Nick Talbot
@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast and work at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Views my own.
Eerie similarity between NodeGWAS and our gfa2bin tool. Uses same public data (curated by my lab), same comparison against previous method from my lab & even same programming language, Rust. gfa2bin preprint went online 5 months before NodeGWAS was submitted. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#MemoryLane #2019 Commentary by @KamounLab on the structure and activation mechanism of NLR type plant immune receptor ZAR1 solved by teams of scientists led by Jijie Chai, Jian-Min Zhou and Hong-Wei Wang youtu.be/WCv7ekhtsQ0?...
KamounLab ZAR1 Video 2019
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This generous donation supports our Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP3) campaign through the creation of a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural research facility: www.jic.ac.uk/news/the-wol...
The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from the Wolfson Foundation, supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultura...
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NEWS - The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems Alongside our partner @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, we are delighted to announce a £1.6m investment from @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social 🌱
High-Throughput Glycan Array Screening Reveals Rhamnogalacturonan-I as a ligand for Arabidopsis Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor Kinases Involved in Plant Immunity #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Mechanism of branched actin assembly at microtubule tips downstream of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) protein
PRESS RELEASE: The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems TSL & @johninnescentre.bsky.social are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural facility buff.ly/XSJYzjE
The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth…
The John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from the Wolfson Foundation, supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and…
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Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
How to spot AI writing
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
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Excited to see @puginiercamille.bsky.social presenting on secreted proteins in Xanthoria. I'm blown away by the work on algal cultures and protein-protein interaction modeling! #IAL10
Very happy to attend the 10th International Association for Lichenology symposium in Trieste ! #IAL10 And very honoured to be presenting tomorrow our work on lichenization in Xanthoria parietina
Inspiring keynote talk from Yvonne Pinto - Director-General of IRRI here highlighting the complementary expertise and partnership between @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and #IRRI to our Summer Conference, as we address global food security challenges
Today’s keynote speaker was Simona Radutoiu from Aarhus University, whom I had the pleasure of hosting. Amazing talk, followed by many great discussions!
Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 2w agoDay 4 keynote speaker is Patrick Shih from UC Berkeley on engineering plants. #TSLSummerConf2026
The artist formerly known as #thatmitoriboguy has now become #thatchlororiboguy Check out some cool tomo from @florentwaltz.bsky.social @phaips.vd.st
Florent Waltz@florentwaltz.bsky.social · last wk.This story is now published in @natplants.nature.com ! 🎉🎩 Check out the final article here: nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02361-1 Very similar to the original bioRxiv preprint, with the addition of some cool polysome analysis (in the supplementals)! Thanks and congrats to everyone involved! 🙏
Pavel Škaloud opens day two of #IAL10 with a riveting lecture on symbiosis from the distant mists of time up to the present. Nice to have this much emphasis on symbiosis at this IAL meeting!
Proud that @thesainsburylab.bsky.social alumna @metalichen.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at the IAL10 Congress presenting our effector investigation in Xanthoria. #celebratingalumni
10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology to be held in Trieste, Italy imafungus.pensoft.net/news/1318
10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology to be held in Trieste, Italy
The 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10) - organised by the International Association for Lichenology, the University of Trieste's Department of Life Sciences&nb...
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📍 The 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10) will be held in Trieste, Italy, from 26th to 31st July 2026. 👉 Find out more about the event by checking out our latest news announcement: imafungus.pensoft.net/news/1318 #IAL10
10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology to Be Held in Trieste, Italy
The 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10) - organised by the International Association for Lichenology, the University of Trieste's Department of Life Sciences&nb...
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After spending four blissful days in Croatia and acquiring a sizeable set of scratches and bruises from snorkling around sharp rocks, I'm finally heading to the International Association for Lichenology congress in Trieste! 10 years since the last in-person IAL, this is going to be a blast! #IAL10
Our newest review on septins as makers & breakers of membrane contacts in J Neurochem Fun writing with new PhD grad (and FASEB Septin Conference A/V Assistant Extrordinaire) TJ Holt Thanks @mcmurraylab.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social for input. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Septins in the Middle—Makers and Breakers of Membrane Contact Sites
Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins that assemble into heteromeric oligomers and polymers, associating with specific membrane domains and organelles according to their subunit composition. G...
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It was great to host you @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thank you for your inspiring seminar and all the exciting discussions @algazuccaro.bsky.social
Team_Zuccaro@algazuccaro.bsky.social · 2w agoLovely evening! Thank you Wenbo and Nick for the warm hospitality and the excellent science. @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social.
Fusarium oxysporum infection activates ABA signaling to drive root vascular remodeling, creating structural barriers that restrict pathogen spread. Developmentally encoded defense. #PlantImmunity www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Status of #Phytophthora infestans populations in Europe updated. Helping late blight IPM on potato crops. Sunshine may be a good fungicide but I imagine many thirsty crops about. @hutton.ac.uk EuroBlight final data release, 2025 share.google/PhwBZllqrWdE...
EuroBlight final data release, 2025
EuroBlight announce the final results of 2025 monitoring – despite the low blight pressure 2025 season over 1700 samples from 27 countries across Europe were genotyped.
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Following today’s news, check out this timely letter by Luis Larrondo @lflarrondo. Published in one of Chile’s leading national newspapers: what is the cost of not supporting science? 🇨🇱🧫 (English translation below) www.latercera.com/cartas-al-di...
Ciencia: gasto y costo - La Tercera
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Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 3w agoScience isn’t just a cost. It’s an engine of economic growth. The UK treats scientific R&D as distinct industry in national accounts. It’s ~0.7% of economy, yet ONS identified it as biggest contributors to GDP growth in May after it expanded by 5.1% vs 0.1% overall stocks.apple.com/Aa-EfoztMSEi...
🌼 We look forward to hosting Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, a postdoc at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Nicholas has been awarded the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award, check out his website to find out more! 🔬
🧬 #MicrobialGenomics ECR Symposium is officially underway! This morning's fantastic talks: 🧬 Selvi Ergin 🦠 Joshua Horton 🍄 Julia Boogh 🎤 Prof Jonathan Todd @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social
Collaborative project with Leah Cowen lab, led by Bradley Laflamme, on the Beta-Carboline, 1-CABC and its efficacy as an antifungal and potential strobilurin agonist. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @utoronto.ca journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A β-carboline natural product induces oxidative stress in Fusarium graminearum and limits the virulence of multiple fungal phytopathogens | mBio
Fungal diseases are a major threat to global food production, and many crop pathogens are becoming resistant to existing fungicides. This study identifies a promising new strategy to combat these infe...
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Big surprise just out from our lab. Transcriptome from A. fumigatus conidiophore made at 50C is upregulated for MAT1-1. Why is this sexual master regulator up in asexual development? Maybe priming future progeny for survival? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Temperature during Aspergillus fumigatus conidiophore development primes spore transcriptome for asexual, parasexual or sexual development
Aspergillus fumigatus is a thermotolerant saprobe found in soils and plant debris worldwide and an important pathogen of humans causing two million deaths annually. A. fumigatus makes abundant asexual...
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