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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 13h

Wonderful talk on natural Host-Induced Gene Silencing (nHIGS) - from fundamental mechanisms to exciting applications!

The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 14h

This morning Wenbo Ma, senior group leader at TSL, gave the first talk at our Annual Science Meeting, one of the highlights of our scientific year!

Find out more about the Ma lab: tsl.ac.uk/our-work/sci...

@johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Aleksander Szczurek @aleksszczurek.bsky.social · 19h

If you are a computational biologist come, apply and join Howard & Klose lab in a joint Norwich-Oxford collaboration on chromatin dynamics!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 19h

New posters up @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 1d

If you saw my talk on the population structure of #Aspergillus flavus at Fungal Genetics in 2024, you might have heard someone ask "how does Aspergillus oryzae fit into the picture?"
If so, you heard my answer was "wait and see--we're working on this exact topic"
Well, the wait is over! Preprint ⬇️

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d

Population-Specific Transcriptomic Shifts Underlie Secondary Metabolic Diversification in Aspergillus flavus and the Domestication of Aspergillus oryzae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680074v1

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 1d

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍

Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

#NBIAST2025

Mary Williams speaking on the stage. The slide projected behind her contains a satellite photo of half of the Earth, with a cartoon alien spaceship on the top left, and the title reads “What would aliens take home from earth?”

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 1d

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 7d

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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 1d

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value."
- John Gurdon

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 1d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 1d

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan

bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv-molbio.bsky.social · 2d

Synchronous spatio-temporal control of autophagy and organelle trafficking is necessary for appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680644v1

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... “I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in Idaho”.

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 1d

Planet Fungi: A Photographers Foray - what is it? youtu.be/x92CvxZErhg?...

Planet Fungi: A Photographers Foray - what is it?

YouTube video by Planet Fungi

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 2d

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 2d

Atlantic sunrise

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 2d

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!

▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 3d

Kansas prairie today

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 4d

Great to be in Kansas State for a celebration of Barbara Valent’s career- what an impacts she’s had on rice blast research

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 5d

Above the clouds of Texas- on my way to Kansas City

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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 9d

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping

Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

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Michael Webster @michaelwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

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Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 7d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to

www.cam.ac.uk

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 9d

Great sessions at #IFBC25 on fungal manipulation of ant behaviour (Charissa de Bekker) and nematode behaviour (@fungi_worms and Reinhard Fischer) -highlighting the complex cellular eukaryotic processes that fungal effectors can perturb -remarkable insights from effector biology

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 9d

Cell cycle checkpoints are critical to plant infection by rice blast - great to see @osesmir.bsky.social building a research programme in Pamplona to address this #IFBC25 #CelebratingAlumni

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 10d

Nice to see Theophrastus taking centre stage over Galen and Hippocrates - need to show some funders this to remind them how important plants are! Cool being in Greece with the old gods #IFBC25

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 11d

Chania, Crete for #IFBC25

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IFBC_2025 @ifbc-2025.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣 IFBC-2025 is just around the corner!
Join us this Sept in Chania, Crete 🇬🇷 to connect with the fungal biology community 🍄

📅 Abstract deadline: July 25
🎓 Fee waivers for PhD students
🔗 ifbc2025.maich.gr
Let’s shape the future — together 🤝

#IFBC2025 #FungalBiology #Greece #Conference

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