Professor of Biotic Interactions, University of Cambridge. @plantsci Fellow of King's College Cambridge. goo.gl/fRtMjq
Cambridge, England
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We think nematodes break open plant cells, sense small molecules (termed effectostimulins), which switch on a master regulator SUGR1, which switches on effectors, which break cells.
Looks like a feed-forward loop driving infection.
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We are looking for a new team member!
Our lab offers a postdoctoral staff scientist position. If you share our fascination with plant-microbe interactions, take a look:
ag-doehlemann.botanik.uni-ko…
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Today @ScienceMagazine A noncontiguous code for RNA-guided DNA recognition at the origin of CRISPR-Cas | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Nice - time to update lectures :)
Two decades after revealing the mechanism of action of auxin, we have now uncovered the molecular mystery of another plant hormone: salicylic acid (SA), the precursor of aspirin that most of us have taken at some point in our lives. We were surprised again rdcu.be/EbdVwEStSHha
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Two decades after revealing the mechanism of action of auxin, we have now uncovered the molecular mystery of another plant hormone: salicylic acid (SA), the precursor of aspirin that most of us have taken at some point in our lives. We were surprised again rdcu.be/EbdVwEStSHha
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ColabFold 1.6.3 is out! 2.5x faster, pip-installable, ipSAE+pDockQ2 scores. Thanks Choonghwan Lee, Marielle Russo, Gyuri Kim, Martin Steinegger, Milot Mirdita
🐍 pip install colabfold[alphafold]
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Single-cell multiomic characterization of the soybean root response to cyst nematode infection (Xuan Zhang , Vinavi A Gamage , Xunliang Liu , Ziliang Luo , Mark A A Minow , Hao Zhang , Melissa G Mitchum , Robert J Schmitz) doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag2… @ASPB #PlantSci
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Latest preprint from our group. We found the Bip1 transcription factor is phosphorylated in a Pmk1-dependent manner & with Mst12 co-regulates appressorium-specific functions, as well as acting on genes controling invasive growth. Led by @camilla_moli
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Attention plant-microbe enthusiasts! Only 11 more days to get your submissions in for the concurrent session ideas for the 2027 IS-MPMI Congress in Jeju (July 13-22). Please apply by 25 Sept 2026! Read more here: ismpmi.org/announcements/con…
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Excited to share this pre-print from my PhD work! We explore a Pmk1-Mst12-Bip1 network required for appressorium-mediated infection by the blast fungus 🌾 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 👇
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Excited to share Fold on Tight! 🎉
We distil recent advances in plant immunity into 10 lessons for using AI structure prediction critically and effectively, in plants and beyond.
With @amiralito_ Alex McClelland @YuSugiharaY @mpcontreras4 @KamounLab
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Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30
Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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A plant pathologist at Hutton in Dundee, Scotland #scijobs hutton.current-vacancies.com…
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i gave astra a robot, a paint brush, and a camera then asked it to paint the golden gate bridge in real life!
it figured out how to control the robot, and progressively got better throughout its attempts. the timelapse is sick
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Listen to Dr Jake Harris on BBC Radio 4's Lab-Grown Life talking about his work to make synthetic chromosomes to rewrite the DNA of crops like potatoes, adding new traits - e.g. disease-resistance & climate-change resilience. (interview from 7.20s)
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With AlphaFold we mapped the protein universe - now with AlphaGenome Atlas we’re charting the human genome. It can predict the impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants, helping scientists better understand disease. Freely available for academic research: alphagenome.google/atlas
We’re launching AlphaGenome Atlas: an AI-powered searchable database mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes.
Here’s how it could help researchers better understand our biology 🧵
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Thanks to the @ISMPMI for the interview on my PhD and my research line 🇦🇷
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Arabidopsis thaliana was thought to be entirely absent from Crete.
We finally found it, though it's rare and elusive! 🌿
Given Crete's isolation, we hope to be descendants of the very first lineages that arrived in Europe 120k years ago? Stay tuned 🔬 🧬⏳
@UOC_gr @FORTH_ITE
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📣 Please share!
We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/4
Excited to launch our ERC project ImmuneCellState 🚀
We’ll study how individual plant cells respond to pathogens and explore new dimensions of plant immunity research by integrating single-cell/spatial omics, deep learning and genome editing.
@TheSainsburyLab @ERC_Research
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Congratulations to all #MPMI #ECRs who got awarded with @ERC_Research #StG @MariSchuster @Sophie_de_Vries @delaconcepcionj @nobolly Emil Jensen 👏👏👏
📣 Good news! 📣
Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out!
Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe.
Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN
#ERCStG #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @EUScienceInnov
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Excited to launch our ERC project ImmuneCellState 🚀
We’ll study how individual plant cells respond to pathogens and explore new dimensions of plant immunity research by integrating single-cell/spatial omics, deep learning and genome editing.
@TheSainsburyLab @ERC_Research
📣 Good news! 📣
Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out!
Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe.
Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN
#ERCStG #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @EUScienceInnov
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