and Haber-Bosch good bye? Luis Rubio goes for the challenge on reconstituting nitrogen fixation directly in plants by targeting around 20 needed components in Mitochondria in a step-wise process.
- Reposted by Armin Djamei@kenichitsuda.bsky.social is introducing the Concurrent sessions on biotic/abiotic trade-offs in plant-microbe interactions #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Armin Djameiwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Up next at #2025ISMPMI @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social discussing work on protein language model for receptor engineering.
- Reposted by Armin Djamei@kseniakrasileva.bsky.social is the first talk at the engineering traits session at #2025ISMPMI Branching into PRRs thanks to @danimstevens.bsky.social. The ?: Can we use language models to predict host and microbe proteins interaction outcomes? The answer: Yes! New “mamp-ml”does pretty well.
- Reposted by Armin Djamei#2025ISMPMI - first new to nature chimeric NLR sensors being created, with integrated domains that do not have sequence or structure matches in the recorded life - raises questions on assessing biosafety & food safety aspects for these immune receptors for lab and field studies.
- Reposted by Armin Djamei@angusb.bsky.social wants to engineer plant resistance proteins (NLRs) from scratch. Can we create protein domains to integrate into NLRs to catch pathogen effectors? New tech makes this possible now. Chose Magnaporthe and Fusarium effectors as targets - many steps later, it worked! #2025ISMPMI
- Reposted by Armin DjameiDani’s recent paper appears to be the top #2025ISMPMI post which is impressive for someone not here 💓 bsky.app/profile/dani...
- #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...
- Reposted by Armin DjameiIn the trait engineer session and Aurelia Rakotondrafara makes a quip that her talk has no AI 😅 Under-revision-study from her lab uses a treatment of a mycovirus protein to reduce growth and increase fungicide susceptibility of the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. #2025ISMPMI
- #2025ISMPMI Aurelie Rakotondrafara shows very interesting effects of mycovirus infection of Sclerotinia on virulence on the host plant. Take home to use mycoviruses and plant viruses to limit the spread of fungal pathogens.
- #2025ISMPMI Agnus Bucknell of the Talbot lab gives an exciting presentation to engineer fungal effectors recognizing immune sensors based on Pik1. Great and clear talk.
- #2025ISMPMI Ksenia Krasileva gives an impressive talk on predicting receptor-ligand interactions. CHECK OUT mamp-ml!
- Reposted by Armin DjameiTODAY. 15:15 @ Room P&Q #2025ISMPMI
- #ISMPMI2025 attendees! Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions. We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social and…
- #2025ISMPMI Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez points out that other nutrients beside Nitrogen limitation are important cues to decide on symbiosis with rhizobia. Phosphate limitation negatively impacts nodule formation.
- #2025ISMPMI Evans Lagudah gives a beautiful and clear talk on the challenge to find durable and broad resistances. Most are genes of whatever type show race specificity but Lr34, Lr67 and Lr46 are encoding for membrane transporters showing a pathogen-attenuating resistance.
- Reposted by Armin DjameiWe start the last day of #2025ISMPMI with Renier van der Hoorn who will present his pioneering work on how pathogens manipulate apoplastic defence
- Reposted by Armin DjameiJian-Min Zhou shows unpublished data related to ZAR1 signaling and what other players are required in planta for activation of the resistosome and localization in the plasma membrane. Find similarity with a salt stress response. #2025ISMPMI
- #2025ISMPMI Jian-Min Zhou calls for more interdisciplinary approaches in plant microbe research to bring our research to the next level. He gives insights on ZAR1 signalling. Zar1 influences SYT1 distribution in a Ca2+ binding dependent manner.
- #2025ISMPMI the great Renier van der Hoorn starts the plenary with exciting research about the apoplastic battlefield in bacterial-plant interactions. Hydrolases and inhibitors all around...glycosyrin inhibitor pathway is conserved and spread inhibiting galactosidases and glucosidases.
- Reposted by Armin DjameiArabidopsis thaliana CELLOX1 limits fungal colonization in roots. Nice talk by Giulia Peruzzi at #2025ISMPMI, @ceplas.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Armin Djameiwww.nature.com/articles/s41... Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants
- Reposted by Armin DjameiAUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th. Prize is free registration worth €500+ Auxin2026: auxin2026.info Send submissions to geraint@aab.org.uk @larsostergaard.bsky.social @luciastrader.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social
- Reposted by Armin DjameiI was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
- #2025ISMPMI moving to plant bacterial symbiosis, Fang Xie shares fascinating data on the molecular players on the plant side to invite the rhizobia in. Ncd1 is expressed in nodules and is essential for N fixation.
- #2025ISMPMI Stella Cesari gives a beautiful presentation on her research on MAX effectors. Avr-Pia binds to HMA domain of rice HPP09. Screens reveal many interactions with rice proteins. Highlight: Avr-Pib interacts with MAPKKK.
- #2025ISMPMI tremendous effector-NLR screen with 1617 plants presented by Yin Yan. Following up new avr-R gene couples.
- Reposted by Armin DjameiPeter Dodds kicking off the crop resistance session at #2025ISMPMI : an Avr atlas for (rust) disease resistance!
- Reposted by Armin Djamei#ISMPMI Martin Stegmann from Uni Ulm on the perception of CEP peptides, which were first described to play a role root nod nematodes. These days we know they are crucial phytocytokines & Martin demonstrates the function in immuniy
- Luyao Wang presents very interesting work on NLRs and specifically at Rpi-cjm1 of potato and another integrated domaine HMA R-gene Rpi-brk1
- #2025ISMPMI Oliver Powell presents bioinformatic work in chinese spring genome identifying a new class of R genes, kinase fusion proteins.
