Remco Stam
@rstam.bsky.social
Professor of Phytopathology | Kiel University
| Crop wild relatives and their pathogens | Likes quantitative and qualitative resistance mechanisms & popgen
| Crop wild relatives and their pathogens | Likes quantitative and qualitative resistance mechanisms & popgen
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Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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"Hey boss, I have some stock photos here for the article that shows that longer walks beat several shorter walks. Which one do you want?"
"Uh, good, just whichever one is on top"
"I dunno, this one has a guy with a walker taking his pony..."
"I said WHICHEVER ONE IS ON TOP."
"Uh, good, just whichever one is on top"
"I dunno, this one has a guy with a walker taking his pony..."
"I said WHICHEVER ONE IS ON TOP."
Accumulating daily steps in longer bouts of walking is better for the heart than taking multiple short walks
go.nature.com/47LvbXE
go.nature.com/47LvbXE
Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health
Nature - People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Hey boss, I have some stock photos here for the article that shows that longer walks beat several shorter walks. Which one do you want?"
"Uh, good, just whichever one is on top"
"I dunno, this one has a guy with a walker taking his pony..."
"I said WHICHEVER ONE IS ON TOP."
"Uh, good, just whichever one is on top"
"I dunno, this one has a guy with a walker taking his pony..."
"I said WHICHEVER ONE IS ON TOP."
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Applications due by Dec. 1
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Applications due by Dec. 1
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Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
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Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
journals.plos.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
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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 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
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 😊
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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...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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...
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"Additionally, the author stated that they have used AI tools for generating some images, including Fig. 1."
Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Additionally, the author stated that they have used AI tools for generating some images, including Fig. 1."
Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The main value added by the publication is ostensibly the peer review and editorial curation process. If this sort of thing is passing review, what is the journal even for? How is subscribing to this journal any better than monitoring a preprints feed? Subscribers should demand their money back.
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The main value added by the publication is ostensibly the peer review and editorial curation process. If this sort of thing is passing review, what is the journal even for? How is subscribing to this journal any better than monitoring a preprints feed? Subscribers should demand their money back.
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Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens?
Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:-
🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1
Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org
& Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:-
🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1
Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org
& Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens?
Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:-
🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1
Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org
& Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:-
🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1
Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org
& Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
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Good morning, sleepyhead. You asked me to remind you that your thesis won’t write itself, no matter how long you hide under the duvet.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Good morning, sleepyhead. You asked me to remind you that your thesis won’t write itself, no matter how long you hide under the duvet.
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Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist.
»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...
»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...
Meeresbiologe Froese - „Den Dorsch haben wir verloren“
Der Ostsee-Dorsch ist vom Aussterben bedroht: Meeresbiologe Froese warnt, doch trotz gefährdeter Bestände gibt es Widerstand gegen strengere Fangquoten.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist.
»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...
»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...
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I guess it’s testament to the vanity of scientists that the “Nature Scientific Reports” trick worked so well on us.
Scientific Reports meanwhile on course to publish 40K papers = >$100M pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Scie...
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I guess it’s testament to the vanity of scientists that the “Nature Scientific Reports” trick worked so well on us.
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Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu...
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu...
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
We finally managed to take a lab picture! The last one was almost 2 years old. I'm so grateful to work with this amazing bunch of people!
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We finally managed to take a lab picture! The last one was almost 2 years old. I'm so grateful to work with this amazing bunch of people!
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NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
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Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
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Interesting post (and discussion in thread below....)
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Interesting post (and discussion in thread below....)
Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen
Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
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Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv
Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping
Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv
I had a couple of great days at our first @plantscochallenge.bsky.social annual meeting. Inspiring to discuss diverse aspects of multiple stress responses with colleagues from other parts of the plant sciences
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
Big thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social for organising.
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
Big thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social for organising.
www.uni-kiel.de
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I had a couple of great days at our first @plantscochallenge.bsky.social annual meeting. Inspiring to discuss diverse aspects of multiple stress responses with colleagues from other parts of the plant sciences
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
Big thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social for organising.
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
Big thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social for organising.
Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen
Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!