Malick Mbengue
@malick-mbengue.bsky.social
50% Plant Physiology Lecturer at University of Toulouse, France.
50% Researcher in Plant-Microbe interactions.
50% Parent.
50% Researcher in Plant-Microbe interactions.
50% Parent.
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1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!
A thread ...
#PlantScience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!
A thread ...
#PlantScience
Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants
Symbioses have been fundamental to colonization of terrestrial ecosystems by plants and their evolution. Emergence of the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis was followed by the diversification o...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!
A thread ...
#PlantScience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!
A thread ...
#PlantScience
Reposted by Malick Mbengue
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
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Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
I wished I could have written something like this. Rude, fun and meaningful.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I wished I could have written something like this. Rude, fun and meaningful.
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So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵
EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway
The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵
I repeat, the Common Signalling pathway for symbiosis is on fire! Kudos to our colleagues from Toulouse 🍄🌿
EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common SymbiosisPathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679610v1
October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I repeat, the Common Signalling pathway for symbiosis is on fire! Kudos to our colleagues from Toulouse 🍄🌿
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EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common SymbiosisPathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679610v1
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common SymbiosisPathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679610v1
The Common Signalling Pathway is on fire ! Kudos to our colleagues from Aarhus.
We’re thrilled to share our latest preprint!
In this study we provide a mechanistic insight into how the protein EPP1 (first identified in Rose et al., 2012) functions in partnership with SYMRK.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study we provide a mechanistic insight into how the protein EPP1 (first identified in Rose et al., 2012) functions in partnership with SYMRK.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
EPP1 couples receptor activation to cytoplasmic signaling in root nodule symbiosis
Legume symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria is controlled by a cascade of signaling events leading to root nodule development. While plant cell-surface receptors initiate this process, the link bet...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Common Signalling Pathway is on fire ! Kudos to our colleagues from Aarhus.
If you like RLKs stories, this one is a great read ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Glycan recognition by a plant sentinel immune receptor
Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...
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October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If you like RLKs stories, this one is a great read ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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💡🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 💡🔬
Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social
Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
💡🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 💡🔬
Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social
Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social
« prestige journals manufacture scarcity like luxury brands—limiting slots, not predicting impact. Science becomes a lottery where tenure is the prize, truth an afterthought » WSJ
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
« prestige journals manufacture scarcity like luxury brands—limiting slots, not predicting impact. Science becomes a lottery where tenure is the prize, truth an afterthought » WSJ
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Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇
Petit livre et texte important. Merci @thomashochmann.bsky.social pour cet éclaircissement
July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Petit livre et texte important. Merci @thomashochmann.bsky.social pour cet éclaircissement
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Happy to share our newest paper fresh from the press. Have a look, how cells prepare to host symbiotic infections. We really appreciate the reviewers comments. Enjoy the microscopy and other experiments by the lead PostDoc Morgane Batzenschlager & collaborators. elifesciences.org/articles/88588
Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula
Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G...
elifesciences.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to share our newest paper fresh from the press. Have a look, how cells prepare to host symbiotic infections. We really appreciate the reviewers comments. Enjoy the microscopy and other experiments by the lead PostDoc Morgane Batzenschlager & collaborators. elifesciences.org/articles/88588
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Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
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As promised, @eveteyssier.bsky.social PhD defense starting now!
If you want to learn about her work, just check her last post!
Go go go Eve!
If you want to learn about her work, just check her last post!
Go go go Eve!
June 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As promised, @eveteyssier.bsky.social PhD defense starting now!
If you want to learn about her work, just check her last post!
Go go go Eve!
If you want to learn about her work, just check her last post!
Go go go Eve!
We have a new PhD in town. Congrat Dr. @eveteyssier.bsky.social. A great talk and a great discussion made a proud supervisor :) Good luck with your future projects!
June 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We have a new PhD in town. Congrat Dr. @eveteyssier.bsky.social. A great talk and a great discussion made a proud supervisor :) Good luck with your future projects!
The timing could not have been better. Congrats Eve!! Another great soon-to-be PhD (H-24) from the @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social
I’m very happy that my main PhD work, under the supervision of @malick-mbengue.bsky.social, found a home in @pnas.org
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
A plant Lysin Motif Receptor-Like Kinase plays an ancestral function in mycorrhiza | PNAS
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) with soilborne Glomeromycota fungi was pivotal in the conquest
of land by plants almost half a billion years ago. In flo...
www.pnas.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The timing could not have been better. Congrats Eve!! Another great soon-to-be PhD (H-24) from the @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social
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I’m very happy that my main PhD work, under the supervision of @malick-mbengue.bsky.social, found a home in @pnas.org
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
A plant Lysin Motif Receptor-Like Kinase plays an ancestral function in mycorrhiza | PNAS
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) with soilborne Glomeromycota fungi was pivotal in the conquest
of land by plants almost half a billion years ago. In flo...
www.pnas.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’m very happy that my main PhD work, under the supervision of @malick-mbengue.bsky.social, found a home in @pnas.org
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
Two days before my PhD defence! 🎉 (1/6)
Without irony, I’d like to thank Reviewer 2 for the support.
May 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Without irony, I’d like to thank Reviewer 2 for the support.
Indeed, a very efficient way to stack up editings in Marchantia!
📜 A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha
🧑🔬 Eftychios Frangedakis, @jmhibberd.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantMethods #PlantEvoDevo #Marchantia #PlantCRISPR
🧑🔬 Eftychios Frangedakis, @jmhibberd.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantMethods #PlantEvoDevo #Marchantia #PlantCRISPR
A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a widely used model organism for studying land plant biology, which has also proven to be a promising testbed for bioengineering. CRISPR/Cas9 technology has emer...
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April 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Indeed, a very efficient way to stack up editings in Marchantia!
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🔗 Preprint alert: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿
Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]
🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿
Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]
Exploring fern pathosystems and immune receptors to bridge gaps in plant immunity
Land plants include angiosperms, bryophytes, lycophytes and ferns, each of which may deploy distinct strategies to resist pathogens. Here, we investigate fern-pathogen interactions by characterizing n...
www.biorxiv.org
March 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🔗 Preprint alert: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿
Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]
🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿
Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]
Reposted by Malick Mbengue
Endophytic #bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the #liverworts Marchantia polymorpha & Radula complanata
New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience
New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience
March 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Endophytic #bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the #liverworts Marchantia polymorpha & Radula complanata
New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience
New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience
Picked up first on BioRXiv. Nice to see this LysM-RLK story published @newphyt.bsky.social ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Medicago truncatula LYR4 intracellular domain serves as a scaffold in immunity signaling independent of its phosphorylation activity
Click on the article title to read more.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Picked up first on BioRXiv. Nice to see this LysM-RLK story published @newphyt.bsky.social ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
PhD day. Where is the speaker ?!? @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
PhD day. Where is the speaker ?!? @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social