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

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈 While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Remember you're most likely arguing with bots and that the propaganda machine is hard at work making you believe there are more of them than there are of us. #Resist

We’re a bunch of amateur psychologists… #AcademicChatter #phdchat

I'm thrilled to share that, thanks to The Fernand Lambein Fund, managed by @K_B_Foundation, I shall attend the IFLRC-APC Conference in Perth, Western Australia 😁 I could not be more grateful for this opportunity to showcase my new work in Lathyrus sativus 🫛 Stay tuned! 📻 iflrc-apc2025.com

ITQB NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal) has a new Master course in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture, and applications are OPEN! 🫛🫒🫘🌽🥬 You can find all the information you need here itqb.unl.pt/education/ma... Please share so it reaches people who might be interested! @itqbnova.bsky.social

First post on Bluesky!! ☀️ Very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The full story is summarized here:

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

I’m super excited to share my first first-author paper! 🥳 We found that different accessions of Lathyrus sativus respond differently to Erysiphe pisi powdery mildew infection. All aboard the paper thread! 1/13 🧵👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla... @itqbnova.bsky.social

Check out this great general review in Nature on “Fungal impacts on Earth’s Ecosystems - by the CIFAR consortium. @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @funguscrous.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @microbita.bsky.social @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

I want to dare you not to make an #ODAP question whenever you listen to a #Lathyrus sativus talk, I promise it's a fun exercise! 😅 For those who still do not know, lathyrism only occurs if you eat a grass-pea-only diet, which will NOT happen with how we eat. Stop the stigma!! 🛑 Lathyrus is great 😁

New free ILS webinar, "Lathryus germplasm characterization and breeding" with Carlota Vaz Patto (ITQB-UNL, Portugal). Wednesday Dec 11, 2024, 4pm CET (UTC+1) www.legumesociety.org/ils-webinars... Webinar hosted by CREA research. #legumes #Lathryus #research #agriculture #proteins