Wilko Punt

Scientist interested in Plant-Microbe-Interactions

[Wilko Punt @Wolki95]

Happy to have contributed to this study

[Science Advances @ScienceAdvances]

Researchers have identified a number of effector proteins, molecules secreted by fungal pathogens that can modulate and subvert plant immunity, that likely came from ancient antimicrobials and were repurposed by fungi during coevolution. https://t.co/SbShzrqq3q

[Wilko Punt @Wolki95]

https://t.co/gk3pGqegnP

[Wilko Punt @Wolki95]

Now out in New Phytologist :)

https://t.co/tMz9CIIUo7

[Wilko Punt @Wolki95]

Now out in Microbiome :) https://t.co/T9MoKqjj7u

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝

We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.

cc @Team_Thomma

https://t.co/aeyB8xWnRC

[CEPLAS @ceplas_1]

In our new issue of #CEPLASkompakt Jinyi Zhu @Zhu_Jinyi_ from @UniCologne @Team_Thomma gives us insights into his work on the exciting interplay between fungi, bacteria and plants! #scicomm #wisskomm

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

NEW REVIEW OUT

Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection.
We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities.

https://t.co/ghVFnBLTUS

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

#PMS2024 is starting! @MiCRop_research

Come by posters 70, 73, 90 and 120 for some research about antimicrobial effectors, lichens and microbial community assembly by @Team_Thomma

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

📣 First on @biorxivpreprint >> 📰now published in @PLOSPathogens! Congratulations @Chavarroccx et al. 🪇 https://t.co/lLJJvz2wmn @MFSeidl @Wolki95 @NickSnelders @AntonKraege @phyTorres

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

NEW PREPRINT, NEW SOFTWARE

We (@Team_Thomma) are delighted to announce the release of AMAPEC, an accurate antimicrobial activity predictor for fungal effector proteins.

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💻: https://t.co/ta4EDqbbsm

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[Ernesto Llamas @neto_flames]

I am hiring a PhD Student!
📍 **Location**: Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Are you curious about how plants 🌱 handle human toxic proteins that tend to aggregate🧠?

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

Our review "Co-evolution within the plant holobiont drives host performance" is now published @emboreports (#openaccess)!

Thanks @Team_Thomma for the help, support and precious discussions, and thanks @hacquard_st for the constructive criticism!

https://t.co/aDiz7TT5Se

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

Look here! Result of our @Team_Thomma Easter egg hunt!https://t.co/SlSbXMpIq1 Another collaboration with team @MFSeidl, led by @Chavarroccx with help from @NickSnelders @phyTorres @AntonKraege @Wolki95 and Twitter-less others. A 🧵 [1/14]

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Finally, before the weekend....also Achievement #3 unlocked! 😇😎 @AntonKraege @Wolki95

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join @Team_Thomma and work on fungal interactions with the microbiota, including micro-algae. Send me a DM if interested!

[Dorota Kawa @dorota_kawa]

Check out our latest #preprint! We found that microbes reduce Striga parasitism in sorghum by blocking haustorium formation in Striga and inducing suberization and aerenchyma formation in sorghum roots. @bradylabs https://t.co/5QRlnYBn8F 🧵👇1/9

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.@BioRxiv submission alert 📢: Long in the making, now brought to point @NickSnelders: A highly polymorphic effector protein promotes fungal virulence through suppression of plant-associated Actinobacteria https://t.co/YUY1FqiH0M 🧵 [1/11]

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

Happy to see this one out online in @FEMSmicro #FEMSMicrobiolRev, led by @NickSnelders with help from @rovenich: Microbiota manipulation through the secretion of effector proteins is fundamental to the wealth of lifestyles in the fungal kingdom https://t.co/uV8LTEN6xh

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

Final coffee ☕️break goodbye 👋🏼to @myricae90 visiting us from Córdoba for the past months 🇪🇸.... Thanks 🙏🏼for the good work 💐 helping @Wolki95 & @Chavarroccx! It was much fun having you around 💃🏼! Good luck 🤞🏼with thesis writing 🖥️and hope our paths cross again, soon 😊!

[Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social @Team_Thomma]

How it started: How it's going:
@NickSnelders @AntonKraege @Wolki95