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🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath

Officially Dr Molinari! Thank you to my supervisors Nick Talbot Dr. Wenbo Ma, examiners Philip Carella and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, and everyone who made this possible 🥳

We laughed, we cried, we said goodbye. Today we send off Barbara as she starts her PhD in Wageningen. It’s been a joy having her in our group as a Pre-Doc—she integrated beautifully at TSL and will be deeply missed. Go crush it, Barbara!

⚡️ Attn anyone interested in algal genomics and lichen symbiosis! ⚡️ New preprint: a near chromosome-level assembly of Trebouxia sp. A48 (member of T. decolorans species complex), the photobiont of Xanthoria parietina. 1/5 #lichen #alga #genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are delighted to announce that TSL group leader, Professor Wenbo Ma Dr. Wenbo Ma, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This honour celebrates her groundbreaking research in molecular plant pathology.

Big congratulations to Camille Madeleine for successfully defending her PhD thesis. 🎉 Jonathan D G Jones

Excited to share my new Tansley Review New Phytologist on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

How do flowering plants shape their cells? Check out our new paper - Sabine Brumm, Aleksandr Gavrin Matthew Macleod, Chesneau Guillaume and Annika Usländer studied two actin cytoskeleton coordinating proteins and why they function in either leaf hairs or root hairs. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Magnaporthe oryzae effector Pwl2 alters HIPP43 localization to suppress host immunity (Vincent M Were , Xia Yan , Andrew J Foster , Jan Sklenar , Thorsten Langner , Amber Gentle , et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… Were Vincent ASPB #PlantSci

The Resistance awakens: Diversity at the DNA, RNA, and protein levels informs engineering of plant immune receptors from Arabidopsis to crops (Chandler A Sutherland , Danielle M Stevens , Kyungyong Seong , Wei Wei , Ksenia V Krasileva) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… ASPB #PlantSci

The medal designed by our own Hsuan Pai 白暄 🏅🏅🏅

New! An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging C.Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell,G.Evans,F.Fercoq,Paul Kenrick& A. Ferrari Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) Natural History Museum Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Cambridge Graphene Centre doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. ⁦MRC Centre for Medical Mycology⁩; ⁦ECMM⁩; ⁦ISHAM⁩ For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Diversification of the "EDVID" packing motif underpins structural and functional variation in plant NLR coiled-coil domains biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Now published online in New Phytologist 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/nph.70… This work was spearheaded by Shuang Yang from Xiaoming Pang's group in Beijing Forestry University who came to The Sainsbury Laboratory working with Dr. Wenbo Ma and myself. Jujube Witches' Broom Phytoplasma effector🧵⬇️(1/8)

Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀

A belated welcome to our duo of Argentinian predocs. Maian Garro Maián and Juan Azcue Juan Azcue who joined us from Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. We're thrilled to have their energy, curiosity, and fresh perspectives in the lab! kamounlab.tumblr.com/post/785870746…

Measuring natural selection on the #transcriptome 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Viewpoint article by Stinchcombe and Kelly John Stinchcombe @WileyPlantScience #PlantScience

We are extremely excited to welcome Prof. Sophien Kamoun Sophien Kamoun as the keynote speaker for our next seminar Thursday July 3rd at 15.30. We will also hear from early career researchers Cristina Vuolo and Dr Tom Williams. Sign up! imperial.ac.uk/events/194053/…

Join us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8th-10th September pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social PPRM2025Edinburgh #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci Abstract deadline 1st July. A thread 🧵 (1/n)