Sebastien Duplessis
sebbyrust.bsky.social
Sebastien Duplessis
@sebbyrust.bsky.social
INRAE Scientist. Genomics, Fungi, Trees. Views are my own.
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Big congratulations to our five @umr-iam.bsky.social scientists featuring in the 2025 Global Ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists 🏆 prepared by Stanford University:
Aurélie Deveau, @fmartin54.bsky.social, Pascale Frey-Klett, Annegret Kohler and Nicolas Rouhier.
👏👏👏 🍾🥂🎉
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Quand des scientifiques bossent ensemble pendant plusieurs décennies, ça peut donner ça !
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology®
Pathogens’ responses to sudden temperature fluctuations, spanning various temporal scales, are critical determinants of their survival, growth, reproduction, and homeostasis. Here, we combined phenoty...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Our latest paper has just been published in Cell!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Un poste d’IE en bioinformatique est actuellement ouvert au CEFE à Montpellier pour travailler dans le cadre de l'ERC RegEvol.

Détails ici:

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Début 01/01/2026 pour 18 mois potentiellement renouvelable.

candidature jusqu'au 29/11

N’hésitez pas à diffuser largement
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur d'études en bioinformatique (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Brainstorming on mycorrhizal & endophytic associations with Zhilin Yuan (CAF) while walking through the INRAE Arboretum 👍

📸 Long Peng
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Combating #wheat leaf #rust: Advances in genetic resistance and sustainable management strategies doi.org/10.1016/j.pm...
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I'm so grateful for this journey 👩‍🎓!
Thank you @sebbyrust.bsky.social and @ccilelorrain.bsky.social for your guidance, and to all the inspiring people who help me reach higher and keep moving forward 🦋
Packed room for Emma Corre's PhD defense on transposable elements in rust fungi genomes.
Congratulations Dr @emma--c.bsky.social 👏👏👏

And what a lovely tribute to Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements in 🌽!!!
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Bad news for the French Pine forests! 😩

First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).

#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology

agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Nématode du pin : "Un prédateur de plus qui peut obliger à éradiquer tous les arbres d'un secteur"

www.franceinfo.fr/france/nouve...
Nématode du pin : "Un prédateur de plus" qui peut obliger à "éradiquer tous les arbres d'un secteur", alerte le président de la DFCI Aquitaine
Un foyer de nématode du pin a été détecté pour la première fois en France, à Seignosse (Landes) a annoncé mardi le ministère de l'Agriculture.
www.franceinfo.fr
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So proud of you, @emma--c.bsky.social — congratulations on a brilliant PhD defense! 👩‍🎓🍾 It's been a pleasure to mentor your journey!

And huge thanks to the fantastic committee for the inspiring discussion!
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Packed room for Emma Corre's PhD defense on transposable elements in rust fungi genomes.
Congratulations Dr @emma--c.bsky.social 👏👏👏

And what a lovely tribute to Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements in 🌽!!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Our fabulous alumna Feng Zhang summarizing her amazing work on nitrogen assimilation pathways in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis … hundreds of RNAi lines generated and analyzed
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🌾A good day for cereal rust community!

Thrilled to share our 5 yrs of work with revolutionary discoveries on wheat & barley stripe rust fungi + we present the most comprehensive genomic resource (54 haploid genomes) ever developed for any wheat rust fungi.
1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Wheat and barley stripe rust pan-genome facilitates discovery of the predominant North American lineage's origin in somatic hybridization
Wheat and barley stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis formae speciales tritici (Pst) and hordei (Psh) respectively is a perennial and endemic threat to those crops worldwide. Outside the Himala...
www.biorxiv.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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We are delighted to congratulate the winners of prizes that the New Phytologist Foundation supported between spring and autumn this year!

Here is the second part of our two-part round-up 👇
www.newphytologist.org/news/congrat...
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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PhDone!
Congratulations Dr. @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social!
👏👏👏👨‍🎓🎓

A big thank you to @tatianagiraud.bsky.social, @sofarndhnd.bsky.social & @wheatpath.bsky.social for being on the PhD jury!

📸 @mireiagoga.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction.
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
September 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
qedscience.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Unlike the heart attack of getting a “Decision” email, it’s such a good feeling to get a “Your review is ready” email from qed :)
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Just Published: "A Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Flax Rust Fungus Reveals the Two Unusually Large Effector Proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN," by Jana Sperschneider et al. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-04-25-0047-R
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I'm frequently asked if we can use XRM imaging to study Arabidopsis, and the answer is absolutely yes. The pollen grains were segmented using basic grayscale thresholding. This scan used the 4X lens, stayed tuned for results from the 20X.
@danforthcenter.bsky.social
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM