Isabelle Fudal
@ifudal.bsky.social
Plant pathologist @inrae-france.bsky.social. Interested in molecular plant–fungi interactions, effectors, epigenetics, and functional genomics. Views are my own.
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Nicolas Lapalu et al. developed a new method to improve the prediction of eukaryotic genes and demonstrate its utility using the genome of the fungal wheat pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-25-0077-TA
February 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Nicolas Lapalu et al. developed a new method to improve the prediction of eukaryotic genes and demonstrate its utility using the genome of the fungal wheat pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-25-0077-TA
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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
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January 30, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
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A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!
It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @inrae-bioger.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to identify #plant #susceptibility factors to #fungal diseases. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply!
January 31, 2026 at 6:35 PM
A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!
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Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n
Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
Plant resistance (R) and pathogen avirulence (Avr) gene interactions are central to pathogen recognition and disease resistance in crops. Functional characterisation of recognised Avr effectors of Puc...
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January 26, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n
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Elza Neau's PhD defence is just starting on 'multiple roads to multidrug resistance in plant pathogenic fungi: the case of Zymoseptoria tritici'. A PhD supervised by Sabine Fillinger and Anaïs Laleve at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and funded by @parissaclay.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Elza Neau's PhD defence is just starting on 'multiple roads to multidrug resistance in plant pathogenic fungi: the case of Zymoseptoria tritici'. A PhD supervised by Sabine Fillinger and Anaïs Laleve at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and funded by @parissaclay.bsky.social
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#TansleyReview: Unraveling complexity in #ClimateChange effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions
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December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#TansleyReview: Unraveling complexity in #ClimateChange effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions
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Congratulation @Camille Rabeau who defended her PhD today on innovative ways to identify new resistance sources to Leptosphaeria maculans in rapeseed. A great co supervision with Audren Jiquel @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and Sébastien Faure @innolea. Good luck Camille with your new position as breeder
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Congratulation @Camille Rabeau who defended her PhD today on innovative ways to identify new resistance sources to Leptosphaeria maculans in rapeseed. A great co supervision with Audren Jiquel @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and Sébastien Faure @innolea. Good luck Camille with your new position as breeder
Now published in Plant Pathology.
'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Now published in Plant Pathology.
'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The first article of Camille Rabeau (CIFRE PhD student @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and @innolea) now on bioRxiv. Camille characterized Leptosphaeria maculans effector genes expressed during stem colonization of rapeseed and identified new resistance sources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conserved 'late' effector genes from Leptosphaeria maculans inducing gene-for-gene quantitative resistance in Brassica napus semi-winter genotypes
Leptosphaeria maculans is a phytopathogenic fungus responsible for stem canker on Brassica napus . Its infectious cycle goes through an early phase of leaf infection and a late phase of colonization a...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The first article of Camille Rabeau (CIFRE PhD student @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and @innolea) now on bioRxiv. Camille characterized Leptosphaeria maculans effector genes expressed during stem colonization of rapeseed and identified new resistance sources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms!
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We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
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We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms!
rdcu.be/eG3vP
We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
rdcu.be/eG3vP
We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
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1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
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Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free!
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Current issue: Current Biology
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June 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free!
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#SFP2025 Anne Genissel from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the evolution of plasticity of Zymoseptoria tritici
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#SFP2025 Anne Genissel from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the evolution of plasticity of Zymoseptoria tritici
#SFP2025 Amandine Le Ruyet from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the mode of action of a biocontrol molecule, the 4PBA
May 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#SFP2025 Amandine Le Ruyet from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the mode of action of a biocontrol molecule, the 4PBA
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Current methods for profiling #HistoneModifications require cell isolation & don't work with all tissue types. @jellevda.bsky.social &co adapt Targeted DamID (TaDa) to profile cell-type-specific #histone marks throughout the genome, in vivo, without cell isolation 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Dw8sUD
March 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Current methods for profiling #HistoneModifications require cell isolation & don't work with all tissue types. @jellevda.bsky.social &co adapt Targeted DamID (TaDa) to profile cell-type-specific #histone marks throughout the genome, in vivo, without cell isolation 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Dw8sUD
Stand up for Science
March 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Really strong candidate for the coolest story of the year (I know it’s still just march)!!! Kudos @svenklumpe.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social & all involved 👏
Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?
March 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Really strong candidate for the coolest story of the year (I know it’s still just march)!!! Kudos @svenklumpe.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social & all involved 👏
Have a look at the EPLM team posters today at #ECFG17 on the regulation of Leptosphaeria maculans effector gene expression (P2.409) and on the identification of rapeseed resistances triggered by late effectors (P2.138).
March 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Have a look at the EPLM team posters today at #ECFG17 on the regulation of Leptosphaeria maculans effector gene expression (P2.409) and on the identification of rapeseed resistances triggered by late effectors (P2.138).
@INRAE_Bioger is well represented at the #ECFG17. See oral presentations CS1.3.7 and CS1.7.2 this afternoon, and posters P2.138 and P2.409 tomorrow.
March 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@INRAE_Bioger is well represented at the #ECFG17. See oral presentations CS1.3.7 and CS1.7.2 this afternoon, and posters P2.138 and P2.409 tomorrow.
@inrae-bioger.bsky.social is ready for a great @ecfg172025.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@inrae-bioger.bsky.social is ready for a great @ecfg172025.bsky.social
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New Publication: Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) |
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February 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New Publication: Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) |
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Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Molecular investigation of Rlm3 from rapeseed as a broad-spectrum resistance gene against fungal pathogens producing structurally conserved effectors
Recognition of a pathogen avirulence (AVR) effector protein by its cognate plant resistance (R) protein triggers immune responses that render the plant resistant, representing an efficient disease con...
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February 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...