Professor of Phytopathology |
@Kieluni
| Crop wild relatives | Evolution of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | Likes ETI and PTI | Editor
@PhytopathologyJ
I'm looking for two PhD students for two different projects.
One on genetic diversity of fungal plant pathogens on crops and one on evolution and diversity of resistance genes in wild tomato.
More info here:
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I am extremely excited to share that from the 1st of April 2022 I will be starting as full Professor of Phytopathology at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.
Achievement unlocked! I received news that three different grants are funded in one day! 🥳
if you are looking for a postdoc or PhD position on quantitative disease resistance or pathogen genomics, follow this space! Job adverts will follow in due time.
I will be looking for a research associate/junior group leader to join my team at
@kieluni
!
The focus should be plant or pathogen genomics.
The formal vacancy and all details are following soon, but if you are interested, feel free to DM or email me for more information.
If all goes well, I'll be looking for a PhD student for a really cool industry-funded project on genetic diversity plant pathogens. Preferred start in the first Q of 2023.
Experience with genomics and interest in epidemiology required!
Official ad will follow. DM if interested
Secondary metabolites have long been known to play important roles in plant defence.
In our review
@LiMarce21
and I highlight major classes and look into the future:
Metabolomics in plant pathogen-defence: from single molecules to large scale analysis
Our paper is online!
Population studies of the wild tomato species Solanum chilense reveal geographically structured major gene-mediated pathogen resistance
Hey
#ECFG16
, we're still looking for PhD students for two exciting projects:
One looking at assessing genetic diversity of fungi in crop fields.
One looking at evolution of resistance genes against C. fulvum in wild plant populations.
Plz share!
We're looking for a PhD student to study the diversity of a major crop pathogen in the field. If you have experience in genomics and/or epidemiological modelling, do apply!
For more questions, please DM
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I am looking for a PhD student to study Genetic diversity of secondary metabolite pathways in wild tomato species.
The position can already be filled from the 1st of July!
For questions, DM or send me an email.
Open PhD position! RT
We know plant pathogens are genetically diverse, but how much diversity is there within single fields?
What does that mean for overcoming resistance traits or fungicides and for diagnostics thereof?
Want to help find out? Apply!
We proudly present an updated pathogen profile on Alternaria diseases on potato and tomato!
From the taxonomy and genetic diversity to defence mechanisms in the host, resistance breeding and crop protection. We got you covered!
Absolutely thrilled to celebrate that
@ParvinderKahlon
passed his PhD defence on polymorphisms in pathogen defence responses in Solanum chilense today.
New DFG research program at Kiel University on plant adaptations to global change!
Many of us will be looking for PhD students and Postdocs soon. Keep an eye out!
Very pleased to say that our work on NLR evolution in tomato is now accepted!
Helper NLR are not necessarily highly conserved, but can (co)evolve species-wide!
We are looking for a PhD student to work on a project investigating genetic diversity of pathogen defence responses in wild tomatoes. The position is part of
@SFB_924
and should be filled April 2021
#PhD
#WildPlantPathogens
More info:
DMs are welcome
Kiel University is opening the KiTE (Kiel Training for Excellence) postdoc career development programme!
Apply now for a MSCA-COFUND postdoc position with one of over 70 potential mentors including myself.
More info here:
Questions? feel free to DM.
Our wild tomato plants arrived
@kieluni
!
After a 850 km long overnight journey with
@GOExpressLogis
from Freising to Kiel, they look magnificient.
Now it's time to do some science!
I'm really proud of this new paper. It is the first specimen that I collected myself from wild tomatoes in Chile.
"ONT-based draft genome assembly and annotation of Alternaria atra"
FYI, it started like this:
Preprints work! I got an email yesterday to tell that thanks to our
@biorxivpreprint
someone has been able to clone a promoter for her gene of interest & submitted the paper
Our preprint has been with reviewers/editors since May.
Good news! I got a small grant awarded to expand our studies and sequencing of Alternaria solani on potato in Europe w/
@NiMetz0
. It might not be covid-19, but fungicide resistant strains are spreading rapidly and useful fungicides are running out!
Due to covid related issues, I have to re-advertise a PhD position:
The project focuses on studying genetic and transcriptomic diversity in elicitor-triggered defence responses in wild tomato spp.
Please RT
New preprint! We looked closely at RLP-mediated resistance in a wild tomato species. Higher complexity than expected. Large variation between populations and complete loss of resistance in some regions.
We got some support funding for our upcoming conference on Wild Plant Pathosystems, 7-10 July 2024 in Kiel.
Hopefully we can launch website and registration soon. Mark you calendar and follow this space!
