UK wheat faces a serious new threat: yellow rust has overcome Yr15 resistance in major varieties. A BBSRC /DEFRA Rapid Response led by JIC with Niab and RRes as partners is hunting new resistance genes to protect harvests. 🌾 www.niab.com/news-views/n...

PRESS RELEASE - Rapid response launched to tackle new yellow rust strains threatening UK wheat Fifty percent of the UK’s wheat is under threat from a newly identified strain of the yellow rust pathogen, due to the breakdown of a key resistance gene, Yr15 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... 1/ 🧵 (cont)

A big step forward for Biotalys, the #EPA is recommending the registration of our first biofungicide #EVOCA. biotalys.com/media/news/e...

Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens? Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:- 🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1 Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org & Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.

"Don't lose hope" Each of us an make a difference, even if it is small to improving the planet for todays and future children...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🔬 Are you working on AMR-related innovations? We are planning a B2B partnering event to connect academic entrepreneurs with UK & Irish businesses in the AMR space, before Annual Conference 2026. Register your interest today - microb.io/48ide4Q #Microbio26 #KnockingOutAMR

Congratulations Megan!!!! @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social

Exciting insights from Evans Lagudah presenting on durable resistance to rusts: how ‘muscle’ (strong, race-specific) & ‘backbone’ (multi-pathogen, partial) R genes combine for long-lasting protection. #PlantPathology #PPATH2025

Leena Tripathi presents how genome editing is creating disease-resistant bananas and plantains, targeting BXW and Banana Streak Virus without introducing foreign DNA. A major step for food security and smallholder farmers. #PPATH2025

Luca Cornetti on SPORNADO Early Alert System for Crop Disease spornadosampler.com @spornadosampler #PPATH2025

On train to Nottingham and looking forward too catching up with the BSPP community. @bspp.bsky.social #PPATH2025

Almost 50% of lab workers identify as neurodiverse. So what difference could it make for research organisations to fully embrace neurodiversity in their workplace culture? We supported the John Innes Centre to implement a project aiming to do just that 👇

Post by @steveharvey, not on Bluesky, on the UK Biobank latest release of 500k whole genomes: A mind-blowing paper from the UK Biobank last week: whole genome sequencing of 490,640 participants.

The Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM) seeks 2 Assay Development scientists to support assay development and drug discovery. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Assay Development Scientist 2: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🆕 Funded #PhD with Dr Chris Quince at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social, working on understanding the mechanisms of faecal #microbiome transplantation, with major potential impact to the treatment of IBD. buff.ly/ZaWxIZI #microbiomeresearch @mmbdtp.bsky.social

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Genome Editing @CIMMYT apply.workable.com/cimmyt-1/j/E...

There is still time to apply to our international MSc: Agrigenomics. The website might look a bit old, the course contents are up to date: everything from Molecular Biology to Applied Genomics, in an agriculture context! Questions? message me! www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en/application

💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social buff.ly/FQEQcIP #synbio

The dominant lineage of Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States of America does not have a Brazilian origin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice review of wheat and Zymoseptoria tritici interactions apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Tonight's moon with Venus just above.

I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Cool read in @plosbiology.bsky.social showing that horizontal transfers between fungal Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of coffee wilt disease, and suggesting a key role for Starship transposons journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come). 1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics) 2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move Check out the links below!

With @sokratiag.bsky.social, Kevin Couper and Hongpeng Zhou I'm offering a PhD opportunity at the University of Manchester, UK, on Multimodal AI methods for spatial omics data to characterise tumour microenvironments bit.ly/3Oub4E6

The November issue of the EPPO Reporting Service is online: gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs.... It provides recent reports of emerging and quarantine pests, invasive alien plants, as well as updates on biological control agents #planthealth

I may work on fungal plant pathogens but I can appreciate the biochemical products of other fungi...e.g. Oh, I do love a Belgian beer now and then!

Agreed! There are a significant number of species used as environmental safety assessment indicator species where the genomic data (therefore molecular target data understanding) is missing.

The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied! #SciComms #Science #Taxonomy 🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Always a sucker for a pretty astrophysics photo!

Early Registration for ECFG17 satellite meetings on 2 March are still open till Dec 6. The Basal (zygos and chytrids) Fungal Symposium should be a a fun one to participate in! www.ecfg17.org

Why is so little known about the cell walls of plant pathogenic fungi given that it is a key component for protection in the plant pathogen interaction? Way more is know about human fungal pathogens:-

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

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

📽️ Our recent webinar with @vizgen.bsky.social is now available to watch on demand. Earlham Institute scientists shared their journey of working with the MERSCOPE #SpatialTranscriptomics platform, offering insights on their methods for working with non-model samples. us02web.zoom.us/rec/componen...

📜 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

We're looking forward to the inaugural Dame Janet Thornton Lecture this afternoon, delivered by Elinor Karlsson (@elinork.bsky.social) - Director of Vertebrate #Genomics at the @broadinstitute.org of MIT and Harvard. 🖥️🧬

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

G4S linkers can cause unexpected truncations in mammalian cell expression of Ab constructs:-Discovery and investigation of the truncation of the (GGGGS)n linker and its effect on the productivity of bispecific antibodies expressed in mammalian cells. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are you passionate about developing innovative and cutting-edge solutions to protect plants and ecosystems? @ARC_PBTC has THREE(!) postdoctoral positions available in Remote Sensing, Science Communication and Quantitative Methods. To apply and more info tinyurl.com/ndupndkm

Amazing work led by Ursula Oggenfuss @oggenfussursula.bsky.social and helped Thomas Badet now out as a preprint. Please check it out and tell us what you think. "A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As a newbee on @bsky.app So nice to see so many of the plant pathology community have already started using it!

Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why statnews.com/2024/11/21/b... via @statnews.bsky.social

Great to see so many new people here and to see a strong #SciSky community building! 👋 We're a @ukri.org BBSRC-funded research institute in Norwich, UK, focused on understanding the natural world through the lens of #genomics. 🖥️🧬🧪🧫🦠 Discover more about us here: www.earlham.ac.uk/our-vision-a...

Twitter used to be the second-highest source of traffic to protocols.io as researchers shared their public methods (highest was Google). Today, 0.1% of our monthly traffic is from Twitter. I'm hopeful for the growth of the research community on Bluesky & sad about the senseless demise of Twitter.

Come and join an amazing community of researchers in plant-insect interactions, Group leader position at the John Innes Centre #plants #insects www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...

My department, Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new head and colleague in any area of Plant and/or Microbial Biology. Job ad: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365... So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