Beuzón & Ruiz-Albert Lab

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

📣Abierto el plazo de solicitud de la convocatoria de ayudas para la Formación de Profesorado Universitario 2026 (#FPU). Plazos de solicitud: 🔹 Participantes: 20/10 - 12/11 🔹 Centros: 20/10 - 20/11 💶Presupuesto: 125, 43 M€ 📹Resumen: youtu.be/QiAVSMYgP_c 🌐Microsite: www.aei.gob.es/ayudas-fpu-2...

Do you know any excellent young microbiologists who'd like to do a PhD on biofilms, microbial community assembly and antimicrobial resistance/tolerance? I'm advertising two projects to start in autumn 2027 warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

@cragenomica.bsky.social is offering a 4 years predoctoral grant to join the team of the project PLANT-ViVe (PID2025-169361OB-C31) co-supervised by @montsemia61.bsky.social and @jjlopez-moya.bsky.social

🌸 Descifrando la incompatibilidad floral del albaricoquero a nivel molecular: la clave genética para optimizar su productividad Aprende más en el post #DivulgaciónIHSMLaMayora ⬇️ www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/comunicacion...

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested to join our team for your PhD ? We are looking for highly motivated PhD fellows ! Please contact us to apply through the France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship programme ! www.campusfrance.org/en/france-ex...

Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Heads-up! I’ll be starting my research group at MedUni Vienna in January 2027, with postdoc and PhD positions available soon. Looking for people interested in bacteria–phage interactions, bacterial defense systems, and phage anti-defense strategies. Please send your CV: anna.lopatina@univie.ac.at

Out Now! Bacteria regulate collective behaviour by mechanosensing cell–cell collisions #MicroSky

Our very own @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social is giving a flashtalk on his project „how pathogens can suppress host translation by hijacking P-body condensates“ at #PGRP2026 ➡️ visit his poster (#130) and also @seedbarrett.bsky.social poster on „how abiotic stress regulates P-body dynamics“ (#52)

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New lab paper in @natcomms.nature.com!!! With many replicates in long-read RNA-seq, do you pool reads before calling transcripts (Join & Call) or call per sample and merge (Call & Join)? We tested both with 6 tools, PacBio & ONT. It depends on the tool! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We start the second day of @pgrp2026.bsky.social with a keynote by @geminiteamlab.bsky.social who will talk about how Geminivirus is manipulating host plants by targeting the splicing machinery #PGRP2026

Back from the break, Session 2 continues with Peter Brodersen on a proxy RNAi pathway for sensing cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA in plants 🧬🔍🌱 #PGRP2026

Our first keynote speaker, giving the EMBO lecture is Herve Vaucheret

The RNA silencing session starts with Javier Palatnik talking about the miRNA control of plant regeneration and stem-cell niche reconstitution

Marco Incarbone is talking about the vertical transmission of RNA viruses and its regulation in plants 🌱🦠

Diego López-Márquez will talk about the Trp-binding pockets of AGO1 and how it facilitates RNA interference via SGS3

🌿 The Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants – PGRP2026 Congress kicks off today! The event is taking place in Málaga from October 5 to 7 and is organised by IHSM La Mayora researchers Laura Arribas, Diego López, Pablo Manavella and Catharina Merchante 🧬 @pgrp2026.bsky.social

1/5 Do you use GFP to measure protein abundance? Be very careful. Our new bioRxiv preprint shows that, under translation inhibition, fluorescence can stop tracking how much reporter protein is actually there. Please share widely.

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

Out Now! Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning #MicroSky

Job alert! We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social. This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands. A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary. #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

Shame on you @ukri.org !!! This is so disrespectful to all those people that put in months to write these grants.

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

ICYMI: New online! The shared evolutionary capacities of plasmids and extrachromosomal DNA

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/...

Type III secretion system chaperones: a helping hand for secretion. New review. Published in Microbiology as part of the Emerging Investigators collection: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001753 #MicrobioJ #PublishandRead

Out Now! Bacterial growth rate in populations and single cells #MicroSky

Pablo Manavella, nuevo director del IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC. El investigador del CSIC, especialista en el papel de los ARN pequeños en las plantas, dirigirá el centro los próximos cuatro años. Sucede a Eduardo Rodríguez Bejarano, director desde 2022. @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social @csic.es

Please consider submitting comments on the implementation for genome edited plants in the EU. Reminder: this is not the place for general statements regarding your personal vie of #NGT. Instead, the Commission is asking for input for the development of workable rules.

It’s Peer Review week 2026! We highlight some of the initiatives we have at The New Phytologist Foundation to ensure that we continue to provide a high-quality peer review service: www.newphytologist.org/news/peer-re... #PeerReviewWeek #PlantScience

A great overview for anyone interested in Salmonella, this Microbe Profile on Salmonella Typhimurium explores its properties, genome, virulence and the emergence of multidrug-resistance. Read the Open Access profile in MIC: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001521 #MIC #Microbiology

🚨 Did you know about JXB's Editorial Internship programme? 🚨 Applications for our 2027 programme are open until 30 Sept 2026 ⏰ 📝 To apply, you will need to prepare a commentary article on a recent JXB research paper, so don't wait until the last minute! 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪

📢 💼 ¡Oferta de Contrato Predoctoral (FPI) de 4 años! en el @iascsic.bsky.social Buscamos una persona altamente motivada para realizar una tesis doctoral en el proyecto PID2025-175932OB-I00. ➡️ Todos los Detalles en el cartel 👇 👇 #cienciaparalaagricultura #CSIC @csicandalucia.bsky.social

Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

A beautiful piece of detective work by @honour.bsky.social + colleagues revealing the origins of Ralstonia disease of bananas on Martinique. As so often, ICEs (ICERs!) prove to be extraordinary capacitors for evolutionary change. Evolution for evolution's sake 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

📣 Please share! We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5

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

Out Now! High-throughput recovery of integron cassettes for gene discovery screens #MicroSky

#Fusarium oxysporum TR4 is spreading in Australia, threatening to destroy the local #Banana industry. Meanwhile, we already have a resistant variety - developed in Australia - but growers don't use it, because of people's irrational fear of GMOs. We first need a disaster, it seems. #PlantScience

Another #PlantScience job here @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We need a seed physiology expert in our seed research team. This is a full-time, permanent position here at our headquarters in Einbeck. Expertise in Seed Physiology and Germination are needed. #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobs

It’s out! 🥹🎉 We’re so incredibly happy and proud to see this work out in the world. And once again, a huge thank you to the great mastermind @jaescudero.bsky.social and all the co-authors; this wouldn’t have been possible without you! doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natmicrobiol.nature.com

Bacterial effector modifies host mRNA to promote virulence FadA from Legionella pneumophila binds to host mRNAs & mediates 8-oxo-guanine (oxo8G) modifications that cause oxidative damage & inhibit translation, favoring bacterial replication/persistence www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

🌱 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

Following our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper, we've now shared the story behind the study in a @springernature.com Behind the Paper post: how an initially puzzling observation led us to a broader view of bacterial metabolism during infection 🦠 communities.springernature.com/posts/when-a...

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

Absolutely stunning dual RNAseq/imaging work by @andresfloto.bsky.social & colleagues: subpopulations of P. aeruginosa with different transcriptomes exist in different niches (airway lumen, glands, blood vessels) in explanted #CysticFibrosis lungs 🤯 #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How do phages maintain or increase the diversity of plant-associated microbiomes? Thanks Renée Smith & @dholtappels.bsky.social for contributing this review to Essays in Biochem #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...