Shelley Lumba
@Lumba_lab
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Assistant Professor at @UofT… Listening to conversations between plants and fungi 🌱
Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2017
New paper🚨: Ever wonder how plants talk to fungi?.When plants are low on phosphate (Pi), they exude #Strigolactones (SLs) in soil to obtain Pi from microbes. We show a broad range of fungi in soil respond to SLs 👇.Is the SL response in fungi conserved? .
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RT @dashunwang: What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS @PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories. Led b….
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RT @sardineboy_DING: How getting tenure changes researchers’ publication habits — and citations.
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Nature - Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.
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RT @SMukhtarlab: Hiring alert! Please RT! Lecturer/Sr. Lecturer position in Microbiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemso….
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RT @MiaoYansong: Join us at the Plant Biomolecular Condensation and Signaling Conference in Singapore! Explore cutting-edge technologies to….
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RT @nobolly: Exciting opportunities to establish your group at @JohnInnesCentre! . 🔹Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial In….
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The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.
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RT @RootScientists: Opportunity: Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions at JIC.
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An exciting opportunity for an Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions has arisen at the John Innes Centre. To read the full job description for this role…
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RT @ASPB: Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Plabt Biology | University of Massachusetts: Amherst, Massachusetts | .
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Exciting opportunity in Amherst, MA for University of Massachusetts as a Assistant Professor in P...
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Congrats 🥳 amazing!!!!.
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RT @plasmidsaurus: You heard that right — get full bacterial genome sequencing in 1 day. 🤯 Starting at $90. Order now: .
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RT @talbotlabTSL: Check out this amazing special issue of @CurrentBiology . The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and ther….
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Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special issue on ‘The Fungi’.
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RT @NaturePortfolio: The further a scientist moves away from the topic of their previous work, the fewer citations their new work will rece….
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RT @theNASciences: Congratulations Keiko Torii of @TexasScience, newly inducted NAS international member! #NAS162 #NASmember #plantbiology….
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Congratulations @Edel_PLopez 👏🏼👍🏼🎉🥳🎊🙌🏼. Awesome news!.
🌿 Feeling incredibly grateful today!.Just five years ago, I was a postdoc navigating a new research environment in Canada. Today, I am honoured to receive the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the @phytopathca Canadian Phytopathological Society — and even prouder to receive
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Congratulations Wenbo @wenboEffector!!! . Amazing achievement and so well deserved👏🏼🎉🎊🍾 🥳.
Deeply honored and humbled by this recognition. Thrilled to be part of @TheSainsburyLab! None of this would be possible without the unwavering support from my colleagues, friends, family, and above all, every past and present member of my group! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🙏🙏🙏@royalsociety @ISMPMI.
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Congratulations 🥳 @Edel_PLopez !!! Great achievement 👏🏼🙌🏼🎉🍾🎊.
🏆News are out!.I’m deeply honored to have been recognized as an Étoile EFFERVESCENCE award by @EffervescenceV and Montréal InVivo (trophy coming later 🤭)!. This award celebrates researchers in Québec who have stood out through their scientific contributions and strong
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RT @UofT: Did you know that you can register and vote on campus from April 13-16? . Bring your ID and proof of address to vote for a candid….
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RT @HirumaKei: Delighted to share our latest publication in Current Biology. This study is summarized by @RUjimatsu and a collaborative eff….
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Endophytic fungi colonize healthy plant tissues without disease. Ujimatsu et al. reveal that the fungal transcription factor CtBOT6 triggers the virulence of a root-associated beneficial endophyte by...
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