What would aliens take home from Earth? Asks Mary Williams @PlantTeaching Hint: 🌱 🪴 🌱 🪴

Great to see the return of the #Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks today! #NBIAST2025 🦠🧬🌱

Today is the day! 🌟🥼🧪 We’re thrilled to be kicking off the NBI Accessible Science Talks, in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thank you in advance to everyone for joining us - whether in-person or online! #NBIAST2025

The NBI Accessible Science Talk event is officially on! @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social director, introduced the #NBIAST2025 @earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

#nbiast2025 We are getting started! It's great to see how well these institutes support equity and inclusion 🏳️‍🌈.

@plantteaching.bsky.social's writing workshop was amazing! Several people from TSL, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social, @turchil.bsky.social, @hsuanpai.bsky.social and @siyusong.bsky.social attended. Looking forward to her talk tomorrow at the #NBIAST2025!

It's tomorrow! ⚠️ You can still register to follow the NBI Accessible Science Talks online 👉 jic.link/NBIAST2025 Follow the hashtag for live updates: #NBIAST2025

Today, we welcomed Dr Ru Zhang as a visiting researcher in our lab! Ru is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University and an expert in plant–fungal interactions. She will be working with us for the next year on plant immune cell states.

Gearing up for the NBI Accessible Science Talks tomorrow! 🧬🥽 Remember to use #NBIAST2025 and follow the hashtag for news throughout the event 😎

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn 📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm 📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor) #DSSS #MPI-IS

So happy to have @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social with us for the day!

Great turnout today for Nucleate UK's Lunch & Learn session at Norwich Research Park. It was truly inspiring to hear how Nucleate can support future biotech leaders 🧠 🧫🌱 If you're interested or just curious, join tonight's Activator Info Session in Norwich: luma.com/bc2sijuv

Busy week for TSL Ventures! First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent. Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀

Busy week for TSL Ventures! First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent. Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀

Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art! Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts! Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...

Our lab is 1 year old! 🎂Celebrated with a casual lunch together 🎉

Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥 Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝

"The UK’s complex and confusing visa policy is deterring international research talent from coming to work in the country, the Campaign for Science and Engineering has warned" We contributed to @sciencecampaign.bsky.social's report on visa barriers for researchers now in the news 👇 buff.ly/MLVf77g

Proud to support this important @sciencecampaign.bsky.social report on visa challenges. Research relies on global talent – without a fair and functional visa system, we risk reaching a breaking point in our ability to attract the brightest minds and sustain world-leading research.

🆕 Our scientists and those @johninnescentre.bsky.social are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them 🍅

🆕 Event! We are hosting the Functional Multi-omics Symposium this autumn. Supported by the @microbiologysociety.org , @norwichmicro.bsky.social and @aibio-uk.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 October Register now ⤵️

On this #postdocappreciation week we want to thank our postdocs, who joined TSL from all corners of the world to help us make incredible scientific discoveries. You make our lab awesome!

We were delighted to welcome the President of the South China Agricultural University to TSL, as well as SCAU Deans and Deputy Deans, and share our exciting vision for plant-microbe research & innovation.

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges: Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025! 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 Register here ➡️ jic.link/NBIAST2025 Full programme: jic.link/NBIAST2025-P... #NBIAST2025

"Combating misinformation is not just about correcting falsehoods or errors, it is about listening, engaging, and building relationships founded on trust" Ruth Annang reflects on her participation in the Africa Biennial Biosciences Communications Conference 👉 www.tsl.ac.uk/news/msc-per... #ABBC2025

Click here for the full programme: jic.link/NBIAST2025-P... @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #NBIAST2025

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

We are delighted to announce that Professor Nick Talbot, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Laboratory, has been awarded the BSPP RKS Wood Prize. He will deliver his prize lecture at #PPATH2026. Read more: www.bspp.org.uk/bspp-2026-rk... @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @TheSainsburyLab

We are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social. “I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.” buff.ly/VvoR27Q

We bid farewell to Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras4, who contributed so much to @TheSainsburyLab — not only through his outstanding science but also by fostering an open, collaborative, and supportive culture among students and postdocs. We’ll miss him!

Some of the first reviews are now online! @benkoch96.bsky.social, @gene-boy.bsky.social, Amal, @yusugihara.bsky.social, Love and myself reviewed this super impressive preprint by Puccetti et al. from Daniel Croll's lab! See our review in the link below 👇 prereview.org/reviews/1707...

Taking part in a #PreprintPizzaParty is always a pleasure! It's an enjoyable and natural way to learn how to critically and constructively review science. It's also very valuable to see how others approach the same manuscript. I hope to see more institutions adopting this format!

Another Preprint Pizza Party has come and passed! Students, postdocs and RAs from TSL and @johninnescentre.bsky.social gathered to discuss and review recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social articles 📝 Pizza kept the spirits high during this challenging task 🍕 #PreprintCommentClub #PreprintPizzaParty

Can't believe my @thesainsburylab.bsky.social chapter is coming to an end! Feels like only yesterday I was starting my predoc with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🥲 Learned so much from several generations of TSL scientists, made some discoveries and a lot of friends! Time flies when you're having fun...

Gatsby Plant Sciences Network Meeting at Queen's College Oxford - some excellent and exciting PhD talks as always.

Now here is a statistic to keep me working for another decade or two....Alexandre Antonelli from Kew telling the Gatsby Network about the hidden potential of plant and fungal biodiversity

Congratulations to @izzysaurlab.bsky.social, @pfeilmeier.bsky.social, @clemmar.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social on their prestigious ERC Starting Grants! 🤩 #CelebratingAlumni #TSLalumni

Last Friday TSL participated in a football tournament with @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Everyone had fun and TSL even earned the wooden spoon! 🥄 Huge thanks to the organisers! ⚽ 📷 @dianagdlc.bsky.social

Full house for today’s @TheSainsburyLab seminar with Farid @Farid_El_Kasmi on #NLRbiology

Color changing flowers 🌺 🧬 From pink to white in 3 days. My first Time-lapse at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

TSL's great fun day out

First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer! The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥 Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al. #NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology

A new preprint involving the labs of @jonathandgjones.bsky.social and @kamounlab.bsky.social unveils the structure of the largest plant resistosome to date 🌱 The octameric WAI3 resistosome was found in wheat, but similar arrangements can be found in other plants 🌾 Check it out 👉 buff.ly/yBhLYz6

"Little Flower" A Cryo-SEM portrait of my micro-rose depicting the flower as a sculpture of cells, fractured and frozen in time. Full image is 10k x 10k pixels.

Today’s lab day out in Chelsea under the theme of… FLOWERS 🌺

An enlightening interview with our 1st T Level student in Digital Support, Layla, who worked at TSL for 6 weeks "As our first T-Level experience, Layla set the bar high." says Chris Rickett, our IT Services Manager who supervised Layla. Read➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/news/t-level... #TLevelResultsDay

Congratulations to our T Level students getting their results today! 🎓 Our students have had a fantastic 2 years & we’re incredibly proud of their progress. Curious about T Levels & lab support? Read our 1st case study⬇️ technicians.org.uk/stories/fran... #TLevelResultsDay #Results2025

“I hope this article provides a useful conceptual framework for understanding the plant immune system at cellular resolution. [...] This is an exciting time for the field, and we’re eager to contribute to its continued development." Check out this new review by our group leader! 📄🦠 buff.ly/xeSYslk

Indeed! Find all our preprints in the same place 👇

Amazing to have @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social on our team—love the creative flair and artistic touch! Stay tuned! 🌸 #1000FlowerCollection #FlowerPower #SciArt #SciCom