host-microbe interactions and immune receptor biology across the tree of life
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!
Adam and Sam’s new paper explores how plant and prokaryotic TIR domains make an overlapping spectrum of small molecule products.
Caio Mendes from the Paulo Teixeira laboratory (University of Sao Paulo) is visiting the lab for 6 months to work on XopAZ1 and RAZ1/RAZ2 assay.
Welcome Caio, enjoy the snow!
Keira and her Genetic Modification Team from Fossil Ridge High Schol visited the lab to work on their capstone project editing the Arabidopsis genome. Nice pipetting!
Chris presented a poster on his collaboration with Adam engineering SPARTA as an artificial plant immune receptor.
Had fun writing this review on what we know about TIRs with Kow Essuman, Jeffery Milbrandt, and Jeff Dangl: “Shared TIR enzymatic functions regulate cell death and immunity across the tree of life“
Christopher Gomez (New Mexico State University) is joining the lab for the summer as an NSF-REU student. He’ll be working on engineering hybrid prokaryotic/plant immune receptors. Welcome Chris!