PhD project on Blast Fungus host pentration open in my #Proteomics group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for an October 2026 entry. Collaborative project with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social. Deadline: 30th July. Open to Home Fee status applicants. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...

Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus (MENKE_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership

MENKE_S26DTP3

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PhD project on Blast Fungus host pentration open in my #Proteomics group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for an October 2026 entry. Collaborative project with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social. Deadline: 30th July. Open to Home Fee status applicants. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...

Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus (MENKE_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership

MENKE_S26DTP3

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

With new law, European Union can more quickly greenlight gene-edited crops www.science.org/content/arti...

With new law, European Union can more quickly greenlight gene-edited crops

Final political hurdle overcome, easing regulation of certain modified plants

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#Venus is over the #Moon!

COMMON MONKEY FLOWER (MIMULUS GUTTATUS) growing happily next the the pond in the courtyard at norwich research park @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Beautiful study by @thevirusmc.bsky.social and @plantophagy.bsky.social. Definitely worth a read 👇 Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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Welcome to MSc student DanielHaruna@bsky.social to the #Proteomics team TheSainsburyLaboratory@bsky.social

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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We want to wish Sir David Attenborough Hon FRSB a very happy 100th birthday today! A champion of biology and the natural world, we reflect on Sir David's contributions to the field and how he has supported the RSB over the years. Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/david-attenb...

What an amazing game of football. End to end, with so much individual quality. @kvaratskhelia_m and @Diaz_Luiz goals out of this world #PSGBAY

While King Charles III visits the White House, King Wilhelm Alexander of The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is on speed skates with his family to celebate his birthday on the 27th of April in Dokkum #KingsDay #Koningsdag #DutchTraditions

#GGFungi2026 Call for Projects is now closed. Thank you for your interest: 76 Applications from 18 countries!

A phosphorelay circuit drives extracellular alkalinization in receptor kinase-mediated immune and cell-wall damage signaling: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

A phosphorelay circuit drives extracellular alkalinization in receptor kinase-mediated immune and cell-wall damage signaling

Extracellular alkalinization is a hallmark of plant receptor activation, yet its mechanistic basis and signaling function remain unclear. Zhai et al. uncover a conserved phosphorelay circuit that regu...

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Thank you very much @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social for an inspiring talk at the Botanical Garden, Zurich last Friday. There is still so much to learn about plant immune responses at the single cell level! @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #IPMB #FridayForum

New preprint out! 🚀 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought. Thread 👇 #FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN! www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind... You can book hotel rooms at the venue here 👇

AI-tools to study fungal effector function introduced by ⁦‪@ahbucknell.bsky.social‬⁩ #Fungal26 #FungalAI @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Phosphoproteomic analysis of TOR signalling during appressorium development of Magnaporthe ⁦‪@mattwengler.bsky.social ‬⁩ #fungal26

Want to hear about gene regulation driving pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus? Come to my talk this afternoon at the Cell Wall Synthesis and Remodelling session at 16:40! Or my poster tonight! 🍄 #Fungal26

Kicking off #Magnafest26 is Juan Carlos de la Concepcion showing cryo-electron tomography of appressoria in blast #fungal26

Yvonne Scamarcia from Robbie Loewith's lab describing TOR function in Magnaporthe - a key likely regulator of appressorium morphogenesis via TORC1 and turgor control via TORC2 #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Magnagenes- an open science resource for the Magnaporthe research community with many new functions is being developed ⁦ @thesainsburylab.bsky.social ⁩ by Neha Sahu ⁩ #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Goodbye #Magnafest26, and hello #Fungal26! A big thanks to @osesmir.bsky.social and @frankmenke.bsky.social for organising this year’s meeting, as well as all the presenters! Looking forward to seeing the research in the greater fungal research community at FGC!

A potential signal for effector sorting via Uba4 translational control by @WilsonLab #magnafest26 #fungal26

Rachel Taylor describes role of the NDR kinase Cot1 in polarised growth and pathogenesis of blast #Magnafest26 #fungal26

Lenny Bonadei from Robbie Loewith's lab with a new high efficiency CRISPR-Cas9 system for editing in Magnaporthe enabling in-locus tagging and highly efficient mutagenesis. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Here is our very own 'PhosphoJave' Bautista introducing his family of phosphorylated fungal effectors and their potential regulation #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Euan Cawston on investigating the role of Mst7 and identifying potential scaffolds of the Pmk1 MAPK pathway #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Fabio Dos Santos Barbosa on dissecting the Sln1 turgor-sensor pathway and its role in appressorium function. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Aidan McVey on epigenetic regulation of Starships in blast. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26