News
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Olga Thiry defends her Master thesis and stays on for a doctorate
Olga defended her Master thesis in August, after a year and a half in the lab. She rejoins us as a doctoral student on 15 September.
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Congratulations to Laurent Philippoz on his Bachelor thesis
Laurent defended his Bachelor thesis in July. Well done, and thank you for the work.
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Stefanie speaks at the CUSO retreat on plant membrane signalling
The CUSO doctoral programme in molecular plant sciences held its retreat at Schloss Münchenwiler, focusing on plant membrane signalling. Stefanie was among the invited speakers, and Isis and Bruno formed part of the organizing team.
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New preprint on how the lectin domain of LORE binds its fatty acid ligands
Lin-Jie Shu and colleagues identify the second G-type lectin domain of LORE as the ligand binding domain, and describe a flexible loop that lets the receptor distinguish agonistic from antagonistic 3-hydroxy fatty acids. Joint work with the group of Antonella Di Pizio at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology.
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New preprint on the ligand preference of LORE receptors across the Brassicaceae
When LORE receptors are examined throughout the Brassicaceae, we find that their ligand preferences follow the 3-hydroxy fatty acid profiles of the proteobacteria that these plants encounter.
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Our work on lipopeptide induced immunity has appeared in Nature Plants
The collaborative study on how lipopeptides remodel the plant plasma membrane and set off an immune response is now published in Nature Plants.
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A protocol for measuring receptor ligand binding in the plant
Lin-Jie, Fan-Yu and Stefanie describe the plant based ligand depletion binding assay as a chapter in Methods in Molecular Biology.