Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦
@edelplopez.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Université Laval| Canada Research Chair in Insect Vectors Invasions and Emergent Plant Diseases 🌿🪲 |Chercheur CRIV, IBIS, EDS | Senior Editor Plant Disease | CoFounder Pride in Microbiology 🏳️🌈 - Lab News: @eplopez.bsky.social
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Connect with a leading phytobacteriology expert and discover groundbreaking research! The Advances in Phytobacteriology Series continues with Dr. Quan Zeng!
Join us January 15 to: https://bit.ly/3YnkfLz
#APSwebinar #planthealth
Join us January 15 to: https://bit.ly/3YnkfLz
#APSwebinar #planthealth
January 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Connect with a leading phytobacteriology expert and discover groundbreaking research! The Advances in Phytobacteriology Series continues with Dr. Quan Zeng!
Join us January 15 to: https://bit.ly/3YnkfLz
#APSwebinar #planthealth
Join us January 15 to: https://bit.ly/3YnkfLz
#APSwebinar #planthealth
New year, new lab member! 🎉
We’re thrilled to welcome Ahmed Ben Hassine to EdeLab as part of the LeafHope project!
Ahmed will be tackling a big (and very timely) question: insecticide resistance in leafhoppers 🦗
Welcome to the team, Ahmed! 🚀🌱
We’re thrilled to welcome Ahmed Ben Hassine to EdeLab as part of the LeafHope project!
Ahmed will be tackling a big (and very timely) question: insecticide resistance in leafhoppers 🦗
Welcome to the team, Ahmed! 🚀🌱
January 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
New year, new lab member! 🎉
We’re thrilled to welcome Ahmed Ben Hassine to EdeLab as part of the LeafHope project!
Ahmed will be tackling a big (and very timely) question: insecticide resistance in leafhoppers 🦗
Welcome to the team, Ahmed! 🚀🌱
We’re thrilled to welcome Ahmed Ben Hassine to EdeLab as part of the LeafHope project!
Ahmed will be tackling a big (and very timely) question: insecticide resistance in leafhoppers 🦗
Welcome to the team, Ahmed! 🚀🌱
Although it went online in 2025, here is our second paper of 2026! 🎉
Bravo to @jiaxuwu.bsky.social for leading this (possibly) controversial, but much-needed, analysis. Enjoy! Now out in the January 2026 issue of Trends in Genetics.
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Bravo to @jiaxuwu.bsky.social for leading this (possibly) controversial, but much-needed, analysis. Enjoy! Now out in the January 2026 issue of Trends in Genetics.
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Déjà vu in clubroot resistance: same genes, new names
Despite decades of clubroot research, only three resistance (R) genes have been validated.
However, many of the ‘new’ R genes are, in fact, identical to or allelic with these
three. In this forum arti...
www.cell.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Although it went online in 2025, here is our second paper of 2026! 🎉
Bravo to @jiaxuwu.bsky.social for leading this (possibly) controversial, but much-needed, analysis. Enjoy! Now out in the January 2026 issue of Trends in Genetics.
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Bravo to @jiaxuwu.bsky.social for leading this (possibly) controversial, but much-needed, analysis. Enjoy! Now out in the January 2026 issue of Trends in Genetics.
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/genet...
First 2026 manuscript in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, a strong start to the year! 🪲🤖💚
Bravo Thomas Vinatier 👏
🔗: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
Bravo Thomas Vinatier 👏
🔗: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
AI for accurate insect pest monitoring: A path toward resilient agriculture
journals.plos.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
First 2026 manuscript in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, a strong start to the year! 🪲🤖💚
Bravo Thomas Vinatier 👏
🔗: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
Bravo Thomas Vinatier 👏
🔗: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
🎧 Just in time for the New Year, three new episodes are live on the EdeLab & Research Explained! podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/7dnP...
In this episode, we break down an exciting scientific paper (in EN, ES, and FR) that reveals how Xanthomonas bacteria employ a unique nutritional strategy.
open.spotify.com/episode/7dnP...
In this episode, we break down an exciting scientific paper (in EN, ES, and FR) that reveals how Xanthomonas bacteria employ a unique nutritional strategy.
Starving the Enemy: How Plants Outsmart Xanthomonas
open.spotify.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🎧 Just in time for the New Year, three new episodes are live on the EdeLab & Research Explained! podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/7dnP...
In this episode, we break down an exciting scientific paper (in EN, ES, and FR) that reveals how Xanthomonas bacteria employ a unique nutritional strategy.
open.spotify.com/episode/7dnP...
In this episode, we break down an exciting scientific paper (in EN, ES, and FR) that reveals how Xanthomonas bacteria employ a unique nutritional strategy.
2026 challenge
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
2026 challenge
In January, our Pathogen Profile led by @asimjaved.bsky.social will turn 3 years old, and it continues to outperform many of the most recent reviews on clubroot.
If you’re working on Plasmodiophora brassicae, this is still a must-read!
Link 🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you’re working on Plasmodiophora brassicae, this is still a must-read!
Link 🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae: A profile update
The clubroot pathogen wants to conquer the world, and how better than through social media. This Plasmodiophora brassicae profile highlights how the growers are in a constant fight with this devastat...
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In January, our Pathogen Profile led by @asimjaved.bsky.social will turn 3 years old, and it continues to outperform many of the most recent reviews on clubroot.
If you’re working on Plasmodiophora brassicae, this is still a must-read!
Link 🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you’re working on Plasmodiophora brassicae, this is still a must-read!
