AmirAli Toghani

Biologist @TheSainsburyLab doing a PhD with @KamounLab. Curious about plant immune receptors, molecular evolution, and other stuff. 🌿💻 #evoMPMI

[AmirAli Toghani @amiralito_]

Protein structure prediction changed biology. Protein assembly discovery is next.
We present SNI (Structural Novelty Index), a scalable framework for finding new protein complexes.
We used it to uncover an unexpected resistosome assembly: 11-mer. 🧵👇🏻

https://t.co/bCADVEnE6b

[Juan Azcue @juazcue]

One gene. No helper needed. 🌱🧬

We used AlphaFold 3 to discover single-gene NLR immune receptors in grasses 🌾 — then bioengineered SOLO1 to recognise a new target 🎯. #ECPP2026 #PPATH2026

📌 Poster below
🔗 https://t.co/m5rwKo7yHa

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

Beautiful gene silencing going on in this Tobacco leaf transformed with 35S:RUBY 🧬

[Juan Azcue @juazcue]

Great to share this work with @YuSugiharaY 🚀

Come chat with us at #PPATH2026 about finding crop-native single-gene NLRs 🌾, AlphaFold 3 🤖, and bioengineering made-to-order plant immunity 🎯🛡️

[Hsuan Pai 白暄 @HsuanPai1]

Kicking off #PPATH2026 from ECPP today and exciting @BS_PP week ahead! My pleasure to present our recent updates on PHYTOMap here with @SiyuSong3 : ) https://t.co/TpSostcFqQ

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

For the past few months, I’ve had a new teammate helping me design flowers: Juan Pablo!

Here’s what he’s taught me—and how he’s helping (1/5 🧵)

[AmirAli Toghani @amiralito_]

I'm presenting a poster at @BS_PP PPATH2026 on our recent work on AI-guided discovery of atypical protein assemblies! 💻🌱

Find me at Poster no. 40.

You can find a digital version of the poster on Zenodo as well :) #PPATH2026

https://t.co/BmJ9NDFRFC

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

I just published: Eva Sansome: papers that stand the test of time

A tribute to a plant pathologist who settled the biggest argument in oomycete genetics from her kitchen in Diss, Norfolk. Given at the BSPP Early Career Plant Pathology meeting, Norwich, September 2026.

https://t.co/RCTeXMY27E

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Kamoun Lab Alumni & Friends 2026, Assembly House, Norwich https://t.co/1W8qou8c7Z

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Great mix of talks and discussions this morning https://t.co/UQhkTGAWPL

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

📣 VACANCY: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher - Tatsuya Nobori group @nobolly

Join the team to work on work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions 🔬🌱

📍Norwich, UK
⏰ Apply online by 14 Sept 2026

Apply here: https://t.co/qfzWoqHbhU

[Tatsuya Nobori @nobolly]

📣 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. https://t.co/5wifHMO1if 1/4

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Kamoun Lab Alumni & Friends—warm-up event! https://t.co/UQhkTGAWPL

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Another recent addition to the team is postdoctoral researcher Erica Hawkins @ScientistErica who joins us from the Earlham Institute to advance our venture projects in NLR bioengineering.

Stay tuned for more news from NELARIX in 2027! 🌱🧬 https://t.co/QAPfqGHSpJ

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

We welcome Amelia Wayman @AmeliaWayman who joins us as a predoc from Adam Steinbrenner’s lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Amelia aims at matching plant NLR immune receptors with the pathogen effectors they recognize.

Welcome, Amelia! 🌱🦠https://t.co/AGXt4i3HEn

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

We welcome Yi-Feng Chen @YiFeng_eYFP who joins us as a PhD student from the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Yi-Feng is interested in the subcellular programs plants use to execute the hypersensitive cell death response.

Welcome, Yi-Feng! 🌱🔬https://t.co/WZ2qZex9vT

[Max Jordan @biologymax]

Really excited to share our new manuscript on how the #NLR protein #AfsR regulates #Streptomyces antibiotic production - and how we can use its similarity to plant NLR immune receptors to enhance this production! 📄🧵 (1/17) @JohnInnesCentre
https://t.co/M8wndMvUng

[Tatsuya Nobori @nobolly]

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

[Tatsuya Nobori @nobolly]

Great work by Ingram & Zipfel labs. Congratulations, everyone!

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis
https://t.co/17vIQoUHj4

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Bing-Jen Chiang @ginger_9867 and Gaurav Adhikari @guavadk are in our Xerophyte Immunity Team led by Yu Sugihara. Bing-Jen was previously at the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Gaurav is in the TSL Plant Health MSc. https://t.co/JUsadAteuM

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Among several new members of our team is Yuxuan Xi @Yuxuan42638231 who joins us from the John Innes Center and the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) in Montpellier. Yuxuan is interested in the interactions between plants and pathogens, notably NLR biology. https://t.co/VbZc4qe574