Shanice Webster
@shanice-webster.bsky.social
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @DukeU | He Lab | Plant-microbiome-pathogen interactions | PhD from @Dartmouth in @geiselbiofilm lab | @GrinnellCollege alum '15
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Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
October 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
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🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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September 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
asm.org/press-releas...
asm.org/press-releas...
Yayy!! Congrats Kevin!!!
Congratulations @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social for your ASPB award. Well deserved! #PlantBio2025
July 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yayy!! Congrats Kevin!!!
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Poster is up! If you're interested in Aureobasidium, phyllosphere commensalism, or biocontrol, come learn more tomorrow afternoon! (P-308) #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Poster is up! If you're interested in Aureobasidium, phyllosphere commensalism, or biocontrol, come learn more tomorrow afternoon! (P-308) #2025ISMPMI
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@shanice-webster.bsky.social looks at iron status in plant-microbiome interactions. Proteobacteria and firmicutes are typically balanced in the microbiota, but iron starvation can really mess with that, going to dysbiosis. Used “mfec” Arabidopsis quadruple mutant.
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@shanice-webster.bsky.social looks at iron status in plant-microbiome interactions. Proteobacteria and firmicutes are typically balanced in the microbiota, but iron starvation can really mess with that, going to dysbiosis. Used “mfec” Arabidopsis quadruple mutant.
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
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Want to learn about the role of nitrogen in microbiota-mediated plant immunity? Come check my poster out now (P-345)
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Want to learn about the role of nitrogen in microbiota-mediated plant immunity? Come check my poster out now (P-345)
#2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI
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Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
July 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!
Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
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Check out this prize-winning essay by postdoc @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social on her work with @mfgrp.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏
Check out the Noster prize winning essays @science.org The vaccine we all wear: Skin microbiota can be engineered into topical vaccines | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The vaccine we all wear: Skin microbiota can be engineered into topical vaccines
Skin microbiota can be engineered into topical vaccines
www.science.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Check out this prize-winning essay by postdoc @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social on her work with @mfgrp.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏
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IN BRIEF: From the archives: Nitrogen matters in crop domestication, rice nitrogen nutrition, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation (Shanice S Webster) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
July 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
IN BRIEF: From the archives: Nitrogen matters in crop domestication, rice nitrogen nutrition, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation (Shanice S Webster) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat.
In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44cSw3Z
In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44cSw3Z
June 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat.
In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44cSw3Z
In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44cSw3Z
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My former PhD student, a current postdoc at Duke, was one of the speakers at the MIT Catalyst Symposium yesterday. I heard it was a great talk!
biology.mit.edu/about/2025-m...
biology.mit.edu/about/2025-m...
May 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My former PhD student, a current postdoc at Duke, was one of the speakers at the MIT Catalyst Symposium yesterday. I heard it was a great talk!
biology.mit.edu/about/2025-m...
biology.mit.edu/about/2025-m...
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Plant health is essential to food security, yet pathogens continue to threaten crops worldwide. To better understand how disease takes hold—& how to stop them—HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @shanice-webster.bsky.social is exploring the dynamic relationships among plants, microbes, & disease-causing agents.
May 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Plant health is essential to food security, yet pathogens continue to threaten crops worldwide. To better understand how disease takes hold—& how to stop them—HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @shanice-webster.bsky.social is exploring the dynamic relationships among plants, microbes, & disease-causing agents.
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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 24, 2025, Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Associate and Hanna Gray Fellow at Duke University will present on metabolites and nutrients as key modulators of microbiota selection and plant health.
April 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 24, 2025, Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Associate and Hanna Gray Fellow at Duke University will present on metabolites and nutrients as key modulators of microbiota selection and plant health.
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Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
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ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems
This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.
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March 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Tomato phytoalexin disrupts bacterial type III secretion system.
A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly
Numerous gram-negative bacterial pathogens employ the type III secretion system (T3SS), a multiprotein injectisome, to deliver virulence proteins into host cells and cause diseases. We uncover erucami...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tomato phytoalexin disrupts bacterial type III secretion system.
A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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IS-MPMI 2025 abstract submission is open! You can now submit your fascinating science to the "Local and Inter-organ Signaling in Immunity and Mutualistic Interactions" 🌱🦠 Due date : MARCH 11th, 2025. See you in Cologne 🌈🧪
January 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
IS-MPMI 2025 abstract submission is open! You can now submit your fascinating science to the "Local and Inter-organ Signaling in Immunity and Mutualistic Interactions" 🌱🦠 Due date : MARCH 11th, 2025. See you in Cologne 🌈🧪
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Our latest @pnas.org! Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of the plant receptor kinase ERECTA.
Its unique C-terminal alpha-helix domain inhibits the receptor active state. Congrats, all!🌱🥰
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
Its unique C-terminal alpha-helix domain inhibits the receptor active state. Congrats, all!🌱🥰
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Our latest @pnas.org! Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of the plant receptor kinase ERECTA.
Its unique C-terminal alpha-helix domain inhibits the receptor active state. Congrats, all!🌱🥰
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
Its unique C-terminal alpha-helix domain inhibits the receptor active state. Congrats, all!🌱🥰
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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#PhageSky
wow, what a sneaky mechanism
wow, what a sneaky mechanism
Another newly discovered mechanism of bacteria inhibiting competitors - increasing their sensitivity to phages - fascinating
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection - Nature Microbiology
A secondary metabolite sensitizes competitor Bacillus subtilis to a wide panel of lytic phages by sequestering iron and preventing the activation of Spo0A.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#PhageSky
wow, what a sneaky mechanism
wow, what a sneaky mechanism
A big congratulations to the new cohort of HGF!!!
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
January 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A big congratulations to the new cohort of HGF!!!
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My lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social studies the function, regulation, and communication of diverse immune cell states, including PRIMER and bystander cells. Interested in exploring cell state biology? Check out our website and contact me—we’d love to hear your ideas! (13/13) www.tatsuyanobori.com
Tatsuya Nobori, Ph.D.
Nobori Lab @TSL
www.tatsuyanobori.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social studies the function, regulation, and communication of diverse immune cell states, including PRIMER and bystander cells. Interested in exploring cell state biology? Check out our website and contact me—we’d love to hear your ideas! (13/13) www.tatsuyanobori.com
Go Cagney!
The incredible Cagney Coomer’s work on developing the trans-tango system in zebrafish for anterograde transsynaptic tracing is out! Beautiful images and better tools 🔬😍. She’s on the market right now so catch her while you can!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Transsynaptic labeling and transcriptional control of zebrafish neural circuits - Nature Neuroscience
The trans-Tango genetic strategy, which mediates signaling across synapses, was adapted to identify neural connections in a vertebrate nervous system, with synaptic partners confirmed in the retina an...
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December 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Go Cagney!
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Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut - Nature
Intestinal regionalization is characterized by robust and resilient structural cell states and the intestine can adapt to environmental stress in a spatially controlled manner through crosstalk betwee...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...