Today is a big day as the Precision Breeding Act comes into force 🌱 @kamounlab.bsky.social: “This is a milestone for UK science and innovation. We now have the regulatory framework to translate discovery into impact — improving crops, strengthening food security, and benefiting society” 🌿

📣 Deadline TODAY! More info below 👇

🏆NEWS: Delighted to spot two of our group leaders on the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list by @clarivateag.bsky.social. The list aims to recognise the most influential researchers on a global scale, representing those in the top 1% by citations for their field. #HighlyCited2025

We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026. buff.ly/pemelQu

Thank you, Laura Tran from The Scientist, for this profile! And special thanks to @joeecker.bsky.social and @thorstenlangner.bsky.social for their kind words. I feel very fortunate to be surrounded by such supportive mentors, colleagues, and lab members!

Looking for a good read? @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social is featured on The Scientist sharing his scientific journey from Japan to the UK. “It circles back to my initial ecological interest and how single-cell level interactions might have a ripple effect on the actual ecosystem."

We had another great TSL Autumn Symposium, where scientists shared their 2025 achievements with our Scientific Advisory Board 🌱🧪 Thanks to everyone for a fantastic week of connecting, learning and celebrating! 🎉 Stay tuned for our TSL prize announcements 🔜

Call for PPATH 2026 Session/Workshop Proposals! Norwich | 8–11 Sept 2026 We’re looking for exciting themed sessions, including techniques, pathogens, crops, AI, surveillance, and resistance - anything related to plant pathology! www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...

Very greatfull to work with this brilliant and diverse bunch that make up the #proteomics team @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. #Awayday. 🇨🇦🇫🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇵🇭🇬🇭🇨🇳🇨🇿🇩🇪🇳🇱

Spooky season has arrived! 👻 We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️

1/2 This manifesto is the result of a collaborative effort started earlier this year at the Plant Biology Education conference in Lancaster, UK. We are delighted to see it out and we are proud that our Comms team contributed to such an important resource for the community! 🌱

Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science [email protected] @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist

Don’t miss my presentation @iGEM tomorrow at 14:00 main stage! I will be throwing out bio-designer shirts to the back row 🧬🤘

Now speaking at #Tbio2025 Nabil Amor @nabilamor rediscovered the Arabian Leopard using field genomics @theBentoLab Read the article! bento.bio/story/decodi...

With the students of the Bioinformatics Master's degree at ISBST - Institut Supérieur de Biotechnologie de Sidi Thabet Well done Alif @AlifChebbi for inviting then to #TBio25 Tunisian Bioinformatics conference 25 💪

GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities. Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network

Hela Gargouri kicking off the Tunisian Bioinformatic Congress #Tbio2025 in Sousse 🇹🇳 @GetGenome is proud to support this event!

1 in 5 people in the UK are estimated to be deficient in #vitaminD during winter and spring 📉 Our ViTaL-D Study aims to understand whether tomatoes biofortified through gene-editing tomatoes to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅 ➡️ buff.ly/SIsELo6

Crisp autumn morning in Norfolk. I am interested to see how this Winter oil seed rape develops, as it’s been sown with a companion crop of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) to suppress cabbage stem flea beetle.

Amazing seminar as always!

One of my Arabidopsis micro-roses next to its wild type sister ✨ Now just to make it rainbow 🧬...

VACANCY: Senior Lab Support Technician. Support the development of a new plant immunity platform within TSL Ventures that explores RNAi-based disease resistance. Apply online, deadline 29 Oct 2025. buff.ly/IhskRvq #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

It's #TLevelsWeek! We believe T-levels play a valuable role in ensuring the future sustainability of technical skills across UK research institutes. Find out more about our experience hosting T-level students: buff.ly/GYiakyG #TLevels #TLevelsWeek

Great to have you at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social today, Nacho @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social !

Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🌱 From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate! Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security 🌍

VACANCY: Senior Lab Support Technician. Support the development of a new plant immunity platform within TSL Ventures that explores RNAi-based disease resistance. Apply online, deadline 29 Oct 2025. buff.ly/IhskRvq #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

I’m excited to share our new preprint from @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social lab! 🌱 Our latest study reveals how Magnaporthe oryzae synchronizes organelle trafficking and autophagy to infect plants. (1/13) 📄 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

Congrats and well done!

1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13/13 Thank you to my PhD supervisor, Wenbo, who always inspires scientists to climb new heights and to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for being a wonderful place to do science. Please read our preprint where we go into a lot more detail!

Huge congratulations to PhD students @lenaknorr.bsky.social, from the Ma group, and @amiralito.bsky.social, from the @kamounlab.bsky.social, for their 2025 ASM poster awards! 🎉🌱

We're so proud of @dianagdlc.bsky.social and @mpcontreras.bsky.social, joint winners of the 2024 John Innes Foundation prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 🎉

Great talk! (not biased at all) 😉

@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's talk concludes another day full of exciting research at our annual science meeting 🌱🧬 Find out more about the Nobori lab: www.tsl.ac.uk/our-work/sci... @johninnescentre.bsky.social

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme This 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant & Microbial Sciences at The Sainsbury Laboratory, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply before 13 Nov '25 ➡️ okt.to/qjy60T

Applications are now open for the 2026 John Innes Foundation Rotation #PhD programme - bringing together three world-class institutes with expertise in #plant, #microbial, and #datascience at the Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. 👉

The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!

Wonderful talk on natural Host-Induced Gene Silencing (nHIGS) - from fundamental mechanisms to exciting applications!

This morning Wenbo Ma, senior group leader at TSL, gave the first talk at our Annual Science Meeting, one of the highlights of our scientific year! Find out more about the Ma lab: tsl.ac.uk/our-work/sci... @johninnescentre.bsky.social

New posters up @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan

I love traveling and bringing home souvenirs from my travels to remind me of places I've visited. If aliens came across the universe to visit Earth, what do you think they would take home to remember our wonderful planet? I know what I think they'd take home! 🌱

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍 Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social #NBIAST2025

What would aliens take home from Earth? Asks Mary Williams @PlantTeaching Hint: 🌱 🪴 🌱 🪴

Great to see the return of the #Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks today! #NBIAST2025 🦠🧬🌱

Today is the day! 🌟🥼🧪 We’re thrilled to be kicking off the NBI Accessible Science Talks, in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thank you in advance to everyone for joining us - whether in-person or online! #NBIAST2025

The NBI Accessible Science Talk event is officially on! @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social director, introduced the #NBIAST2025 @earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

#nbiast2025 We are getting started! It's great to see how well these institutes support equity and inclusion 🏳️‍🌈.

@plantteaching.bsky.social's writing workshop was amazing! Several people from TSL, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social, @turchil.bsky.social, @hsuanpai.bsky.social and @siyusong.bsky.social attended. Looking forward to her talk tomorrow at the #NBIAST2025!