How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene 🧵1/6 Ever wonder how bacteria organize during an infection?! Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

🔥Super excited to share our latest work out now in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… This paper describes the discovery of "glycosyrin" a small molecule produced by the bacterial pathogen P. syringae to manipulate glycobiology inside host plants during infection.🧵1/20

🌾 It’s #PlantHealthWeek! Think you’ve got what it takes to keep our plants healthy? Try our Plant Doctor quiz and prove it! 👩‍🔬🌿 💡 Learn, play, and celebrate plant health 👉 buff.ly/unNLPOW #BSPP #PlantPathology #PlantsMatter

I’m thrilled to announce that Prof. Sophien Kamoun (Sophien Kamoun) will be joining us as the keynote speaker for the upcoming #BGRSS2025 at the University of Birmingham! As an organising committee member, I warmly welcome him to Birmingham. #BGRSS2025 #PlantScience #UoB

Mental Health Awareness Week and we had our now traditional Les Mills body combat classes! Thank you everyone that participated and the LES College for organising 👏

Only a few days left to register! Don't miss this opportunity and join us in York from 4-6 July!

Today in nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III and dBz-deoxy-Taxol. a

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining ZMBP as a Junior Group Leader in October 2025! My lab will explore the functional and structural diversity of plant immune receptors. 1/2 #NewPI #PlantImmunity #NLRs #PlantScience #StructuralBiology

Grateful for the chance to share our recent apoplast proximity labelling work at #2025ISMPMI ,great discussions with colleagues from around the world!

#ISMPMI2025 Happy to present today my poster about a newly discovered type III effector protein in P. syringae! Please come and visit P-155 today to discuss the story! Michelle Hulin Robert Jackson

🎉 My poster is up and ready to go at #2025ISMPMI. Excited to share our work on SynComs for pathogen suppression in oak trees 🌳🧫 Check out poster P-324 during Session 2 - I'll be presenting on Thu, 13.30-15.15 pm

Had an awesome time at ISMPMI and the honour to present some of our work! Greatful for the oppurtunity to meet new people, catch up with friends, and see and discuss some great science! If you want to learn more the poster is up online: zenodo.org/records/158817…

Wonderful day Bangor University Huge congratulations to Dr. Alejandra Ordoñez for passing her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Carrie Brady and Mojgan Rabiey for examining and George Turner for chairing. Look out for some cool papers in the near future!

Look forward to the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium hosted by Uni of Birmingham, Aug 4 - 7, to be attended by >100 ECRs, 24 Mentors and 7 keynote speakers. Register here to attend selected sessions virtually! New Phytologist College of Life and Environmental Sciences newphytologist.org/nextgeneventpa…

News to celebrate! We have just been awarded a Project Grant (PID2024) from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación on the topic "Cooperative virulence in plants: mechanisms, dynamics and adaptive impact"

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the Uni of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱MSU MSU-PSM Department sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our small contribution to the growing Starship field is now online! An amazing effort by two masters students (at the time) Angus Bucknell and Hannah Wilson!

NEW PhD OPPORTUNITY❗️fully funded PhD position under the MSCA Future Forest. Join my group to study all about pathogens, trees and CO2. Candidate mobility required so only open to overseas (non-UK) candidates 🫶 please RT 🙏 info here 👇

🧵 1/ New preprint alert! From the @futureoak project, led by the super talented Alejandra Ordoñez 'Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression' Here's what we found👇