Link 🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
There’s no escaping… 😆
@jiaxuwu.bsky.social hunted me all the way to Varadero! 🌊
@jiaxuwu.bsky.social hunted me all the way to Varadero! 🌊
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
There’s no escaping… 😆
@jiaxuwu.bsky.social hunted me all the way to Varadero! 🌊
@jiaxuwu.bsky.social hunted me all the way to Varadero! 🌊
@saskajanet.bsky.social look at these beauties 😍
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@saskajanet.bsky.social look at these beauties 😍
Visiting grandmas, family and risking getting some weird viruses 😪
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Visiting grandmas, family and risking getting some weird viruses 😪
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My dear colleagues @tjorven-hinzke.bsky.social and others put together a cool manuscript on viruses in ancient penguin mummies. Pleasure to have been involved! doi.org/10.64898/202...
RNA virus genomes from centuries- to millennia-old Adelie penguin mummies
Direct studies of long-term RNA virus evolution are largely limited to chemically-fixed specimens from natural history and pathology museums collected over the past two centuries. Detecting genomic tr...
doi.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My dear colleagues @tjorven-hinzke.bsky.social and others put together a cool manuscript on viruses in ancient penguin mummies. Pleasure to have been involved! doi.org/10.64898/202...
Want to join the lab as PhD student or postdoc?
Canada is offering a unique new opportunity through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards program!
Send your CV and a brief description of your research interests to edelab2024@gmail.com 👏
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada is offering a unique new opportunity through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards program!
Send your CV and a brief description of your research interests to edelab2024@gmail.com 👏
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Want to join the lab as PhD student or postdoc?
Canada is offering a unique new opportunity through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards program!
Send your CV and a brief description of your research interests to edelab2024@gmail.com 👏
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada is offering a unique new opportunity through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards program!
Send your CV and a brief description of your research interests to edelab2024@gmail.com 👏
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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Please repost:
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of the American Phytopathology
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of APS....Welcome to Borlaug’s Army —a recruitment, engagement, and outreach initiative of the American Phytopathological Society. Free membersh...
www.apsnet.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please repost:
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Brilliant plant scientists interested in coming to Canada, here the perfect opportunity!
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Brilliant plant scientists interested in coming to Canada, here the perfect opportunity!
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Strong gun control is one of the reasons I chose to make Canada my home, and one of the reasons I’m proud to be Canadian.
Today, my heart is with all the victims of that horrific day in 1989, and with the survivors who carry those memories every single day.
Never forgotten 🕊️ #EcolePolytechnique
Today, my heart is with all the victims of that horrific day in 1989, and with the survivors who carry those memories every single day.
Never forgotten 🕊️ #EcolePolytechnique
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Strong gun control is one of the reasons I chose to make Canada my home, and one of the reasons I’m proud to be Canadian.
Today, my heart is with all the victims of that horrific day in 1989, and with the survivors who carry those memories every single day.
Never forgotten 🕊️ #EcolePolytechnique
Today, my heart is with all the victims of that horrific day in 1989, and with the survivors who carry those memories every single day.
Never forgotten 🕊️ #EcolePolytechnique
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Geneviève Bergeron
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Geneviève Bergeron
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
I think the lab is a bit big 😅
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I think the lab is a bit big 😅
In case you are wondering, my @Spotify age is 21 🤣🥲😅
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In case you are wondering, my @Spotify age is 21 🤣🥲😅
Un bel article sur notre récente publication dans @elife.bsky.social 💻🧬
Une avancée pour déjouer les agents #pathogènes des plantes en #agriculture
Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 Soham Mukhopadhyay Jiaxu Wu EdeLab News
Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 Soham Mukhopadhyay Jiaxu Wu EdeLab News
Une avancée pour déjouer les agents pathogènes des plantes en agriculture
Une équipe de l'Université Laval met en lumière des mécanismes d'infection communs et ouvre la voie à des stratégies pour rendre les plantes plus résistantes
nouvelles.ulaval.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Un bel article sur notre récente publication dans @elife.bsky.social 💻🧬
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Congratulations to the Director's Award winners for BEST Poster Presentations! @cspbscbv.bsky.social #CSPB_ERM @laurierbiology.bsky.social @utscbiology.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Congratulations to the Director's Award winners for BEST Poster Presentations! @cspbscbv.bsky.social #CSPB_ERM @laurierbiology.bsky.social @utscbiology.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social
Memories from #CSPB_ERM2025 👏
Thank you @danvec.bsky.social and the organizing committee for the invitation 💚
Thank you @danvec.bsky.social and the organizing committee for the invitation 💚
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Memories from #CSPB_ERM2025 👏
Thank you @danvec.bsky.social and the organizing committee for the invitation 💚
Thank you @danvec.bsky.social and the organizing committee for the invitation 💚
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Our #CSPB_ERM Closing Plenary is being presented by Prof. @edelplopez.bsky.social ( @ulaval.ca )! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Our #CSPB_ERM Closing Plenary is being presented by Prof. @edelplopez.bsky.social ( @ulaval.ca )! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social
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Our Morning Plenary talk is presented by Prof. @elianagv.bsky.social from the @utscbiology.bsky.social!
Seminar title: "The reactive cuticle: Alkene oxidation and aldehyde release in poplar leaves"
#CSPB_ERM @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social
Seminar title: "The reactive cuticle: Alkene oxidation and aldehyde release in poplar leaves"
#CSPB_ERM @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our Morning Plenary talk is presented by Prof. @elianagv.bsky.social from the @utscbiology.bsky.social!
Seminar title: "The reactive cuticle: Alkene oxidation and aldehyde release in poplar leaves"
#CSPB_ERM @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social
Seminar title: "The reactive cuticle: Alkene oxidation and aldehyde release in poplar leaves"
#CSPB_ERM @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social