🚨 PhD opportunity to join my group at UEA investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury. Deadline 1st January 2025. UK “home” students only (uni rules for this call) #PleaseRT findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

New Research: Editorial: Role of entomopathogenic fungi in sustainable agriculture frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Microbiology

Great to be involved with this work- we show that the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) can identify and colonize both Sitka and Norway spruce trees, providing insights for the management of the forest pest. Rothamsted Research Forest Research ow.ly/thvW50UXH6h

Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce. Discovery of pest in UK raises fears for Sitka spruce, which accounts for half of country’s commercial plantations Gareth Thomas Mike Birkett Forest Research theguardian.com/environment/20…

Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that this matters for bee choice! nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢New Paper! Identifying subtle differences in the molecular structure of a sex pheromone could ultimately help protect vital stored legume crops from the destructive dried bean beetle. 🫘🪲 Full story 👇 rothamsted.ac.uk/news/bean-beet…

Struggling with #wireworms on your farm? Contact our scientists! Please share with anyone in the #farming community.

Great day at the Oak Health & Plant Biosecurity Event at Kew Gardens, hearing updates on oak health research and visiting Kew’s oak collection! Action Oak #ActionOak #PlantHealth

🚨 New preprint! We've developed a bioassay-guided genome mining approach to identify bacterial secondary metabolites that inhibit Zymoseptoria tritici — a major fungal pathogen of wheat. Available now on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Just out in Science Magazine: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that ash populations are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - and fast. It’s a rare glimmer of hope for

Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor NTU Singapore NTU School of Biological Sciences, after ten rewarding years working with my wonderful mentors Nick Talbot Dr. Wenbo Ma and colleagues The Sainsbury Laboratory

🤍 The thoughts of everyone at #LUFC are with Diogo Jota’s family, friends and all associated with Liverpool FC at this devastating time

New #openaccess opinion piece, the 1st from our brilliant collaboration with ⁦Akos T. Kovacs,⁩ Xinming Xu, Sofia Gomes and Marine Cambon. Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are delighted to announce that applications for the Defra R&D Fellowship Programme for 2026/2027 are now open. Full details about the programme and how to apply can be found at: defrajobs.co.uk/roles/research…

🧵 New preprint alert! From the @futureoak project, led by Jim Downie Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…