December 2025: Our work about the role of the TOPLESS family in the regulation of PAMP-triggered immunity was presented at the Science for Life meeting in Utrecht.
November 2025: Our study from LettuceKnow on the identification of a first PAMP receptor in lettuce is on bioRxiv! The work is led by Iñigo Bañales. This receptor belongs to LRR-type receptor-like kinases and recognizes highly conserved heptapeptide motif within NEP1-like proteins found in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes.
October 2025: Lettuce Expression Browser, a result of our work in the LettuceKnow consortium, is available to public, and the preprint can be found on bioRxiv.
October 2025: Revika Sethi, MSc student in the program Science and Business Management (UU), starts her major research internship with Leroy on the growth-immunity crosstalk control by transcription factors in lettuce.
October 2025: Our research on growth-defense trade-off in lettuce with Bart Schimmel from LettuceKnow as a lead researcher is highlighted by NPEC (Netherlands Plant Ecophenotyping Centre)
August 2025: Paper published in PNAS in August 2025 (in collaboration with the Parker laboratory at MPIPZ, led by Junli Wang)
Defense and Recovery of Plants 