Wonderful day Bangor University Huge congratulations to Dr. Alejandra Ordoñez for passing her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Carrie Brady and Mojgan Rabiey for examining and George Turner for chairing. Look out for some cool papers in the near future!

Two Israeli human rights organisations have said the country is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. 🔗 Read more trib.al/yRqByuL

Diffusing Protein Binders to Intrinsically Disordered Proteins 🚀 New paper from David Baker!🚀 1. A groundbreaking study published in Nature demonstrates a novel method for designing protein binders that can target intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions (IDRs)

A root-specific NLR network mediates immune signaling of resistance genes against plant parasitic nematodes (Daniel Lüdke , Toshiyuki Sakai , Jiorgos Kourelis , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… #PlantSci ASPB

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱MSU MSU-PSM Department sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

❗️BREAKING❗️Rescuers killed in line of duty. Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented. I beg STATES: how much more must be witnessed before you act to stop this carnage? 🔴Break the blockade 🔴Impose an Arms Embargo 🔴Impose Sanctions.

New preprint! We report the largest plant resistosome ever described. We revealed the wheat NLR WAI3, a member from the mysterious CCG10-NLR clade, forms an unprecedented octameric assembly with a unique channel architecture. And the well-known RPS2 might work the same way!

THE ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE EFFECTOR MJ-MSP18: A SWISS ARMY KNIFE FOR REPROGRAMMING PLANT IMMUNITY biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen). Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Lead by the one and only Zoe Bernasconi, we cloned AvrWTK4, the first wheat powdery mildew effector recognised by a tandem kinase protein, and show that an HMA-like integrated domain in WTK4 acts as pathogen decoy 🌱🦠🧬👩‍🔬!!! ⬇️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our work on sensor–helper NLR interactions! In lettuce 🥬, we explore how the NRC network shapes immune activation 🛡️ 📍 NoCass, Cambridge 📷 Poster 17, Session 1 👩‍🔬 Sophien Kamoun The Sainsbury Laboratory Come chat about plant immunity & NLRs! #NoCass2025

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

First day of the Contreras lab at ZMBP! Exciting times ahead 🤯 #NewPI

New preprint with work from my rotation project in the Byers lab!

Let's make hope normal again.

A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Citrus greening (aka Huanglongbing or HLB) is a major threat to the citrus industry worldwide. There is much work to be done to curb the effects of this disease, especially in the face of increased climate threats.

New Preprint: A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen (2025) | tsl.ac.uk/publications/1…

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

A segment of Triticum timopheevii chromosome 3G confers type II Fusarium head blight resistance and reduces DON accumulation in wheat. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants