Shanshan Wang
@shanshanwang3.bsky.social
Postdoc @Weigelworld at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, studying plant immunity with various approaches
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record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants
Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content
Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥
Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.
#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
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How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives.
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This helps disentangle the complex relationship between plant development and immunity.
3/3 In addition, Shanshan's work highlights the value of developmental mutants: Core immune responses are robust despite altered leaf architecture in cue 1 mutants, which also use a cryptic defense pathway that includes sucrose-responsive modules.
August 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This helps disentangle the complex relationship between plant development and immunity.
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2/3 By focusing on very early time points, Shanshan found mesophyll cell populations that not only prioritize a defense-over-growth strategy vs. a growth-over-defense strategy, but also that these cell populations behave more similarly during ETI than PTI.
August 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
2/3 By focusing on very early time points, Shanshan found mesophyll cell populations that not only prioritize a defense-over-growth strategy vs. a growth-over-defense strategy, but also that these cell populations behave more similarly during ETI than PTI.
Super excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 This project has been an incredible learning experience, thanks to the amazing lab and wonderful people I get to work with. Huge thanks to my supervisor! @plantevolution.bsky.social
1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Super excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 This project has been an incredible learning experience, thanks to the amazing lab and wonderful people I get to work with. Huge thanks to my supervisor! @plantevolution.bsky.social
Reposted by Shanshan Wang
1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...