LaySunMa （馬麗珊）

Congratulations to the awardees of IPMB’s 2025 Poster Competition!

Ryohei Thomas Nakano @LuckyStrike1984 gave a great talk on the molecular dialog between plant roots & microbes in our @IPMBSinica seminar. The use of synthetic microbial communities (SynCom) in such studies is interesting. #MPMI

[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2025-11-11 15:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Alberto Macho @AlbertoPMacho Title：Deciphering the interaction between plants and bacterial pathogens: beyond activation and suppression of immunity

[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2025-11-10 10:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Pok Man Ngou @BrunoNgou (Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN CSRS, Japan) Title：Pattern-recognition receptors: Past, present and future

Grateful to our Academic Advisory Committee for visiting @IPMBSinica @AcadSinica! Inspiring scientific exchanges, constructive feedback, and a shared vision for advancing plant and microbial biology. Thank you for helping us shape the next phase of IPMB’s research excellence.

Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses (Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Zachary Savage, Vojtěch Pražák, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @EnochYuen @ASPB #PlantSci

Congratulations to my colleague @ChihHorngKuo for a highly productive international collaboration between #Taiwan #Japan @IPMBSinica @AIST_EN leading to the exciting discovery of defense symbiosis published in @ScienceMagazine

We are hiring! Our lab is offering a fully funded PhD position in fungal effector biology: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/…

Rubisco limits plant CO₂ fixation. Lu et al. engineered Arabidopsis with a synthetic McG cycle, turning a Rubisco by-product into acetyl-CoA. Result: more lipids, seeds & biomass—a proof-of-concept to boost carbon fixation by creating a synthetic “C2” plant.

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📢 #AcademicJobs Tenure-track faculty positions in plant biology and plant-related microbiology Intramural funding, core facilities, generous startup, and a vibrant research environment at @IPMBSinica @AcadSinica #Taiwan recruitment.ipmb.sinica.edu.tw 🗓️ Deadline: Aug. 31, 2025

It was a true pleasure hosting @LabShih for his seminar at @IPMBSinica! Fantastic discussion on plant synthetic biology and Agrobacterium research. @erhminlai @LaySunMa1 @chuanku_ @ShihLongTu1

A new immune receptor for chitosan involved in fungal recognition. doi.org/10.1016/j.tcsw…. ⁦@eurconfmedmycol⁩ ⁦@ISHAM_Mycology⁩ ⁦@BritSocMedMyc⁩ ⁦@MRCcmm⁩ ⁦@YoungECMM⁩ ⁦@youngisham⁩ ⁦@britsocimm⁩ ⁦@FrankvdVeerdonk⁩

@wenboEffector @TheSainsburyLab @royalsociety @ISMPMI Dear WenBo, Congratulations!!

Deeply honored and humbled by this recognition. Thrilled to be part of @TheSainsburyLab! None of this would be possible without the unwavering support from my colleagues, friends, family, and above all, every past and present member of my group! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🙏🙏🙏@royalsociety @ISMPMI

[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2025-04-29 11:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Gitta Coaker @GittaCoaker (Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, USA) Title：Exposing Pathogen Variation: Engineering Plant Immunity and Investigating Spatial Defense

Excited to share our new work @mbiojournal reporting two #Agrobacterium DGC proteins control virulence and #T6SS interbacterial competition via distinct strategies. Congrats to 1st author, my PhD student @XuanLaiTW for the achievement and co-authors @yumanda31 @IPMBSinica.

@erhminlai @mbiojournal @XuanLaiTW @yumanda31 @IPMBSinica Congratulations!

@gun_doe @senguptaap @EKemen @ParkerLab_MPIPZ Congratulations!

GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface. Congratulations to Zarah Sorger, @senguptaap for a great work! Thanks to @EKemen and @ParkerLab_MPIPZ for the wonderful collaboration. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very excited to share my PhD research, "N-glycosylated effectors target maize PMEIs," @IPMBSinica, now available as a preprint! 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Grateful to my PI, @LaySunMa1, for guidance in making this work possible! 🌽🔬#FungalEffectors #Glycosylation #MaizeDefense