Two great talks from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social among the hot topics at #fungalGRC2026 - @gaiagaliberti.bsky.social and our alumnus @neftalycm.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

The team from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social (and Zurich) at #FungalGRC2026 at Squam Lake in New Hampshire

With a bit of delay, but my latest work on engineering a sensor for plant proteolysis was published online in The Plant Cell (1/5).

Our latest work on immune receptor engineering for enhanced pathogen recognition is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... #NLRs #Effectors #Exo70

Engineering an Exo70 integrated domain of a barley NLR for improved blast resistance

Engineering the barley NLR RGH2 enhances recognition of blast pathogen effectors from rice and wheat, leading to improved disease resistance.

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Two great talks from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social among the hot topics at #fungalGRC2024 - @gaiagaliberti.bsky.social and our alumnus @neftalycm.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Switzerland and the UK making the most of their participation in the EU research funding initiatives with Switzerland tied with Germany for the largest number of grants in life science.

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.

The results of the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 buff.ly/uiU9x5K #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

No talk summaries at the Fungal GRS/C, but the GRS attendees do have a mascot we’ve adopted: Behold, the Lobfather! #FungalGRC

What an amazing #Fungal26✨ Feeling very inspired– thank you to everyone who shared science and ideas! Thank you to the organisers for my poster award, @gensocuk.bsky.social for sponsoring my attendance and huge thank you @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social for these past years! I will miss the Talbot Lab.

🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org @teamthomma.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation

Fungal effectors may have evolved from ancient antimicrobials, shaping plant microbiota and immunity during infection.

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Thanks, Nef! It was an honour to visit the University of Zurich as a postdoc-invited speaker. Great to catch up with so many people. The Botanical Garden was amazing!

Neftaly Cruz Mireles@neftalycm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

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

Join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fungal Cell and Molecular Biology Gordon Conference #GRC26 Oral presentations will be selected from abstracts. Limited places available. GRS 👉🏽 shorturl.at/vRdwY GRC 👉🏽 shorturl.at/pjhg0

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

I’ll be talking today at the #Fungal26 concurrent session: AI in Fungal Research. I’ll be presenting on protein design in M. oryzae at 15:20 in the Fred Farr Forum. I’ll also be presenting my poster (#651A) tonight - come say hi!

On my way to #Fungal26! I'll be speaking at #MagnaFest presenting work on regulation of Pmk1, a key component of fungal pathogenesis. If you wanna chat I'll be at poster 652A from 7pm on the 18th. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

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

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

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

Hot off the press! I'm thrilled to share that our paper "Unravelling the Maturation Pathway of a Eukaryotic Virus through Cryo-EM" has been published! Link to the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Nature is full of remarkable protein nanomachines, and now we can watch one more in action.

New Dispatch article on the multitude of fungal symbionts now being reported in lichens, led by @puginiercamille.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fungal symbioses: A multiplicity of fungi in the lichen union

Increasing evidence suggests that lichens are not just a partnership between one fungus and one alga or cyanobacterium but may contain multiple intera…

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Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥 @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Abstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉 Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence. More information www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html

There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social - PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit... - Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto... Earliest start date: 01/05/2026. We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!

Thank you @marischuster.bsky.social for accepting our invitation and for sharing with us your exciting science. The world of proteases is fascinating!

Mariana Schuster@marischuster.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was honored to be invited by the postdocs at the University of Zürich for a visit and a talk. The full schedule was far too short for so much great science and Zürich in spring is just lovely. Special thanks to @giurassicpark.bsky.social for the impeccable organization!

I was honored to be invited by the postdocs at the University of Zürich for a visit and a talk. The full schedule was far too short for so much great science and Zürich in spring is just lovely. Special thanks to @giurassicpark.bsky.social for the impeccable organization!

It was a pleasure to host you, @marischuster.bsky.social. Thank you for all the inspiring scientific discussions and sharing your protease fascination with us.

Mariana Schuster@marischuster.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was honored to be invited by the postdocs at the University of Zürich for a visit and a talk. The full schedule was far too short for so much great science and Zürich in spring is just lovely. Special thanks to @giurassicpark.bsky.social for the impeccable organization!

My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA: 🔹 Bioinformatics / AI 🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics 🔹 Proteomics Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 📅 Closing date: 27 February Apply via JIC website: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/ Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏

Postdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling.

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Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ubiquitin recognition integrates plant immune signaling by cell-surface and intracellular receptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.703835v1

Fantastic opportunity to join this exciting new group led by @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social . Cryo-ET of infection-related development in pathogenic fungi - including rice blast - an exciting, game-changing prospect. Apply below 👇

Juan Carlos De la Concepcion@delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

PhD position in biology (m/f/d) (1/2026)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a PhD position in Biology

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📢 Job alert! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, junior group leader at #ZMBP, has 2 open positions (PhD and postdoc) to investigate appressoria formation in plant pathogenic #fungi using #cryoEM and #cryoET #EmmyNoether #MPMI #plantscijob More info 👇

Juan Carlos De la Concepcion@delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...