- Reposted by Armin Djamei3x Posters from the Djamei lab @effectomics.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social Today: Me #123 effector-effector PCD suppression? Tomorrow two top PhD students: Riaz Tabassum #88 early-expressed Ustilago effectors Komal Pervaiz #206 Magnaporthe vs microbes!
- #2025ISMPMI Corinna Thurow reveals their exiting findings that transdifferentiation induced by Verticillium dahliae is achieved by the TRADE effector targeting Varicose host scaffold protein.
- #2025ISMPMI Wei Wang from the Birch-lab presents how they dissect effector secretion pathways for apoplastic and translocated effectors. Nice work!
- #2025ISMPMI Youhuang Xiang from Roger Innes lab presents the TPP1 effector of Fusarium graminearum. A protease that localizes specific to the chloroplast and suppresses in its precursor form ETI.
- #2025ISMPMI Manuel Gonzalez Fuente from the Üstün lab shows how pathogens like Pseudomonas target p bodies with effectors HopM1 and HopN1. ER stress induction by HopM1 counteracts p bodies.
- #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.
- #2025ISMPMI Trang Phang from the Lahaye-lab shows her unpublished and cool results on the water soaking inducing CsLOB1 transcription factor targeted by Tal effector. CsLOB1 directly promotes cell wall degradation.
- #2025ISMPMI Joo Hyun Lee reveals her findings on Ca2+ channel manipulation by Avrblb2.
- Reposted by Armin DjameiI am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!
- 📣We offer a #PhDposition @dfg.de-funded #RTG2670 BEAM: "Beyond Amphiphilicity - Self-Organization of Soft Matter via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions" with @marischuster.bsky.social. 🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo... 📅Apply now! #MolecularModelling #Proteases #SciJobs #PhDjobs
- Reposted by Armin DjameiWolf Frommer presents work from @healthycrops.bsky.social, a global collaboration to work on bacterial blight of rice. They are transferring transgene-free, genome edited rice to different countries, with legal frameworks in place, to test resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. #2025ISMPMI
- #2025ISMPMI Dapeng Li shows beautiful unpublished work how plants assemble at the ER Enzymes to compartimentalize defense compound production to avoid self toxification.
- #2025ISMPMI Wolf Frommer presents about the sweet secrets of Xanthomonas host plant interactions. Using this knowledge in a collaborative effort to generate Xanthomonas resistant rice varities for local producers.
- NRG1 target membranes of mitochondria, chloroplasts and the ER
- #2025ISMPMI beautiful confocal microscopy of the Bozkurt-lab reveals that NLRs trigger immunity by interacting with more then only plasma membranes.
- #2025ISMPMI Also Botrytis has two nuclei but are still haploid with distributed chromosomes. Great work of the Xin Li Lab.
- #2025ISMPMI Xin Li shows the exiting finding that sclerotinia is haploid with two nuclei harboring different chromosome sets making together the full set of the genome.
- #2025ISMPMI Vivianne Vleeshouwers shares the wisdome that one needs to understand both, the pathogen and the plant diversity to protect succesfully crops like potato.
- Famous Julia Vorholt gives insights on the connection of rbohD and the microbiota. Gamma proteo bacteria take over causing opportunistically disease in the mutant plant.
- Stephane Hacqard gives a fascinating talk on additive acting Exometabolites that inhibit Fungi.
- #2025ISMPMI Hailin Jin gives a plenary how cross kingdom RNAi has been found across all kind of organismic interactions.
- #2025ISMPMI Yang Bai gives a beautiful talk showing that functional conservation of the root microbiome exists... tillering of rice can be influenced by the root microbiome via Cyclo (Leu-Pro) binding to SL receptor ... and Chitooligosaccharides enhance symbiosis.
- #2025ISMPMI Nuria Sanchez Coll gives insights on Ralstonia solanacearum resistance reactions of tomato. Suberinaccumulation in the vasculature is leading to resistance.
- #2025ISMPMI Rosa Lozano Duran gives an exciting insight into molecular strategies of geminivirus and the multiple functions of the C4 effector.
- #2025ISMPMI Great talk of Macarena Marin dissecting the intermicrobial interactions in nodules....
- #ISMPMI2025 Macarena Marin starts the morning session with the microbiome of lotus nodules... rhizobia are not alone!
- #2025ISMPMI Wenbo Ma focuses her talk on small RNAs and on inhibitors of small RNA pathways. Ago10 plays a role in plant defense too.
- Amazing lecture on the bacterial immunesystem by Prof. Sorek.... a huge new field opens up.
- #2025ISMPMI I am excited... the MPMI conference starts.....looking for great research and meeting colleagues and friends.
- #EFPP2025 Tatsuya Nobori presents his insights on the cell type specific and spatial distribution of plant defense responses to Pseudomonas syringae infection.
- #EFPP Antonio di Pietro shares his insight on Fusarium oxysporum how flexible it is in its different hosts and how its adapting to them.
- #EFPP Daniel Croll points out the fast decline of chemical control and host resistance
- #EFPP Thorsten Langner presents past and future of pathogen genomics... starting with smut fungi😀
- Reposted by Armin DjameiOur study on the effect of strigolactone signaling on vessel formation and water usage is now peer reviewed: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great achievement of Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi, Kiara Kaeufer, and everybody involved!
- Reposted by Armin DjameiA landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-... © G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich
