NEWS: Purple GM tomatoes reach major milestone in US
Norfolk Plant Sciences Ltd welcomed the decision by the USDA which should allow US home growers to purchase seeds and grow the nutritionally enhanced high-anthocyanin
@BigPurpleTomato
from spring '23.
📣NEWS: We are delighted to announce that Dr Tatsuya Nobori will join us as a new group leader next year.
"Tatsuya has many new ideas and complementary expertise and will, I am sure, make important contributions to the science programme at TSL." says Nick
@talbotlabTSL
@nobolly
Cyril Zipfel and an international team have identified the calcium ion channel required for stomata to close in the presence of pathogens. This exciting discovery offers opportunities for developing disease-resistant crops.
[image Kim Findlay, JIC]
Congratulations to Prof Sophien Kamoun for being awarded the 2021 RKS Wood prize! The prize celebrates excellent science in the study of plant disease biology and its application in the protection of plants against pathogens.
@BS_PP
@KamounLab
Great news for the TSL Community: Prof Wenbo Ma
@wenboEffector
has been bestowed the honor of
#AAASFellow
for her scientifically distinguished efforts to advance science.
We are thrilled that our senior group leader, Prof Wenbo Ma, received the Ruth Allen Award from the American Phytopathological Society for her outstanding contributions to plant pathology research.
We’re hugely proud and excited to welcome Tatsuya
@nobolly
as a Group Leader in 2024.
Tatsuya is kicking off our Autumn Symposium by taking us through his eclectic career.
Sifting through our archives a familiar face shows up from when the lab was established in 1988 to now 🤔
This month we are delighted to celebrate the 35th TSL anniversary of
@jonathandgjones
and his countless contributions to TSL, scientist careers & plant health discoveries 🎉
Three of our group leaders have made it to the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2021. The list represents researchers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field.
Congratulations to
@jonathandgjones
@KamounLab
and Cyril Zipfel!
TSL is celebrating the 20th Anniversary and 6000th (!!) Transformation of our Tissue Culture team!
This dedicated team of 3 are at the root of helping us understand how plants work 🤔🌱🧬 and we are very grateful to them.
AWARD - Congratulations to our Head of Laboratory, Professor Zipfel today, he has been elected into the European Molecular Biology Organisation. Prof Zipfel joins a community of outstanding scientists
@EMBO
. Read more -
📣NEWS: We are delighted to celebrate that Sophien
@KamounLab
has been honoured with the distinction of becoming a Foreign Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
Jonathan Jones and a tiny
@TheSainsburyLab
alongside David Baulcombe
@dcb40
and Mike Daniels in 1987.
We are incredibly grateful to the devoted and hugely talented scientists who have shaped TSL into the thriving lab it is today.
Happy 35th TSL anniversary
@jonathandgjones
!
NEWS: Repeat modules in pathogen effector proteins hijack plant core enzymes via mimicry. Study by
@wenboEffector
&
@Hui84282116
represents one of the 1st examples of how functional diversity is generated in effector repertoire.
@CellCellPress
cover art submission by
@HsuanPai1
VACANCY: We are looking for a highly motivated early-career scientist to lead a research group & make ground-breaking discoveries on any aspect of inter-organismal interactions that impacts plant health.
TSL provides an internationally competitive salary & generous core budget.
Professor Wenbo Ma * How the molecular interactions between plants and microbes lead to either immunity or disease * Plant health discovery for a sustainable future
Watch
@wenboEffector
say more about her research & why she joined our research institute.
Farewell Xiao Lin
@xiaolin422
who is leaving
@jonathandgjones
lab to start his own lab at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
“ Xiao cloned his first AVR-amr effector before even getting to the lab while finishing his PhD
@VivianneTwit
”
Development of the PiperPlus potato is well under way. This potato is resistant to late blight & tuber blight, with less bruising and cold-induced sweetening. PiperPlus has the same yield as Maris Piper and will reduce the need for agrochemical input.
Professor Cyril Zipfel, a senior group leader and current Head of The Sainsbury Laboratory, has been announced as the fourth recipient of the Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award awarded by Nagoya University (Japan)
Plants have an immune system…and it’s complicated; Fresh insights from the
@KamounLab
, into plant immunity amount to a new field of discovery that could advance the next generation of disease-resistant crops
@sciencemagazine
#JohnInnesFoundation
Rotation PhD Programme in multi-disciplinary plant and microbial sciences. Take ownership of your research. Application deadline 29 November for entry in October 2024.
@JohnInnesCentre
Congratulations to two of our lab members for being awarded the 2021
#JohnInnesFoundation
Student Prizes!
Bruno Ngou 🏆 JIF Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
@BrunoNgou
Neftaly Cruz-Mireles 🏆 JIF Prize for Excellence in Science Communication
@NeftalyCM
Worthy winning entries for the
@TheSainsburyLab
photo competition. Note to students and postdocs, if
@MatthewMoscou
offers to write your figure legends, think very carefully before accepting!
