Athira Nair
@athiramohandasnair.bsky.social
Ph D scholar at BRIC-NIPGR #INSPIRE Fellow
Molecular Plant -Microbe/ Pathogen interaction,Calcium Signalling, Plant Immunity,Auxin Signaling, Effectors, PPIs, Arabidopsis, Wheat, Defense Physiology, Rhizosphere, Transcriptomics
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Molecular Plant -Microbe/ Pathogen interaction,Calcium Signalling, Plant Immunity,Auxin Signaling, Effectors, PPIs, Arabidopsis, Wheat, Defense Physiology, Rhizosphere, Transcriptomics
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Check out our new pre print here that uncover the role of plant sugar transporters in sustaining S. indica (fondly called as Piri) endosymbiosis in roots!!!
Arabidopsis SWEET12 regulates sugar allocation and defense responses to sustain beneficial association with Serendipita indica in roots https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679152v1
October 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Check out our new pre print here that uncover the role of plant sugar transporters in sustaining S. indica (fondly called as Piri) endosymbiosis in roots!!!
Reposted by Athira Nair
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...
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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
Reposted by Athira Nair
Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.
August 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.
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Two more articles in our series on 'Scientific mobility in microbiology' are online now.
Read @edelplopez.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's mobility-related experiences and their insights here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY,L%7E... & authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY_,2Ci...
Read @edelplopez.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's mobility-related experiences and their insights here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY,L%7E... & authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY_,2Ci...
July 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Two more articles in our series on 'Scientific mobility in microbiology' are online now.
Read @edelplopez.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's mobility-related experiences and their insights here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY,L%7E... & authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY_,2Ci...
Read @edelplopez.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's mobility-related experiences and their insights here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY,L%7E... & authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY_,2Ci...
Reposted by Athira Nair
New @ISMPMI Board Members #DreamTeam 😍 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇦 🇦🇷 🇩🇪 🇰🇪
July 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New @ISMPMI Board Members #DreamTeam 😍 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇦 🇦🇷 🇩🇪 🇰🇪
Reposted by Athira Nair
Definitely worth a read.
Big thanks to @KamounLab for highlighting key messages! 🙌
Helped us see more clearly how science should be done—beyond journals and impact factors.
Thanks again @Edel_PLopez for your insights 🙏.
Big thanks to @KamounLab for highlighting key messages! 🙌
Helped us see more clearly how science should be done—beyond journals and impact factors.
Thanks again @Edel_PLopez for your insights 🙏.
I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a scientific Congress called for better support of early-career scientists — but what followed sent mixed signals…
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Definitely worth a read.
Big thanks to @KamounLab for highlighting key messages! 🙌
Helped us see more clearly how science should be done—beyond journals and impact factors.
Thanks again @Edel_PLopez for your insights 🙏.
Big thanks to @KamounLab for highlighting key messages! 🙌
Helped us see more clearly how science should be done—beyond journals and impact factors.
Thanks again @Edel_PLopez for your insights 🙏.
Reposted by Athira Nair
Jones and Dangl” lock — what are the odds? Jeff says he doesn’t know about it. Whether it’s “JJ” @jonathandgjones.bsky.social or someone else, it’s a fitting tribute to the duo that gave us the zigzag model back in 2001. Jeff got this pic from @derekseveri.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI #PlantImmunity
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Jones and Dangl” lock — what are the odds? Jeff says he doesn’t know about it. Whether it’s “JJ” @jonathandgjones.bsky.social or someone else, it’s a fitting tribute to the duo that gave us the zigzag model back in 2001. Jeff got this pic from @derekseveri.bsky.social #2025ISMPMI #PlantImmunity
At the end of 3rd day at #ISMPMI2025 , it's been around 60 talks, about 400 posters, a lot of science and a great community of science enthusiasts... Stay tuned for second poster session and rest of the congress
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
At the end of 3rd day at #ISMPMI2025 , it's been around 60 talks, about 400 posters, a lot of science and a great community of science enthusiasts... Stay tuned for second poster session and rest of the congress
Reposted by Athira Nair
Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Reposted by Athira Nair
Full room for @keehoonsohn.bsky.social presentation #2025ismpmi
July 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Full room for @keehoonsohn.bsky.social presentation #2025ismpmi
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Excellent stories and beautiful microscopy today from Sebastian Schornack and Uta Paszkowski #2025MPMI. On the topic of strategies of microbial colonization, chaired by Armin Djamei and Amey Redkar.
July 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Excellent stories and beautiful microscopy today from Sebastian Schornack and Uta Paszkowski #2025MPMI. On the topic of strategies of microbial colonization, chaired by Armin Djamei and Amey Redkar.
Reposted by Athira Nair
#2025ISMPMI Hailin Jin gives a plenary how cross kingdom RNAi has been found across all kind of organismic interactions.
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#2025ISMPMI Hailin Jin gives a plenary how cross kingdom RNAi has been found across all kind of organismic interactions.
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