🌿 Amazing talk by Prof Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (@yoselin.bsky.social) on Callose & Plasmodesmata!

PhD opportunity available 🚨 apply by March 26!

Join the vibrant @blackinplantsci.bsky.social community!

A Specific Sinorhizobium Flagellin Suppresses Legume Nodulation Through Immune Activation Bacterial flagellin-activated immunity plays a crucial role in shaping plant-microbe interactions, leading to either parasitism, mutualism, or commensalism. In the legume-rhizobium symbiosis, while i....

👀 A Specific Sinorhizobium Flagellin Suppresses Legume Nodulation Through Immune Activation doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Pathogen-inspired engineering of plant protease enhances late blight resistance | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exciting PhD positions on plant immunity and engineering plant disease resistance with an excellent supervisor @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social. Strongly recommend.👇

The EPS-I exopolysaccharide transforms Ralstonia wilt pathogen biofilms into viscoelastic fluids for rapid dissemination in planta | PNAS Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) pathogens cause destructive plant wilt diseases of a wide variety of crops, leading to significant ag...

I'm excited to see this out after hearing Matt give a nice seminar a few months ago. Ralstonia is such an interesting pathogen! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🆕 version work @sylvain-vicente.bsky.social and collaborators #BIOSP #MathNum @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Re-evaluation of STAMP modelling, introducing time-resolution. Works also on Animal-bacterial infection models. #infection #Ralstonia #Pseudomonas #Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My poster on flower bioengineering at the #AIEBaB26 conference in Bristol last week 🌹 🧬 ✨

TAIR invites you to open office hours in January, February, and March - Phoenix Bioinformatics We’re excited to host a series of free open office hours for TAIR users on the third Tuesday of each month

Book a 30-minute appointment with a #TAIR team member! Whether you are new to TAIR and want to learn about our features and functionality, or an experienced user with specific questions or feedback, we're here to help! 🧪

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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci

TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20th – 31st July… Inviting Early Career Researchers to join international experts in discussing the latest approaches and discoveries in Plant-Microbe Interactions …

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬

Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers.

APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info
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If you work with R6K plasmids for transient DNA delivery, our latest SHARK strains might be of use! Work out at ACS Synthetic Biology led by Shivang Joshi and strains plus plasmids for their assembly will be available @addgene.bsky.social very soon! doi.org/10.1021/acss...

We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @ www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Congrats Carmen!

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Saskia Hogenhout as the new BSPP President, whose pioneering research on plant-microbe-insect interactions is transforming our understanding of pathogen transmission and plant health.

More about her work @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/people/saski...

If you are looking to integrate your latest genetic creation into the genome of your favourite bug, you might find our latest review now out in OUP Synthetic Biology useful. 🧬⚒️ Work led by Riesa Rohmat with input from Thea Irvine and Shivang Joshi. #genome #synbio doi.org/10.1093/synb...

Emerging trends in genome integration tools for precision engineering of diverse bacterial species Abstract. The ability to precisely insert DNA payloads into a genome enables the comprehensive engineering of cellular phenotypes and the creation of new b

🧬 How to stably integrate genetic circuits into genomes?

Excited to share our review on genome integration strategies, key design considerations, and future directions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/synb...

Congrats and thanks to all involved!
Hope this helps the community.
#SyntheticBiology

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Very excited for this project with @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social! Will bring together a lot of exciting tools we have up and running in the lab for working with diverse biology and put them to use in building new technologies to trace gene expression across plants. 🧬 🔍 Applications open!

SynProm: Fast, Modular Spatio-Temporal Transcriptional Reporters for Plants (Plant BioDesign Bristol project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - SynProm: Fast, Modular Spatio-Temporal Transcriptional Reporters for Plants (Plant BioDesign Bristol project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚀 PhD opportunity!

Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now!
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!

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Fabulous supervisors include @pdchristine.bsky.social @yiliangding.bsky.social @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social caill.bsky.social @morganlab.bsky.social and many more....

Webinar on Dec 10th - details in ads. Deadline Jan 19th.

(UK students only unfortunately)

The initial lineup of keynotes and spotlight talks is finalised, with 10 contributed talks still up for grabs! Come join us in Bristol on 15-16 Jan 2026 for AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond to shape the future of these fields🤖🧬🦠Register now at: aiebab.github.io

🌿 Fantastic seminar from Chris Whitewoods on how leaves build their inner architecture - from intercellular spaces to mesophyll cell fate!

Check out his group’s great work: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/whi...

#PlantScience @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Amazing! So well deserved, congratulations Megan!

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

Le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête: Dealing with anxiety as an academic Leading a lab means marching like a village chief while quietly watching for budget meteors and attacks by Reviewer #3. Here is a playbook…

I just published: Le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête: Dealing with anxiety as an academic

Here is a playbook to turning irrational academic dread into strategy and momentum.

#AcademicChatter

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Reiner van der Hoorn is first up on the last day of #2025ISMPMI.

Clever use of blue/white screening to identify a bacterial inhibitor of plant beta-galactosidase. Pseudomonas-produced glycoserin mimics galactose!

Also found that glycoserin production stems from purine biosynthesis.

Thank you
And thank to all the team involved especially the main investigator Tifaine Folletti

We're hiring!
Join the Plant Pathology journal as a freelance Technical Reader.
Part-time, flexible hours
Apply by 15 July to plantpath@bspp.org.uk
www.bspp.org.uk/join-the-pla...
#EditingJobs #PlantPathology #AcademicPublishing #Freelance

🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs!
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.

Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏

The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato Abstract. Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most destructive bacterial diseases for which no effective treatment exists. There

📜 The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato

🧑‍🔬 Weiqi Zhang, @bactodeath.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Tomato