We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

jic.ac.uk

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

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Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping

Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

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Excited to attend my 1st ISMPMI conference, and present our work on a paired wheat CNL/MLKL receptor mechanism! 🌾 Come chat to me at my poster on Tuesday, P-050! 📜 If you miss my poster session, I will be talking in: Crop resistance genetics and genomics on Wednesday - 16:25-16:35!

Shedding light on the structure-function mechanisms of LRR-RPs. Our research merges #AlphaFold3, years of literature and functional validation to reveal diverse ligand-binding mechanisms and a conserved co-receptor association mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social and his teammates who won the #AI track at @nucleate.bsky.social UK PlantHack with @aria-research.bsky.social. The 2-day hackathon brough together scientists from across the UK to reimagine UK agriculture with AI & synthetic biology.

Hi everyone! I’m new to Bluesky. At the beginning of the year, I moved to Zurich @UZH_en to start a postdoc with #CyrilZipfel and @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, investigating protein phosphorylation in plants 🌱 If you’re nearby or working on something similar, let’s connect 😀

Next London Cell-free Biological Product Meeting: 🗓️ Monday, 16th June 2025 (1-5 pm) 📍 Imperial College London, South Kensington ✨ Keynote: Prof. Keith Pardee (Toronto) Limited talk slots available 📝 Register: forms.office.com/e/dbW6hJacmS #Cell-free #Biotech #ImperialCollege #UCL

Last night, the House of Lords debated Gene Edited plants. Green party members spoke much nonsense, including likening GE to "a child dismantling a clock and throwing the pieces into a microwave to see what happens." You can find a debate transcript here: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...

Amendment to the Motion

Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025 - <i>Motion to Approve</i> &ndash; in the House of Lords at 7:45 pm 6 May 2025

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My group has newly joined Imperial, and I have a great team: Dr Molly Bergum, Charlotte Woolley, and Alexandra Butulan. We focus on the biosynthesis of natural products for the antimicrobials and resistance area, using both engineered microbes and cell-free systems @mollybergum.bsky.social

It is real! 🤩 I can touch it (after I printed it). Huge Congrats to everyone involved! 😀

Tonni Andersen@tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

jic.ac.uk

Pls repost 🚨I'm looking for someone excited about #proteindesign and #synbio to join my lab @Durham_Uni at the CPBM @cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social to undertake a PhD using #synthetic knottins as novel #bioinsecticides. If you're interested please get in touch and check out the advert below 👇

Big shoutout to the incredible women in our lab—you inspire us every day 💪 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science @shaniakeh.bsky.social organised a Wikipedia Editathon at TSL- dedicated to creating pages for incredible women scientists and spotlighting their contributions to the advancement of plant science 🌱 🌍👩‍🔬

I had great fun hosting this! Huge thanks to the attendees for the really engaging session, everyone chipped in their effort and time (on a rainy evening). We can’t wait for the page we worked on to be out soon!

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science @shaniakeh.bsky.social organised a Wikipedia Editathon at TSL- dedicated to creating pages for incredible women scientists and spotlighting their contributions to the advancement of plant science 🌱 🌍👩‍🔬

www.nature.com/articles/s41... See our new review in Cell Death and Differentiation led by Matthew Wengler on regulated cell death in Magnaporthe @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Mechanisms of regulated cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae - Cell Death & Differentiation

Cell Death & Differentiation - Mechanisms of regulated cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

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New review from ⁦‪Berlaine Quime ⁦‪and Lauren Ryder‬⁩ highlighting live cell imaging of plant infection. ⁦ ‬⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Plant diseases claim about 30% of the global harvest of all crops. Controlling plant diseases in a sustainable manner is therefore vital to ensure global food security. Recent advances in live cell i...

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Some wonderful news for the UK bioeconomy! UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings - on.ft.com/4gOyKQb via @FT #plantgene

UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings

Environment secretary tells FT that moves to adopt technology are ‘the right thing to do’

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Thrilled to share our work on an unusual EXO70 clade unique to grasses and grass-like species 🌾! (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Putative neofunctionalization of a Poales-specific EXO70 clade

EXO70s are uniquely expanded in land plants compared to all other eukaryotic lineages. The functional implications of this expansion and diversification on the conserved role of EXO70 as a subunit of ...

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An immune signalling holiday tale: A Poales-specific EXO70 clade doesn't fit in with the extended family. #PlantScience

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

Putative neofunctionalization of a Poales-specific EXO70 clade https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.13.628418v1