Sagar Bashyal
PhD candidate
Salk Institute | University of California SanDiego
AM symbiosis and anything related MPMI✌️
Mueller Lab🍀
mueller.salk.edu/people/
- Reposted by Sagar Bashyalit was great to collaborate with @lmueller.bsky.social to help characterize the Medicago crn mutant!
- 🌱 EDITOR'S CHOICE 🌱 Plant interactions with beneficial AM fungi are regulated by complex signaling pathways. The pseudokinase CORYNE negatively regulates the symbiosis by integrating plant responses to multiple abiotic and biotic cues - Orosz et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- Thank you @aribidopsis.bsky.social for this invitation and was a good open discussion. I really enjoyed it and hope to join more in future.
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- Grateful to be honored with the Alstroemeria Award from @ucsandiego.bsky.social 🌸. This recognition would not have been possible without the incredible support from so many people behind the scenes, thank you for lifting me up along the way. @salkinstitute.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalThe lab is moving to the Salk Institute! We are thrilled to join an inspiring community where we will continue to explore plant growth and development. Deep gratitude for the years of support and collaboration at Duke/NCSU/UNC. www.salk.edu/news-release...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalThrilled 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 Sagar BashyalI am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
- A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalExcited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Grateful to be at #2025ISMPMI! Reconnected with my former mentor @carogutj.bsky.social and met Maria, my current PIs mentor-so many cool stories🌱 Loved the energy at the poster session and great chats, including with Ertao Wang whose AMF work continues to inspire. #AMF
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalMark Estelle- UC San Diego- honored for his lifetime of excellence in research, mentorship, and support of the Arabidopsis community #ICAR2025
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalThe latest publication from our lab! The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalExcited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n] nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalJoin us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴 Edinburgh 🏴 8th-10th September #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social A thread 🧵 (1/n)
- Congratulations Michael and the entire team!👏Cool work from the @carogutj.bsky.social lab and a testament to all the long hard work behind it @pnas.org . Grateful to have contributed to this story✌️. Checkout the mechanisms by which the RAM1 functions. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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- Great to see our work highlighted in @natplants.nature.com !🍀☘️🍄 Check it out: nature.com/articles/s41... @lmueller.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Sagar BashyalGreat review from @lmueller.bsky.social -> Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalFinally, I am thrilled to share our long-term volatile project is out in Plant Communications! 🥳 Bacterial community-emitted volatiles regulate Arabidopsis growth and root architecture in a distinct manner from those from individual strains: Plant Communications www.cell.com/plant-commun...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalThe second new paper from the Estelle lab out this week describes the phenotype of moss lines lacking all seven Class-A ARFs (Activating ARFs) and was lead former postdoc Carlisle Bascom, Jr. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalWe have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalThe final version of our study on SERK-BIR module in Marchantia is out. Congratulations Cate and many thanks to collaborators! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Sagar Bashyal🚨Preprint Alert! Scooped by two other groups due to our lack of infrastructure to grow Arabidopsis, this study started in 2021, is still a great addition to the body of work looking for clubroot resistance in Arabidopsis! 💛 Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- Delighted to share this protocol with the scientific community. This is a follow up to the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @lmueller.bsky.social Marco Bürger Joanne Chory Link: star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4142
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalI am very happy to see this story published! This was a wonderful collaboration between the @mestelle.bsky.social lab (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) on the moss side, Annis Richardson’s lab on the maize side, and @luciastrader.bsky.social lab’s help throughout. #plantscience #auxin
- Some auxin-related reading for the week-end: ARFs are degraded, too. - "Comparative mutant analyses reveal a novel mechanism of ARF regulation in land plants" rdcu.be/ehnOT - "ARF degradation defines a deeply conserved step in auxin response" rdcu.be/ehnPa #PlantScience
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalI'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to @yichangsung.bsky.social for leading this work. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalProud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
- Absolutely thrilled to share our story—please take a moment to check it out! Huge thanks to all the contributors and my amazing supervisor @lmueller.bsky.social . This was truly a team effort! #peptides #mycorrhiza www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
- Convergent losses of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalPaper Alert! @pnas.org We think nematodes break open plant cells, sense small molecule signals (termed effectostimulins), which switch on a master regulator SUGR1, which switches on effectors, which break cells. Looks like a feed-forward loop driving infection. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- It is so cool to visually assess ROS levels in AM fungi-colonized roots through staining approach! @salkinstitute.bsky.social 🌱✨ #Mycorrhiza #PlantScience #Microscopy
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalSome of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalPlz Repost. We @slcuplants.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: Alex Guyon] www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalOur latest article on biological nitrogen fixation on the aerial roots of sorghum has been published in @plosbiology.org. We thank the @energygov.bsky.social for supporting this exciting project. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Sagar Bashyal🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com
- VACANCY: Predoc Internship Nobori Lab, UK Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science? Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
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- Happy to represent our lab and be part of a really fun High School Science Day at @salkinstitute.bsky.social #plantbiology #fungi
- Reposted by Sagar Bashyal1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social I want to emphasize 5 additional points:
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- Reposted by Sagar BashyalIS-MPMI 2025 abstract submission is open! Submit to our concurrent session "Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface" if your research explores heterogeneity or spatiotemporal dynamics in plant-microbe interactions. Due March 11. See you in Cologne! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
- Reposted by Sagar Bashyal📣New year, new preprint @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🎉! A study led by the brilliant @yukiyosato.bsky.social showing that Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae and drive virulence evolution. 🧵[1/12] doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalSuberin-rich roots can increase🌱stress resilience &help sequester carbon in the soil. We mapped the complete development of "plant amor" suberin-rich root phellem cells via single-nuclei sequencing and found a new regulator. #PlantScience @salkinstitute shorturl.at/ZFqLw
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalFirst paper of the year is out! A collaboration with Tzion Fahima @University of Haifa with heavy lifting by Tamara Reveguk, who was a pleasure to co-supervise. We generated an atlas of tandem kinase proteins (TKPs). TKPs are known to confer disease resistance in monocots. 🧵(1/4) rdcu.be/d5ADS
- Reposted by Sagar BashyalNew 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...
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- Next generation scientist symposium was such a great event. Really enjoyed it last year. Would definitely recommend. ✌️ #sciencesymposium
- Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
