Great talk today from Luis Larrondo on the remarkable circadian clock control exhibited by fungi and the exquisite light-sensing behaviour that possess, which can be evidenced by image capture using their hyphae as a canvas @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

This is a remarkable study describing a new fungal species in a 407 million year old plant - Rugososporomyces lavoisierae Strullu-Derrien and Schornack sp. nov - using some amazing technology. Worth a read 👇

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years. 🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants @chistinesd.bsky.social, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience Summary also available in French and Spanish.

📣Paper alert! New paper out in @nature.com by the group of George Coupland @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues on new roles for the florigen protein in flowering 🌱🌿. Congratulations!👏👏 👉https://www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-coupland-2025-11-en #Arabidopsis #plantsci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dogs have been part of human culture for far longer than previously thought based on genomic evidence from @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social and team. Great read. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thought-provoking seminar today from Andrew Millar - on open data, & the science/economics of Arrival - pivoting your science to address the most important threats to humanity. Hugely impressive, stimulating talk & discussion. @earlhaminst.bsky.social

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 🔜

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!

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

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” 🌿

Chromosome‐level #genome assembly of the #photobiont microalga Trebouxia sp. ‘A48’ from the #lichen Xanthoria parietina 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Tagirdzhanova et al. @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci

Big thanks to the co-authors - @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social and Jasper Raistrick, an undergrad student who did a lot of work to isolate the alga - as well as the staff of SAG!

New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Kieran Marr opens our MRC-CMM Partners day with an inspirational keynote talk about the journey from discovery research to translational applications in Antifungal therapeutics and diagnostics. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

Hemsby Beach Norfolk today.

The Norwich Guildhall Plane tree (Platanus orientalis) - probably planted in the 1860’s near the 15th Century Guildhall by Norwich Market one of my favourite trees in the city - highlighted in Paul Wood’s Treehunting book.

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

The opening paragraph to Crick’s thesis - about protein structure - from July 1953. Ok, he was 37, but even so the writing is so clear. Those last two sentences effectively set out a global research programme that would last decades.

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...

‘Epigenetic serum’ makes you wonder !

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

Norfolk Broads this morning

Lichen hunting this afternoon at ⁦‪@IPMBSinica‬⁩ in Taipei

I just published: Google DeepMind visits TSL As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. kamounlab.medium.com/google-deepm...

When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱

Lichens enjoying the fresh air and humidity in Taiwan!

Taipei today for a visit to ⁦‪@IPMBSinica‬⁩ to hear about all the great science here.

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.

Baker lab builds a calcium channel entirely from scratch. This should enable cellular behaviors to be altered in entirely new ways. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪

We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA

The hunter returns. Orion appearing as well as Jupiter and the Gemini twins.

Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends

‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods

Some fungi from Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland): Coprinellus micaceus (EN mica cap, PL czernidłaczek błyszczący) and Clitocybe nebularis (EN cloudy funnel, PL lejkówka szarawa). #grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology

Autumn in the woods – Macrolepiota procera. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology

Wheat and barley stripe rust pan-genome facilitates discovery of the predominant North American lineage's origin in somatic hybridization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684071v1

Always fun to spend time at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna. I think he’d like the science here

In the 15th Century Dragon Hall in Norwich at a book festival event. Spectacular medieval building

Cladonia #lichen

For the lichen lovers: Xanthoria parietina #fungifriends #lichen

Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social), one of the newly elected EMBO members 2025, has introduced her research at the @embo.org Members' Meeting in Heidelberg. We are so proud of you! #plantsci

Understanding #microtubule dynamics: The synergy of technology, theory, and experiment. New Perspective from Richard McIntosh @colorado.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #Biophysics #Microtubules

With @jcellsci.bsky.social, we're 🥂 celebrating the Special Issue on Cilia & Flagella, guest edited by myself & @lottepedersen.bsky.social. We've handpicked 4 standout papers – research from our community, for our community – paired with 2 cutting-edge talks showcasing latest breakthroughs. /2

Sadly I heard today that Jim Peacock has died. Jim was the foremost pioneer of plant molecular biology in Australia & globally. He was both my mentor and friend and will be sorely missed by many #plantscience 🧪 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

It was such a treat to see you again @CorrieMoreau.bsky.social!! We’re still buzzing after a stellar seminar 🌟 turtle ants are amazing!