Maekawa lab at University of Cologne. We study plant microbe interactions.
Joined May 2022
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Congratulations, Team Yang!
Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Finally, the receptor for N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid (NHP)?
Mobile immune signals potentiate salicylic acid-mediated plant immunity via WRKY38/62 transcription factors biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
23 Jan 2025
More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… @PNASNews -> nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #ScienceCareer
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
1 Mar 2025
The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join > 1,400 experts: ismpmi.org/Events/2025Congre… #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
16 Jul 2024
A disease resistance assay in Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the immune function of Response to HopBA1 (Keiichi Hasegawa, Ton Timmers, Jijie Chai, Takaki Maekawa) buff.ly/463vEDu @MaekawaLab @ASPB #PlantSci
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Our new publication @PlantPhys
With a new method we found that a RBA1 variant lacking 2', 3'-CAMP/cGMP synthetase activity but retaining NADase activity does not induce cell death but confers disease resistance.
The plasmid is available @Addgene
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Please do not forget to use pSOUP helper plasmid which is needed for replication of our PVX vector in Agrobacterium.
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Arabidopsis MLKL1 (At1g64300) confers salt stress.
I assume that abiotic stresses in general would activate TIR NADases leading to MLKL activation. See the discussion in our latest manuscript (Shen and Hasegawa et al 2024 Cell H&M)
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Wow!! One of Pm resistance genes encodes a plant MLKL, which is consistent with our earlier study (Mahdi et al 2020 cell host microbe)
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
10 Apr 2024
Are you interested in exploring root legume symbiosis signalling pathways?
A PhD opportunity in my lab @JohnInnesCentre
@NRPBIODTP
Funding eligibility: UK students.
Deadline 9 May, Link to apply:
uea.ac.uk/course/phd-or-othe…
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Unfortunately, our cartoon was not selected as the cover for the latest issue @cellhostmicrobe but we think that ours is also cool! Do you agree?
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
26 Mar 2024
Apply now for the EMBO Workshop on Cell death: friend or foe in animal and plant immunity 11 – 15 October 2024 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
meetings.embo.org/event/24-c…
#EMBOcelldeath
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We found that plant MLKLs confer TNL-triggered immunity in parallel with RPW8-type HeLo-domain-containing NLRs (RNLs). We also show that plant MLKLs are responsible for sustained [Ca2 ]cyt influx during TNL-triggered, but not CNL-triggered, immunity.
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Please contact me via email with a cover letter, CV, and the name of at least one academic referee. (The application deadline line is 30.04.2024)
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A three-year PhD position on plant immunity is available in my lab. Interested? Experience with modern imaging technologies such confocal microscopy is plus.
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Happy to share our new manuscript @cellhostmicrobe about the biochemical action of plant MLKL proteins!!
cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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Maekawa lab@UniCo “Cell death & immunity” retweeted
8 Nov 2023
The Ausländeramt of the city of Cologne will give a presentation on the right of residence for international students and will be available for personal advice afterwards. Conference language
is German with English Translation.
🗓️ 23 Nov. 5 pm
ℹ️ kstw.de/aufenthaltsrecht
ALT partial picture of a passport. Text: Thursday, 23.11.23 5pm. Mensa Zülpicher Straße, MG Süd. Infosession. Right of Residence.
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I had a chance to write a commentary for “The plant immune receptor SNC1 monitors helper NLRs targeted by a bacterial effector” by Wang et al.
Published in @cellhostmicrobe
Congratulations to the authors!!
Public link to my commentary
authors.elsevier.com/a/1i375…
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