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 🎓🌱

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...

A female phylloxera and eggs inside her gall on a grape leaf. Inserting her mouthparts into mesophyll, she altered the developmental fate of pluripotent stem cells. Image credit Sarah Melissa Witiak. Jack C. Schultz, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

I still marvel at gene synthesis. You come up with a nonsense protein that you want to express for whatever reason, copy paste it adding some bells and whistles, then a few weeks later it turns up in a plasmid ready for you to play with!