Happy Spring 🌱 🌹 everyone

We spotted a cheeky soy plant winding up the lab window-blind's chain 😍

- yes we have 'decorative' soy plants 😅

Will be hiring in the new year, hit me up if you have students you think would be a good fit and interested in doing protein systems biology projects!

Bioengineering of plant NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) immune receptors to enhance disease resistance at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Bioengineering of plant NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) immune receptors to enhance disease resistance at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 PhD Opportunity in my lab on Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at @imperiallifesci.bsky.social
🌱 Start: October 2025
📅 Deadline: 12th January 2025
🇬🇧 Open to UK students
💰 Fully funded
ℹ️ More info: tinyurl.com/w6ap9v9f
❗ #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology
🙏 Please share with interested candidates!

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

🧂SALT🧂
The other day I wrote about the marvellous story behind road salt.
But it turns out there's even more surprises when you consider the OTHER type of salt - the kind you sprinkle on your chips.
Might seem humdrum, but, even today, it's still one of the most important substances in the world...

Working on Tomato viruses! 🍅

Someone is sticking them on everything!

I keep finding googly eyes in my lab 👀

Amazing to see PTI and ETI suppression taking place from same Aphid. I'm imagining the evolutionary arms race that led to this 😍

Congrats to Team Hogenhout.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci

Back on that #BlueSoup. I plated some fresh plates from @bielleogy.bsky.social onto ISP2 rich media and M9 Minimal Media with 20mM glucose. Fluorescien overnight!!! Seen via 395nm flashlight. Incubated at 28C.

Hey Bluesky! just posted on lab automation on X - will try it here too 😀

Arya Lipman asked "life sciences automation seems to only be working in limited use cases (unless I'm missing it) - companies have burned a lot of cash on robots that sit idle. what's next / where is the opportunity here?" 🧵

I found a pentameric leaf formation while hiking in Japan.

Are there HR spots there from pentameric resistosomes? #meta #plantsci #NLR

I just published: Resurrection is now a thing: Reviving plant immunity for a sustainable future

@ResurrectBio is pioneering sustainable agriculture through Disease Resistance Resurrection. Find out more 👇
link.medium.com/HbvSr41YyMb