Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity”

Congratulations, Team Yang! Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Finally, the receptor for N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid (NHP)? Mobile immune signals potentiate salicylic acid-mediated plant immunity via WRKY38/62 transcription factors biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @PNASNews -> nature.com/articles/d4158… #ScienceCareer

The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join > 1,400 experts: ismpmi.org/Events/2025Con… #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe

A disease resistance assay in Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the immune function of Response to HopBA1 (Keiichi Hasegawa, Ton Timmers, Jijie Chai, Takaki Maekawa) buff.ly/463vEDu @MaekawaLab @ASPB #PlantSci

Our new publication @PlantPhys With a new method we found that a RBA1 variant lacking 2', 3'-CAMP/cGMP synthetase activity but retaining NADase activity does not induce cell death but confers disease resistance. The plasmid is available @Addgene

@Grandpa_Hiro @PlantPhys @Addgene Thank you!

@MaekawaLab @PlantPhys @Addgene good to have a link to the article Congratulations!

Please do not forget to use pSOUP helper plasmid which is needed for replication of our PVX vector in Agrobacterium.

We are hiring!!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Arabidopsis MLKL1 (At1g64300) confers salt stress. I assume that abiotic stresses in general would activate TIR NADases leading to MLKL activation. See the discussion in our latest manuscript (Shen and Hasegawa et al 2024 Cell H&M)

nature.com/articles/s4146… Wow!! One of Pm resistance genes encodes a plant MLKL, which is consistent with our earlier study (Mahdi et al 2020 cell host microbe)

@Team_Zuccaro @UniCologne very well deserved!!

Very proud...Lisa Mahdi receives the Klaus Liebrecht Prize for her outstanding achievement in elucidating the molecular interactions between the plant and its microbiota @UniCologne @Team_Zuccaro

Are you interested in exploring root legume symbiosis signalling pathways? A PhD opportunity in my lab @JohnInnesCentre @NRPBIODTP Funding eligibility: UK students. Deadline 9 May, Link to apply: uea.ac.uk/course/phd-or-… 🙏 RT

Unfortunately, our cartoon was not selected as the cover for the latest issue @cellhostmicrobe but we think that ours is also cool! Do you agree?

Apply now for the EMBO Workshop on Cell death: friend or foe in animal and plant immunity 11 – 15 October 2024 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain meetings.embo.org/event/24-cell-… #EMBOcelldeath

@Team_Zuccaro @sfb_1403 @cellhostmicrobe Thank you so much.

@MaekawaLab @sfb_1403 @cellhostmicrobe Fantastic work!

Happy to share our new manuscript @cellhostmicrobe about the biochemical action of plant MLKL proteins!! cell.com/cell-host-micr…

@CharlesRLev @cellhostmicrobe 😁

@Papinaani @cellhostmicrobe Thanks.

@MaekawaLab @cellhostmicrobe Congratulations, @MaekawaLab

@Billion_of_Gods @cellhostmicrobe Thank you!

@MaekawaLab @cellhostmicrobe Congrats!!!