20 years ago, I won one of Best Student Presentation awards from CPS @phytopathca . This year, my graduate student Madeleine won 2nd place. La boucle est bouclée!

Maybe a dumb question, but in a complete chromosome, is it normal to have base pairs after the telomeric repeats? Some of my T2T chromosomes sometimes have 300 bp after the repeats… Assembly artefacts?

Never heard of a -80 that broke during regular working hours. Those things know when you’re not reachable. Still got there in time (-47) to make sure our precious pollen is kept safe. I would think it would lose viability quicker than bacterial cultures at room temperature.

Looking for someone that still has the installation disc (or equivalent) for the Perkin Elmer 2030 Workstation… I have an old Victor X3 for which the computer stopped working and I lost the CD!

Ok, this was way more impressive than I was thinking (and way more than the best I could capture with my phone)… #Eclipse2024

~20 years ago, I discovered a hybrid between two rust fungi. A paper just came out that investigated the frequency of these hybrids in WY and CO, and showed that some isolates could infect C. ribicola alternate host (Ribes spp.). @richamelin shorturl.at/hFM07

Question for the #MPMI crowd: if I have a ongoing infection on an N. benthamiana leaf, then agroinfiltrate an R gene recognizing the pathogen, will it kill the pathogen? Trigger a noticeable HR?

Still not the one I’m looking for, but oak powdery mildew at the Castle Hill Lighthouse (bonus: rust!) #2023ISMPMI

Still trying to find my favorite powdery mildew while walking around town… Nothing yet but I still found the Irish famine monument #2023ISMPMI

After a quite busy week throwing axes and sampling at the farm, I’m off to @ISMPMI ! Even though only one of them is with me in Providence, I love the 2023 team 🇲🇦 🇲🇽 🇫🇷 🇨🇦

I remember there was some contamination between the genomes of Albugo laibachii and Golovinomyces but I don’t remember which way… Is this that many Albugo sequences are incorrectly labelled as Golovinomyces or the opposite (on NCBI)???

Are there any known examples of cereal Pm resistance genes being non-effective at higher temperature like we see for rust fungi? @gurcharn_brar @PietroSpanu @IzzySaur @lambros_f @stefan_kusch

Nice visit with @umoncton students from my Plant Physiology class. Thanks @Organigram_Inc for the tour! / Autre visite dans le cadre du cours de Physiologie végétale, cette fois chez Organigram!

Good news: proposal ranked 25/92. Bad news: not good enough for $$$. No worries. Projects are still going forward. Still, I'm glad I won't have time to think about it as I'm flying to @_SLU to give a seminar and participate to the thesis defence of Christian Benjamin Andersen!