📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible) 🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics 📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded) 📍 South Kensington, on site ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk 🔗 kourelislab.com #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

Excited to share our latest work on plant immune receptor biochemistry! @kamounlab.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social Jose Salguero Linares @danielluedke.bsky.social @adnroide.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#PlantChemetics #2025ISMPMI

Chewing the fat with old colleagues @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social #ismpmi2025

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam! Huge thanks to @o-sulkowski.bsky.social and the whole team for their hard work and dedication. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧵 🥬 Lettuce begin! Super excited to share our new manuscript on contrasting patterns of evolution in sensor and helper NLRs in the NRC network! Tune in for some plant immunology and molecular evolution… 🌱🧬💻 (1/14) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.freepatentsonline.com/y2025/003458... Pikobodies can directly target effectors, not only GFP or mCherry. An impressive technology from @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social

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.

This pretty much settles it: we're entering the era of low-cost, on-demand binders for everything Excited to see what people build now that "inject a llama with some junk and bleed it a month later" is no longer the cutting-edge tech www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

📢 PhD Opportunity in my lab on Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at @imperiallifesci.bsky.social 🌱 Start: October 2025 📅 Deadline: 12th January 2025 🇬🇧 Open to UK students 💰 Fully funded ℹ️ More info: tinyurl.com/w6ap9v9f ❗ #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Please share with interested candidates!

🌿 Excited to share our latest research on how host proteases regulate immune activation! Read more about how SBT5.2 releases and inactivates flg22: www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/d1UsT Congratulations to all involved! #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #PlantChemeticsLab

New!!!👇 #NLRbiology Kudos @amiralito_ @ryoheiterauchi @YuSugiharaY

Can AI modelling of protein structures distinguish between sensor and helper NLR immune receptors? biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

📜 A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization 🧑‍🔬 Nick Dunken, @algazuccaro.bsky.social, et al. 📔 Cell Host & Microbe 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

New Preprint! Excited to share our method for profiling light elements in plant tissues using XRF. Fast, cost-effective, and no extraction needed—perfect for stress-related studies in plants. Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PlantScience #XRF #Innovation

Thank you Simon @SimonStael for hosting me today in Uppsala to talk to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences @_SLU students about GOHREP and how to science in general. Great discussions! kamounlab.medium.com/gohrep-and-p...

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.

Last few days to apply for a PhD studentship in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

📣 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...

📄 NEW PUBLICATION: Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome @amiralito.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social @m_selvaraj @mhz1989 @HsuanPai1 www.tsl.ac.uk/publications... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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!

We're looking for a postdoc to join our team. If you are fascinated by mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication in plants, get in touch to find out more. #PlantScience www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

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

One bacterial NLR recognizing three different phage proteins vis direct interaction! How cool is that? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

First steps on Bluesky.... Let's test how it works by re-sharing Klokhuis Dutch national kids TV broadcast on our Netherlands Plant Ecophenotyping Centre: hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin... #PlantScience

New paper from Simon Snoeck, Oliver Johanndrees, Thorsten Nürnberger & Cyril Zipfel. "Plant pattern recognition receptors: from evolutionary insight to engineering" #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Looking forward to a new platform for science! Help me build my #cryoEM #STEM network after jumping ship.

There are even more here, btw: go.bsky.app/H3986W6

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

Very nice work by Liam Elliott et.al. from the Kirchhelle lab on the role of cell edges in the control of plant growth and morphogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience #plantdevelopment #plantbiology 🌾🧪

Bioengineering secreted proteases converts divergent Rcr3 orthologs and paralogs into extracellular immune co-receptors

📄 New Preprint: Functional divergence shaped the network architecture of plant immune receptors. @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @amiralito.bsky.social @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

📜 Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome 🧑‍🔬 Muniyandi Selvaraj, @kamounlab.bsky.social, @nlrpapi.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantEffectors

US NIH recommends $14k boost to postdoc salary to keep positions competitive. That's a ~25% increase. Sorely needed if academia wants to retain the talent needed to remain at the leading edge of the pursuit of knowledge. #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

📜 A decaploid pitcher plant genome reveals a novel role for recessive subgenomes 🧑‍🔬 Kenji Fukushima 📔 @natureplants.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #CarnivorousPlants #PlantShape #NepenthesGracilis #PitcherPlant

Just published: CryoEM structure of a helper NLR!

To what extent is plant immunity organ-specific? Find out in this paper by Daniel @daniel_luedke et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A root-specific NLR network confers resistance to plant parasitic nematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.14.571630v1

It seems we can now gene edit important plant pathogens like Xanthomonas and P. syringae! Yan et al. (2023) used FnCas12a and exogenous NHEJ proteins to allow the bacteria to repair the DSBs. Check it out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #plantimmunity

Updated version: We now show the suitability of our wheat protoplast assay for 7 avriulence effectors from 3 different wheat pathogens some not inducing HR. Our assay also works for extracellular recognition as shown by AvrStb6. Enjoy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is our latest preprint. Fusions of Cas9 to specific viral 5' exonucleases increase homology directed repair 30-fold in transient and 10-fold in stable transformations. Making non-selectable knock-ins and gene replacements possible. Congrats to the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yesterday was my last day at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social! Had a wonderful 3 years in the Ma lab 💚. Looking forward to the next adventure at Michigan State University #newPI #womaninSTEM

Are you excited about molecular biology of plant-light interactions? We have good news! We have extended the deadline for application to our tenure track position @WUR to 27 November. #plantscijobs

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