A warm welcome to Jame ‪Tannous‬, our very first Lebanese predoc 🇱🇧 🎉 Jame joins us from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut بيروت. Yalla habibi, give him a follow across social media!

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Thank you to all the funding agencies and to everyone who made it possible! The final database and sequences will be publicly available upon manuscript acceptance. Now begin The Hunger Games, a.k.a. The Submission and Revisions Game. 😅 5/5 Link to preprint 🔗 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Here @asimjaved.bsky.social et al 🥳 show: 🧬Clonal expansion & evidence of recombination, consistent with sexual reproduction 🧬A hotspot of structural variation and ANK-repeat effector diversification 🧬Differences in effector structures and host interactions associated with resistance breakdown 3/5

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Together with Stephen Strelkov and Maxim Prokchorchik, we combined three datasets: 192 isolates from 24 countries and 53 chromosome-level genome assemblies, forming the most comprehensive Plasmodiophora brassicae pangenome to date. 2/5

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And chaperones are back in the spotlight! The identification of co-chaperone DJC31 as a candidate effector target builds on our earlier work highlighting ankyrins as a dominant effector family, targeting host translation machinery (See: elifesciences.org/articles/105...). 4/5

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