Very happy to receive the Best Talk Prize at #PPRM2026! Thanks so much to the organizers and everyone who made the meeting such a great experience. Excited to keep pushing the project forward within the GreenRobust framework! @greenrobust.de @as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social

GreenRobust@greenrobust.de · 3w ago

Xu Wang from Andreas Schaller’s (@as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social) group has received the Best Talk Prize at the Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting (PPRM2026) for his work on new systemins in tomato. Congratulations!

Great talk by @draegermarkus.bsky.social from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics team talking at the PPRM2026 meeting on an NLR guarding a MKKK involved in receptor-mediated signalling. #ProudTeamleader

Mariana Schuster@marischuster.bsky.social · 4w ago

No membrane receptors or peptides but lots of interesting insights into NLR biology from @draegermarkus.bsky.social from @frankmenke.bsky.social lab #PPRM2026

Very nice PPRM2026 ( Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting) closes in Freising. Organised by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @kpkinase.bsky.social

@receptora.bsky.social from the Parys group shares aspects of their recently published analysis on SymRK-like receptors #PPRM2026

#PPRM2026 starts now! Thanks to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social et al for organizing! I look forward to 3 days with this lovely community!

No membrane receptors or peptides but lots of interesting insights into NLR biology from @draegermarkus.bsky.social from @frankmenke.bsky.social lab #PPRM2026

🎥 NEW INTERVIEW: Meet Nicholas Gawuga, predoctoral intern in the Proteomics team with @frankmenke.bsky.social Watch to learn about what he does in the lab and his passions outside the lab! 🔬🥼 #predoc #scientistlife #TSLminiinterviews

Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions - Nature Plants

This study reports a bivalent factor, ULTRAPETALA1, that can counteract as well as promote PRC2 activity at hundreds of developmental genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The pro-PRC2 activity of ULTRAPETAL...

nature.com

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

mpipz.mpg.de

It took some time, but we are thrilled to present the first major outcome of our @erc.europa.eu ERC DIRNDL AdG project: Evgeniya Pukhovaya @epukh.bsky.social and others in our team describe the discovery of a mechanism for polar protein targeting in plants (1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Systematic proteomics identifies a conserved mechanism for polar targeting of plant cortical proteins

Multicellular development is tightly coupled to the polarization of individual cells, which partitions polar proteins along the cell cortex and can control asymmetric cell division, anisotropic growth...

biorxiv.org

#PlantProteostasis is maintained by #ubiquitin E3 ligases, especially during #PlantImmunity. We discovered that HECT-type ligases unexpectedly amplify their regulatory reach over the proteome by governing the stabilities of both E3 ligases and their substrates, thereby regulating immune activation.

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2mo ago

HECT-type ligases facilitate autoubiquitination and degradation of other ubiquitin ligases to activate plant immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.06.743213v1

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

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

science.org

#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...

science.org

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

scim.ag

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...

cell.com

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