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Hsuan Pai 白暄 @hsuanpai.bsky.social · 20h

The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 20h

Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme

This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.

🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025

www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Rotation biology PhDs | John Innes Centre

Prestigious studentships, for entry in October 2022, this multi-disciplinary PhD programme includes; plant science, microbiology, biological chemistry, applied mathematics…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Omri Finkel עמרי عُمري 🎗️ @finkel-lab.bsky.social · 21h

Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Carving out the microbiota of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir

Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent is…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 22h

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

The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 23h

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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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 23h

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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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 1d

New posters up @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

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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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RheeLab @rheelab.bsky.social · 3d

Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

Open rank faculty positions available at MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/yy2kvt3n

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 2d

I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.

Top left = Mary and Cathie catch up over coffee and talk about books. Top right = Mary and Ciara take a photo opp in front of Cathie's world-renowned collection of Plant Cell covers. Middle = a fantastic, thoughtful, engaged group of ECRs who shared thoughts on writing and AI. Bottom, current, former, and maybe future Plantea Fellows after we shared our "origin stories" over lunch.

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 3d

Today, we welcomed Dr Ru Zhang as a visiting researcher in our lab! Ru is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University and an expert in plant–fungal interactions. She will be working with us for the next year on plant immune cell states.

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 6d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

www.science.org

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Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

www.cam.ac.uk

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

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

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

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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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 6d

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

www.science.org

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 7d

Our @TheSainsburyLab postdoc invited speaker is Megan McDonald @McdonaldMeganc — jumping genes and pathogenic schemes.

Prof. Megan will be joining @ETH_en in 2026!!!! 🎉 🥳 👏🏼 #planthealth #plantpath ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 10d

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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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 13d

Prof. Hiroaki Suga (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social) gave today’s Chatt Lecture at JIC/TSL – an inspiring journey into peptide design and beyond. Really exciting field!

www.jic.ac.uk/about-us/our...

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 14d

Single-cell multi-omic detection of DNA methylation and histone modifications reconstructs the dynamics of epigenomic maintenance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-cell multi-omic detection of DNA methylation and histone modifications reconstructs the dynamics of epigenomic maintenance - Nature Methods

This work presents scEpi2-seq, a method for simultaneous single-cell profiling of DNA methylation and histone modifications, enabling direct investigation of the interplay between these two epigenomic marks.

www.nature.com

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, Nick! So happy to be at TSL!

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks!!

Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks!!

Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 15d

Our lab is 1 year old! 🎂Celebrated with a casual lunch together 🎉

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · 15d

Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥

Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝

Vangeli on the stage as he started his personal introduction

Laura on the stage with pictures of typical food from Bologna, Italy, on the badkground. Depicted food included ragù alla bolognese, lasagne, tortellini and mortadella

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 16d

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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