Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza
@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social
Plant biologist interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions, among many other things. PI of the MoRE lab at CRAG (Barcelona,Spain), opinions are my own.
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Thrilled to share our study @NatureComm, in collaboration with Denis Kuntjak, on the conservation of the molecular interface between plant and viruses!, we contribute the first comparative study including the non-vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We have today @cragenomica.bsky.social Michael Holdsworth @n-end-rules.bsky.social sharing with us the latest cooking at his lab about proteostatic regulation
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We have today @cragenomica.bsky.social Michael Holdsworth @n-end-rules.bsky.social sharing with us the latest cooking at his lab about proteostatic regulation
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
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www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
#plantjob If you are interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and have a PhD degree obtained between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, come join us and apply to the "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contracts!. Drop a mail with your CV + motivation letter!
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#plantjob If you are interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and have a PhD degree obtained between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, come join us and apply to the "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contracts!. Drop a mail with your CV + motivation letter!
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Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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jobportal.uni-koeln.de
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
We are very lucky to day @cragenomica.bsky.social for having @grandpahiro.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social sharing with us his fantastic science revolving about the diversificarion of plant immune systems.
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are very lucky to day @cragenomica.bsky.social for having @grandpahiro.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social sharing with us his fantastic science revolving about the diversificarion of plant immune systems.
Very nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social
showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Very nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social
showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway
The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years (Delaux and Schornack 2021). Because of their intracellular nature, the est...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I was very lucky to have the chance to organize what it turned to be a fantastic workshop last ICAR2025 with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and two talented ECRs, Katarina and Hantao, including very exciting talks. You can find a nice summary of what happened in this blogspot!
Back in June at ICAR2025, @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social and I organised a Workshop, where we invited ECRs Hantao Zhang and Katarína Heldesová with travel support to co-organise. Here’s their blog post reflecting on the session & their experience—check it out! plantae.org/icar2025-wor...
ICAR2025 Workshop | Plantae
At the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2025) in Ghent, the workshop “Resolving Heterogeneity in Plants with Imaging and Omics” brought together researchers from across the world…
plantae.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I was very lucky to have the chance to organize what it turned to be a fantastic workshop last ICAR2025 with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and two talented ECRs, Katarina and Hantao, including very exciting talks. You can find a nice summary of what happened in this blogspot!
And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational
genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification
of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
If you happen to be at #ICAR2025 you can not miss this workshop in which I will be sharing the stage with really amazing colleagues to talk about antiviral immunity!
#PlantScience I will be talking about evolution of plant development and antiviral immunity #ICAR2025 along with amazing colleagues!, come join us on Friday 20th! @cragenomica.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If you happen to be at #ICAR2025 you can not miss this workshop in which I will be sharing the stage with really amazing colleagues to talk about antiviral immunity!
#ICAR2025 we start with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social introducing our workshop, let's the fun begin!
June 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#ICAR2025 we start with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social introducing our workshop, let's the fun begin!
Congrats on the @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social award for dissemination to @natanellae.bsky.social ! Well deserved!
June 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Congrats on the @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social award for dissemination to @natanellae.bsky.social ! Well deserved!
Tomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
June 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tomorrow at #ICAR2025!, don't miss it!
How cool is that!, bacterial canibalism to cope with hard times!
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
www.science.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
How cool is that!, bacterial canibalism to cope with hard times!
#PlantScience I will be talking about evolution of plant development and antiviral immunity #ICAR2025 along with amazing colleagues!, come join us on Friday 20th! @cragenomica.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#PlantScience I will be talking about evolution of plant development and antiviral immunity #ICAR2025 along with amazing colleagues!, come join us on Friday 20th! @cragenomica.bsky.social
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
June 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang
Happy to attend a seminar by Eric Schranz from @w-u-r.bsky.social talking about his work on rice genomics
June 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Happy to attend a seminar by Eric Schranz from @w-u-r.bsky.social talking about his work on rice genomics
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Join this exciting #ICAR2025 workshop on plant heterogeneity and novel imaging/sequencing tools, with an excellent speaker lineup you won’t want to miss!
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Join this exciting #ICAR2025 workshop on plant heterogeneity and novel imaging/sequencing tools, with an excellent speaker lineup you won’t want to miss!
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@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social
@cragenomica.bsky.social
is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies
@cragenomica.bsky.social
is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies
June 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
@ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social
@cragenomica.bsky.social
is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies
@cragenomica.bsky.social
is our first speaker telling us how acquisition of developmental innovations impacts on the evolution of plant immunity programs and pathogen infective strategies
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Exciting!, the second EvoDevoSigNet meeting will take place next June 2nd to 4th!, come join us for the talks and networking for free (details in the advertisement!!), supported by @cienciagob.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Exciting!, the second EvoDevoSigNet meeting will take place next June 2nd to 4th!, come join us for the talks and networking for free (details in the advertisement!!), supported by @cienciagob.bsky.social
Did you know that plant species that pioneer land colonization, such as the bryophyte M. polymorpha, are infected by RNA viruses and show similar/dissimilar antiviral defense programs to those found in crops and other vascular plants?. Check out our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Conservation of molecular responses upon viral infection in the non-vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha - Nature Communications
Assessment of the evolution of plant-virus interactions suggests rapid reshaping of plant viromes after land colonization, along with rerouting of general defense responses to newly acquired vascular ...
www.nature.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Did you know that plant species that pioneer land colonization, such as the bryophyte M. polymorpha, are infected by RNA viruses and show similar/dissimilar antiviral defense programs to those found in crops and other vascular plants?. Check out our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really happy to attend to a seminar by the one and only @brunocontrerasm.bsky.social telling about his work on discovering regulatory sequences
April 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Really happy to attend to a seminar by the one and only @brunocontrerasm.bsky.social telling about his work on discovering regulatory sequences
Conservation of the role of the SERK-BIR module in Marchantia polymorpha. Nice tour de force from @grandpahiro.bsky.social et col @currentbiology.bsky.social !
April 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Conservation of the role of the SERK-BIR module in Marchantia polymorpha. Nice tour de force from @grandpahiro.bsky.social et col @currentbiology.bsky.social !
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Our work on cryptic infection of giant viruses was published today in
@ScienceMagazine
. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions.
Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami
& NIOZ scientists.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ScienceMagazine
. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions.
Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami
& NIOZ scientists.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga
Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant viruses remains unknown. Here we describe a 617 kbp integrated giant viral element in the model green alga C...
www.science.org
April 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our work on cryptic infection of giant viruses was published today in
@ScienceMagazine
. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions.
Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami
& NIOZ scientists.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ScienceMagazine
. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions.
Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami
& NIOZ scientists.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...