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New #AlphaFold materials now live! Earlier this year, with Google DeepMind, we held the AlphaFold Education Summit to increase capacity and enable more researchers to use the #AlphaFold system and database. View the free course materials: ebi.ac.uk/training/mater… EMBL-EBI

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…

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)

Check out this amazing special issue of Current Biology . The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and there are some spectacular reviews from many mycologists. I am glad to have been part of this, including in the 'MyShroom' section! cell.com/current-biolog…

Congratulations Dr Berlaine Quime who successfully defended her PhD today! Halpin Scholar #9 PhD#44 ⁦The Sainsbury Laboratory⁩ ⁦Berlaine Quime⁩

Huge congratulations to Halpin Scholar Berlaine Quime for defending her PhD thesis. Thanks to the examiners Mike Deeks and Christine Faulkner. Nick Talbot

Day 1 as Dr. Quime! Thank you to my supervisor Nick Talbot , supervisory committee Dr. Wenbo Ma Matthew Moscou Xia Yan , examiners Dr. Mike Deeks and Prof. Christine Faulkner, The Halpin Scholars Programme for Rice Blast Research, and the entire The Sainsbury Laboratory community.

Plant microbiomes feel the heat | Science Rising temperatures change the structure and function of plant microbial communities Nice perspective article by anna-liisa laine and Sara Leino science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Farewell Madhu Jogi Jogi Madhuprakash who will be returning to the University of Hyderabad 🇮🇳 after many productive years. We are looking forward to building an enduring connection with you and your team. Stay tuned for the upcoming structures and papers! kamounlab.tumblr.com/post/786256895…

Huge congratulations!

Spatial phosphoproteomics changes a long-held assumption about the activation of mitosis- elegantly done from Paul Nurse lab and worth a read.👇

Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture Our new review is now online Nature Biotechnology nature.com/articles/s4158… Great team work from Richalynn Xin, Bob Toshiyuki Sakai & Jorge A full-text view-only is accessible via

I’m excited to share our latest preprint on the cell biology of plant hypersensitive cell death! 🌱💥 We used live-cell imaging to unravel what happens after resistosome activation—one of the least understood phases of plant immune responses. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Finalising the move from #Vienna to #Heidelberg Lesson’s at my office &🚪 GMI Vienna gmivienna.bsky.social that kept me company. 🧵 1/ Advice from my daughters

Thrilled to share our latest bioRxiv! This work started during my PhD and was finished together with Jogi Madhuprakash. We found a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector that bridges a host TOL protein to activated NLRs to suppress immunity! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/15

#2025ISMPMI Tolga Bozkurt introduces the effector and immune processes occurring at Phytophthora haustoria. The helper NRC4 localises to haustoria and upon activation inserts itself into the extrahaustorial membrane forming punctuate foci. It seems activated NLRs beep annoyingly.

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats Saskia Hogenhout John Innes Centre and all coauthors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We introduce a new tool to study F-actin remodeling, ADPact, a peptide sensor of ADP-actin. Unlike Lifeact and Phalloidin, which bind both ATP- and ADP-actin, ADPact only detects ADP-actin. It neither overlaps with cofilin nor affects treadmilling 🙌🤗. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New IS-MPMI Board Members #DreamTeam 😍 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇦 🇦🇷 🇩🇪 🇰🇪