Farewell Bushra
We bid farewell to Bushra who will move the Spoel Lab @SpoelLab in Edinburgh, but will stick to ubiquitination. We wish you the best of luck!
News
New Cooperation Pub with the Djamei Lab @effectomics
The Pleiades are a cluster of fungal effectors that inhibit host defenses https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009641 Biotrophic plant pathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate the host physiology. Effectors suppress defenses and induce an environment favorable to disease development. In this paper we describe the functional characterization of the pleiades, a cluster of ten effector genes. Merope1, which is …
Tansley insight on ubiquitin signalling is now out!
Ubiquitin signalling: controlling the message of surface immune receptors Microbial attack is first detected by immune receptors located at the plasma membrane. Their activation triggers a plethora of signalling cascades that culminate in the immune response. Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like protein modifiers play key roles in controlling signalling amplitude and intensity, as well as in buffering …
New team member – Welcome Kai!
We wellcome Kai Clemens to our team! After working with moss, he will now try to develop crop plants with enhanced resistance to pathogens using components of the ubiquitin modification system.
New Cooperation PUB with Monaghan Lab
We are very excited to see this article now published in PNAS. Happy to have been able to contribute! Great cooperation with Jacqui Monaghan’s Lab (Queen’s University, Canada). Check it out! https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2024272118
New Publication!
Excited to share our latest work in which we show that the “#Exocyst Subunit Exo70B2 is Linked to #Immunity and #Autophagy” maintaining cellular #homeostasis during enhanced secretory activity @ThePlantCell @UniFreiburg @TrujilloLab https://twitter.com/TrujilloLab/status/1334528391698112514 This was quite the ordeal to get published, but we are proud about the result #exocyst #secretion #immunity #autophagy #phosphorylation #signalling #kinase #crosskindom …
New team member – Welcome Alaa!
Alaa joined us all the way from Palestine by way of Fukuoka (Japan). He invited us all to some delicious “Ramen” and “Udon” noodles. Carmen carefully inspected them carefully beforehand. Thank you Alaa, it was oishi!
New Publication!
Check out this excellent cooperation paper with Ingo Heilmann from the University of Halle and Sabine Rosahl from the IPB “A phosphoinositide 5-phosphatase from Solanum tuberosum is activated by PAMP-treatment and may antagonize phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate at Phytophthora infestans infection sites” New Phytologist https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nph.16853
New Conference Report #PPStasis2019
Check out our report for the Freiburg Conference on Plant Proteostasis: “Plant proteostasis – shaping the proteome: a research community aiming to understand molecular mechanisms that control protein abundance” https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.16664 This was an outstanding oportunity to connect with the community! The next chance will be during the Gordon Research Conference …
Successful Master Defense
Somewhat overdue, but a big congrats to Moritz for his successful Master Defence! We celebrated with some delicious apple pie and ice cream. No worries Moritz, we’ll keep on looking for AIMs 😉