Andy Posbe

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation!

How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation

Positions to be announced soon!

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Excited to attend my 1st ISMPMI conference, and present our work on a paired wheat CNL/MLKL receptor mechanism! 🌾

Come chat to me at my poster on Tuesday, P-050! 📜

If you miss my poster session, I will be talking in: Crop resistance genetics and genomics on Wednesday - 16:25-16:35!

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A large conference stage with a man presenting with a power point slide showing a scientific figure about bacterial immunity

Incredibly inspiring talk about the discovery of the more than 200 immune systems in bacteria by Rotem Sorek.

From computational discovery in 2018 through functional and structural analyses, even linking bacterial immune systems to that of eukaryotes.
#2025ISMPMI

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Pikobodies: NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions can confer resistance to the potato blight pathogen Phythophthora infestans Plant pathogens continuously evolve to evade immunity, driving the need for innovative resistance strategies to safeguard global food security. In proof-of-concept work, we engineered the rice nucleot...

Pikobodies vs. Potato Blight 🥊🥔
NLR–Nanobody Fusions Take on P. infestans 💥

🎤 Talk: Thurs July 17th, 16:35
🧾 Poster P-64: Tues 15th, Session 2

Poster’s up on Zenodo if you’re into spoilers 👀📎
zenodo.org/records/1584...

#2025ISMPMI #OpenMPMI🌿

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You asked for it...

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Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

📜 Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome

🧑‍🔬 Muniyandi Selvaraj, @kamounlab.bsky.social, @nlrpapi.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantEffectors

19.12.2023 08:07 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

25 carved pumpkins in a line lit with tea lights. The reflection of the pumpkins can be seen in the water of a pond in front of them.

Great time at the TSL student/postdoc pumpkin carving social today! 🎃

📸 by Matt Wengler

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