Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art! Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts! Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...

DO-DIFFERENT. @uniofeastanglia Matt Dickinson #PPATH2025

Coconut lethal-yellowing type phytoplasma — Matt Dickinson #PPATH2025

Next up at #PPATH2025 is Erh-Min @erhminlai all the way from @IPMBSinica Taipei 🇹🇼 / optimising Agrobacterium for plant gene editing; cool use of a RUBY red readout assay See the preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A Shakespearean title for Jan van Kan our next speaker #PPATH2025 @WageningenUR 🇳🇱 #Botrytis

Now we have Chih-hang Wu @IPMBSinica Taiwan 🇹🇼 at #PPATH2025 — Fast and Furious: What happens after helper NLR immune receptors are activated to cause hypersensitive cell death. See paper doi.org/10.1101/2025...

My PhD student and my PhD supervisor showed up in matching outfits. Am I supposed to complete the set?

My two favorite Ethiopians 😍

The sequences of 91,366 NLR immune proteins from 230 superasterid genomes are now printed in 931 bound volumes #OpenScience #OpenPlantNLR

Also indexed on @ZENODO_ORG as an #OpenPlantNLR #NLRbiology dataset zenodo.org/records/1472...

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Atmende Endosymbionten ebnen den Weg in neue Lebensräume: Umweltmetagenome mitochondrien-ähnlicher #Endosymbionten können auch #Sauerstopff atmen und so den Wirten neue Lebenräume eröffnen. @einzeller.bsky.social & Kolleginnen in #Biospektrum @springernature.com link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

We are excited that the Earth BioGenome Project, a global network of scientists including those from the Sanger Institute, has mapped the second phase of its ambitious plan to sequence all 1.67 million known species on Earth by 2035. 👏 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/bi...

Another Preprint Pizza Party has come and passed! Students, postdocs and RAs from TSL and @johninnescentre.bsky.social gathered to discuss and review recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social articles 📝 Pizza kept the spirits high during this challenging task 🍕 #PreprintCommentClub #PreprintPizzaParty

Super-resolution live-cell mapping of protein-protein interactions using chemogenetic split reporters and STED microscopy Stephanie Board, Arnaud Gautier bioRxiv 2025.08.05.668682; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Engineering non-exponential proliferation in Escherichia coli using functionalized protein aggregates Ronald Van Eyken, Sam Jordens, Dries Oome, Kevin Broux, Abram Aertsen bioRxiv 2025.08.23.671898; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

1/13 🧵 Today, Bindcraft was published in @nature.com , one of the most famous AIs in biology for designing protein–protein interactions (PPI). In my opinion. Bindcraft represents one of the most important advances in the post–AlphaFold2 era.

This is a breakthrough for protein science🔥AFAIK this is the largest protein DB, with >100B seqs (3B clustered at 50%). New biology will come from LOGAN: new folds, topologies, etc. You can also improve your AlphaFold models by building better MSAs. Future AI models will also use LOGAN for training

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 👇

Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions. Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

First of the Friday Flower Concepts series coming tomorrow! 🌹✨ Can you guess the first flower?

"Little Flower" A Cryo-SEM portrait of my micro-rose depicting the flower as a sculpture of cells, fractured and frozen in time. Full image is 10k x 10k pixels.

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics. I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

🎉Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! 🧑‍🔬 @matteogravino.bsky.social, @samtmugford.bsky.social, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al., @johninnescentre.bsky.social #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity 📄 Read the full paper👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8QSRJ9...

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow… can’t believe it’s almost a year as a predoc 🧑‍🔬 @johninnescentre.bsky.social time flies so fast 🤯

Wow 🤩 🙏 @waltershhung Taiwanese bottarga—烏魚子 (ô͘-hî-á in Taiwanese Hokkien or wū yú zǐ in Mandarin) 🇹🇼

Genome-Wide (GW): an interactive browser for ultrafast chromosome-scale genomics data visualization. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Resource: "Transcription factor binding divergence drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation in maize" rdcu.be/esSwW Genome-wide comparative analysis of DNA binding for 200 transcription factors in two maize inbred lines.

New Article: "High-efficiency leucoplast transit peptides for manipulating plastid protein production" rdcu.be/esSAr With Research Briefing rdcu.be/esSBC

Our editors write: - Rainforest ecology: Resilience under prolonged drought rdcu.be/esSUV

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies doi.org/10.1038/d415... A comment on this @cellpress.bsky.social paper: "A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Photosynthetic cascade. The evolutionary invention of oxygenic photosynthesis by ancestral cyanobacteria forever changed life on Earth. On a warm sunny day, we can appreciate the beauty of cyanobacterial biofilms making oxygen we breathe. #BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware @ukbiofilms.bsky.social

Showcasing the awesomeness of flower genetics at The Royal Norfolk Show along with artist @hsuanpai.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Big moment for Dr* @reubenpjames.bsky.social presenting his final @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab meeting @johninnescentre.bsky.social. We're going to miss you buddy.

I think I’m opening a garden cafe …😂😂 but heyho! Loving it! I’m the luckiest person with all my friends around ♡

“Symbiosis: a need, a partner and a home” - subtitle of a section in the review below. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Dr @reubenpjames.bsky.social! latest PhD from @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

Me on the radio this morning talking about UK preparedness for #xylella, froghoppers and the BRIGIT project in the @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Springtime! The crocuses are starting to look great in the garden.

Our results indicate that mp10 is acting at the interface of PTI/DTI and ETI to manipulate plant immunity

We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@matteogravino.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social , @johninnescentre.bsky.social ) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.

Phosphorylated fungal effectors during Magnaporthe infection - a new story from Jave Bautista @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #CMINorwich25

Fascinating insight into biology of phytoplasma effectors and their induction of phyllody in plants using effectors like SAP05– which also identified a completely new form of regulated proteolysis @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #CMINorwich25

Great talk by @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on spatial multi-omic analysis of plant immunity and the discovery of distinct cellular immune states #CMINorwich25 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Jana Ordon and all coauthors!!! Our new study is published in @natureplants.bsky.social "Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota" (0/n) rdcu.be/eauzt

Valentines day came early in the @johninnescentre.bsky.social high-containment entomology facility

We just published: Eight things we learned in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Costa Rica is home to 5% of the world’s biodiversity. Here are eight fascinating natural history facts we discovered during a visit to this incredible country. Pura vida! link.medium.com/txa5vjvRXPb