Eirik Lågeide
Doctoral researcher at MPI Tübingen 🇩🇪🇳🇴 - Plant biology, immunity, virology, evolution 🌱🧬 Plant immunogenomics group
- Reposted by Eirik LågeidePlease share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
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- Reposted by Eirik Lågeide🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideNew Preprint: An ancient alkalinization factor informs Arabidopsis root development (2025) tsl.ac.uk/publications/161540
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideHow can genome sequencing training foster more equitable global science? 🌍 An interview with doctoral researcher Catarina Lino on a hands-on plant genomics workshop in Zimbabwe - and what it means for North–South collaboration. 👉 tinyurl.com/9knhj92v #PlantGenomics #ScienceCollaboration #maxplanck
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideCan we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideExcited to share our latest work on plant immune receptor biochemistry! @kamounlab.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social Jose Salguero Linares @danielluedke.bsky.social @adnroide.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideHave you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚 Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀 We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
- Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideNew preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Eirik Lågeide🧬🛡️How are new immune mechanisms created? We show how Lamassu antiphage system, originated from a DNA-repair complex and evolved into a compact and modular immune machine, wt Dinshaw Patel lab in @pnas.org. 👏 @matthieu-haudiquet.bsky.social, Arpita Chakravarti & all authors! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideNew Article: "Pathogen-induced condensation of the guard cell RNA-binding protein SAIR1 fine-tunes translation for immunity" rdcu.be/eP4kN SAIR1 forms phosphorylation-regulated condensates in guard cells, which link PAMP–MPK3/6 signalling to stomatal immunity.
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideOur nuclease-protease story is out! We explored a fascinating case of coevolution and modularity in prokaryotic immune systems: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thanks to wonderful coauthors/collaborators/friends, the whole @doudna-lab.bsky.social and everyone at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social
- This is really cool!!
- Excited to introduce Auxenochlorella as a new algal reference organism for fundamental plant science and bioengineering. A paper in two parts: a genetic toolkit for site-specific genomic manipulation, paired with the most unusual genome I’ve ever worked on academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
- Agreed with Sophien, I think discoveries and solutions for real life problems such as emerging plant disease should be shared as quickly as possible
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeidePumpkin carving contest 2025🎃 Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆
- I started my term as PhD rep for the doctoral students at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this month! Excited to be a representative voice for the around 80 students here ☺️
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideThat merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation
- Wow, I can really relate to John's early life. RIP legend.
- Reposted by Eirik Lågeide1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideLost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer @isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- My favorite nucleus stain Also I just learned that the dye is from Höchst outside Frankfurt, not in fact Austria where this is. But the sign is blue!
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideVery nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideVery excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Enjoy reading it!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideHere's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Thanks Farid and @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for inviting us from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this year! I had a great time listening to the great talks from my peers at ZMBP and enjoyed the discussions and feedback about my work ☺️ see you again next year!
- Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideThere’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideGenomes of brown algae with different sex determination systems show that U/V sex chromosomes evolved 450–224 million years ago and show remarkable conservation of genes within the sex-determining region, despite independent expansions of the sex locus in each lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideThrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideHappy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM. "Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr
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- Reposted by Eirik Lågeide1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Eirik Lågeide🦠🧍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideA new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideCajal bodies are membraneless structures with fundamental roles across eukaryotes—but which proteins actually make them up? Using FAPS, Zhou et al. isolated 34 million plant Cajal bodies and profiled their proteome via LC-MS/MS. Curious? Check out our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Eirik LågeideNature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside. Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.
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- Reposted by Eirik LågeideIf you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI
- Excellent talk by So-Yon Park, Cuscuta is transformable! Through the RUBY marker they also show that cuscuta exchanges proteins, mRNA and siRNAs with the host plant! Great to see developments in this field, I loved working with cuscuta in the past. Little green(& red?) snakes⚕️ #2025ISMPMI
