Unnati Sonawala
@uprogress.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @camplantsci.bsky.social | Co-founder youngnematologists.net | Interested in genetics, plant-microbe interactions, & evolution.
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Absolutely excited for #VNC25 tomorrow! Featuring talks from ECRs, 2 workshops, a murder mystery, and a pub with games. We are excited to have registrations from 55 countries! If you are interested in joining the YNN board, come along to our info session from 16:00-16:25 CET.
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Absolutely excited for #VNC25 tomorrow! Featuring talks from ECRs, 2 workshops, a murder mystery, and a pub with games. We are excited to have registrations from 55 countries! If you are interested in joining the YNN board, come along to our info session from 16:00-16:25 CET.
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How does a single plant cell tell symbiont from pathogen?
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature
An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How does a single plant cell tell symbiont from pathogen?
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Genomics and Effectoromics!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
September 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Don't forget to register! Join us for an exciting Trends in Nematology Webinar next month!
We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Genomics and Effectoromics!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
August 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Don't forget to register! Join us for an exciting Trends in Nematology Webinar next month!
The environmental component of the disease triangle in spotlight here! Grow maize densely --> they produce more linalool --> reshapes rhizosphere --> plants are more resistant to pathogens but at a cost: reduced biomass.
Out in @science.org The crazy sequence of events from planting maize in dense fields. Density-dependent linalool release triggers release of compounds into the soil affecting microbes and plants.
Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings
High planting density boosts crop yields but also heightens pest and pathogen risks. How plants adapt their defenses under these conditions remains unclear. In this study, we reveal that maize enhance...
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The environmental component of the disease triangle in spotlight here! Grow maize densely --> they produce more linalool --> reshapes rhizosphere --> plants are more resistant to pathogens but at a cost: reduced biomass.
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🆕 paper out in Nitrogen
💡 This review highlights the importance of legumes in tropical farming and covers major diseases affecting productivity and their impact on the economy and the environment, including #nematodes
🔎 Read the full paper at doi.org/10.3390/nitr...
💡 This review highlights the importance of legumes in tropical farming and covers major diseases affecting productivity and their impact on the economy and the environment, including #nematodes
🔎 Read the full paper at doi.org/10.3390/nitr...
August 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🆕 paper out in Nitrogen
💡 This review highlights the importance of legumes in tropical farming and covers major diseases affecting productivity and their impact on the economy and the environment, including #nematodes
🔎 Read the full paper at doi.org/10.3390/nitr...
💡 This review highlights the importance of legumes in tropical farming and covers major diseases affecting productivity and their impact on the economy and the environment, including #nematodes
🔎 Read the full paper at doi.org/10.3390/nitr...
Registrations are open for our exciting webinar next month!
We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Genomics and Effectoromics!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
When: 18th September, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST
How can I join: Register using the QR code below 🪱
Looking forward to seeing you there!
August 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Registrations are open for our exciting webinar next month!
The Marchantia mRNA decapping protein MpEDC4 also functions in P-body turnover via autophagy, a dual role absent in Arabidopsis and human orthologs. Strikingly, when expressed in human cells, MpEDC4 promotes degradation of Parkinson’s-linked α-synuclein. Some truly fascinating evolutionary biology!
Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recyclingin the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.09.669463v1
August 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Marchantia mRNA decapping protein MpEDC4 also functions in P-body turnover via autophagy, a dual role absent in Arabidopsis and human orthologs. Strikingly, when expressed in human cells, MpEDC4 promotes degradation of Parkinson’s-linked α-synuclein. Some truly fascinating evolutionary biology!
Interspecific hybridization was key to tuberization. Thank you hybrid speciation for the world's 5th most important food crop 🥔
Potato evolved from tomato 9 million years ago. http://dlvr.it/TMFCK8
Sandra Knapp, Loren H. Rieseberg,Jianquan Liu, Sanwen Huang
@cp-cell.bsky.social
Sandra Knapp, Loren H. Rieseberg,Jianquan Liu, Sanwen Huang
@cp-cell.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Interspecific hybridization was key to tuberization. Thank you hybrid speciation for the world's 5th most important food crop 🥔
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How do enhancer-gene contacts relate to transcription activation? In mouse embryonic stem cells, a combo of STED, oligoFISH & RNA FISH shows that 3% of Dppa3 alleles transcribe. For these, enhancers and promoters come closer (panel E). Stumberger ... Leonhardt & Harz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
How do enhancer-gene contacts relate to transcription activation? In mouse embryonic stem cells, a combo of STED, oligoFISH & RNA FISH shows that 3% of Dppa3 alleles transcribe. For these, enhancers and promoters come closer (panel E). Stumberger ... Leonhardt & Harz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Just the tip of the iceberg...more to come on this topic!
Congratulations to Laura Mancera-Miranda for her first scientific paper, and best of luck for her upcoming PhD dissertation defence!
doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...
Congratulations to Laura Mancera-Miranda for her first scientific paper, and best of luck for her upcoming PhD dissertation defence!
doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...
July 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just the tip of the iceberg...more to come on this topic!
Congratulations to Laura Mancera-Miranda for her first scientific paper, and best of luck for her upcoming PhD dissertation defence!
doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...
Congratulations to Laura Mancera-Miranda for her first scientific paper, and best of luck for her upcoming PhD dissertation defence!
doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...
