We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀

Polka-dotted Arabidopsis in Yayoi Kusama style #artandscience

6) It was super fun to work on this study together with co-authors @mpaauw.bsky.social W.Schravesande @nwtaks.bsky.social M.Rep @havandenburg.bsky.social. Friday afternoon projects pay off 😜 /7

4) The CRISPR-Cas locus was replaced with the effector XopN in Xcc. We speculate that XopN provided an immediate advantage for host infection and the concomitant loss of CRISPR unleashed the evolutionary potential. Ultimately this lead to a niche switch and vascular pathogenicity /5

1) Vascular Xanthomonas campestris (Xcc) emerged from the non-vascular, mesophyll infecting clade of Xcr /2

4) The CRISPR-Cas locus was replaced with the effector XopN in Xcc. We speculate that XopN provided an immediate advantage for host infection and the concomitant loss of CRISPR unleashed the evolutionary potential. Ultimately this lead to a niche switch and vascular pathogenicity /5

New Year's ritual: the cabbage oracle.
Take a look inside at what awaits you on the path to the new year!