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We welcome Julie @lintz_julie1 to our team. She joined us after completing her PhD with Ben Petre @BenjPetre at University of Nancy 🇫🇷 on poplar immune receptors
Julie is interested in receptor engineering. Here is one of her first action shots. Look how scared the benthis are!
Farewell Yu @YuSugiharaY 🤗
Thank you for all your 21st century biologist skills: from the computer to the wet lab; from phylogenomics and evolution to genetics, biochemistry and structural biology. 💪🏻
Enjoy your new position in Japan 🇯🇵 You'll do amazing! We’ll miss you!
Belated welcome to Ioanna
@ioanna_mor portrayed here proudly holding her first BN-PAGE blot! Ioanna joins us from industry following a PhD at Imperial College on insects like mosquito and Drosophila. #MovingOutOfYourComfortZone#CelebratingDiversityhttps://tsl.ac.uk/about/people/ioanna-morianou
Just published: Papers galore: A year-end update on immune receptor networks
These past few weeks have been bustling with activity in the field of NLR network biology, with no fewer than eight papers. Let’s dive into a roundup of these developments.
This article is available on a CC-BY license via Zenodo. Cite as: Contreras, M.P., and Kamoun, S. (2023) Papers galore: A year-end update on immune receptor networks. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10439409
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#OpenMPMIPosters
Just like at the 2019 MPMI Congress, we published our 2023 MPMI Congress posters on Zenodo. Here is the list. Please read, use and cite.
Probing the oligomeric state of activated NLR immune receptors by blue native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE). Hsuan Pai; Mauricio P. Contreras; Clémence Marchal; Jiorgos Kourelis; Andrés Posbeyikian; Sophien Kamoun https://zenodo.org/record/8146428
Biochemical basis of activation and inhibition of an NLR/PRR immune receptor network. Contreras, Mauricio P.; Pai, Hsuan; Selvaraj, Muniyandi; Toghani, AmirAli; Tumtas, Yasin; Yuen, Enoch L. H.; Duggan, Cian; Ahn, Hee-Kyung; Kourelis, Jiorgos; Harant, Adeline; Wu, Chih-Hang; Bozkurt, Tolga O.; Derevnina, Lida; Kamoun, Sophien https://zenodo.org/record/8146518
An effector from the potato late blight pathogen hijacks the host ESCRT pathway to suppress an NLR/PRR immune receptor network. Jogi Madhuprakash; Adeline Harant; Samuel Shepherd; Hsuan Pai; David M. Lawson; Chih-Hang Wu; Tolga O. Bozkurt; Lida Derevnina; Sophien Kamoun; Mauricio P. Contreras https://zenodo.org/record/8146559
The NLR immune receptor Pik-1 evolved to respond to fungal effectors of the AVR-Mgk family early in the evolution of Oryza and prior to rice domestication. Yu Sugihara; Aleksandra Białas; Thorsten Langner; A. Cristina Barragan; Jiorgos Kourelis; Yoshiko Abe; Koki Fujisaki; Mark J. Banfield; Ryohei Terauchi; Sophien Kamoun https://zenodo.org/record/8147460
Pikobodies: What does it take to bioengineer NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions. Jiorgos Kourelis; Clemence Marchal; Andres Posbeyikian; Adeline Harant; Sophien Kamoun https://zenodo.org/record/8146575
NLR Bioengineering: Pikobodies confer systemic resistance to Potato virus X. Andres Posbeyikian; Clemence Marchal; Jiorgos Kourelis; Adeline Harant; Sophien Kamoun https://zenodo.org/record/8146482
The Making of a Story — Communicate Your Research Effectively with Graphics Hsuan Pai; Amelia H. Lovelace; Sophien Kamoun https://zenodo.org/record/8146440
Another meeting at IBRC in Kitakami, Iwate, with the Teams of @ryoheiterauchi @mjbanfield This year with special guests Ayako @Ayako_Tsushima and Mina @mina_a_o Thank you @royalsociety @jsps_sns for making it happen! 🇯🇵 🇬🇧 #BLASTOFF #plantsci #plantpath
Amazing job by Moez Hanin and Team for hosting us. Kudos to the Dream Team of @CristobalUauy @NikolaiAdamski @AndyChen_Wheat @BrandeWulff @ryoheiterauchi
/via Rob Davies @ Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times--there is a great article in which two researchers from Norwich Research Park Prof Sophien Kamoun of The Sainsbury Laboratory and Prof Diane Saunders of John Innes Centre share their thoughts on how to mitigate the impending food crisis the world faces. #makingsciencemainstream #changinglives
#SchoBozKa #SchoBozKaDeRella 2023 @downingcollege @Cambridge_Uni"Schobozka" is a portmanteau of the three researchers' names (Schornack, Bozkurt, and Kamoun), more recently joined by Derevnina and Carella (DeRella). The group has been meeting annually since 2016.
Team photo. October 2022
Congrats to all for the TSL Autumn 2022 Prizes--
DEFRA UK >> “Did you know it’s possible to delete 48 letters in the genetic code of a tomato? 🍅 🔬 This #BritishScienceWeek, we visit #STEM experts at @TheSainsburyLab. They’re using genome editing to make pathogen resistant plants 👇
DEFRA highlights Tomelo! The GE fungal resistant tomato. Feat. our very own Joe Win, Thorsten Langner and Clemence Marchal.
In the last months, we welcomed a few people to the lab... This thread is long overdue but how about some fake action shots?
Jules Clayes @claeys_jules came to us from Bristol University and is working with @daniel_luedke @mpcontreras4 on in silico and in vivo NLR biology
(Muniyandi) Selvaraj @M__Selvaraj. Selvaraj joined us from the University of Helsinki and is bringing much needed structural biology expertise to the lab
We live in an AlphaFold world so we also welcomed Jogi Madhu Prakash @JMadhuprakash. Madhu is a structural biologist at the University of Hyderabad
Andrés Posbeyikian @adnroide joined us from the University of Buenos Aires. Andy works on NLR bioengineering with @clemmarchal
And more recently, Kornelija Aleksejeva from Wageningen University @WURplant joined us to explore NLR functional diversity with @JiorgosKourelis
Welcome to all! More infos on our web page @TheSainsburyLab. Check it here