We are excited by Mia Cerfonteyn joining TSL to communicate our scientific discoveries and our commitment to solve the economic and social problems caused by plant diseases across the world
Norfolk Plant Sciences Ltd was established by Professors Cathie Martin and
@jonathandgjones
as the UK’s first GM crop company. Its aim is to find ways of commercialising their research into plants with enhanced health-giving compounds.
@JohnInnesCentre
@BigPurpleTomato
Fully funded PhD Studentship with Prof. Cyril Zipfel and Prof. Nick Talbot
@talbotlabTSL
. Deciphering the roles of novel plant signaling peptide-receptor pairs. Deadline 30 April 2021.
We’re looking for three Postdoctoral Scientists to join the
@wenboEffector
lab to deploy state-of-the-art methods to elucidate fundamental principles in plant-pathogen interactions
Scientists discover a critical immune component within cereals 🌾
Barley requires the grass-specific Exo70FX gene family for immunity against wheat stripe rust. Results suggest an interesting evolutionary route for this gene family.
@MatthewMoscou
@BergumMolly
@JBettgenhaeuser
Without septin proteins the blast fungus can't infect a plant, but we're not entirely sure why.
@talbotlabTSL
has been awarded a generous ERC Advanced Grant to find out more about these remarkable morphogenetic proteins.
#ERCAdG
@ERC_Research
🏆NEWS: Delighted to spot three TSL group leaders on the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list by
@ClarivateAG
The list aims to recognise the most influential researchers on a global scale, representing those in the top 1% by citations for their field.
Read more about our group leader, Prof Wenbo Ma, winning the Ruth Allen Award
@EDP24
"This award is a motivation for us to make more exciting discoveries at The Sainsbury Laboratory."
@wenboEffector
VACANCY: We are looking for a highly motivated early-career scientist to lead a research group & make ground-breaking discoveries on any aspect of inter-organismal interactions that impacts plant health.
TSL provides an internationally competitive salary & generous core budget.
A microbial molecule has been discovered that allows parasitic bacteria to turn plants into zombies.
Abnormal growth - 'witches’ brooms' - can be seen in this lime tree.
The stunning artwork by
@HsuanPai1
was selected for the Cell cover.
@KamounLab
was awarded the 2021 RKS Wood prize by
@BS_PP
. The prize celebrates excellent science in the study of plant disease biology and its application in the protection of plants against pathogens.
#OPOF2021
Rice blast fungus discovery will drive crop innovation; A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered in new research
@Ryder_Lauren1
@talbotlabTSL
📣NEWS: Single-cell transcriptomics exposes how plant cell types respond differently to a fungal pathogen. Scientists uncover previously obscured molecular events between plants and pathogens.
@BozengTang
Li Feng
@michhulin
@wenboEffector
@sardineboy_DING
Read more ⬇️
An exciting and fully funded PhD Studentship is now available with Prof. Cyril Zipfel and Prof. Nick Talbot
@talbotlabTSL
. A great opportunity to work with renowned experts in the field of plant pathology. Deadline 30 April 2021.
#ScienceJobs
#PhDposition
Opening the doors of potato pathogen perception
@jonathandgjones
and colleagues have identified one of the best genes to confer durable resistance to late blight in potato, the cause of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and of crop losses to this day
A big
@KamounLab
outing to celebrate
@HsuanPai1
’s beautiful achievement.
Pai just graduated with a Children’s Book Illustration MA
@CSACBI
and her art showcases a passion for plants, fungi, Norwich and curious creatures. 🐱🌿
Congratulations Pai, we’re all very inspired! 🎉✨
We are delighted to have three of our researchers on the
#HighlyCited2022
list again this year. Congratulations to
@KamounLab
,
@jonathandgjones
, Cyril Zipfel, and their teams, for their world-leading research in plant science.
IT’S HERE! The Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list has now been published. Discover the most influential
#researchers
the world has to offer:
#HighlyCited2022
NEWS: New Act will enable scientists to improve crops in England using gene editing methods 🍅
With the Precision Breeding Act, England can capitalise on its world-leading research base in plant sciences and make agriculture more sustainable.
Read ➡️
We are delighted for
@MatthewMoscou
in his new position at USDA. After more than a decade at TSL, Matt has made important contributions to our research & helped shape our lab into the great environment it is today. It's been an honour to work with Matt & we wish him all the best!
Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions for Early Career Researchers ☀️🌱🧬
Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers
APPLY by 5 April ⬇️ Click link for more info
Scientists discover a novel perception mechanism regulating important plant processes; setting a new paradigm for how plants react to internal and external cues
Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬
Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers.
APPLY by 5 April '24 ⬇️ Click link for more info
We provide the community with an opensource effector x host protein interactome network for further research into Phytophthora infestans.
Published in
@ThePlantCell