Eoghan King
Lecturer @AgroParisTech
Exploring/Teaching plant microbiota wonders
Roots - Endophytes - Environment - Omics
- Reposted by Eoghan KingCheck out our new preprint using 30 SynComs covering a phylogenetic diversity gradient, we uncover many interesting strain and community features involved in seed to seedling bacterial transmission 🧫🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social in the SUCSEED project @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social
- 🌱 New preprint with @microbialmarie.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Bacterial Strain Identity and Community Composition Drive the Seed-to-Seedling Microbiota Assembly We explore which strain traits and community features explain successful bacterial transmission from seed to seedling.⬇️
- Leaf microbiome assembly is linked to plant phylogeny
- 🌱 3rd International Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB) Symposium 🌱 📍 Versailles, France | 🗓 23–25 September 2026 🔬 Theme: Chemical interactions between plants and their environment – from the molecule to the field 🌐 The event website is now live 👉 lnkd.in/eRHS2ey4
- Dormancy and reactivation of the seed and its microbiome: a holobiont perspective
- Reposted by Eoghan King2 postdoc openings in my lab: anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!
- Axel de Zelicourt from @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social presents his work on plant beneficial bacteria in low N conditions @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social 🌱🦠🧫
- FERONIA Kinase-Interacting Cell Wall Sensors LRX1/2 Regulate the Plant Rhizosphere Microbiome | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingPhD & Postdoc positions – Junta de Andalucía Looking for highly motivated candidates to apply with my Microbiomes & Microbial Interactions group at the University of Málaga (IHSM). Interested in joining our team? 📩 vcarrion@uma.es 🔗 www.carrionlab.com 🔗 www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/investigador...
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- Reposted by Eoghan King#TansleyReview: Mycelial dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi Vasilis Kokkoris 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
- Molecular mechanisms modulating beneficial plant root–microbe interactions: What’s common?
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingFantastic story how bacteria exploit a host pathway to dissolve plant tissue and obtain nutrients 🤯 Uncovering these mechanisms about plant-pathogen interactions is so cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Eoghan King🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
- 📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingNow out in @asm.org #mSystems! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Congratulations to Robert and thanks to all collaborators. See thread below for a summary of the work, exploring the use of cross-species coexpression analyses to predict primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes.
- New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Shovelomics meets microbiomics: root phenotype-microbiome associations and links with maize yield under nitrogen limitation
- Rhizosheath inhabiting Massilia are linked to heterosis in roots of maize
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingPhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
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- Enrichment of root-associated Streptomyces strains in response to drought is driven by diverse functional traits and does not predict beneficial effects on plant growth
- Reposted by Eoghan KingCellular energy sensor SnRK1 suppresses salicylic acid–dependent and –independent defenses and bacterial resistance in Arabidopsis www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Eoghan KingMy 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 Eoghan KingPostdoc Position in Plant Microbiome Omics & Causal Inference | University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam is hiring a postdoc in Plant Microbiome Omics & Causal Inference to develop computational tools for multi-omics integration. Fully funded, salaries €3,546–€5,538, with strong…
- Reposted by Eoghan King47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingFinally published! Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species. Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingMycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
- Reposted by Eoghan KingLe colloque est maintenu. Il se déplace hors des murs du Collège de France. En outre, le colloque sera diffusé en direct et intégralement enregistré. Bravo aux organisateurs et intervenants ! carep-paris.org/annonce/comm...
- Transcriptome-derived networks reconstruct distinct immune strategies to counteract fungal infection under different iron availability between Arabidopsis and rice
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingLa recherche basée sur la discussion méthodique appuyée sur les faits et le raisonnement, ne peut pas exercer sa mission d'intérêt général si elle est soumise à la validation politique a priori. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran... Les libertés publiques sont notre affaire à toutes et tous.
- Reposted by Eoghan KingAnnulation d’un colloque au Collège de France sur demande du ministre : des vents mauvais sur les libertés académiques et démocratiques
- GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface
- Reposted by Eoghan King1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)
- Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
- Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution
- Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis
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- Prophage induction drives soybean rhizobacterial community differentiation and nutrient cycling benefiting root development
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingOutstanding preprint from @leocastanedo.bsky.social, @katharinamel1.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and coll. on an evolutionary conserved module for intracellular symbiosis. - > Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants | bioRxiv
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- Reposted by Eoghan KingPlant Science Research Weekly -- Amping up reproducibility of microbiome studies through standardized protocols and fabricated ecosystems (PLOSBio) @borjana-a.bsky.social (Summary by Indrani Kakati @indranik18.bsky.social) buff.ly/qQFJWna #PlantaePSRW
- Reposted by Eoghan King3 unexpected things we owe to the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas kamounlab.medium.com/3-unexpected...
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