Thorsten Langner
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Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tuebingen. Adaptive evolution of filamentous plant pathogens.
Tuebingen, Germany
Joined January 2016
RT @JMadhuprakash: 🚨New @biorxivpreprint alert! .We are thrilled to share our latest findings—building on our earlier work on suppressors o….
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RT @biorxiv_plants: A plant pathogen effector blocks stepwise assembly of a helper NLR resistosome #biorxiv_plants.
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Helper NLRs function as central nodes in plant immune networks. Upon activation, they oligomerize into inflammasome-like resistosomes to initiate immune signaling, yet the dynamics of resistosome...
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RT @HsuanPai1: Kicking off #ISMPMI2025! My poster is P-441 (out of 442?) — hopefully last but not least! Drop by and chat with me about dua….
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RT @DebanganaMoitra: A truly inspiring day at the Host-Microbe Interactions mini symposium at Max Planck Tübingen. Grateful to witness enga….
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RT @adnroide: Pikobodies vs. Potato Blight 🥊🥔.NLR–Nanobody Fusions Take on P. infestans 💥. 🎤 Talk: Thurs July 17th, 16:35.🧾 Poster P-64: Tu….
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Plant pathogens continuously evolve to evade immunity, driving the need for innovative resistance strategies to safeguard global food security. In proof-of-concept work, we engineered the rice...
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RT @mpcontreras4: Here’s the major plot twist… AVRcap1b does not interact with resting-state NRCs but interacts specifically with the activ….
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RT @mpcontreras4: I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @ZMBP_Tuebingen as a Junior Group Leader in October 2025! My lab will explore….
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Congrats JC! Very well deserved!🥳🍾.
Demonstrating exceptional originality across multiple research fields, we are excited to present Juan Carlos De La Concepcion with an Early Career Research Award in 2026! @delaconcepcionj has made fundamental discoveries in plant immunity & the biology of immune receptor function
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RT @dromius: Plz RT. We @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni are looking for a postdoc plant biologist with proven protein biochemistry & cell biolog….
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RT @nobolly: 🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is looking for a pre-doc intern to work on plant immunity….
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RT @PawelMikulski: Happy to contribute to this excellent story about heterochromatin role in centromere maintenance, led by @ben_carty93 !….
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RT @MPMIjournal: Get a First Look! 👇. 🧬From Lesions to Lessons: Two Decades of Filamentous Plant Pathogen Genomics. .
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Many filamentous microorganisms, such as fungi and oomycetes, have evolved the ability to colonize plants and cause devastating crop diseases. Coevolutionary conflicts with their hosts have shaped...
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RT @wagnercfagundes: Fungal genomes are 🤯🤯🤯.We wrote this review to summarise some lessons we learned in the last 20 years of fungal genomi….
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This review was led be @wagnercfagundes, @YuSengHuang, and our super talented MSc student Sophia Häußler.
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A fun fact that I learned along the way is that the nanopore sequencing technology (in its raw form) is already >25 years old!. Here is the link to the original paper:.
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Single molecules of DNA or RNA can be detected as they are driven through an α-hemolysin channel by an applied electric field. During translocation, nucleotides within the polynucleotide must pass...
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Continuous technical advances contributed to the success of genomics in plant-microbe research and exciting developments keep happening to this date!
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Lesson 8: Genomics facilitates pathogen surveillance. Lesson 9: Structural genomics emerges as a new tool in evolutionary molecular plant-microbe interaction (Evo-MPMI) research.
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Lesson 5: Epigenetic compartmentalization determines genome dynamics and gene expression. Lesson 6: Supernumerary chromosomes facilitate genomic innovation. Lesson 7: Giant transposons facilitate horizontal gene transfer and adaptation.
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Lesson 1: Plant pathogens are in constant coevolutionary conflict with their hosts. Lesson 2: Plant pathogen genomes are highly diverse. Lesson 3: Plant pathogen genomes are non-randomly organised. Lesson 4: Diverse mechanisms drive genomic diversity in plant-pathogen populations
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