Thank you very much @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social for an inspiring talk at the Botanical Garden, Zurich last Friday. There is still so much to learn about plant immune responses at the single cell level! @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

#IPMB #FridayForum

New preprint out! 🚀
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought.

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#FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN!
www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...
You can book hotel rooms at the venue here 👇

AI-tools to study fungal effector function introduced by ⁦‪@ahbucknell.bsky.social‬⁩ #Fungal26 #FungalAI @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Phosphoproteomic analysis of TOR signalling during appressorium development of Magnaporthe ⁦‪@mattwengler.bsky.social ‬⁩ #fungal26

Want to hear about gene regulation driving pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus? Come to my talk this afternoon at the Cell Wall Synthesis and Remodelling session at 16:40! Or my poster tonight! 🍄 #Fungal26

Kicking off #Magnafest26 is Juan Carlos de la Concepcion showing cryo-electron tomography of appressoria in blast #fungal26

Yvonne Scamarcia from Robbie Loewith's lab describing TOR function in Magnaporthe - a key likely regulator of appressorium morphogenesis via TORC1 and turgor control via TORC2 #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Magnagenes- an open science resource for the Magnaporthe research community with many new functions is being developed ⁦
@thesainsburylab.bsky.social
⁩ by Neha Sahu
⁩ #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Goodbye #Magnafest26, and hello #Fungal26!

A big thanks to @osesmir.bsky.social and @frankmenke.bsky.social for organising this year’s meeting, as well as all the presenters!

Looking forward to seeing the research in the greater fungal research community at FGC!

A potential signal for effector sorting via Uba4 translational control by @WilsonLab #magnafest26 #fungal26

Rachel Taylor describes role of the NDR kinase Cot1 in polarised growth and pathogenesis of blast #Magnafest26 #fungal26

Lenny Bonadei from Robbie Loewith's lab with a new high efficiency CRISPR-Cas9 system for editing in Magnaporthe enabling in-locus tagging and highly efficient mutagenesis. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Here is our very own 'PhosphoJave' Bautista introducing his family of phosphorylated fungal effectors and their potential regulation #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Euan Cawston on investigating the role of Mst7 and identifying potential scaffolds of the Pmk1 MAPK pathway #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Fabio Dos Santos Barbosa on dissecting the Sln1 turgor-sensor pathway and its role in appressorium function. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Aidan McVey on epigenetic regulation of Starships in blast. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Florencia Casanova describing functional genomics of lineage-specific effector genes in wheat blast #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Today is #HolocaustRemembranceDay. In the current political climate it is even more important we stand still and remember victims of #fascism and #intolerance. #NeverAgain

Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

Few more days until the abstract submission deadline for Fungal2026 (4th of December). David Canovas and I are chairing the concurrent session 'Sensing and signalling'. ECR scientists working on fungal sensing and signalling are encouraged to submit their abstracts. genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/

We Dutch are very fond of the color Orange. Sending a Dutch Expat an Orange return envelope makes it almost irresistible to use it and therefore vote. 🇳🇱

Very greatfull to work with this brilliant and diverse bunch that make up the #proteomics team @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. #Awayday. 🇨🇦🇫🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇵🇭🇬🇭🇨🇳🇨🇿🇩🇪🇳🇱

By far the scariest pumpkin this season!

*sure

I love it, expats to the rescue! Bringing it home for D66. They got my vote for dure.

Brilliant carving ! 5 most spooky, 17 most original. Special mention for 10

Spooky season has arrived! 👻
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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Engineering auxin degradation into root-associated bacteria promotes plant growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....

By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...