Sebastien Massart
@be-phytopath.bsky.social
Professor @UniversiteLiege & GHU manager @BiovIntCIAT_eng
Plant pathologist focusing in diagnostics, plant viruses and microbiome.
Plant pathologist focusing in diagnostics, plant viruses and microbiome.
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📖 Have you seen last month's reporting service is online? Read about the latest phytosanitary updates for the EPPO region in October's reporting service.
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📖 Have you seen last month's reporting service is online? Read about the latest phytosanitary updates for the EPPO region in October's reporting service.
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
🌍 Interested in the EPPO Jens Georg-Unger Plant Health fellowship but unsure what you could do?
📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...
‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd
📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...
‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd
June 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🌍 Interested in the EPPO Jens Georg-Unger Plant Health fellowship but unsure what you could do?
📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...
‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd
📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...
‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
At EPPO we are wishing our member countries a Happy International Day of Plant Health 🌱🎉
See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs
#PlantHealthDay
See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs
#PlantHealthDay
EPPO is celebrating International Day of Plant Health 2025
YouTube video by OEPP / EPPO
youtu.be
May 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
At EPPO we are wishing our member countries a Happy International Day of Plant Health 🌱🎉
See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs
#PlantHealthDay
See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs
#PlantHealthDay
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
🆕 The latest EPPO Bulletin is now online!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338...
🔓 Many articles are now free to read!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338...
🔓 Many articles are now free to read!
April 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🆕 The latest EPPO Bulletin is now online!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338...
🔓 Many articles are now free to read!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338...
🔓 Many articles are now free to read!
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
April 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
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🎥 Now Online!
🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus:
Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public
🎬 Missed it live?
📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L
📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs
🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus:
Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public
🎬 Missed it live?
📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L
📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs
April 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🎥 Now Online!
🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus:
Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public
🎬 Missed it live?
📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L
📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs
🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus:
Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public
🎬 Missed it live?
📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L
📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs
Job alert for plant virologists (please share it)
We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium.
Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations.
All information in attachement
We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium.
Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations.
All information in attachement
April 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Job alert for plant virologists (please share it)
We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium.
Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations.
All information in attachement
We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium.
Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations.
All information in attachement
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
Join our short course on High Throughput Sequencing starting May 13. Learn sequencing technologies, data analysis, and experimental design. Attend live or watch recordings.
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Join our short course on High Throughput Sequencing starting May 13. Learn sequencing technologies, data analysis, and experimental design. Attend live or watch recordings.
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses
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Another great paper in the Phytovirome special issue! Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal
The epidemiological relationship between arthropod dispersal and plant communities is poorly understood at the landscape level. We investigated the connectivity of natural and cultivated plants in vin...
apsjournals.apsnet.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Another great paper in the Phytovirome special issue! Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10..... Schönegger et al. (2025) found that wild carrots harbored a greater diversity of virus taxa relative to farmed carrots and documented key differences in the virus communities of each host type.
The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal
apsjournals.apsnet.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10..... Schönegger et al. (2025) found that wild carrots harbored a greater diversity of virus taxa relative to farmed carrots and documented key differences in the virus communities of each host type.
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
Short read sequencing
April 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Short read sequencing
Genetic diversity of virus isolates can be amazing!
… but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀
… but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀
April 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Genetic diversity of virus isolates can be amazing!
… but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀
… but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀
It is time for our annual meeting of Germplasm Health Units @cgiar.org genebanks at Icrisat
Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.
Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is time for our annual meeting of Germplasm Health Units @cgiar.org genebanks at Icrisat
Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.
Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
From Phytobiomes Journal: The phytovirome expands our view of viruses as drivers of plant health, ecology, and evolution. New HTS insights span crops to wild systems.(Joanne B. Emerson)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #PlantScience
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #PlantScience
The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal
apsjournals.apsnet.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
From Phytobiomes Journal: The phytovirome expands our view of viruses as drivers of plant health, ecology, and evolution. New HTS insights span crops to wild systems.(Joanne B. Emerson)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #PlantScience
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #PlantScience
Training week on library preparation by Lavena and Lisa for Sri from @incavirus.bsky.social and Fran & Maaike from ILVO.
