Thorsten Langner
@ThorstenLangner
Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tuebingen. Adaptive evolution of filamentous plant pathogens.
🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is looking for a pre-doc intern to work on plant immunity research. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com
VACANCY: Predoctoral Internship Nobori Lab, UK Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science? Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl…
🚨New @biorxivpreprint alert! We are thrilled to share our latest findings—building on our earlier work on suppressors of helper NLRs of NRC family—a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector captures resistosome assembly intermediates of tomato NRC3! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10
A plant pathogen effector blocks stepwise assembly of a helper NLR resistosome biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
Kicking off #ISMPMI2025! My poster is P-441 (out of 442?) — hopefully last but not least! Drop by and chat with me about dual-profiling plant genes and their associated microbes using PHYTOMap! 🌿P-441 | Wed 16 Jul | 13.30-15.15 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #OpenMPMI
A truly inspiring day at the Host-Microbe Interactions mini symposium at Max Planck Tübingen Grateful to witness engaging talks from MPI, ZMBP, and IPMB scientists @ThorstenLangner @KaWaiMa6
Pikobodies vs. Potato Blight 🥊🥔 NLR–Nanobody Fusions Take on P. infestans 💥 🎤 Talk: Thurs July 17th, 16:35 🧾 Poster P-64: Tues 15th, Session 2 Poster’s up on Zenodo if you’re into spoilers 👀📎 zenodo.org/records/158479… #2025ISMPMI #OpenMPMI🌿
Here’s the major plot twist… AVRcap1b does not interact with resting-state NRCs but interacts specifically with the active form! It binds NRCs through a surface distinct from the NbTOL9a interface, suggesting it bridges these pathways to “block” immune signaling. 12/15
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @ZMBP_Tuebingen as a Junior Group Leader in October 2025! My lab will explore the functional and structural diversity of plant immune receptors. 1/2 #NewPI #PlantImmunity #NLRs #PlantScience #StructuralBiology
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
Plz RT. We @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni are looking for a postdoc plant biologist with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: @AlexWGuyon] jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/
Happy to contribute to this excellent story about heterochromatin role in centromere maintenance, led by @ben_carty93 ! Heterochrom. boundaries control centromere expansion, drift & number! Great usage of induced neocentromere model and modern epigenomics across the labs🥳
What is the molecular basis for maintaining centromere size and position? In a great collaboration with @NAltemose @GiuntaLab and @FachinettiLab labs, we investigate the long standing question of how heterochromatin maintains centromere size/position! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Get a First Look! 👇 🧬From Lesions to Lessons: Two Decades of Filamentous Plant Pathogen Genomics doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-0… @wagnercfagundes @YuSengHuang @ThorstenLangner
Fungal genomes are 🤯🤯🤯 We wrote this review to summarise some lessons we learned in the last 20 years of fungal genomics. Excited to see where our field is going in the next 20 years to come! Thanks a lot to all co-authors @YuSengHuang @ThorstenLangner and Sophia 🧵👇
From lesions to lessons: 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of filamentous plant pathogen genomics. In our new review, we present lessons we learned over the past 2 decades and discuss the future of plant pathogen genomics. Take a first look! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.10…