Delighted to see our work on the impact of drought on the oak microbiome featured on the cover of @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social Link to the article below this post 👇🏻

Diana Vinchira-Villarraga is discussing the battle between Oak and AOD-associated pathogens. Looking at the Metabolic Responses to Host-Derived Compounds. #PPATH2025

🎉 Congrats to our #PPATH2025 winners! 🏆 Athira Menon – Poster: RNA-binding proteins in plant immunity 🏆 Vanja Milenkovic – Talk: Drought & disease in Acute Oak Decline Inspiring plant pathology research! 🌱

Ziyue Zeng (Tracy) is using bacterial canker on Cherry to look at cross-habitat threats to agricultural crops and wild plants, and the importance of covering trees to prevent pathogen spread!

Sweet but Psycho? Andrea Vadillo Dieguez talks on a novel Type III Effector Protein in sweet cherry canker, Pseudomonas syringae at #ECPP2025 in Nottingham.

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

We've had a great first day of the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium, with fantastic talks from delegates and a lively panel discussion on publishing. Looking forward to tomorrow! #PlantScience #NGS2025

Fantastic to be hosting the @newphyt.bsky.social Next Generation Scientist Meeting here at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social this week! Looking forward to hearing about all the exciting plant science research being carried out by early career delegates from all over the world 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻‍🔬 👩🏽‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬👨🏿‍🔬 🌍

Explore inspiring talks and sessions from our recent New Phytologist next generation scientists #npnextgen meetings: https://cassyni.com/s/npnextgen Applications for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 are open! https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025

Check out our latest preprint where we identify the causal gene underlying hyper branching C-variants in commercial mycoprotein production... www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... #Quorn #altprotein

It was wonderful to have @vadillodieguez.bsky.social join my lab for a few months! Proud of all you have achieved - which was a huge amount in just 3 months! 🤩 Thanks for @bspp.bsky.social funding 🌱🧬 #womaninstem