host-microbe interactions and immune receptor biology across the tree of life
Excited to see Carl VanGessel’s (Geoffery Morris lab) paper out in Science Advances!
These NLRs muct function via a novel mechanism as they lack both an N-terminal output domain and a functional p-loop ATP-binding motif?
Adam, Lijiang, Mitchell, and colleagues used natural variation across ~150 Arabidopsis TIRs to help design artificial TIRs with predictable outputs.
Phew! Very grateful to be awarded a MIRA for “Mechanisms of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain function in cell death and immunity”. Awesome.
Thomas defended his undgergraduate honor’s thesis for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: “GENOME EDITING OF ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY1 USING CRISPR-CAS9 IN ARABIDOPSIS”. Worked closely with Sam and did a great job. Congratulations!
Tyler stylishly presenting his thesis work on HopBA1.
Small, but definitely Sam!
Marc presented Adam’s TIRome story and explored Australian culture.
Sam’s new review with Dmity Lapin on TIRs and prospects for translation.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102481
Features video interviews with Jonathan Jones and Jane Parker on emerging topics in plant immunity.
Lily, Jay, Aiden, and Jaime presented their genome editing project at the final Fossil Ridge High School STEM Academy ceremony. Nice job, was fun to collaborate on this and have you in the lab!
Super fun to see all the great projects.
Great to see Zhiyong Wang and Paulo Teixeira!
Caio presenting his XopAZ RAZ1/RAZ2 story at MPMI Providence.
We also had a big Grangl reunion dinner, but managed to not take pictures?!
Sam was awarded a 3 year USDA-NIFA fellowship for his proposal “Investigating the role of monocot TIR proteins in plant-microbe interactions” Congrats Sam!