#virus #planthealth #sequencing
Which viruses will we harvest ?
#virus #planthealth #sequencing
Which viruses will we harvest ?
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Training week on library preparation by Lavena and Lisa for Sri from @incavirus.bsky.social and Fran & Maaike from ILVO.
#virus #planthealth #sequencing
Which viruses will we harvest ?
#virus #planthealth #sequencing
Which viruses will we harvest ?
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
A French scientist was denied entry to the U.S. for private messages criticizing Trump.
Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐
#FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐
#FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A French scientist was denied entry to the U.S. for private messages criticizing Trump.
Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐
#FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐
#FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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[ #phimscience ] 🎯 Discover all the potential of our new #RCA sequencing #diagnostic with #OxfordNanoporeTechnology #cassava #ACMV #fababean #FBNSV 💻🧬🦠 @cirad.bsky.social #WAVE #UFHB
Improvement of Nanopore sequencing provides access to high quality genomic data for multi-component CRESS-DNA plant viruses - Virology Journal
Background Faced with the recrudescence of viral CRESS-DNA plant diseases, the availability of efficient and cost-effective tools for routine diagnosis and genomic characterisation is vital. As these ...
virologyj.biomedcentral.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
[ #phimscience ] 🎯 Discover all the potential of our new #RCA sequencing #diagnostic with #OxfordNanoporeTechnology #cassava #ACMV #fababean #FBNSV 💻🧬🦠 @cirad.bsky.social #WAVE #UFHB
Virome scanning of pear germplasm collection: check our new publication in Phytobiome from @plantdisease.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...
With a new velarivirus characterized
#planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing
doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...
With a new velarivirus characterized
#planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing
Virome Scanning of Pear Germplasm Collections Identifies a New Velarivirus and Extends the Geographical Spread of Three Other Pear Viruses | Phytobiomes Journal
In this study, an extensive virome investigation was performed on a germplasm collection of pear trees (Pyrus communis L.) from the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Gembloux, Belgium). In total, ...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Virome scanning of pear germplasm collection: check our new publication in Phytobiome from @plantdisease.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...
With a new velarivirus characterized
#planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing
doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...
With a new velarivirus characterized
#planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing
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Retraction @plosone.org - paper with authors from Ghent University.
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Retraction @plosone.org - paper with authors from Ghent University.
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
Let’s hear it for the UnEssay - two of my favorite things, plant pathogens & board games.
Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual).
🎲 🧪
Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual).
🎲 🧪
March 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Let’s hear it for the UnEssay - two of my favorite things, plant pathogens & board games.
Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual).
🎲 🧪
Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual).
🎲 🧪
We just published a small appetizer from a large scale virome survey of saffron in Iran with Iranian colleagues: doi.org/10.1002/ndr2...
A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species.
Global virome picture will follow
#plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing
A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species.
Global virome picture will follow
#plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing
March 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We just published a small appetizer from a large scale virome survey of saffron in Iran with Iranian colleagues: doi.org/10.1002/ndr2...
A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species.
Global virome picture will follow
#plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing
A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species.
Global virome picture will follow
#plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing
Reposted by Sebastien Massart
With Twitter down, perfect time to welcome all the Plant Virologists out there to follow your colleagues and join our Starter Pack!
🧪
go.bsky.app/426v1X8
🧪
go.bsky.app/426v1X8
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
With Twitter down, perfect time to welcome all the Plant Virologists out there to follow your colleagues and join our Starter Pack!
🧪
go.bsky.app/426v1X8
🧪
go.bsky.app/426v1X8
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📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
How can I react in my job from insane behavior of Trump ?
Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)?
Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications?
Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end.
Any other idea ?
Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)?
Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications?
Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end.
Any other idea ?
March 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
How can I react in my job from insane behavior of Trump ?
Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)?
Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications?
Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end.
Any other idea ?
Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)?
Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications?
Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end.
Any other idea ?