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New preprint from @Foneslab & Sarah Gurr Lab - nice to have the fantastic work of @williamkay finally getting out there! #Zymoseptoria blastospores survive a shockingly long time w/o any external nutrients & can infect seedlings even after 7 weeks in soil doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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Yup. We continue to reward toxic PIs, promoting them and giving grants and awards. This normalizes their behavior.

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Interested in joining my group or another group ISTAustria? Apply now for a fully funded #postdoc #fellowship! Hurry, the deadline (June 12) is approaching!

Great talk #ISCLB2024 by Victor Flores Nuñez 👏 from Eva H. Stukenbrock lab: "The leaf microbiota of grasses establish interactions with #Zymoseptoria species beyond antagonism" -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-flo…

Interesting talk #ISCLB2024 by Radek Zenkl: "Towards high throughput in-field detection and quantification of #wheat foliar diseases with deep learning" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-ze…

Second stimulating talk #ISCLB2024 on quantitative disease (STB) assessment by Jonas Anderegg: "Image-based symptom tracking to decompose quantitative resistance in the field", based on the paradigm "severity = infection events + lesion growth" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-an…

Great talk #ISCLB2024 by Andrea SanchezVallet 👏 "#Zymoseptoria tritici effectors: Understanding their regulation and #wheat targets", highlighting that multi-strain / endophyte coexistence alters the infection processes -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-san…

New article from Fones Lab Exeter in which we propose #Zymoseptoria as a model for epiphytic plant-microbe-microbes interactions: "Life on a leaf: the #epiphyte to pathogen continuum and interplay in the #phyllosphere" - including cool pics of Zymo being weird😁ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Congrats to my co-authors on this one, Dr Graham Thomas Graham Thomas and Dr William Kay @williamkay

You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at ETH Zurich Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼

🚨Preprint alert🚨 Super happy to share the preprint of one of my PhD chapters in #Zymoseptoria now on BioRxiv: “Host specialization defines the emergence of new fungal plant pathogen populations”. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇[1/8]

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SWBio PhD projects are now available to apply to! Check out the 'Agriculture and Environment' theme to find some based in, or co-supervised by, the Fones lab and our awesome collaborators at Exeter Biosciences, Bath, Rothamsted and beyond: swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-an…

Latest publication from the Fones lab Exeter! "Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment" now out in @bmc biology! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Shout out to @williamkay for all his hard work on this!

A follow up: New blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it! quietscientistblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/on-…

A new blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it! quietscientistblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/on-…