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Alex McClelland
@alexjmcclelland.bsky.social
Postdoctoral scientist working at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Runner, musician, and baseball player probably staring at maps right now.
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New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens.
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen
Plants secrete a variety of proteases as a defense response during infection by microbial pathogens. However, the relationship between their catalytic activities and antimicrobial functions remains la...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Alex McClelland
🚨 PhD Opportunity!

🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!

👨‍🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social

📅 Apply by January 6th

🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 Please share!
#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology
Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Very pleased to have passed my PhD viva today! Thank you Núria and @jonathandgjones.bsky.social for serving as my examiners and to Wenbo for your supervision and guidance! Has been a really great experience at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social!

Photo courtesy of @stephbornemann.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM