The latest paper from our work on DMR6. Genetic suppression of growth reduction in the Arabidopsis dmr6_dlo1 mutant. Results of the forward genetics screen by Tijmen van Butselaar💪🏻. Interested… read the paper😄. onlinelibrary.willen.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post! Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫 🌱 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @microsky.bsky.social @plantsky.bsky.social

Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us! Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday. (*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢 The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

VACANCY - We’re recruiting for a visionary group leader to lead fundamental research on Discovery Plant Science as part of our vibrant research community Successful candidate will be offered a six-year tenure-track position with the opportunity to apply for tenure: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader position available @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! It’s a creative and stimulating environment for plant and/or microbial biology - spanning the full spectrum of fundamental and applied research. Apply to join us - don’t be shy!

How do predatory wasps find their caterpillar prey? In our new preprint on Biorxiv we show that the host plant's immune system detects herbivory to sound the alarm. 🌱🐛 See thread from @nataliagupa.bsky.social -- a surprising role for a plant PRR in indirect defense against herbivores.

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

Check out our new preprint all about Pirsonia, a tiny killer of bloom-forming Coscinodiscus diatoms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky #marinemicrobes 🌊🔬

The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share this short preprint (micropublication) based in part on former BSc student Karen Liu's honours thesis project! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better! Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social

I’m very grateful and excited to start our ARIA-funded project on redesigning plant immunity!

From landmine-clearing plants to leveraging stochasticity in synthetic biology, discover the opportunity seeds we’re funding in Programmable Plants 🌱 link.aria.org.uk/PPoppseeds

Exciting opportunities to establish your group at JIC! Come join our vibrant research community in Norwich! 🔹 Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions (path to tenure-track) tinyurl.com/yk576jms 🔹 GL in Discovery Plant Sciences (tenure-track or tenured) tinyurl.com/mwbs4dhn

New preprint! 😁 We uncover how early land plants evolved UV-B tolerance by dissecting the UVR8 pathway in Marchantia polymorpha. Conserved yet rewired—evolutionary plasticity revealed. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PlantScience #UVB #Evolution

Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!

#omgn2025 @dariuskos.bsky.social presenting research on a Marchantia transcription factor which controls its reproductive structures and is stress-regulated. Read more about it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Our finding in Fig.4c that shows contribution of AtNPR1 in thermomorphogenesis seems to fit very well nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c... And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Excited to host the UK NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year on Friday December the 12th. It’s a great community and these meetings are always fun and informative. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newbie looking to diversify your research, please consider joining us!

Norwich has a great structural biology community, join us :)

Tweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

A foe that became a friend - an ex-prophage that helps its bacterial host to spread its genes! Check out this awesome work from Tung, Emma and team! 👊

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

1/ Excited to share our latest work on gene transfer agents (GTAs) in Caulobacter crescentus, led by Emma Banks in collaboration with Pavol Bardy and Mai Nguyen from York!!! See a brief thread below. shorturl.at/o6S1w

New preprint! We used single cell sequencing & metabolomics to look at cell type specificity of specialized metabolism in Camptotheca, the source of chemotherapeutic agent camptothecin, as well as comparative analyses w/ Catharanthus, which we previously worked on. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have you ever wondered how a specialized metabolite enzyme/gene under fluctuating selection goes through speciation? Well the answer is it gets lost a lot. And by a lot we mean a lot. >25 gene copies were empirically tested using a phylo-functional approach. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦋 Call for Submissions!!! 🪸 We are announcing the 2025 Evolution Art/Photography Competition and Exhibition. Students and postdocs are invited to submit evolutionary biology themed artwork or photography for an award. 🐦 Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), May 15th, 2025.

An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience

How does immunisation establish durable disease resistance in plants? Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.

I'm looking for a mycorrhiza-motivated PhD student to start this project, fully funded by a Rank Prize Lord Selborne Scholarship, in October 2025 - please contact me via email for more information and forward on to potentially interested people... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The final version of our study on SERK-BIR module in Marchantia is out. Congratulations Cate and many thanks to collaborators! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pseudomonas syringae secretes the iminosugar glycosyrin to block plant immune recognition. It mimics galactose to inhibit β-galactosidase, disrupt flagellin sensing, and rewire host glycobiology! doi.org/10.1126/scie... Huge congrats to Tee and everyone involved! #PlantImmunity #PlantChemeticsLab

I'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to @yichangsung.bsky.social for leading this work. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that you can keep up-to-date and view the latest #PhD and #postgraduate opportunities at JIC on our website? 🎓🔬 Visit our page for current opportunities which are accepting applications, such as projects in the Dodd and Morgan groups: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

What does this look like to you? This is #Phytophthora palmivora (magenta) infecting roots of barley seedlings. All roots are attacked. In the magnification you see small spores attaching along roots. But new sporangia are mostly emerging at the root tips. Image: @matt-macleod.bsky.social