Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou Yingnan Hou, and the phylogenomics genius AmirAli Toghani The Sainsbury Laboratory. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!

1/8 🎉 It was a huge success at SLCU ! Our Mini-Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Symbiosis & Pathogen Interaction featured cutting-edge talks on symbiosis, immunity, virology & root biology. Thanks to all speakers for inspiring discussions! 🧵 Highlights below 👇

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

From landmine-clearing plants to leveraging stochasticity in synthetic biology, discover the opportunity seeds we’re funding in Programmable Plants 🌱 link.aria.org.uk/PPoppseeds

Our new work lead by Anuphon. Cryo Structure of CARD1 reveals copper in the ecodomain, required for sensing H202. The phenotype of card1 is same as rbohd, suggesting ROS produced by RBOHD is sensed by CARD1.

Our 📰🕸️PlantConnectome is out pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40700523/. The online tool is here: plant.connectome.tools. Explore knowledge graphs generated from 71,000 articles, study protein-protein interactions, regulatory networks, organs, stresses and others! #knowledge #graph #llm #plant

Plantae Fellows from past and present, near and far gathered #IRL at #PlantBio2025, creating community year after year!🌱 📢Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program! Learn more and apply by August 31! plantae.org/2026fellowsapp/

Help us bring the full power of modern genetic engineering to the mitochondrion for the first time. Apply by 24 August to be a Technical Specialist supporting Nathan Wolfe on the programme he’ll direct: aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/68…

Thrilled to be part of this collaborative work just published in New Phytologist! Big thanks to Yuuki Sakai and the whole team for a great project. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Aphid effector Mp10 balances immune suppression and defence activation through EDS1-dependent modulation of plant DAMP responses Gravino et all. Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social Matteo Gravino Saskia Hogenhout 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

‘The Marchantia Bed’ -Acrylics on Canvas. Whipped up a canvas for my work desk. #bryophytes #liverworts

Congrats Natalia et al!! Really cool stuff 👌

Congrats Matteo et al!

We’ve updated the Mycoplasmatota phylum chapter for Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria Bergey's Intl. Society for Microbial Systematics doi.org/10.1002/978111… Grateful to Gail Gasparich Gail Gasparich for leading the effort, and to my student Shen-Chian Pei Shen-Chian Pei for his assistance.

New group leader opportunity John Innes Centre - We're looking for interests in (not limited to) growth and development, environmental/organismal interactions, physiology, signalling, cell biology, biochemical, and modelling approaches jic.ac.uk/vacancies/grou…

Check out our new review metacaspases in Cell Death & Differentiation @springernature.com . It´s not all about cell death, but more about survival 👇nature.com/articles/s4141…

Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recyclingin the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Fave study and paper… #EvolutionRocks #EVOMPMI #EffectorWisdom

How to work while trapped in Canada by the ⁦Air Canada⁩ labor crisis…

During Brassicales evolution, plants changed their way to synthesize salicylic acid from PAL pathway to IC pathway. The time of IC pathway evolution nicely matches our previous publication. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…