opening lecture by Giles E D Oldroyd (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 on symbiotic plant-microbial interactions #bt2024dbg

Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.

Humans have been modifying crops for thousands of years. All of the corn ears on display are the same species (Zea mays), developed in different parts the world. Some resist pests or have kernels that are brightly colored, are sweet, or pop when heated. US Botanic garden.

Great to hear new ⁦The Sainsbury Laboratory⁩ group leader Tatsuya Nobori ⁦Tatsuya Nobori presenting his work and future plans at the ⁦Advancing Plant Health⁩ meeting today ⁦⁦John Innes Centre⁩

Collaboration and teamwork matter. Worth reading 👉TEAM — Together. Everyone. Achieves. More. by Sophien Kamoun link.medium.com/RCzjczkiWMb

Can’t recommend the GMI highly enough - outstanding core facilitites and staff, and a friendly community of inquisitive scientists. And in Vienna!

Kłodzko, Poland. Street view image before yesterday’s flood and a photo taken today of the aftermath. Devastating.

After years and years of media reports that coal is having a comeback in the UK the last coal plant will go offline in just 2 weeks. Coal in the UK is no more. Credit for graph to I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky

Bringing a touch of San Diego sky into my office—I’ll be needing it soon! 🌦️

Congratulations to the 2023/24 cohort of our MSc in Global Plant Health who just completed the course successfully (showing six of the eight students with Nick Talbot and Stephen Bornemann). It's great to witness how far the students have come

Excellent keynote on science, career and better research culture by Professor Sophien Kamoun ⁦Sophien Kamoun⁩ at FELS Researcher Development and Career Festival ⁦University of Southampton⁩.

Fun opportunity to learn something new and pivot towards a career in plant/data science. Paid year-long Fellowship. Apply here: etap.nsf.gov/award/7266/opp… Danforth Center ASPB North American Plant Phenotyping Network

It was a pleasure to host Professor Sophien Kamoun Sophien Kamoun at our FELS Researcher Development and Career Festival. Thank you Sophien for an inspiring talk and discussions about mentoring, team work and open science...

It has been a wonderful year of learning, unlearning, and meeting amazing people. I am truly grateful for these experiences.

Philip Benfey (1953–2023) nature.com/articles/s4147…

Today we host Lainey Williamson, Structural Biologist, Limagrain Europe   “Using serial femtosecond crystallography to solve the structures of pesticidal proteins from natural crystals”

Happening Now: Yasin Dagdas introduces keynote speaker Sascha Martens, Max Perutz Labs, at the International Plant Proteostasis Conference hosted by the GMI. Yasin Dagdas Sascha Martens

👏👏👏Congratulations to Sebastian Eves-van den Akker for being appointed Professor of Biotic Interactions, effective from 1 October. Sebastian is Head of the Plant-Parasite Interactions group here at the CSC. cropsciencecentre.org/news/sebastian…

This reminds me we are in September #VivaMexico #IndependenciaDeMéxico 🇲🇽

3 weeks ago, we relocated to Tuebingen. We are all excited about the possibilities that lie ahead! I want to take this opportunity to thank my former institute IMB Academia Sinica 中央研究院 Academia Sinica for their support, and we look forward to many more new discoveries at MPG!