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 TurboID-based proximity labelling method for detecting extracellular protein interactions in plants

The apoplast is a primary location for interactions between plants and invasive pathogens and is the site where many pathogen-secreted effectors are perceived by cell surface immune receptors to activ...

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I recently had a fantastic opportunity to present my work with Dr @graemekettles.bsky.social and Dr @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social at the International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights (ISCLB 2026) in the beautiful town of Banff, Canada 🇨🇦

Happy IPO323 day for those who celebrate. The reference isolate of Zymoseptoria, fished out of a Dutch wheat field 45 years ago today!

The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫

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!

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

Congrats to @zymohaider.bsky.social on passing his PhD viva with flying colours, very well deserved! Many thanks to Christine Foyer and @feechana.bsky.social for examining and Richard Oliver for a nice sideline in 6th edition Agrios. Well done Haider! @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

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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 🎓🌱

Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecular mimicry of plant cell-surface immune receptors by fungal secreted leucine-rich repeat proteins

Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs) are important plant immunity proteins. The wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici produces many virulence effectors during infection; however, m...

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A female phylloxera and eggs inside her gall on a grape leaf. Inserting her mouthparts into mesophyll, she altered the developmental fate of pluripotent stem cells. Image credit Sarah Melissa Witiak. Jack C. Schultz, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

I still marvel at gene synthesis. You come up with a nonsense protein that you want to express for whatever reason, copy paste it adding some bells and whistles, then a few weeks later it turns up in a plasmid ready for you to play with!