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Members: Check your email for the July #NewsCapsule! Meet our new Board Members, see Congress award winners, explore the #MPMI call for papers + Editor’s Picks, and more. bit.ly/3PWeccE
July 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Early bird registration for #2025ISMPMI ends tonight! Don't miss your opportunity to secure your spot at the best rate. Rates increase tomorrow, so act fast and secure your savings. bit.ly/4bfDvR0

#2025ISMPMI #EarlyBirdRates #Networking #ProfessionalDevelopment
April 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Wait, that's not rice! Betul Kaya is bringing a whole new perspective to the Boglab, focusing on editing candidate powdery mildew susceptibility genes in grapevine. Here she is about to harvest protoplasts from some grape leaves. #asma #boglab #üvüm
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April 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress is the must-attend event for anyone passionate about groundbreaking plant-microbe science. Take advantage of early bird registration and get the best deal before April 30!

Register: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

#2025ISMPMI #PlantScience #ScienceNetworking
March 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Submit your abstract today! Concurrent session chairs will be selecting 1 or 2 abstracts per session for 10 minute talks - a great opportunity to showcase your work! Please share - #earlycareerresearchers #standupforscience
ismpmi.bsky.social International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions @ismpmi.bsky.social · Mar 4
The #2025ISMPMI Congress is the largest event showcasing groundbreaking research in plant-microbe interactions—and we want YOU to showcase your research!

Submit your abstract by March 11 and join us July 13–17 in Cologne, Germany.

#PlantMicrobe #Research #AbstractSubmission #ISMPMI
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The #2025ISMPMI Congress is the largest event showcasing groundbreaking research in plant-microbe interactions—and we want YOU to showcase your research!

Submit your abstract by March 11 and join us July 13–17 in Cologne, Germany.

#PlantMicrobe #Research #AbstractSubmission #ISMPMI
March 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Happy Homecoming to Professor Morgan Carter writing for the Davie County Enterprise NC ⛰️ who shares her journey to becoming a science professor and worries, “Most people in our country do not know what is happening to science” 🧪 🧬🔬🏠
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February 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Ignored this email until I saw this post, so thanks for the heads up and hope other #Cornell alums will see
snowgall.bsky.social snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · Feb 6
If you are a Cornell Alum, you can vote in the upcoming Alumni Trustee Election.

This vote is important - two of the candidates are right-wing attorneys who will work to enact their political agenda on the university's administration.

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Dear Cornell Alum, I'm writing about an issue of concern that will have far-reaching consequences for students, faculty, staff, and the future of research and teaching at Cornell. I urge you to take action by voting this month in the Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. Thank you for considering. If you’re like most alums, you probably don’t think very much about the annual Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. This tradition, rare among Cornell’s peer institutions, allows alumni to elect two trustees to four-year terms every year. All alumni have an equal vote — regardless of when you graduated, or what type of degree you hold. Usually, these elections are low-key affairs, featuring candidates who have a track record of activity in alumni affairs, and who have been vetted and endorsed by the Cornell Alumni Association’s Committee on Trustee Nominations (CATN). But this year is different — on the ballot are two ultra-right-wing attorneys, not endorsed by the CATN, who petitioned with alumni signatures to become nominees. If elected, they will hold sway at a critically important time for academic freedom and university governance, and will select, along with the other members of the Board of Trustees, Cornell’s next president. They are: • J. Kennerly (Ken) Davis Jr., a leader within the Federalist Society, the far-right conservative and libertarian organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He is also active with the Alumni Free Speech Alliance and the Cornell Free Speech Alliance, which oppose anti-racist DEI efforts, and which promote the nebulous idea of “viewpoint diversity” — the idea that all opinions should be represented in classrooms, regardless of their academic, scholarly, or scientific merit. • Cindy Crawford, an attorney for the Koch brothers’ primary political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which advocates to end government regulations of environmental and safety issues, to end public education as a universal good, and to promote other policies that make it easier for the ultra-rich to become richer and to control public life. What do these candidates believe? In their own words: Of his student days in the 1960s, Davis wrote: “[T]he devastation wrought upon … all of Cornell by the shameful capitulation of President James Perkins to the armed occupation of Willard Straight Hall by campus radicals taught me forever that constitutionally compliant enforcement of the law and rule-based order is absolutely essential to protecting and preserving the integrity of the academic enterprise and, indeed, all of civil society.” Apparently referring to campus protest and movements for greater equity and justice, Crawford wrote: “[W]e are at a tipping point in which all elite universities, and Cornell in particular, must decide whether they will remain beacons of learning or acquiesce to demands for censorship, conformity, and political activism. It is relatively easy to pay homage to free expression and diversity of thought. But it can be difficult to uphold those values when confronted by aggressive attempts to shout down (or shut down) that support. I have dedicated my professional life to those issues, and I can guide and defend an incoming administration that is going to face severe challenges and tough decisions that will inevitably spawn outrage, whether real or feigned.” (Crawford's professional life has been inside Koch-network organizations that seek to support billionaires and to undermine environmental regulations, public education, taxation on wealth, and other functions of civil society and the public good.) Neither candidate has a significant volunteer history with the university, unlike the CATN-endorsed candidates. This means that they have not built up the same kind of knowledge of the operations of the university as the CATN-endorsed candidates, and it appears that their interest in sitting on the board of trustees is primarily for the purpose of enacting a right-wing political agenda on the university's administration. The Cornell Free Speech Alliance and other organizations are organizing their constituencies to vote in this election. Since voter turnout is usually low, they can have a big impact. WHAT CAN YOU DO? • VOTE before February 28. Every Cornell alum, whether a holder of an undergrad or graduate degree, from any year, is eligible to vote. • Do you know your Cornell netid and password? If not, you will need to ask for assistance. You have two options: 1. Write to Help+Cornell@yeselections.com 2. Write or email Alumni Affairs at (607) 254-7150 or alumniaffairs@cornell.edu • Review the candidates’ bios. • Visit the Cornell Alums Election Page. You will need to sign in with your netid and password OR with a code that you obtain from one of the two sources above. WHO TO VOTE FOR INSTEAD? Make your choice based on the candidate bios and statements. The primary purpose of this letter is not to endorse candidates. However, we face a strategic disadvantage against the organizations that want to elect Crawford and Davis. They have two candidates, and we have four. Every voter chooses two candidates. Their votes will be concentrated on their two chosen candidates, while ours will be spread out among the remaining four. Without ranked choice voting, it will be easier to elect Crawford and Davis. Therefore, if you're not sure who to choose among the remaining four, CATN-endorsed candidates, you might consider concentrating your votes on: • Paul Hayre, an Engineering alum, who writes about the importance to his education of his 1980s student activism against apartheid in South Africa, and the positive impact that resulted at that time from students working together with campus administration to make divestment a reality. • Karen E. Stewart, an A&S alum and long-time employee of the investment management firm TIAA, whose activities include international clean water advocacy, inclusion and belonging for undergraduate students, university financial health, and childcare support for Cornell staff and faculty during the days of pandemic shut-down.
February 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I’m on the market! 🎉

What do I do?
-I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses.
-I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges.
-I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.
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February 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Spent my lunch break writing a letter to the editor for my hometown paper (75 cents an issue), inspired by this.
jbyoder.org Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️‍🌈🖖🏻 @jbyoder.org · Feb 20
So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes
cantlonlab.bsky.social CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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February 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Have you saved your spot? The first session in the #2025EarlyCareerShowcase kicks off February 20! Free for IS-MPMI members, this exciting event will present new research from early career scientists including Xiaofei Du,
Dingliang Zhang, and Marcelo Ezequiel Juarez.
Register today! bit.ly/4funAyV
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I just got a sneak preview of talks for Part I of the IS-MPMI Early Career Showcase next week. You won't want to miss any. Breakout discussions too. Register now! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025-... @ismpmi.bsky.social @mpmijournal.bsky.social #plantimmunity #plantdiseaseresistance #effectorbiology
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February 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Opening for Assistant Features Editors at Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions journal. Apply now! #professional_development #community #science_communication www.magnetmail.net/actions/emai... @ismpmi.bsky.social
2025 Call for AFEs
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February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Explore breakthrough​s in plant-microbial research​ and connect with a global network at the online, Early Career Showcase Feb 20 and 26, featuring 12 cutting edge presentations and interactive small-group discussions tailored specifically for early career researchers. www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025-...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Explore breakthrough​s in plant-microbial research​ and connect with a global network at the online, Early Career Showcase Feb 20 and 26, featuring 12 cutting edge presentations and interactive small-group discussions tailored specifically for early career researchers. www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025-...
2025 Early Career Showcase
​​...​​...​​​​​​​2025 Early Career Showcase​...Registration NOW OPEN!Join the 2025 Early Career Showcase: A Global Gathering for Advancing Plant-Microbe​ Research  Explore new breakthrough​s in plant-...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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ajbogdanove.bsky.social ajbogdanove.bsky.social @ajbogdanove.bsky.social · Nov 20
Tenure track faculty position in plant-microbe-climate interactions! Join us in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University to drive discovery and innovation for sustainable plant health. 60% research / 40% teaching. Apply by December 10, here academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28742
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November 20, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Tenure track faculty position in plant-microbe-climate interactions! Join us in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University to drive discovery and innovation for sustainable plant health. 60% research / 40% teaching. Apply by December 10, here academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28742
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November 20, 2024 at 3:43 AM