We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

Glad to have participated in #PPATH2025 last week, sharing my work on proximity labeling in the apoplast as part of the ECPP talks, one last time before wrapping up my PhD 🎓🌱

It was a lovely week in Seoul! Now going back home, with wonderful memories of my favorite places in Seoul and of course all the amazing food!

It was an incredible honor to be invited and introduce my work at the 34th International Korean Genome Organization conference! I learned so much about genomes in multiple model systems and about all the fascinating works done by Korean genomics experts! #KOGO

Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱🎉 We are officially on Bluesky! 🎉🌱 Follow our profile for updates on activities and outputs from our Institute. You can also check out our blog series on our website: biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...

End of era in the lab @instmolplantsci.bsky.social as we say goodbye to @rafadscruz.bsky.social and @jeremywyman.bsky.social. It’s been a pleasure having you both in the team. Wishing you both the best for your next steps in Australia 🇦🇺 and Brazil 🇧🇷 🌿

🎉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...

We’re in Hawaii! Looking forward to APS #planthealth2025. Come see Dan’s talk on Pseudomonas phages in the tree disease section on Monday! 🌺

3/3 In addition, Shanshan's work highlights the value of developmental mutants: Core‬‭ immune‬‭ responses‬‭ are‬‭ robust‬‭ despite‬‭ altered‬‭ leaf‬‭ architecture in cue 1 mutants, which also use a cryptic‬‭ defense‬‭ pathway that includes sucrose-responsive‬‭ modules.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

2/3 By focusing on very early time points, Shanshan found mesophyll cell populations that not only prioritize a defense-over-growth strategy vs. a growth-over-defense strategy, but also that these cell populations behave more similarly during ETI than PTI.

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...

Cell-type specific gating of gene regulatory modules as a hallmark of early immune responses in Arabidopsis leaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668105v1

Exactly! This is why we need to be careful about word choice in letters of rec, too. “Hard-working” is a positive in men, but suggests lack of genius in women. csw.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

Just received my AFHEA certificate! Excited to be recognised for my commitment to teaching & supporting learning in higher education.📚 #AFHEA #HEA #PhDLife

VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

Ahn Lab is going to MPMI! #2025ISMPMI Hayden Burdett and myself will be attending the MPMI conference in Cologne ⛪ Check out poster P-073 for paired NLR biology, and let's chat about paired NLRs and more!🌱 See you in Cologne 😀 @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

⏳ 12 days to go! Don't miss the chance to submit an abstract or apply for a travel grant for the #JXB75 Symposium 📝 💸 Grants available: 🇬🇧 £100 (UK-based participants) 🇪🇺 £200 (Europe-based participants) 🌍 £400 (Rest of the World) Apply now 👉 🔗 bit.ly/jxb75-travel?...#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

"For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston" has just been published in the British Journal for the History of Science. 📕 The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino. 🔗 rb.gy/t130hk #HistSci

In #wheat mutants we've long wondered if the expression of homoeologs is upregulated to compensate. Could that explain homoeolog redundancy? Spoiler alert: no! Great summary by lead author @delfidorussen.bsky.social ⬇️ and the whole preprint is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience

Beautiful talk by @kmerchante.bsky.social at #TLUK25 today! Ribosome heterogeneity in plants is so so interesting! @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Congratulations, Rosa! @geminiteamlab.bsky.social You are amazing ❤️

Another paper that I am excited to finally share with the world! We characterized the genetic basis of resistance to stem boring weevils in a wild tobacco species nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@instmolplantsci.bsky.social very own Amy Newell presents her work on shade response in plants and translational regulation at the #TLUK25!! @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Applications are open for a 12-month John Innes Foundation Internship in Plant Science at the Earlham Institute. Working in the Earlham #Biofoundry with Dr Carolina Grandellis, you'll work on #bioengineering approaches for #plantsciences. 🌱 🧬 🖥️ 🤖

The inclusive education & mentoring workshop we organised at #ICAR25 went well! Thought-provoking talks from Agnes Uhereczky, @plantteaching.bsky.social, @yoselin.bsky.social (& @blackinplantsci.bsky.social award recipients), Sofie Goormachtig, myself, @mehta-lab.com! 🌱🎉 Thank you for attending!

Remember, tomorrow (Thursday) at 2pm, join us in the anatomical theatre for a great discussion about "Building a diverse community through effective teaching & mentoring" #ICAR2025

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

Such a pleasure having @baptistebio.bsky.social visit the lab! Wonderful talk and great to hear about lots of exciting fern work! #FernFriday 🌿

Wonderful talk by Baptiste Castel @baptistebio.bsky.social on fern immune system here at @instmolplantsci.bsky.social Great to meet @jonathandgjones.bsky.social lab alumni in Edinburgh too!

Haider Ali, Megan C. McDonald, and Graeme J. Kettles developed a rapid forward genetics methodology to identify genes that enable Zymoseptoria tritici to gain virulence on previously resistant wheat varieties. Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

#ICAR2025 attendees! Stop by @theplantcell.bsky.social booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... 6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!

The JHB issue 58.1, which includes part of our Topical Collection on the "Legacies of Asilomar," is finally out! Enjoy your reading! link.springer.com/journal/1073... #histsci #histtech #histSTM #HPS #STS

The Resistance awakens: Diversity at the DNA, RNA, and protein levels informs engineering of plant immune receptors from Arabidopsis to crops 🧬🌱 💫🚀 by Chandler Sutherland @danimstevens.bsky.social @weiweibio.bsky.social Kyungyong Seong academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🚨Our paper is out! If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Research Briefing on the tandem kinase proteins paper is online now! Curious about the story behind our TKP paper? 📄 Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄 Research article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi, let me introduce myself. My name is Hee-Kyung and I am a new group leader at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh. I'd like to share with you how my curiosity for plants began, and my academic journey. @instmolplantsci.bsky.social biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...

!!New Preprint!! On the activation of RRS1-R/RPS4 paired NLRs!! Thanks to @jonathandgjones.bsky.social for this opportunity to work on this project, and thanks to all the coauthors for their effort and support! Thread (1/) @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social t.co/aHNCKj4KUn

Molecular investigation of Rlm3 from rapeseed as a broad-spectrum resistance gene against fungal pathogens producing structurally conserved effectors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.635517v1