Natalia Guayazán Palacios
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Natalia Guayazán Palacios
@nataliagupa.bsky.social
Postdoc @salkinstitute. pattern recognition receptors, small peptides, proteases, and MPMI. Alumnus @UWbiology USDA-NIFA predoctoralfellow, @Uniandes @CienBiolAndes
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I am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667524v1
Now that Im finally here, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @salkinstitute.bsky.social as a postdoc with @lmueller.bsky.social Keep your eyes open for everything AMF symbiosis, peptide biogenesis, and the apoplast!
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I am thrilled to share the peer reviewed version of our work on how the circadian clock gates In11-induced responses to tightly regulate induced antiherbivore responses in legumes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The work from my MSc with @silviarestrepo in collaboration with @dromius.bsky.social is finally out. We used an integrative approach to follow Phytophthora betacei along while infecting tree tomato. This was in my back burner during my Ph.D, and it materialized thanks to @epiplantpath.bsky.social 🥳
Microscopical and molecular characterization of the infection cycle of Phytophthora betacei during disease development on tree tomato (Solanum betaceum). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675658v1
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Microscopical and molecular characterization of the infection cycle of Phytophthora betacei during disease development on tree tomato (Solanum betaceum). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675658v1
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Natalia Guayazán Palacios
More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛

Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I am thrilled to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD with @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social In collaboration with @tiszapatrick we demonstrated that the LRR-RLP INR is the missing molecular link between caterpillar recognition and predatory wasp recruitment in the field. A thread 1/6
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667524v1
August 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Natalia Guayazán Palacios
How do plants detect insect eggs ? 🌱🦋
Our new paper on GLR2.7 and its role in plant defense responses to insect eggs is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social
Big thanks to the Reymond Lab @unil.bsky.social and our collaborators !

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The glutamate receptor‐like GLR2.7 modulates insect egg‐induced defense responses in Arabidopsis
Upon perception of insect eggs, Arabidopsis thaliana activates a generic immune response that culminates in cell death (hypersensitive-like response (HR-like)). While this response can subsequently .....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This will be my closing post for this #2025ISMPMI series. If you're a society member, you have access to ISMPMI rewind and can watch any talk the speaker agreed to have recorded. See you in Jeju, Korea in 2027!
July 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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First, work from Chang-Bao Li and Chuanyou Li (Shandong Ag U) on regulation of SYR1 receptor.

The paralog SYR2 is an induced negative regulator w/ lower binding affinity.

@nataliagupa.bsky.social highlighted that the module is only found in Solanoideae

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We recently wrote two Preview articles of exciting MPMI papers in Mol Cell and Dev Cell.

Two surprising cases showing different ways to regulate immune receptors in plants -- the cell surface LRR-RK, SYR1 and the intracellular NLR DM2

Short summaries below 🧵🌱 #2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Maria Harris closing #2025ISMPMI with the "most important plant-microbe interaction on earth".
CKL1 and CKL2 kinanses locate to the periarbuscular and plasma membranes during AMF symbiosis and their kinase activity is key for regulating downstream lipid biosynthesis.
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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@cornepieterse.bsky.social shows off the incredible automated growth and phenotyping setup with the Hades in vitro root system which “loves microbes”. Incredible throughput.

Link: www.npec.nl/phenotyping-...

#2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Natalia Guayazán Palacios
Stunning talk by Dr. Stella Cesari (PHIM, Univ. Montpellier):
MAX effectors—structurally conserved but sequentially diverse.
Beyond HIPPs, AVR-Pib hits MAPKKKs—key players in plant immunity.

One fold, many targets?

#ISMPMI2025 #MAXeffectors #MAPKKK #PlantImmunity
@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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#2025ISMPMI Benjamin Menn presents an elegant yeast surface displace screen to identify new carbohydrate binding receptors of plants.
July 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Luis Rubio moves us from thinking about engineering against pathogens to engineering for nitrogen fixation.

They moved Nif genes into yeast mitochondria! But can this work in plants? Insolubiluty is the issue.

Screened variants by expressing in N benth - found one. Works in rice too!
#2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"LRRs are slinkys, and slinkys are circles" Thank you math! #2025ISMPMI
Excellent prop work from @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social who brings out a slinky to explain leucine rich repeat regions of proteins.
#2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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#2025ISMPMI Aurelie Rakotondrafara shows very interesting effects of mycovirus infection of Sclerotinia on virulence on the host plant. Take home to use mycoviruses and plant viruses to limit the spread of fungal pathogens.
July 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Po-Yuan Shih on aphid salivary protein Ap4 targeting PsBPL1/2 to increase aphid fecundity on a biotype-specific manner. She also highlights the pain of transient expression on legumes and using our well established N. bethamiana system to get at some mechanism #2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Evans Lagudah taking a global perspective on improving wheat, highlighting CIMMYT’s phenotyping network for wheat.

He calls for the community to use MPMI knowledge more directly to improve crop outcomes.
#2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Last day of #2025ISMPMI begins with Renier van der Hoorn and the amazing work on glycosirin, a bacterial inhibitor of BGAL1 that acts to manipulate plant glycobiology at the apoplast to evade recognition!
July 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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It was a pleasure to present our work on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the #2025ISMPMI congress in Cologne. @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A really nice insect talk by @nataliagupa.bsky.social. #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Simon Kratringer on Proteomics + AF3 for the win to quickly prioritize candidate interactors of plant receptors. A fungal rust cellulase is recognized by the PRR Rphq2 in Barley #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Desalegn Etalo and The WeEVIL legacy: Fusarium TR4 is transmitted from infected females to eggs, perpetuating the disease in African banana fields #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's showtime! Come see me and other amazing colleagues in room P+Q CS: Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interactions starting at 3:15 pm. #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM