Josie Maidment

Seeing Red: A UC San Diego Invention is Transforming the Way Scientists Track Genes UC San Diego biologists have created a transformative new way to monitor genes. The game-changing tool known as RUBY is an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology that allows researchers to visualize gene...

Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science".
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 The primatologist was a

Deeply saddened by this news. A truly incredible woman who has done so much for so many.

"Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱

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Congrats, great to see it out!

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An activated wheat CCG10-NLR immune receptor forms an octameric resistosome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672026v1

A great group of young scientists.

A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025

The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.

#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference!
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Apply by September 15 #PlantBio

And I'll be presenting poster #400-31 tomorrow (Sunday 27 July) from 17:30-19:00 on heavy metal associated-domain containing proteins in rice 🌾

Excited to be in Milwaukee for the @plantphys.bsky.social editorial board meeting and Plant Biology conference #PlantBio25 🌿

Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!

🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI
Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social‬!

Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏

📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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After great talks at #2025ISMPMI on de novo design of pathogen protein binders for receptor engineering - perfect timing for this preprint from colleagues at the Centre de Biologie Structurale!

mamp-ml: A deep learning approach to epitope immunogenicity in plants Eukaryotes detect biomolecules through surface-localized receptors, key signaling components. A subset of receptors survey for pathogens, induce immunity, and restrict pathogen growth. Comparative gen...

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!

Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you're at #2025ISMPMI, please come talk to me if you have comments/questions/feedback!

I'll be presenting some of this work in the poster session on Thursday (P-212) and in the concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function" on Thursday afternoon.

I'm massively grateful to all co-authors, but especially to co-first author Svenja Saile, who is both an incredibly rigorous and conscientious scientist and a wonderful colleague 🌱

Very happy to share our preprint on heavy metal associated (HMA) domain-containing rice proteins bound by the rice blast MAX effector AVR-Pia! 🌾

Such a great evening with past and present members of the CIME team! #2025ISMPMI @phimresearch.bsky.social

Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.

Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc

#plantscience #networking

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster today at #2025ISMPMI!

For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo!

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Looking forward to the start of #2025ISMPMI today!

If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me!

🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function"

📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15

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