We phenotyped lots of Solanum chilense populations to determine intraspecific variance in resistance against Phytophthora.
#wildplantpathogens
You saw the preprint. Here is the final version
I just launched the website!
Pre-registration for the Wild Plant Pathosystems confrerence is now open.
Please sign up to help us assess interest and plan accordingly. We hope to open up registration and abstract submission by the end of the month.
We got some support funding for our upcoming conference on Wild Plant Pathosystems, 7-10 July 2024 in Kiel.
Hopefully we can launch website and registration soon. Mark you calendar and follow this space!
Contact me if you liked my
#PlantaePresents
seminar and would like to do a postdoc on Solanum chilense and or its pathogens.
The call for Marie Curie fellowships is now open and
@TUMPostdoc
offers great support w/ writing.
If anyone is interested in projects on the intersection between climate change and phytopathology, I would be happy to discuss possible projects. I loved my
#AvHpostdoc
time and would love to pay it forward by hosting someone.
Do you want to work on your own
#climate
project in Germany 🇩🇪? Are you a
#YoungLeader
or
#Postdoc
from a developing or transition country? Then our Climate Protection Fellowship might be right for you. Apply now until 1 February 2024!
#ActOnClimate
👉
New to or curious about population genomics of filamentous plant pathogens?
@SydneyEverhart
@nikitagambhir03
and I wrote A Brief Overview of Research Questions, Approaches, and Pitfalls
Very pleased to share a tremendously improved version of our preprint "Subsets of NLR genes drive adaptation of tomato to pathogens during colonisation of new habitats"
Our current opinion paper is now out:
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution
This is cool. Every conference should have this.
I don't consider myself introvert at all and sometimes I also feel lonely at conferences. Especially when not exact my field. Going alone to a conference can be daunting for everyone.
At
#Evol2019
without your lab? Introverted? Don't know anyone? Come network and meet cool grad students and postdocs in the same boat in a low pressure environment. Tomorrow during the first coffee break!
Day one of the wild plant Pathosystems conference was absolutely amazing.
#wpp
#wildplantpathystems
Great talks, long breaks for good discussion and feedback and a great boat ride on the Kieler Fjord.
I'm so happy to be part of this community.
#OpenScience
@protocolsIO
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are often seen as primary defence response in plants
@ParvinderKahlon
optimized the protocol for chemiluminescence based detection of ROS production in tomato. You can find the final version here:
Thank you all for joining (and staying!) Absolutely amazing to see so many attendees. If you have questions, suggestions, anything, send me a message!
#plantaepresents
@plantae_org
Please RT. I am looking for a bioinformatics postdoc.
Position is to be filled as soon as possible. Working hours and contract times are flexible and work can be done remotely, if you have residency in Germany.
Informal inquires through DM are welcome!
I am proud to say that I will be joining the
@PhytopathologyJ
editorial board as a Senior Editor.
My main focus will the sections genetics and resistance and population biology, so send your awesome papers our way!
Spread the word! We're looking for a postdoc and a PhD student.
PD: Population genomics in an industry project
PhD Student: Bioinformatics and mol bio for
@SFB_924
More info here:
PD:
PhD:
Last week Severin's paper was accepted and Gonne handed in his MSc thesis and is about to start his PhD!
Time to say cheers 🥂 and make an new group picture!
#ICPP2023
If you enjoyed these or other talks on wild plant pathosystems, save the date for the Wild Plant Pathosystems conference that
@EvaStukenbrock
and I are organising in Kiel next summer.
#ICPP2023
why do natural pathosystems show resiliency when all the crop pathosystems struggle? How do a host or pathogen battle it out in a geographic mosaic? **attend C2.3.2** (Grand Salon Prestige) by Kevin Murray
@PlantEvolution
@FrankVogt13
Für meine deutschen Follower:
Zwei Studentinnen in unserem Kurs für Agrarwissenschaften führen eine Umfrage über die Akzeptanz von GVOs und CRISPR durch.
Bitte teilnehmen und teilen!
There is still time to apply for a junior group leader (habilitation) position in my new group
@kieluni
6 years to develop your own work on plant pathogen genomics or related fields in plant microbe interactions!
Great way to start the weekend. The formatted version of our paper ‘Subsets of NLR genes show differential signatures of adaptation during colonization of new habitats’ is now available online.
New Preprint Alert! Cool work by
@LiMarce21
With Karin Kleigrewe, Corinna Dawid and
@BayBioMS
we identified bioactive anti-fungal compounds involved in PTI
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk about my research in a
#pub
. If you're interested in learning about
#wildtomato
and
#pathogenresistance
with limited amount of jargon and loads of beautiful pictures, please have a look:
Pleased that this work by
@ParvinderKahlon
is now published.
