Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses (Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Zachary Savage, Vojtěch Pražák, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Recent paper from @tolgaboz.bsky.social’s group at @imperiallifesci.bsky.social focuses on membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface and their role in immunity 🎉 Delighted to have helped 🔬

Let's keep in touch: How membrane contact sites drive immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Huge congratulations to Nick Eilmann, our undergrad intern and tutee, for winning two BSPP awards — the Undergraduate Exam Award 2025 and the Undergraduate Project Prize 2025!

Just planted in @jcellsci.bsky.social 🌳 😍 An A. thaliana mutant lacking all nine #ATG8 isoforms provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of #ATG8 in plants forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Congratulations to all involved 🎉 Delighted to have helped a bit with some FLIM-FRET, and amazed at how much chloroplasts do.

'I feel privileged to do science every day – it is wonderful to be able to follow a passion and be paid for it! It is flexible and absorbing. I would recommend it to everyone.' In Profile: Caroline Dean 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Many thanks to Dr. Dmitry Lapin for writing a highlight of our collaborative study and sharing it on his lab’s website. Learn more about coordinated Ca²⁺ influx cascades for quantitative control of plant immunity here: phoenix-plant.com/highlights-o...

Big cheers to Edward on his last day with us . Thanks for being an awesome BSPP summer intern — we’ll miss having you around! #BSPP #PlantScience

Loved Naomi Nakayama’s talk-truly original research! #PlantBio2025

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month. -Credits: NASA

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m very grateful and excited to start our ARIA-funded project on redesigning plant immunity!

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Thank you to AmirAli Toghani @amiralito.bsky.social, Raoul Frijters, Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social, Ryohei Terauchi, and Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social for the wonderful supports!

Poster at #ISMPMI2025 from collaborations with @sainburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics group: P011 ( @isabelmonte.bsky.social ), P073 ( @HeeKungAng group), P086 & P034 (Zipfel group) P101 ( @tolgaboz.bsky.social ) and P130 ( @jonathandgjones.bsky.social and XiaoLin)

Use of mutants to shut down NLR activity but not localization and structure formation so it can be observed. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Dynamic localization of a helper NLR at the plant–pathogen interface underpins pathogen recognition | PNAS

Unsurprisingly beautiful microscope images from @tolgaboz.bsky.social, which you can browse in this preprint #2025ISMPMI Tldr; NLRs can target different membrane interfaces, not just the plasma membrane. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A helper NLR targets organellar membranes to trigger immunity

Happy to share our newest paper fresh from the press. Have a look, how cells prepare to host symbiotic infections. We really appreciate the reviewers comments. Enjoy the microscopy and other experiments by the lead PostDoc Morgane Batzenschlager & collaborators. elifesciences.org/articles/88588

I'm very pleased to present the @cp-devcell.bsky.social Voices on plant model organism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... While we appreciate the diversity of plant models, one often questions which model is the "best"?

It's been a really fun ride to put this Voices together, and huge thanks to all authors contributed: @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social John Bowman @michaelraissig.bsky.social @philippaborrill.bsky.social Sabeeha Merchant; Feng Qin; Enoch Lok Him Yuen; @tolgaboz.bsky.social; Fang Xie

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Nice paper though it fails to mention very relevant articles on plant #autophagy from @tolgaboz.bsky.social lab. Here's one of them: europepmc.org/article/MED/... #plantblindness

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now @cellhostmicrobe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Just out, First Look version: Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of #Phytophthora, ‘Plant Destroyer’ | #PhytoPathology apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... #Oomycetes #Taxonomy #Phylogeny #Cladistics #Paraphyly #PlantBiosecurity #ScientificCommunication #PlantDiseaseManagement

Our community consensus position on conserving the genus #Phytophthora: Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of Phytophthora, ‘Plant Destroyer’ | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Latest story from Pia Saake: Plant Lipids Mediate Immune Responses to Fungal Lipids in Barley! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Join us at the inaugural FEBS EMBO Cell Biology of Host-Pathogen Meeting! Explore how microbes reshape host cell architecture & metabolism. Abstract deadline: 1st of April . meetings.embo.org/event/24-hos.... #EMBOcellBioHostPath

Next up in the last session of our #plantscience retreat is Shanshuo Zhu who is talking about her exciting data on cell-type specific autophagy and its role in bacterial infection #proteostasis

Ralstonia wilt #pathogens consume an in planta diet of amino acids with a dash of sugar 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Hamilton & Lowe-Power on this article by Baroukh et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Structure, enzyme mechanism and regulation of the PPIP5K inositol pyrophosphate phosphatase out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Great work by Pierre Raia, Kitaik Lee, @fxrico.bsky.social, with Dorothea Fiedler @fmp-berlin.de & Vikram Panse @ethzurich.bsky.social/UZH. Funded by @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social

Excited to host @geminiteamlab.bsky.social for our departmental seminars @imperiallifesci.bsky.social. Thrilling work on molecular plant-virus interactions!

It’s that time of year! #SchoBozKa Running strong since 2017: Sebastian Schornack @dromius | Tolga Bozkurt @Tolga_Bzkrt | Lida Derevnina @lderevnina | Phil Carella @Phil_Carella | Jiorgos Kourelis @JiorgosKourelis kamounlab.tumblr.com/post/7761029...

🍾🥂✨️🍾👏👏 So proud of my dear colleagues Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social at @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social LBM Bordeaux and Yvon Jaillais @yvonjaillais.bsky.social at ENS de Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social 👇 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Structure determinants of DANGEROUS MIX 3, an alpha/beta hydrolase, for triggering NLR-mediated genetic incompatibility in plants @EunyoungChae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SchoBozKa 2025

Confocal image of the day, coincidence?

Something that might be of interest to researchers @imperiallifesci.bsky.social ! 🍄 Ft Dr Sonja Billerbeck on the yeast toxicome & Dr Laura Martinez-Suz on fungi in ecosystem assessments ▶️ bit.ly/3EB1spz 🗓️ Thursday, 13 March 📍 G47, Flowers Building

📢 Calling all @ImperialCollege researchers, PhD students & startups! Showcase your climate-related work at the Grantham Institute's Climate Research Showcase on 22 Jan 🌍. Submit proposals for exhibits, talks, or workshops by 3 January. 🔗 More info: https://buff.ly/4gAQbDp

Join us on 22 Jan for the inaugural Grantham Institute Climate Research Showcase, a great opportunity for the research community to exchange ideas, foster collaboration and support effective action on #climate change. @granthamicl.bsky.social #OurImperial www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18607...

📢 The Wellcome Photography Prize is back. Enter by 14 January 2025 for free. #WPP25 prizes include up to £10,000, work shown in a major public exhibition and international media coverage. Find out more and enter: wellcome.org/photoprize 📷 Image credit: Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen.

🥔 A new £5.9M study including @imperiallifesci.bsky.social's @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @doryenbubeck.bsky.social aims to unlock the mysteries of potato blight! This could pave the way to protecting global food security against devastating crop diseases www.imperial.ac.uk/news/259273/...

List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

Congratulations @dromius.bsky.social who will work with partners from across the country to determine how pathogens cause crop diseases such as potato blight, supported by a £5.91m UKRI BBSRC sLoLa grant. Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/exchang... BBSRC announcement www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

The list of concurrent sessions for 2025 IS-MPMI is now available—so many exciting topics to explore! I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬 www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

Our first annual lab Christmas/New Year dinner together with @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social lab. Amazing food, fantastic company, and a wonderful team. Excited for another year of great discoveries ahead!