Van Schepler-Luu

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ Max Marin & @lh3lh3 Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers for helpful feedback. Link: rdcu.be/famFj

Preprint: Pita2a for neck blast resistance in rice biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Published apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD…

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

PlotGDP: an AI Agent for Bioinformatics Plotting researchhub.com/paper/11075167…

gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code: github.com/nf-core/pathog… Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurvei…

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap. Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-witho… #MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction

Submit here: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/19…

Call for Papers on Rice Genomics! As IRRI celebrates 65 years of rice science and 20 years since the first rice genome was sequenced, we invite research contributions to a special issue of The Plant Genome to commemorate these milestones. 🗓 Deadline: 31 December 2025

Our President Elect, Saskia Hogenhout, discusses her lab's work on aphid effectors, which are secreted during feeding and suppress plant immunity by recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies. #PPATH2025

Prof Evans Lagudah @lag002 Chief Research Scientist from @CSIRO gives the first @BS_PP Peter Scott Memorial lecture on durable rust resistance genes in wheat at the #PPATH2025. Very informative and lots of great work. Acknowledged the great contribution of wheat wild relatives.

Published annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author @Jukgan_Chan and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen). Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...

Application of microbial inoculants significantly  enhances crop productivity: A meta-analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

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🔬 History of IRRI–JIRCAS Bacterial Blight and Blast Near-Isogenic Lines: Cornerstones of Global Rice Pathology 🌾 Read the full article published on IRRI book and Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/168991… Read the report on Rice Today ricetoday.irri.org/inside-the-glo…

I am honored to announce that I have joined Kansas State University as an Assistant Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology in the Division of Biology. I am looking for a Graduate student and Postdoc interested in plant lipid biochemistry for my lab. Email me @ pprasad@ksu.edu

Who says autographs are a thing of the past?! Absolutely loved getting some today — what a fun surprise! 🤩🖊️ #Grateful #WorkshopMoments #rice #APS