Ronnie de Jonge

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PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!

One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

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#MEvoSky #MicroSky

Transposon activity eliminates a crucial fungal secondary metabolite cluster while preserving pathogenicity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653967v1

PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!

🌱 We're hiring! Join our team as a PhD candidate to explore plant–microbiota host specificity. Plant biology/microbiology background needed; bioinformatics skills a big plus💻! Apply by mid-June. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #uubeta #plantmicrobiome #microbiota

Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth In natural ecosystems, microbes have the ability to stably colonize plant leaves, overcoming the fluctuating environmental conditions that the leaves …

Not everyday we see phyllosphere microbiota in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social🥬 Specific bacteria within the maize leaf microbiota seem to promote individual leaf growth by repressing defense genetic regulatory network & modulating leaf growth-defense tradeoff
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Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

Our first paper on natural variation in root exudate composition in wild #Arabidopsis. This represents a turning point in the way we characterize and understand phenotypic traits with implications beyond the plant itself @newphyt.bsky.social

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@rlberendsen.bsky.social kicks off a day of science starting with @jurriaanton.bsky.social on immune memory in plants.

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

A type II secreted subtilase from commensal rhizobacteria cleaves immune elicitor peptides and suppresses flg22-induced immune activation Eastman, Jiang, and Ficco et al. screen 165 root-associated bacteria for suppression of plant immune activation and growth restriction induced by the peptide immune elicitor flg22. They show that Dyella japonica uses the type II secreted subtilase IssA to cleave the peptide immune elicitors flg22 and AtPEP1 and suppress plant immune activation.

Rhizobacteria cleaves flg22 through a type II secreted subtilase and suppresses plant immunity. #plantmicrobe #plantimmunity

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64 million euros for groundbreaking fundamental research projects | NWO 21 research consortia have the chance to reach a breakthrough thanks to funding from the ENW-XL Open Competition. From fundamental research on the effects of certain materials on the methane cycle to ...

Super excited to share the news that our BarrierFates consortium got 3M€ funding from NWO XL to study maize root barrier cell types! 🌽🔬

Delighted to embark on this journey with
@dorotakawa.bsky.social , @hannahschneider.bsky.social , Victoria Mironova and Jian Xu!

www.nwo.nl/en/news/64-m...

DART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNA Recent advances in self-supervised models for natural language, vision, and protein sequences have inspired the development of large genomic DNA language models (DNALMs). These models aim to learn gen...

(1/10) Excited to announce our latest work! @arpita-s.bsky.social, @amanpatel100.bsky.social , and I will be presenting DART-Eval, a rigorous suite of evals for DNA Language Models on transcriptional regulatory DNA at #NeurIPS2024. Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2412.05430

Looks great! What are the specific dates in June for this meeting, I couldn't find them on the website :-)

Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth Welcome to Rhizosphere 6 We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Looking north at the Washington Square Arch, with 1 Fifth avenue behind it and a fountain in front of it. NYU Biology is a block to the right from this scene, on Washington Square East.

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!!
We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics.
Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success.
Apply!
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Concept of a Starship transposon jumping out of a fungal culture. Illustration by Oen Gregory.

Thrilled to have our recent review on giant #fungal #transposons, called Starships, featured on the cover of Trends in Genetics! Accompanied by some fantastic artwork! With @mycomile.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/genet...

The Machine Learning for Molecules workshop 2024 will take place THIS FRIDAY, December 6.

Tickets for in-person participation are "SOLD" OUT.

We still have a few free tickets for online/virtual participation!

Registration link here: moleculediscovery.github.io/workshop2024/

Abstract Submission OPEN for #ICAR2025 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research!
Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published!
📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪
🕸️ icar2025.com

Sietske van Bentum PhD defence

We're super proud of Doctor Sietske van Bentum! A more than outstanding defence of her thesis 'Disease-associated shifts in the rhizosphere microbiome: towards a soy-borne legacy'

Dom Tower Utrecht.

I enjoyed Utrecht City Center yesterday evening. Those new lights really bring the Dom Tower to life 😍.

Inaugural lecture by Saskia van Wees: "Plants are anything but defenceless creatures" Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

Yesterday, our dear colleague Saskia van Wees delivered her inaugural address, 'Plants are anything but defenceless creatures'. A fascinating exploration of plant resilience, hormones and innovation. 🌱 Read more: www.uu.nl/en/news/inau... #Science #uubeta #UtrechtUniversity #Plants

Chair Appointments within Manchester Institute of Biotechnology:Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The Rise of Polyploids During Environmental Catastrophes Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), both a strong evolutionary and ecological force and a potential pitfall, occurs extensively across the tree of life, particularly in angiosperms. While p...

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Large crowds mobilising today to protest (we could not even fit in 3 different trains) in The Hague.

The Dutch government wants to cut 1 billion euros to science and education. This policy will damage the country profoundly.

Stop the budget cuts.
Protect the future.

@woinactie.bsky.social

Duizenden studenten en medewerkers protesteren in Den Haag tegen bezuinigingen - nos.nl/l/2545894

Huge turnout at the anti budget cut demonstrations in the Hague. The cuts are shortsighted, disenfranchise students, stiffle innovation, hurt young scholars, create talent loss, undercut future growth.

WHO really wants this? #DoeHetNiet

Unhappy faces w @natalihelberger.bsky.social

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