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TODAY. 15:15 @ Room P&Q #2025ISMPMI
#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
July 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
TODAY. 15:15 @ Room P&Q #2025ISMPMI
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Please don't miss it! A great session on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions, hosted by @uprogress.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Many attractive talks, including our latest research presented by @crbeuzon.bsky.social
#ISMPMI2025 #MicroSky #PlantScience
#ISMPMI2025 #MicroSky #PlantScience
TODAY. 15:15 @ Room P&Q #2025ISMPMI
#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
July 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Please don't miss it! A great session on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions, hosted by @uprogress.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Many attractive talks, including our latest research presented by @crbeuzon.bsky.social
#ISMPMI2025 #MicroSky #PlantScience
#ISMPMI2025 #MicroSky #PlantScience
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In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
doi.org
July 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...
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We lost a Grangle family member, a friend, and a visionary scientist. “A note from Jeff Dangl: John McDowell was a former MPMI Editor and great membr of our community and that it is apt that his memory be recognized at the current #2025ISMPMI
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John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
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July 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We lost a Grangle family member, a friend, and a visionary scientist. “A note from Jeff Dangl: John McDowell was a former MPMI Editor and great membr of our community and that it is apt that his memory be recognized at the current #2025ISMPMI
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🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists:
Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉
If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract.
Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z
⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!
Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉
If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract.
Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z
⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!
July 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists:
Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉
If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract.
Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z
⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!
Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉
If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract.
Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z
⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!
Mark you calendars! We are back this November #VNC2025
🚀 Registration for VNC 2025 opens on July 10, 2025!
🔬 Submit your abstract and showcase your research in a vibrant, supportive environment.
📅 Save the date! More info on the 10th!
🔬 Submit your abstract and showcase your research in a vibrant, supportive environment.
📅 Save the date! More info on the 10th!
July 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Mark you calendars! We are back this November #VNC2025
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Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.28.662111v1
July 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️
With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼
#openscience @erc.europa.eu
My sister is finishing her endocrinology residency (proud sister moment 😎). Instead of wrestling with Word to write equations for her thesis, I offered to help with LaTeX. Writing in LaTeX is one of the most rewarding things I’ve taught myself, but this might be its shiniest use yet! #LaTeX
June 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My sister is finishing her endocrinology residency (proud sister moment 😎). Instead of wrestling with Word to write equations for her thesis, I offered to help with LaTeX. Writing in LaTeX is one of the most rewarding things I’ve taught myself, but this might be its shiniest use yet! #LaTeX
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#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
June 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Reposted by Unnati Sonawala
🌐 Online symposium of the Society of Nematologists
📌 "#Nematodes on the move: building resilience and sustainability through international collaboration and better policies"
🔎 Program available at drive.google.com/drive/folder...
📥 Register here 👉 iica.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📌 "#Nematodes on the move: building resilience and sustainability through international collaboration and better policies"
🔎 Program available at drive.google.com/drive/folder...
📥 Register here 👉 iica.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
June 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🌐 Online symposium of the Society of Nematologists
📌 "#Nematodes on the move: building resilience and sustainability through international collaboration and better policies"
🔎 Program available at drive.google.com/drive/folder...
📥 Register here 👉 iica.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📌 "#Nematodes on the move: building resilience and sustainability through international collaboration and better policies"
🔎 Program available at drive.google.com/drive/folder...
📥 Register here 👉 iica.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Very glad to have won one of the Postdoc Innovation Awards and excited to see the final outcome. Stay tuned!
Unnati Sonawala talks about her work setting the stage for large-scale nematode effector screening in tomato roots.
Her project was a pilot in our new Postdoc Innovation Awards launched in 2024.
👉 tinyurl.com/ykc6ckee
@uprogress.bsky.social
@cropscicentre.bsky.social
#PlantScience 🧪
Her project was a pilot in our new Postdoc Innovation Awards launched in 2024.
👉 tinyurl.com/ykc6ckee
@uprogress.bsky.social
@cropscicentre.bsky.social
#PlantScience 🧪
May 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Very glad to have won one of the Postdoc Innovation Awards and excited to see the final outcome. Stay tuned!
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🌲 In just 90 seconds, I distill the relevance and impact of my PhD
▶️ Watch the full video 👉 youtu.be/lLtgd9EE1nw?...
#PinewoodNematode #PineWiltDisease #Esteya #Biocontrol
▶️ Watch the full video 👉 youtu.be/lLtgd9EE1nw?...
#PinewoodNematode #PineWiltDisease #Esteya #Biocontrol
April 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🌲 In just 90 seconds, I distill the relevance and impact of my PhD
▶️ Watch the full video 👉 youtu.be/lLtgd9EE1nw?...
#PinewoodNematode #PineWiltDisease #Esteya #Biocontrol
▶️ Watch the full video 👉 youtu.be/lLtgd9EE1nw?...
#PinewoodNematode #PineWiltDisease #Esteya #Biocontrol
Reposted by Unnati Sonawala
2 papers in @science.org this week uncover wheat tandem kinase function. Working in parallel, the authors of each paper show that two different tandem kinases converge to activate the same NLR!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
A wheat tandem kinase activates an NLR to trigger immunity
The role of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors in plant immunity is well studied, but the function of a class of tandem kinases (TKs) that confer disease resistance in wheat and ba...
www.science.org
March 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
2 papers in @science.org this week uncover wheat tandem kinase function. Working in parallel, the authors of each paper show that two different tandem kinases converge to activate the same NLR!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 4th of April! Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the PPN mini-symposium at the Hydra Helminths conference this September 🗒️🌱
Registrations are now open for Parasitic Helminths 2025! helminthconference.org
and for the very first time will host a special mini-symposium on Plant-Parasitic Nematodes 😍🌱🪱
Hope you will join us!
and for the very first time will host a special mini-symposium on Plant-Parasitic Nematodes 😍🌱🪱
Hope you will join us!
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 4th of April! Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the PPN mini-symposium at the Hydra Helminths conference this September 🗒️🌱