Excited to see this work now available as a preprint. It has been a rewarding project exploring how TurboID can be adapted to study extracellular PPIs in plants.

Graeme Kettles@graemekettles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our group's latest preprint shows TurboID can be adapted for studying extracellular elicitor-receptor interactions in plants. Hopefully useful for the apoplastic MPMI community www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by former PhD @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social

A bittersweet day as we say goodbye to @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social who's off to Cologne to postdoc with @izzysaurlab.bsky.social. It's been a pleasure to have you with us Abdo, can't wait to see what you achieve next. Just watch out for those obligate biotrophs!

Thrilled to share that I’ve passed my PhD viva! 🎓✨ One chapter of my academic life is complete, and I’m looking forward to the next one. Thanks to my supervisor Graeme kettles and examiners Dan Gibbs and Kostya Kanyuka for their valuable feedback.

Graeme Kettles@graemekettles.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social on passing your PhD viva! A huge amount of work and an excellent thesis on host and non-host resistance to Zymoseptoria and TurboID. Many thanks to @djgibbs.bsky.social and Kostya Kanyuka as examiners

The Grand Egyptian Museum opens today , the world’s largest, with 100,000+ artifacts including the full King Tutankhamun collection. Next to the Giza Pyramids. 🎥 Live on TikTok ~5 PM (UK): www.tiktok.com/@grandegypti... 🇪🇬🤩

Glad to have participated in #PPATH2025 last week, sharing my work on proximity labeling in the apoplast as part of the ECPP talks, one last time before wrapping up my PhD 🎓🌱

I am truly grateful for the opportunity to participate in such a wonderful meeting.

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

Interested in TurboID-based biotinylation? Come by during the poster session at #NPNextgen this afternoon- happy to chat and share more!

Believe it or not, I was a professional boxer from the age of 14 before moving into academia. Funny how experiences from such a different world can end up shaping the way I think and work as a researcher😃.

Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿

Just received my AFHEA certificate! Excited to be recognised for my commitment to teaching & supporting learning in higher education.📚 #AFHEA #HEA #PhDLife

Grateful for the chance to share our recent apoplast proximity labelling work at #2025ISMPMI ,great discussions with colleagues from around the world!

🌿 Thrilled to share that I made it to the MPMI Conference—just in time! Grateful for this last-chance opportunity and so excited to connect and communicate with the incredible plant–microbe interaction community. #MPMI2025

Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Today marked the main assessment of Septoria tritici blotch (#Zymoseptoria tritici) in our #wheat varietal mixture trial @inrae-bioger.bsky.social #ARVALIS at Versailles #COMBINE #MOBIDIV.

Frédéric Suffert@wheatpath.bsky.social · 2y ago

First #Zymoseptoria tritici inoculation with 🌞 for the 2nd year of our #wheat varietal mixture trial @arvalis.bsky.social @inrae-bioger.bsky.social at Versailles #COMBINE #MOBIDIV.

Norwich has a great structural biology community, join us :)

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Tweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection

Nature Microbiology - Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals phenotypic heterogeneity to enable bacterial specialization over the course of plant colonization.

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So nice to see more and more work on visualizing interactions to dive into replication cycles… here with acanthamoeba and giant viruses ! Congrats @willemsenanouk.bsky.social !

Anouk Willemsen@willemsenanouk.bsky.social · last yr.

New work out! Spearheaded by Lotte, we have developed a single-molecule messenger RNA fluorescence in situ hybridisation (smFISH) protocol for #giantViruses in an #Acanthamoeba host. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1/4 #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky @dome-vienna.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Wow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome