Early-career scientists: here’s your chance to lead independent research!🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! mpg.de/career/max-pla…👉

Does anybody have, or know where to find high quality photos of crown gall in cross section? I need one for an invited review. Will be credited, of course. Thanks! #gall

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Join us for a free webinar in our #NewPhytologistNow series! 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish: Bridging the gap – unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era ⌚ 14:00 BST 📅 30 September 2025 Register 👉 newphytologist.org/events/2025-09…

Our next cohort of MSc Global Plant Health students have just started. It'll be an exciting year ahead. We are grateful for the support from the David Sainsbury Scholarships.

Welcome to Junior Lusu Kika, the incoming President of African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) African Society of Cambridge University and to Bonface Gichuki, the General Secretary who step into leading ASCU this year Thank you to SAMUEL AGYAPONG for his dedicated & as the outgoing ASCU President

Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 Tansley Medal winner Matthew Naish! Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era. Register at: buff.ly/zGQFkht #PlantScience

New Preprint alert! M incognita is a remarkable pathogen: extremely specialised with the widest host range (> 3,000). All this while reproducing parthenogenetically! We analyse the infection phenotype and transcriptome of 9 hosts (6 orders) at 25 dpi. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025 cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell-r… #plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

First day of the Contreras lab at ZMBP! Exciting times ahead 🤯 #NewPI

We’re glad to be part of the International Partnerships Event 2025 at Cambridge University, Crop Science Centre. This morning, Prof. NemaChap briefly highlighted our ongoing work on Root-Knot Nematode (RKN) on Irish and Sweet Potato. IITA icipe Solveig Haukeland

NEMATODE MONDAY: Root knot galls on pumpkin 🎃 roots in south Alabama. Field yellowing up early partly due to high levels of root knot nematode. #Nematode #Nematology #Pumpkin #MondayVibes

One week left to register for #VNC2025 -> forms.gle/yqQtpovYiwrYhP…. We look forward to welcome you in our new Gathertown venue! Updates on the programme will follow soon!

Congrats Victor!

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth & regulated cell death during plant infection-each conidial cell has different developmental fate-by the rice blast fungus EseolaAlice Xia Yan @osesmir Lauren Ryder Dan MacLean Martin Egan

We are hiring! Our lab is offering a fully funded PhD position in fungal effector biology: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/…

What’s the greatest hurdle in improving food security: the science or the system? Join us on 16 October to hear from an expert panel + ARIA Creators and get a taste of tomorrow’s crops. Register here: link.aria.org.uk/VC-WFD-X

For the second year in a row, Parafilm has been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025! 🏅

Job opportunity! We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician: - Crop Science Centre - Fixed term - Closes on Friday 31 October cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticult… #plantscijobs #plantsciences

Post doc position in Extracellular vesicles and cross kingdom communication in the Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Final week to apply! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…