In short, we found that early laminarin-triggered defence responses differ dependent on the region of origin for populations of a wild tomato. They depend on different phytohormones!
Comment today: "Since I take your lectures, I am thinking 'Oh interesting' instead of 'Ew', when I see fungi, or mould on plant leaves or fruits"
My job is done. 😇
I got a mystery gift in the post today. No clue who sent this, but thanks anyway! The benches in our lab kitchen and social room could do with such a beautiful cushion!
It has been on BioRxiv for 7 years, but now the final paper from my PhD is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal!
A conserved oomycete CRN effector targets tomato TCP14-2 to enhance virulence
This has been a hell of a journey. Glad it is out!
I'm very pleased to host my previous supervisor and mentor for a seminar.
@HuckelhovenR
presents a broad overview of his research on Fusarium head blight. From field experiments with barley to receptor discovery in Arabidopsis.
One in six(!) young academics in Germany suffer from depression or anxiety issues!
We need to talk more about mental health and the causes for these issues, like short term contracts and general work stress due to publications and what not.
APS,
@plantdisease
will be organising a workshop on how to best review a manuscript on 5 October 2021.
Improve your peer-review experience both as a reviewer and as an author!
The Peer-reviewed version is now online!
We successfully used transcriptomics and network analyses to identify regulators of early defence mechanisms of tomato against Alternaria alternata!
New Preprint!
We have Alternaria sp. that can infect Heinz 1706 tomato (1117, compatible), but also some that can't (CS046, incompatible). We wanted to know what the regulatory mechanisms is behind this at early time points: 3 hours post infection!
Thanks to
@jonathandgjones
,
@xiaolin422
et al for getting me on board. Analyzing effector and NLR diversity and recombination in this data was super exciting and shows that there is a lot more to discover!
New Article: "A complex resistance locus in Solanum americanum recognizes a conserved Phytophthora effector"
@jonathandgjones
State-of-the-art genomic approaches to characterize a novel late blight resistance gene in a wild Solanaceae.
Our Focus issue of Phytopathology: "Population Genomic- and Phylogenomic-Enabled Advances to Increase Insight Into Pathogen Biology and Epidemiology" is now online.
Instead of focusing on all the protests against COVID measures and vaccinations, shall we share more images like this:
People patiently queueing to get their booster shot in a walk-in pub turned vaccination centre.
Happy to see this accepted in JXB:
Barley shows reduced Fusarium Head Blight under drought and modular expression of differential expressed genes under combined stress
In case you were still wondering whether you should apply, the project just got awarded a price and additional budget, so I am not the only one who thinks it's cool. :-)
Anyone interested in a postdoc with me working on genetic diversity of Solanum chilense and its pathogens, or in fact any other group at the TU Munich, consider applying for TUF fellowships.
Questions, send me a message!
After studying NLR evolution in Solanum chilense, we'll be looking into other defense-associated genes, and into the evolution of the pathogens: We collected hundreds of samples on our trip to Peru. The sites were stunning.
The new round of MSCA fellowships has opened. If you are considering applying for a fellowship in phytopathology, get in touch!
@kieluni
is offering various means of support, incl. workshops in the coming weeks, so don't hesitate!
@stuartsmyth66
Do you have a source? Afaik, it's now also only seen as "emergency solution" only. Also, Copper sulfate is probably more toxic and definitely broader off target than many approved synthesized chemical products. It kinda shows the impossibility or hypocrisy of organic.
Looking for an introduction to the evolution of pathogen resistance genes in plants?
Hanna Märkle,
@IzzySaur
and I wrote a short review article for people new to the field.
The preprint is now on-line!
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with
@MDPIOpenAccess
that will see 10 of MDPI’s journals benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through our innovative Journal Home offering.
Chuffed. I am now also a published scientific writer in the German language.
My assay on how GMOs can contribute to sustainable agriculture is published in a book.
Great to see German public television have an item explaining the nonsense behind biodynamic agriculture and ending by saying that green gentech is would actually help solve current agricultural problems.
Fazit: Unwissenschaftliche Methoden im Öko-Landbau verhindern einen Ausstieg aus der konventionellen Landwirtschaft! Alle Quellen zu dieser Hypothese gibt's wieder hier: . Und mehr Content mit Gütesiegel "Der Shit" auf:
#MAITHINKX
Yesterday I delivered my first key note lecture about all things pathogen and resistance on Solanum chilense in the species' home country.
Now we're getting ready for day two of the Chilean Phytopathological congres.