In America, millennials, now aged between early 30s and mid-40s, last year spent $1.5bn on avocados apple.news/AzgOGN95KT42...
Sophien Kamoun
@kamounlab.bsky.social
Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.net
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There are comments on PubPeer for publication: A pair of LysM receptors mediates symbiosis and immunity discrimination in Marchantia (2025)
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New nature papers flagged #natureripoff #sciencecrisis PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis pubpeer.com/publications... Asymmetric selection of a rice immune module and rebuild of disease resistance pubpeer.com/publications...
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Farewell Maian @mai_garro for an incredibly successful postdoc before the PhD (aka predoc). Mai is moving next door to start a PhD in the renowned rotation program @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Thank you for your many contributions to our lab and research! 🔬 🧐 🧫 🌱 🇦🇷
Today’s @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday Seminar is Thorsten Schnurbusch @LeibnizIPK “Unleashing Wheat Flower Biology: Insights for improved Floral Fertility”
PSA: Clustering proteins into orthogroups (OGs) based on overall sequence similarity can be highly misleading for proteins with variable domain architectures, such as NLR immune receptors Figure from #RefPlantNLR doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Kudos to the whole team. A very important study on an important pandemic virus 🍅
Jogi Madhuprakash@jmadhuprakash.bsky.social · 3d ago🍅 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus spread worldwide. For >60 years, one resistance gene protected tomatoes. This virus broke through. A second gene confers resistance. The same viral target? Convergent evolution? Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology (1/9) 🧵
🍅 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus spread worldwide. For >60 years, one resistance gene protected tomatoes. This virus broke through. A second gene confers resistance. The same viral target? Convergent evolution? Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology (1/9) 🧵
How to kill peer review: ask already swamped academics to review a Sanger Tree of Life genome “data note”. What am I meant to review? What am I meant to comment? “Cool taxon”? Automate routine technical checks. Use AI. Srsly, people. Get real. wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...
fungalgenomes.org/wrifo/direct... Women Researchers in Fungi and Oomycetes is a resource for identifying speakers.
WRIFO directory
Tools, data, and notes for researchers working on fungal and oomycete genomes.
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I just published: The night shift in the greenhouse A night-blooming cactus, a time-lapse, and the case for hosting artists in the lab. kamounlab.medium.com/the-night-sh...
The night shift in the greenhouse
A night-blooming cactus, a time-lapse, and the case for hosting artists in the lab.
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Very happy to have been part of the @kamounlab.bsky.social My time there as a predoc was a life changing experience 🙏🏽
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 6d agoThis Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...
Thank you for continuous your support, Sophien! It's been a blast (^^) to be part of the @kamounlab.bsky.social
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 6d agoThis Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...
Happening today! UPES Seminar Organizers CGSB | New York University Abu Dhabi Speaker: Professor Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory Title: Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup of NLR Immune Receptors Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m. UAE time docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The UAE Plant and Environment Society (UPES) unites leading scientists, researchers, environmental advocates, and community members from across the Gulf to explore critical issues in plant biology, ec...
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SOP: How to make a proper Cornish cream tea—by Lauren Ryder
The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on 27th-28th January at ExCeL London Registration is free for over 90% of attendees — sign up now to join me in January! hubs.la/Q04z76nC0
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 6d agoI’m looking forward to be speaking at The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on 27th-28th January at ExCeL London Registration is free for over 90% of attendees — sign up now to join me in January! #FOG2027 #genomics #biodata hubs.la/Q04z76nC0
I’m looking forward to be speaking at The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on 27th-28th January at ExCeL London Registration is free for over 90% of attendees — sign up now to join me in January! #FOG2027 #genomics #biodata hubs.la/Q04z76nC0
The Festival of Genomics and Biodata London
The UK’s largest Life Sciences event returns to London
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Being part of Kamounity has been absolutely transformative. Thank you, Sophien, for the incredible time and energy you put in, day in and day out, to train and mentor us; not just to become better scientists, but to understand what it really means to be a scientist: “Je cherche à comprendre.”
This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...
This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute
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A cheeky #fungi foray after work yielded ten waxcap species, one of them Garlic, new to me. My son’s first time of seeing red & pink waxcaps, he absolutely loved it!!! 🥰 🔁 from top left Scarlet, Ballerina, Honey, Blackening, Glutinous, Slimy, Parrot, Golden, Garlic & Snowy. #FungiFriends 🍄 📸
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Keep track of global policy developments in plant breeding technologies with this useful resource from @SeedFed (International Seed Federation). Thanks to @Belhaj_Khaoula for sharing! worldseed.org/wp-content/u...
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Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last wk.Most markets now treat gene editing ( GE) as equivalent to conventional plant breeding /viq Tom Adams @pairwise
Most markets now treat gene editing ( GE) as equivalent to conventional plant breeding /viq Tom Adams @pairwise
Starting now: The inaugural TSL Roger Freedman Award Lecture – Tom Adams CEO and Co-Founder of Pairwise
