Yogesh Gupta

[Hari Prakash Donda @Hari_PDonda]

🚨🔥 Hot take: ONE failing Nissan engine part can silently kill your car.

🚗 My 2019 Nissan Qashqai 1.3 has been ❌off the road since Dec 2025 after a sudden death of thermostat coolant part — ⚠️ NO warning.

⏳ 12 week parts, service delay
🔧 Returned undrivable
💥 Collected again. Now: engine + gearbox damage

😤 Car stuck at Nissan service awaiting £2.3K investigation approval.

💸 NO fix guarantee. Repair risk with engine & gearbox replacement: £12K+ !!!

📂 Open Nissan cases: 02805689 / 02897661

❓What next???

@NissanUK @WhichUK @NissanUKPR

[Yogesh Gupta @FunPhytopath]

Excited to share that our GAP-DC consortium paper is now published @MicrobioSoc!🎉
An integrated One Health initiative for pathogen genomic surveillance in the UK
👏Huge thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and to Defra and UKRI for their support https://t.co/swK6c5vSpQ

[Nicola Spence CBE @plantchief]

We are delighted to announce that applications for the Defra R&D Fellowship Programme for 2026/2027 are now open. Full details about the programme and how to apply can be found at:
https://t.co/et8siN7I4X

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out Now! FungAMR: a comprehensive database for investigating fungal mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance https://t.co/WlGXyMHj7u #FungalResearch #AntimicrobialResistance #Mycology

[Harun M. Murithi @HarunMuthuri]

Glad to be part of this amazing work which unravels the global genetic structure of #Phakopsora pachyrhizi
@IITA_CGIAR @2blades

[Yogesh Gupta @FunPhytopath]

Excited to see our work now published in @MPPjournal!

Insights into ASR’s global diversity & movement → better disease surveillance & management 🌱
#SoybeanRust #PlantPathology #Genomics

[Molecular Plant Pathology @MPPjournal]

Population genomics reveals distinct lineage of the Asian soybean rust fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States 🇺🇸unrelated to Brazilian 🇧🇷populations: https://t.co/hC29KA00Q6

[Sean Cutler @cutlersr]

Autobioluminescence with a single, easy-to-use transcript; designed with the help of our hero, iggypop.
https://t.co/PxQ1sH3SnD

[Mirjam Schilling @MirjamSchilling]

How do arboviruses persist in temperate countries? To our knowledge we provide the 1st record of USUV transovarial transmission in wild culex pipiens. Great collaboration @VB_RADAR, @APHAgovuk, @ZSLScience, @UKHSA. https://t.co/CR939bO2IH

[Sebastian Eves-van den Akker @Seb_EvdA]

New paper @NatureGenet
https://t.co/loAvk4risg

Our most recent thinking on HYP effectors involves programmed shuffling of the parasite genome. This prompted us to review how and when organisms edit their own genomes

In so doing, Vincent made two important discoveries...

(1/3)

[Prof Richard Buggs @RJABuggs]

Just out in @ScienceMagazine: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents https://t.co/Fe0l9BeJ3E

[David Breslauer @davidNbreslauer]

1/ How do insects go green?
Not with chlorophyll, but with a protein that mimics it.

Meet dibilinoxanthinin (DBXN), a molecular LED built from yolk protein.🧵

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

The only rule in biology is that there are exceptions to every rule. This is what makes biology infinitely exciting; even when you think you’ve got the complete view, the floor can drop out from underneath you at any given moment.

Case-in-point: The nucleus is the thing that makes eukaryotes...well, eukaryotes. It's the part of the cell that stores the genome, separating DNA from the cytoplasm and other organelles. (Bacteria do not have nuclei.) For decades, scientists thought that each nucleus contains one or more haploid sets of chromosomes.

But there are exceptions. Red blood cells, for example, don’t have nuclei at all. (They expel their nuclei during maturation to maximize hemoglobin concentrations.) Cells in the eye lens, too, lose their nuclei and organelles during differentiation, thus becoming transparent. And so on.

But now there is yet ANOTHER exception to this rule, and it’s one I hadn’t seen before. For a study in Science, researchers discovered that two types of pathogenic fungi that infect plants, called Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea, have two different nuclei. And instead of storing a full set of chromosomes in each nuclei, they instead “distribute their chromosomes such that each of their nuclei contains only a subset of the haploid chromosomes.” The authors confirmed this by throwing a kitchen sink of methods at these cells; chromosome counting, DNA measurements using flow cytometry, single-nucleus PCR, and more.

Nobody knows why the fungi do this, but the scientists claim (in their discussion) that it could enable them "to respond and adapt more effectively to local environmental stresses within their extensive mycelial networks. Nuclear shuffling may facilitate the rapid generation of new genotypes, enhancing adaptability to changing environments.” There is also evidence that the chromosomes within each nucleus may briefly collide during cell division, before going back into their separate nuclei.

This is a great paper. It is simple, to the point, and challenges the status quo. It has serious potential to become a “classic” of the genre.

Link: https://t.co/AtsN5Kufpl

[APHA @APHAgovuk]

We're leading an innovative new surveillance project with partners to protect crops, livestock, forests and fisheries from infectious diseases.

Find out more about the Genomics for Animal and Plant Disease Consortium (GAP-DC): https://t.co/A8QZNvoqaI
#APHAscience

[APHA @APHAgovuk]

🌱 It’s International Day of Plant Health!

In our #APHAscience blog, #APHA, @FeraScience
& @Forest_Research explain how the Genomics for Animal & Plant Disease Consortium is helping to improve #PlantHealth & #OneHealth
https://t.co/LCMp943igg
#PlantHealthDay #PlantHealthWeek

[Yogesh Gupta @FunPhytopath]

Proud to be part of this ambitious, collaborative effort to future-proof UK Biosecurity #GAPDC #Genomics #OneHealth #Collaboration

[APHA @APHAgovuk]

We're leading an innovative new surveillance project with partners to protect crops, livestock, forests and fisheries from infectious diseases.

Find out more about the Genomics for Animal and Plant Disease Consortium (GAP-DC): https://t.co/A8QZNvoqaI
#APHAscience

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

On Wednesday, dazzling jewels linked to the Buddha’s mortal remains- hailed as an all-time archaeological marvel- will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. But experts ask: is selling ‘corporeal’ relics entwined with India’s sacred past ethical? My piece. https://t.co/f5FwbiyylS

[Lokesh Bag @lokeshbag67]

The Buddha's relics are not for Sale

The Piprahwa gems, relics of immense religious, archaeological, and historical significance, are set to be auctioned in Hong Kong next week. It is a continuation of the centuries-long plunder of India’s Buddhist heritage.

🧵

[Ed Hagen @ed_hagen]

Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in genome space (each dot is one genome): https://t.co/VgK3P8uAMW

[Dr. Brian Lovett @lovettbr]

I’m on the market! 🎉

What do I do?
-I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses.
-I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges.
-I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.

[Michelle Wille @DuckSwabber]

Joint scientific opinion from EFSA & ECDC: on risk posed by AIVs + quantify risk of mutations increasing zoonotic potential and outline of comprehensive measures for preparedness, surveillance, prevention, biosecurity and control
👉https://t.co/WXHKV0WEOL