Markus Draeger

PhD student working on growth🌱-defense🛡 signalling in Arabidopsis @TheSainsburyLab

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

After completing the MSc in Global Plant Health and a predoctoral internship, @NGawuga will start his PhD adventure in Michigan

[Rose @Rose_McN]

My latest first author paper is now out! (https://t.co/j6dUcFKDOr)

In this study we generated giant starch granules in wheat. These granules are twice as big as we see in nature and may have uses in food and industry.  (1/6)

[Nick Talbot @talbotlabTSL]

PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @NRPBIODTP BBSRC competition. Please RT👇
https://t.co/84b5zCnLle

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

We are thrilled to announce that @wenboEffector has been awarded a highly competitive @ERC_Research Advanced Grant for her new project sRNA-Defense, which will allow her and her team to uncover new roles for sRNAs in defending plants from pathogens 🧬🌱

https://t.co/xFzF9nllEz

[Nick Talbot @talbotlabTSL]

Brilliant news and well deserved. Exciting opportunities in the lab of @wenboEffector in an an amazing project

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Seeing the unseen: Ed Zaworski talks to @Seb_EvdA @camplantsci about his lab's work using tech like machine learning & 3D printing to revolutionise the way we study plant-parasitic nematodes.

Listen now: https://t.co/w0LGOPBiIS

@ISDPPodcast

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Cracking Plant Defense Mechanisms: Dr. Madhuprakash @JMadhuprakash Contributes to Major Intracellular Immunity Breakthroughs

#CelebratingAlumni

https://t.co/AJGK5qChYI

[Diana Gómez De La Cruz @dianagdlc]

Briefly, we found that the barley immune receptor MLA3 confers resistance to the blast fungus by setting a cheeky trap! It poses as a pathogen effector host target by mimicking its binding interface to trip the wire and activate immunity.

https://t.co/upUEwVf3Fy

[Diana Gómez De La Cruz @dianagdlc]

So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵and link to the original preprint thread👇
https://t.co/e0SrTwBMvc

[Nick Talbot @talbotlabTSL]

Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv - great work led by @dianagdlc and @MatthewMoscou

https://t.co/uVOBPKBacH

[Sholto David @addictedtoigno1]

Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact ThermoFisher has systematically manipulated antibody validation data. Short Thread... 🧵

[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

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

New study with @imperialcollege @BezosCentre @IPMBSinica shows that NRG1 binds chloroplasts to trigger plant immunity, challenging the view of resistosomes working at the plasma membrane 🌱

"We have only scratched the surface of plant immunity" @kamounlab
https://t.co/taA6wSOjiz

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

AlphaFold 3 captures oligomeric states and interaction dynamics of MLO ion channels https://t.co/Id9emALDrw #biorxiv_plants

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

We are happy to celebrate @mpcontreras4 winning the @BiochemSoc 2027 Early Career Research Award!

Mauricio joined TSL as a predoc in the @kamounlab, where he did his PhD and postdoc before starting his own group at @ZMBP_Tuebingen.

Congrats Mau! 🏆

https://t.co/xQwN0XIWDp

[Iris Eisermann @iris_eisermann]

Septins don’t just form structures - they reorganise over time.

Their interaction networks are dynamically rewired across infection stages, linking septins to diverse cellular processes not previously connected to septin function.

[Nick Talbot @talbotlabTSL]

A new study from our group, led by @iris_eisermann , of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇 @TheSainsburyLab

[Julien Gronnier @NanoSignaling]

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN!
https://t.co/EyXr60KSsl
You can book hotel rooms at the venue using the link below

[Neftaly Cruz Mireles @NeftalyCM]

Join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fungal Cell and Molecular Biology Gordon Conference #GRC26

Oral presentations will be selected from abstracts. Limited places available.
GRS 👉🏽 https://t.co/AZVyfYy4tn
GRC 👉🏽 https://t.co/Vf2xIQ63NH

[Tatsuya Nobori @nobolly]

It’s been a pleasure working with Siyu over the past 1.5 years as one of our lab’s first members. As she recalled, it all started at the 2023 IS-MPMI, where she stopped me in the hallway and pulled me over to her poster (another great work with Cara https://t.co/otfdBexF2i).