Nick Talbot

Mary Williams speaking on the stage. The slide projected behind her contains a satellite photo of half of the Earth, with a cartoon alien spaceship on the top left, and the title reads “What would aliens take home from earth?”

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍

Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

#NBIAST2025

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value."
- John Gurdon

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... “I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in Idaho”.

YouTube video by Planet Fungi Planet Fungi: A Photographers Foray - what is it?

Planet Fungi: A Photographers Foray - what is it? youtu.be/x92CvxZErhg?...

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Atlantic sunrise

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!

▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS

Kansas prairie today

Great to be in Kansas State for a celebration of Barbara Valent’s career- what an impacts she’s had on rice blast research

Above the clouds of Texas- on my way to Kansas City

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social

Great sessions at #IFBC25 on fungal manipulation of ant behaviour (Charissa de Bekker) and nematode behaviour (@fungi_worms and Reinhard Fischer) -highlighting the complex cellular eukaryotic processes that fungal effectors can perturb -remarkable insights from effector biology

Cell cycle checkpoints are critical to plant infection by rice blast - great to see @osesmir.bsky.social building a research programme in Pamplona to address this #IFBC25 #CelebratingAlumni

Nice to see Theophrastus taking centre stage over Galen and Hippocrates - need to show some funders this to remind them how important plants are! Cool being in Greece with the old gods #IFBC25

Chania, Crete for #IFBC25

📣 IFBC-2025 is just around the corner!
Join us this Sept in Chania, Crete 🇬🇷 to connect with the fungal biology community 🍄

📅 Abstract deadline: July 25
🎓 Fee waivers for PhD students
🔗 ifbc2025.maich.gr
Let’s shape the future — together 🤝

#IFBC2025 #FungalBiology #Greece #Conference

📣 Meet our speakers! 🎤

🍄 Session 1 at IFBC-2025 explores fungal metabolism & development with top researchers in the field.

🧬 Join us in Chania, Greece this Sept!

🗒️ Submit abstract by July 25

🔗 ifbc2025.maich.gr

#IFBC2025 #FungalBiology #Greece #Chania #Conference

The great Claudio Scazzocchio- fungal geneticist and polymath - giving keynote first talk in Chania - on the evolution of nitrogen utilization in eukaryotes #IFBC25

Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art!

Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!

Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...

Vangeli on the stage as he started his personal introduction

Laura on the stage with pictures of typical food from Bologna, Italy, on the badkground. Depicted food included ragù alla bolognese, lasagne, tortellini and mortadella

Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥

Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝

And what a great year it’s been! Congratulations!

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

I am very sad to hear this news about Steve Long who I admired greatly and had the pleasure to work with on several occasions on various panels. He was a wise man of great intellect, a kind and thoughtful nature, and was an exceptional scientist. www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...

My daughter's wedding

Fingers crossed it holds off for a bit!