The Best of Both Worlds—Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces venezuelae as Model Species for Studying Antibiotic Production and Bacterial Multicellular Development | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb… #Streptomyces John Innes Centre Harnessing Biosynthesis For Food and Health

Congratulations to Emma Raven and Max Jordan for both winning best student talk for this year’s JIC/TSL Student ASM!! 👑👑🎉🎉

Could not resist. Making that figure in 2019, I thought the newly uncovered diversity of antiphage systems was already incredible. We now know it was just the tip of the iceberg. I hope our new review will help people dive into this wonderful field. rdcu.be/dg3ql.

Thanks to all who attended and presented at this year’s JIC JIC Student Voice/The Sainsbury Laboratory Student Annual Science Meeting (ASM) 🙌🗣️ incl. our post-doc speaker, Melissa Tomkins Congratulations again to Emma Raven Emma Raven & Max Jordan for winning the Best Talk prize 👏

Happy birthday Sir David Hopwood! He is an Emeritus Fellow at John Innes Centre, Norwich and an Emeritus Professor at UEA. He has been a member of the Microbiology Society since 1955 and was President of the Microbiology Society 2000–2003. microb.io/3YFoEc6

What a smashing talk by Max Max Jordan Susan Schlimpert John Innes Centre Amazing stuff 😍 🥳 🎉 #schlimpertsharks 🦈

Our review about non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions is now online in Current Opinion in Plant Biology! We discuss the recent findings on the EvoMPMI from bryophyte systems, which highlight the evolution and diversity of the plant immune system. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

We are super happy to share with you the Cryo-EM structure of a plant helper NLR, NRC2, in its resting state. We’ve discovered that NLRs can exist as dimers before activation! 🤯 1/13 #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantBio biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

NLR papers celebration 🍾 🥂 First, Daniel Daniel Lüdke et al. showed that NLRs can form root-specific networks that operate against parasitic nematodes 🪱

Excited to share the updated version of our manuscript on the evolution and function of plant immune receptor domains. A great collaboration with Sophien Kamoun Sebastian Schornack and Joe Walker lab UniversityofIllinois. 🧵 from 1st author KhongSam Chia coming tomorrow. academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Very chuffed with the sea urchin fossil I found at the beach this weekend 🪸🌊

#CelebratingAlumni Max Max Jordan revisiting our lab meeting 5 years later 🥂

Very excited to share our latest preprint about coevolutionary dynamics between NLRs and their inhibitor! Solanaceae helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade the inhibition by cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 Mya (1/12) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

A very lovely day at KewGardens with Max Jordan 🌷🌿🌞

Pretty cool analysis of the cultural evolution of filled pasta (link.springer.com/article/10.100…). Gotta try them all...

Very happy to share our research into the role of DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1) in wheat 🌾🧬 This work was led by myself, Sam Burrows and Philippa Borrill, with vital contributions from Joe Crudgington, Giorgia di Santolo, James Simmonds and Marco Catoni The key results, a 🧵

I'm absolutely delighted to see this online 😍! Check out the peer-reviewed version of our preprint on the structure of resting state autoinhibited NRC2. Turns out, some helper NLRs can form autoinhibited resting state homodimers 🤯 1/8 🧵👇

Neurospora crassa as a model system for fungal immunity! 🍄🦠New pre-print and my first, first author paper from the Ksenia Krasileva lab where I dissect N.crassa’s interaction with Pseudomonas biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (A 🧵)

🧵 🥬 Lettuce begin! Super excited to share our new manuscript on contrasting patterns of evolution in sensor and helper NLRs in the NRC network! Tune in for some plant immunology and molecular evolution… 🌱🧬💻 (1/14) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!