So many congratulations to Dr Freya Varden who passed her viva today! 🥂🎉🎈

TSL students Xmas dinner 🎅🏼 #Love #TSLytherin #PhDLife

It’s #ChristmasJumperDay at ⁦The Sainsbury Laboratory⁩ - here’s a selection of tasteful attire today. ⁦2Blades⁩ ⁦@PeterVanesse⁩ #HoHoHo

New Research published today on the emergence of a novel aggressive allele of the AVR-Pik effector in the rice blast fungus. Great collaboration with Thai colleagues. Congrats to all authors including Apinya Longya Marina Franceschetti Josie Maidment #BlastOff apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…

PLoS One: Optimization of T-DNA architecture for Cas9-mediated mutagenesis in Arabidopsis (2019) | Scoop.it sco.lt/6wCMld

Postdoctoral position in the Jonathan D G Jones lab looking at the molecular genetics of resistance to late blight in Solanum americanum, a wild potato relative okt.to/V5hiPa

The first bioRxiv pre-print to be led from the Mark Banfield Laboratory. Congrats to all the authors involved for your hard work (including Marina Franceschetti Sophien Kamoun Ryohei Terauchi)!

“We make life harder for ourselves and easier for pathogens when we plant monocultures” - Jonathan D G Jones from The Sainsbury Laboratory speaking CCDM now on plant microbe interactions Curtin MLS

Congratulations to @Jfcsteele for leading this study into plant NLR NB-ARC domain structure/function. Also to Richard Hughes for his efforts. There's a lot of hard work here, so it's great to finally share it 😀biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

That's it for TSLAM 2019! Really enjoyed organising our science retreat. Great to see all the exciting work done by our student community The Sainsbury Laboratory and have fun together. Thanks Beverley Glover for spending time with us and sharing your passion and knowledge of plants!

Many congratulations to Dr Baptiste Castel Baptiste Castel on successfully defending your PhD thesis today!

I have a 12-month position available in my Lab to work on expression/purification of plant immune receptors (collaboration with Jonathan D G Jones). Would suit graduates looking for some research experience (e.g. Pre-PhD) Further details, how to apply 👉 jic.ac.uk/vacancies/rese…

Fantastic time with Dr. Wenbo Ma Lovely dinner and fun conversation! Thanks Josie Maidment for organising :)

Novel usefull tool to study ETI from Bruno, @sardineboy1, Amey Redkar, @HeeKyungAhn2 Jonathan D G Jones. Activation of NLR in absence of pathogen is NOT sufficient to induce HR! #ICMPMI2019 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks to Government Property Agency (the GPA) for another fascinating project visit this afternoon, a great end to our 2019 Fast Stream induction. It could be you next year, apply now via faststream.gov.uk applications open until 24th October Civil Service Fast Stream (UK)

If you have received seeds by post that you didn't order please email: [email protected]. Don't plant or compost the seeds as they could be a risk to the environment. APHA Defra UK

Science can rescue farming. Relaxing gene editing rules should be the start | Nick Talbot theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

PUBLICATION - Perception of structurally distinct effectors by the integrated WRKY domain of a plant immune receptor 👀👇 pnas.org/content/118/50…

This work is a collaboration between Mark Banfield and Jonathan D G Jones Labs John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory. Congrats to all authors 👏🥳 Nitikamukhi, Hannah V Brown, Dan Gorenkin, Pingtao Ding (he/him), Adam Bentham and clare stevenson

The amazing Sean Cutler @JoseDinneny & Uta Paszkowski are instructors for this year's #CSHLcourse Frontiers and techniques in Plant Science. Deadline: March 31, 2018 Application and scholarship information: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?c…