Jiorgos Kourelis
@jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social
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Imperial College London. Exploring plant-microbe interactions & receptor-dependent immunity. Bioinformatics, evolution, synthetic biology. #PlantScience #Bioengineering https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/j.kourelis
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samtmugford.bsky.social
Chewing the fat with old colleagues @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social #ismpmi2025
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Abstract submission is now open for the IS-MPMI meeting in Cologne, Germany in July. You could consider submitting to the “Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function” session co-chaired by myself and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social 😁. Submission deadline 11 March.
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tolgaboz.bsky.social
Our first annual lab Christmas/New Year dinner together with @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social lab. Amazing food, fantastic company, and a wonderful team. Excited for another year of great discoveries ahead!
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adsteinbrenner.bsky.social
Reintroducing myself on Bluesky @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social -- I'm a plant biologist at UW Seattle (just recently made Associate Professor!)

We study the plant immune system with a special interest in recognition of chewing herbivores and host-pest molecular evolution.
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frankmenke.bsky.social
📣 PhD opportunity at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Norwich, UK.
"Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus" with Dr Frank Menke and Nick Talbot
@FrankMenke.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social

Apply before 25 Nov 2024! ⬇️
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...
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tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
Had a fantastic visit to Tübingen! Enjoyed discussions with the wonderful people at MPI @galofir.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social (anyone else on this platform 🤔?). A big thank you to Shanshan Wang for nominating me for a prestigious seminar series. Special thanks to Honour for the tour!
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natplants.nature.com
New Article: "The complete genome assembly of Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the genetic and epigenetic landscape of centromeres" rdcu.be/d0h6Q

...revealing the structure, epigenetic landscape and evolutionary dynamics of its centromeres following allotetraploidization. #PlantScience
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soreklab.bsky.social
Happy to see our paper out @ Nat Comm

We discovered a bacterial NLR-like pattern recognition receptor that can sense 3 different viral proteins as a signature for infection. This explains its broad defense against different phage families

Congrats Nathalie Béchon!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Diversification of molecular pattern recognition in bacterial NLR-like proteins - Nature Communications
Avs proteins are bacterial anti-phage pattern recognition receptors evolutionarily related to eukaryotic NLRs. Here, Béchon et al show that a single bacterial Avs can recognize different phage protein...
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