Ching-Jung Lin

Plant Peptides on the Rise: From Historical Insight to Future Applications Plant peptides constitute a rapidly expanding class of signalling molecules essential to plant physiology, mediating key processes such as development, stress adaptation, and immune responses. This r....

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Apply now for EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: From #genomics to biological interactions" in Taipei, Taiwan, 24–27 Apr 2026.

Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 20 Jan/28 Feb 2026

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#EMBOEvoGenBio #GeneSky #EvoSky #EcoSky #EMBOevents 🧪

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota - Nature Plants The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens, probably contributes to...

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A meaningful moment in my plant pathology journey, fueled by my passion for nematology, bacteriology, and biotech. Grateful for support from UCD Plant Pathology, APS, industry partners, and especially the guidance and lab support from Drs. Shahid Siddique & Gitta Coaker. #PlantHealth2025 🪱🦠🌱🌺

I'm deeply thankful to APS for the Travel Award and to my advisor and lab for their support. This encouragement means a lot and inspires me to keep learning and sharing with the community.

Snapshots from yesterday's APS Gives Back: Native Roots Volunteer Experience field trip. Thank you volunteers!
#PlantHealth2025

It’s my great honor to be part of this project and happy to see this part of my thesis work finally out in Nature Plants!

Giant KASH proteins and ribosomes synergistically establish cytoplasmic biophysical properties in vivo Understanding how cells control their biophysical properties during development remains a fundamental challenge. While cytoplasmic macromolecular crowding affects multiple cellular processes in single...

Amazing talk (and videos) in plenary 2 from Xiangyi Ding ( @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social ) about biophys constraints in cytoplasm. #Celegans cytoplasm is more like jelly than honey (human cells), plus found gene that constrains this mess particle diffusion. #worm25

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Inspirational talk from Pam Padilla highlighting ways to broaden impact of our research to broader communities. #worm25

Historic Worm Comedy Show ✨

My name on the winner list of the raffles 👀

Happy to catch up with Lesilee and Laurel (my C. elegans mentors 😍 the ones who taught me how to culture worms). I also got to meet Jui-Ching, a professor at NTU Medical School (Taiwan) who graduated from Lesilee’s lab.

#worm25 was such a special experience for me as a first-time attendee. I felt truly honored to speak in the parasitism sessions and grateful for the chance to meet Nobel laureates. It felt almost unreal! Loved the comedy show 😍 and I was so happy to win a worm atlas shirt 👕.

I went to the poster yesterday at #worm25 and it's fantastic. Would love to try the method in the future. 🙏

Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.

That's cool! Looking forward to seeing more in the future 🤩🙏

Exploring multitasking proteins in Xanthomonas secretomes: Insights into mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions Recent advances in large-scale functional genomic analysis have significantly increased interest in multitask proteins. The role of these proteins in Xanthomonas phytopathogens, a model for plant-path...

🌱 From Heliyon: Multitasking proteins in Xanthomonas secretomes may play hidden roles in virulence and plant-pathogen interactions. (Renata de Almeida Barbosa Assis, Abhaya M. Dandekar)
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#plantpathology #plantscience

Happy to write this News & Views highlighting a groundbreaking study on #Agrobacterium. By combining mathematical modelling with quantitative live-cell imaging, the study uncovered a density-dependent synergistic and antagonistic effect on #AMT

Floral Stage Optimization and Immune Evasion Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Genome Editing in Arabidopsis Agrobacterium-mediated transformation via floral inoculation (AMT-FI) enables genetic engineering without tissue culture. It is widely used in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, yet its efficiency ...

👀 EFR-mediated PTI restricts transient transformation and genome editing, but not T-DNA integration.
This study combines floral stage targeting 🌷, immune evasion 🛡️, and Agrobacterium engineering 🔧 to boost plant genome editing efficiency.
#Agrobacterium
#GenomeEditing
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Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...

Overcoming gene functional redundancy 👀 Cool!
#CRISPR
#tomato

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Proud of Siddique Lab undergrads at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference! Aarish gave a fantastic talk (rainbow effect says it all!), Emma, Lisa, and Katelin rocked their posters. Shoutout to Jonathan from Coaker Lab for his awesome damage receptor talk! Cheers to all the inspiring souls!

A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...

Our Research Briefing on the tandem kinase proteins paper is online now!
Curious about the story behind our TKP paper?
📄 Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄 Research article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...

Story behind our recent paper on tandem kinases is out! Written by @yichangsung.bsky.social. #MPMI #PlantBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic work👏 Plant tandem kinases are so cool 😎

A plant CLE peptide and its fungal mimic promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis via CRN-mediated ROS suppression | PNAS CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-related (CLE) peptides have emerged as key regulators of plant–microbe interactions, including arbuscular mycorr...

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This is so cool 😎
✨first regulator of effector production in PPN✨

Two exciting papers from Shirasu Lab utilizing the *juice* of my favorite biological players—Agrobacterium and nematodes—to investigate receptor profiles!
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Congrats to the authors! 🥳🤩

Nice turnout for Agriculture today too!

🪱🔬 Nematode Nerds Unite! 🔬🪱
Huge thanks to the Groen lab for hosting us at UCR Nematology! From exciting research discussions to sharing our love for these tiny but mighty guys with many NEMA-enthusiastics from this department, it was a truly NEMA-zing experience!
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#WormScience #UCD #UCR