Excited to preprint this collaborative study led by @adamrbentham.bsky.social in which computationally-designed protein binders were generated that recognise pathogen effectors leading to a plant immune response when deployed within NLR immune receptors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Computational design of de novo integrated domains enables rational control of pathogen effector recognition in plant NLR immune receptors.

The rapid evolution of plant pathogens poses a persistent threat to global agricultural sustainability, often outpacing the discovery and deployment of natural disease resistance genes. While bioengin...

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Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Honoured & humbled to have won the global #KeystoneAward for 'Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring' www.keg.com/keystone-awa... A HUGE thank you to all the amazing #ECRs I have been privileged to work with & who wrote such heart-felt testimonials 🙏 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity

The type II secretion (T2S) system is conserved across the Xanthomonas lineage, yet its contributions to pathogenicity and secreted protein repertoires are poorly defined. We demonstrate that T2S syst...

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Why are fungicides failing and what happens next? Prof Richard Oliver breaks it down TODAY. 🕐 1 pm 📍 G44 Physics, Bristol 💻 Online: t.co/aIo5bwG3dr

Why are fungicides failing and what happens next? Prof Richard Oliver breaks it down TODAY. 🕐 1 pm 📍 G44 Physics, Bristol 💻 Online: t.co/aIo5bwG3dr

Next we have @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social from the University of Bristol. Today he will talking about how plants regulate bacterial infections. #NRPDTP26

📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible) 🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics 📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded) 📍 South Kensington, on site ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk 🔗 kourelislab.com #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

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Fungicide resistance: global, complex, and urgent. Prof Richard Oliver breaks it down next Monday in his seminar. 📅 22 June, 1 pm 📍 G44 Physics, Bristol All welcome 🔬

Disruption of polyphenol oxidases in Nicotiana benthamiana avoids browning and crosslinking in leaf extracts Zheng et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plants use immunogenic peptides to coordinate immunity. Pathogens can mimic them to hijack defense. 🌱 We compare phytocytokines with animal cytokines and ask how these signals are made, released, mimicked, and controlled in space and time. doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Protease meets receptor control: NbRD21 tunes RLK homeostasis in N. benthamiana, shaping immunity to P. syringae. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌿 Amazing talk by Prof Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (@yoselin.bsky.social) on Callose & Plasmodesmata! PhD opportunity available 🚨 apply by March 26! Join the vibrant @blackinplantsci.bsky.social community!

👀 A Specific Sinorhizobium Flagellin Suppresses Legume Nodulation Through Immune Activation doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

A Specific Sinorhizobium Flagellin Suppresses Legume Nodulation Through Immune Activation

Bacterial flagellin-activated immunity plays a crucial role in shaping plant-microbe interactions, leading to either parasitism, mutualism, or commensalism. In the legume-rhizobium symbiosis, while i....

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Pathogen-inspired engineering of plant protease enhances late blight resistance | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exciting PhD positions on plant immunity and engineering plant disease resistance with an excellent supervisor @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social. Strongly recommend.👇

Jiorgos Kourelis@jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

I'm excited to see this out after hearing Matt give a nice seminar a few months ago. Ralstonia is such an interesting pathogen! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The EPS-I exopolysaccharide transforms Ralstonia wilt pathogen biofilms into viscoelastic fluids for rapid dissemination in planta | PNAS

Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) pathogens cause destructive plant wilt diseases of a wide variety of crops, leading to significant ag...

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🆕 version work @sylvain-vicente.bsky.social and collaborators #BIOSP #MathNum @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Re-evaluation of STAMP modelling, introducing time-resolution. Works also on Animal-bacterial infection models. #infection #Ralstonia #Pseudomonas #Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My poster on flower bioengineering at the #AIEBaB26 conference in Bristol last week 🌹 🧬 ✨

Book a 30-minute appointment with a #TAIR team member! Whether you are new to TAIR and want to learn about our features and functionality, or an experienced user with specific questions or feedback, we're here to help! 🧪 bit.ly/45MFg6z #plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci

TAIR invites you to open office hours in January, February, and March - Phoenix Bioinformatics

We’re excited to host a series of free open office hours for TAIR users on the third Tuesday of each month

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Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20th – 31st July…

Inviting Early Career Researchers to join international experts in discussing the latest approaches and discoveries in Plant-Microbe Interactions …

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If you work with R6K plasmids for transient DNA delivery, our latest SHARK strains might be of use! Work out at ACS Synthetic Biology led by Shivang Joshi and strains plus plasmids for their assembly will be available @addgene.bsky.social very soon! doi.org/10.1021/acss...

We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @ www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Saskia Hogenhout as the new BSPP President, whose pioneering research on plant-microbe-insect interactions is transforming our understanding of pathogen transmission and plant health. More about her work @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/people/saski...

If you are looking to integrate your latest genetic creation into the genome of your favourite bug, you might find our latest review now out in OUP Synthetic Biology useful. 🧬⚒️ Work led by Riesa Rohmat with input from Thea Irvine and Shivang Joshi. #genome #synbio doi.org/10.1093/synb...

🧬 How to stably integrate genetic circuits into genomes? Excited to share our review on genome integration strategies, key design considerations, and future directions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/synb... Congrats and thanks to all involved! Hope this helps the community. #SyntheticBiology

Emerging trends in genome integration tools for precision engineering of diverse bacterial species

Abstract. The ability to precisely insert DNA payloads into a genome enables the comprehensive engineering of cellular phenotypes and the creation of new b

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New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Very excited for this project with @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social! Will bring together a lot of exciting tools we have up and running in the lab for working with diverse biology and put them to use in building new technologies to trace gene expression across plants. 🧬 🔍 Applications open!

Pierre Buscaill@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚀 PhD opportunity! Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now! 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni

🚀 PhD opportunity! Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now! 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni

SynProm: Fast, Modular Spatio-Temporal Transcriptional Reporters for Plants (Plant BioDesign Bristol project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - SynProm: Fast, Modular Spatio-Temporal Transcriptional Reporters for Plants (Plant BioDesign Bristol project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...