Isabel Monte

Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...

🎉 Two fern evo-devo PhD opportunities available at the University of Birmingham: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Application deadline 23rd November. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested 🙂 #Plantsci_jobs #Plantscience

The interactome of the receptor kinase THESEUS1 reveals how cell wall integrity is linked to hormone signalling in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760881v1

We have a new perspective out with @3xueying.bsky.social and @cauawest.bsky.social In @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

New Article: "NIK receptor kinases propagate phytocytokine-triggered immunity by driving early phosphorylation events" rdcu.be/8k3QANQbiBCa NIKs are signal-propagating components downstream of multiple phytocytokine receptor complexes. #PlantScience

PAPER from @rootdevelopment.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social #PlantScience www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are looking for PhD students to join TERRA-MED! Funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, this PhD program gathers 33 projects to addressing the environmental and climate challenges of Mediterranean territories.

Structural basis for size-selective perception of chitin in plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LoL-align is out in @natmethods.nature.com! It aligns protein structures without superposition. More sensitive than TM-align and DALI, producing better alignments 5–20× faster. Now available in Foldseek! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek 🌐 search.foldseek.com

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Registration is now open for the @gensocuk.bsky.social #nonseedUK26 meeting, which will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December. Looking forward to celebrating another year of non-seed 🌱 science. You can register here: tinyurl.com/3xusawvd 😃

Increase in MYC2 binding sites rather than increase in chromatin accessibility upon JA signaling. #PlantScience From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

It's as easy as ABC...and G! Kanazawa et al report how specialized metabolites in the #liverwort #Marchantia are synthesized & sequestered in oil bodies - a process involving ABCG transporters 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantMetabolism

Thank you all for coming! It was a wonderful final meeting, filled with great science and an even greater community 🌱. We hope to see many of you again somewhere down the road. Safe travels home today, everyone! #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Rice blast fungus hijacks a rice RALF peptide to initiate infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.30.754903v1

Very excited to share the first preprint from my PhD with the community! This is also the first paper from the Plant Immunogenomics group with @galofir.bsky.social, so stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n 🧵

Thank you MibiNet & friends @mibinet.bsky.social for a wonderful International Symposium on "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities"!! It was impressive to see the vivid exchange, excellent talks and and poster discussions. @dfg.de; @hhu.de; @fz-juelich.de

Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social presenting at @mibinet.bsky.social @hhu.de

Our Special Issue on receptor-ligand interactions is now online! Thanks to all the authors for sharing their knowledge and views! Huge thanks to @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social and @isabelmonte.bsky.social for great collaboration: ) @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the venue!

Synthetic FLS2 receptor oligomer boosts plant innate immunity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

🧵 1/8 Have you ever wondered how information embedded within exons regulates gene expression in plants? 🌱🧬 Check out our latest work, where we explore how exonic enhancers (EEs) shape gene expression in plants! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to receive the Best Talk Prize at #PPRM2026! Thanks so much to the organizers and everyone who made the meeting such a great experience. Excited to keep pushing the project forward within the GreenRobust framework! @greenrobust.de @as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social

Closing of the #PPRM2026, thank you to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @kpkinase.bsky.social for a great meeting. Already looking forward to PPRM2027 in Switzerland

Yeah!!! So exciting to see Xu presenting new work on systemins in tomato at #PPRM2026 🌱🔥Our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... This one feels personal. My work in the Schaller lab was on systemin signaling specificity, and now Xu has pushed the story forward by uncovering new systemins in tomato.

That's a wrap on #PPRM2026 ! Had a lot of fun with a community of researchers I really admire and appreciate, and was happy to have the chance to show what we work on. You can read the preprint on some of what I presented here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very nice PPRM2026 ( Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting) closes in Freising. Organised by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @kpkinase.bsky.social

#PPRM2026 starts now! Thanks to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social et al for organizing! I look forward to 3 days with this lovely community!

PPRM2026 ( Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting) starts tomorrow : this time in Freising, Germany 🇩🇪 with an excellent scientific program! Looking forward!

The first preprint of my lab has just come out doi.org/10.64898/202... This paper came out at the same day on the sudden passing of Prof. Meng Chen. Without his work, this paper would not have existed. He was an extremely supportive member of the plant photobiology community..

Preprint Alert! 🚨 Have you ever wondered how highly conserved molecular complexes adapted to ever changing cellular environments? Thrilled to show our work on 26S proteasome evolution in the green lineage. 🌱🧬👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread🧵

🚨🌱🦠 IT'S OUT! Lead by Pedro Jiménez-Sandoval from Julia Santiago's group, we found that IGP1 is a DAMP receptor for the sugar cellotriose. Interesting finding -> we found that DAMP recognition is a key immune layer for proper PAMP-triggered immunity signaling prior to PAMP detection.

New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Brief Communication: "Cell-based CRISPRa screen identifies a papillae-specific receptor kinase mediating broad-spectrum fungal resistance in rice" rdcu.be/ZZFv8dTuRi8a A RK that positively regulates fungal resistance via silicon-mediated physical & biochemical defences. #PlantScience

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

In our general assembly today Sophie de Vries introduced & launched YongDBG, the network for early career researchers (ECR) from undergraduate level to first junior group leader position for members of our DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/sections/...

Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Press release on the project recently awarded with a #ERCstg by @erc.europa.eu uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Yippie 🎉 Dr Sophie de Vries @uni-goettingen.de, our extended board member, receives a #ERCStG from @erc.europa.eu for her project “Plant Immune Responses in Perpetual symbiosis (PIRPetum)”, She will analyse how plants maintain their friends while repelling foes www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Thrilled to have the opportunity to investigate the role of membrane protein proteolysis in plant immunity through the ERC Starting Grant FRONTERA! A heartfelt thank you to my mentors, friends, and family whose support, encouragement, and guidance made this possible. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

🌱 Job alert! A PhD position starting in 2027 is available with me and Andrea Gust @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de 👉 Interested? Apply now &/or share! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition

ICYMI: New Online! Mechanisms and balanced regulation of plant immunity

Myth busted: immune activation ≠ immunity 🌱⚔️. We found ETI can trigger full cell death without stopping bacterial growth - if water stays in the apoplast. Want to know what immunity is from a physiological standpoint? 👇 A thread🧵

Every seed mattered @katarinakurtovic.bsky.social reflects on her fascination with plant development, stemming from childhood. 'How can something as small as a seed become an entire organism? How could it build roots, leaves and flowers, and eventually, feed a family?'

Today we had the first (of many) Langner/Marchal joint lab day. We had great project presentations and discussions, followed by enjoying some tasty food together 🌾🌱🌿. Thank you to all of our lab members for this great day! 😁 @thorstenlangner.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

📣we're hiring a PhD researcher to test whether rhizosphere microbiomes keep flowers attractive under drought 🌸 joint supervision with soil ecologist @tcamenzind.bsky.social for the ROOT2BLOOM project in @greenrobust.de apply by 30/09 tinyurl.com/root2bloom questions welcome, thanks for sharing!