We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

New preprint out! 🚀 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought. Thread 👇 #FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins

In our new pre-print, we established massive single-cell RNA-sequencing for diatoms to investigate key cell fate transitions. Notably, we discovered that the diploid-to-haploid transition is regulated by Myb TFs, a process that is actively ongoing across the Global Ocean! 🌊

Some reflections on #Fungal26 This was a great meeting as always but set against some turbulent times of course, which meant many regular attendees were not present. This thread is mainly for them. However, the proportion of first-time attendees was very high and very international. #Fungal26 1/15

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations. www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...

Regine Kahmann will never cease to be extraordinary: www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1564905/2026...

📣El programa Ramón y Cajal incorporará en la convocatoria 2026 novedades que supondrán un avance en el fortalecimiento de la carrera investigadora. ℹ️ www.aei.gob.es/noticias/pro...

‼️We finally have a website for our lab 🍄🌾🧬🔬🧫 molecularbiologyoffungi.owlstown.net

The details and deadlines for the 33rd edition of Fungal Genetics Conference are available! #Fungal26 @Geneticsgsa. Join us! And if you are a #blaster, come to #Magnafest organised by @Frank_Menke @elyogarcia and myself! Come and join us! 🧬🔬🌾🍄

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

Great to be in Kansas State for a celebration of Barbara Valent’s career- what an impacts she’s had on rice blast research

Great to be presenting at #IFBC2025 some of our findings regarding cellular heterogeneity, cell identity and their relationship with the cell cycle. All the way from @upna to Greece! Thanks to the organizers for the invitation. And thanks to our funding sources @erc.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social

So happy to be back in the UK for the fantastic BMS conference. Beautifully organized.Catching up with some old and new faces and enjoying beautiful science! @britmycolsoc.org.uk thank you for the invitation! @UNavarra @ERC_Research @AgEInves

The evolutionary foundations of transcriptional regulation in animals www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/evDcA) 🧬🖥️🧪

Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Code: github.com/steineggerla... Web app: search.foldseek.com/folddisco