Hsiao-Chun Johnny Chen

PhD student👨‍🔬, Plant Pathology @universityofga. Research focuses on bacterial responses to PTI🌱, Taiwanese scholar🇹🇼. He/His. views are my own.

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Combining proteomics, structure prediction, bioinformatics and cryoET to discover non-canonical bacterial protein translocation-folding complex https://t.co/rnQ4Uvf7YQ

[Chih-Hang Wu @AdamWu9527]

I’m very excited to share this work! Understanding plant hypersensitive cell death has been a key challenge. Using time-lapse imaging, we captured the full process: from calcium influx to organelle breakdown and cell collapse. @YiFeng_eYFP @IPMBSinica
https://t.co/3wVNWr4Au9

[Bruno Ngou @BrunoNgou]

Cell-surface receptors play key roles across many biological processes.
In plants, these receptor families have undergone remarkable expansion. Here, we systematically review these receptors in @ThePlantJournal.

Happy to see this out!
https://t.co/Bnk6ss3F2j

[Panagiotis Sarris @PanosSarris]

Functional Dissection of a Wheat NLR Protein Reveals a Minimal Active Region and Key Regulatory Sites for Immune Signalling.
https://t.co/ZUE3xySyEa

[The Plant Journal @ThePlantJournal]

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Register: https://t.co/O3szqIukJw

[Makoto Shirakawa @MakotoShirakaw2]

Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants
https://t.co/dIvjkdrfLo

[The Plant Journal @ThePlantJournal]

📢Announcement!

The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉https://t.co/TxUArZ2dzm
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[Shu-Hsing Wu @Shu_IPMB]

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana | Science https://t.co/9ocRENXF4Q A new C2-centric approach that enhances CO2 fixation, lipid levels, and biomass.

[Michelle Hulin @michhulin]

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱@michiganstateu @MSU_PSM https://t.co/qo4n4zqiGh

[Hsiao-Chun Johnny Chen @HCChen_Johnny]

Grateful to help organizing the 2025 Plant Center Symposium at UGA on May 15! 🌱 A day full of inspiring talks and plant science from diverse perspectives.

Huge thanks to our amazing speakers: @moniquejrivera , @TNPlantBio, Eva Colla'Kova, and Kyaw (Joe) Aung !

[IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) @IPMBSinica]

[Dr. Erh-Min Lai @erhminlai]
Distinct strategies of diguanylate cyclase domain proteins on inhibition of virulence and interbacterial competition by agrobacteria
mBio @mbiojournal
https://t.co/N63wVZyCRV

[Hsiao-Chun Johnny Chen @HCChen_Johnny]

@AdamWu9527 Congrats! Would be interesting to see if Rhizobium provides higher efficacy in monocots!

[Chih-Hang Wu @AdamWu9527]

A breakthrough in plant gene delivery!🌱
Our new study shows that R. rhizogenes strain A4 outperforms traditional agro strains in transient gene expression, especially in solanaceous crops like tomato and pepper. https://t.co/TMFZuXzQML
📄Published in Plant Biotechnology Journal

[Bruno Ngou @BrunoNgou]

☀️
I’ve been working on this for a few years & very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv!

https://t.co/VyEs8kvpS4

The full story is summarized here:

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

The Proteomics Landscape of Pattern Triggered Immunity in the Arabidopsis Leaf Apoplast https://t.co/EjZ0mxCE9y #biorxiv_plants

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

AI provides a universal framework that leverages data and compute at scale to uncover higher-order patterns

Today, @arcinstitute in collaboration with @nvidia releases Evo 2—a fully open source biological foundation model trained on genomes spanning the entire tree of life 🧵

[Phytopathol Res @PhytopatholRes]

#Nanomachines #Regulation #T3SS #Pathogen

Regulation and inhibition of type III secretion systems in plant pathogenic bacteria

https://t.co/IYSQhm4MOZ

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

New Publication: Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of ERECTA (2025) | @Frank_Menke TSL Proteomics
https://t.co/KwP6AKjfK2

[Prof. Keiko Torii @KeikoUTorii]

Indirect cost supports core lab infrastructure- electricity, heat, water for research, lab safety (biohazard, chemical hazard, etc), facilities and admins. This decision is suicidal for Americans to stay as a leader in science and medical innovation.
https://t.co/6lAOxiSYfU

[Katherine Denby @Katherine_Denby]

And @ADSteinbrenner is a @ThePlantJournal editor 👍