Van Schepler-Luu

Research lead, Plant pathology and host plant resistance group at IRRI, expertise in new breeding technologies, plant genome editing & microbiome

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

High-resolution reconstruction of cell-type-specific transcriptional regulatory processes from bulk sequencing samples https://t.co/M9FXBwmIH1

[Jim Shaw @jim_elevator]

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ Max Marin & @lh3lh3

Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers for helpful feedback.

Link: https://t.co/Hjr8hHiupP

[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

Preprint: Pita2a for neck blast resistance in rice

https://t.co/GoBpFV64aN

[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

Published https://t.co/8mRbyrZ6Sj

[Alexandre Soares Rosado @Rosado_AS]

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems: Cell https://t.co/yLNRDB1hhG

[Ruslan Rust @rust_ruslan]

PlotGDP: an AI Agent for Bioinformatics Plotting

https://t.co/qHwasBWiVf

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic https://t.co/rfHthNQsiX

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification https://t.co/UabJPCyIO4

Code: https://t.co/2OYQuV70QQ

Nextflow nf-core pipeline: https://t.co/aUoOA1Ft6f

[ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @ISME_microbes]

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap.
Read more: https://t.co/hQ4KpjYF51
#MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction

[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

Submit here: https://t.co/LgJFnosIN3

[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

Call for Papers on Rice Genomics!

As IRRI celebrates 65 years of rice science and 20 years since the first rice genome was sequenced, we invite research contributions to a special issue of The Plant Genome to commemorate these milestones.

🗓 Deadline: 31 December 2025

[British Society for Plant Pathology @BS_PP]

Our President Elect, Saskia Hogenhout, discusses her lab's work on aphid effectors, which are secreted during feeding and suppress plant immunity by recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies. #PPATH2025

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Prof Evans Lagudah @lag002 Chief Research Scientist from @CSIRO gives the first @BS_PP Peter Scott Memorial lecture on durable rust resistance genes in wheat at the #PPATH2025. Very informative and lots of great work. Acknowledged the great contribution of wheat wild relatives.

[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

Published https://t.co/EbbnaLatCy

[Boris Stojilkovic @BorisStojilkovc]

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author @Jukgan_Chan and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇https://t.co/W6aUfJCYZJ

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...

[Panagiotis Sarris @PanosSarris]

Application of microbial inoculants significantly  enhances crop productivity: A meta-analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020.
https://t.co/OtJbfZ37kN

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

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[Van Schepler-Luu @ScheplerLuu]

🔬 History of IRRI–JIRCAS Bacterial Blight and Blast Near-Isogenic Lines: Cornerstones of Global Rice Pathology 🌾

Read the full article published on IRRI book and Zenodo: https://t.co/mL2gDGxHll

Read the report on Rice Today https://t.co/E08tsPk5LE

[Prasad Parchuri @Parchuri_Prasad]

I am honored to announce that I have joined Kansas State University as an Assistant Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology in the Division of Biology. I am looking for a Graduate student and Postdoc interested in plant lipid biochemistry for my lab. Email me @ [email protected]