Maite Saura
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 --- Postdoc at @PSB_VIB and @UGent. Working on plant-biotic interactions at single cell level. Interested in roots, EvoMPMI, single cell and bioinformatics
- Reposted by Maite SauraHappy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu
- Arabidopsis roots
- Reposted by Maite SauraBack in June at ICAR2025, @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social and I organised a Workshop, where we invited ECRs Hantao Zhang and Katarína Heldesová with travel support to co-organise. Here’s their blog post reflecting on the session & their experience—check it out! plantae.org/icar2025-wor...
- New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- (1/9) Root-knot nematodes (RKN) are plant parasites that induce giant cells inside root galls. The origin of giant cells is a 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 organogenesis process, occurring from very few cells when the nematodes invade their hosts.
- (2/9) We used single-cell transcriptomics in Arabidopsis and rice roots, comparing mock vs. RKN infection, to capture the transcriptional reprogramming underlying this process from the very early stages.
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View full thread(9/9) This work was a joint project between the labs of @bertderybel.bsky.social, Tom Beeckman, Tina Kyndt and Carolina Escobar. Huge thanks to all co-authors, especially PhD students Melissa and Almudena. @psb-vib.bsky.social 🌾🌱
- Reposted by Maite SauraAnd he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Maite SauraHey all! We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!! Check our web for more information.
- Reposted by Maite Saura🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
- Reposted by Maite SauraTomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!
- #PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
- Reposted by Maite Saura#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
- See you in beautiful Ghent in two weeks!!
- Reposted by Maite SauraMy tidyverse gene co-expression workflow reached 200 stars on GitHub. github.com/cxli233/Simp...
- Reposted by Maite SauraDual and spatially resolved #drought responses in the #Arabidopsis #leaf mesophyll revealed by single-cell transcriptomics A #CommunityResource by Berrío et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue
- Reposted by Maite SauraA single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Next month I will be in #LausanneGenomicsDays2025 talking about plants, nematodes and single-cell 🌾 If you're curious about my postdoctoral research at @psb-vib.bsky.social in the labs of @bertderybel.bsky.social, Tom Beeckman , and Tina Kyndt, join me!
- Register now for the #LausanneGenomicsDays2025 which take place on Feb 6-7, 2025! We have a great line-up of speakers who apply #genomics 🧬to tackle exciting questions in #biology and #medicine. For more info & registration: wp.unil.ch/gtf/lgd-2025/ @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maite SauraA single pathogen-secreted protein reprograms plants for drought resilience biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Maite SauraHis Majesty The Moss (#moss, #bryophytes) This is a really fascinating documentary to watch. The filming and pictures are ... just watch it (in French, desole). www.arte.tv/fr/videos/09...
- Reposted by Maite SauraNew year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Maite SauraNEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig) OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6 🧵 1/8
