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An independent research institute renowned for world-leading fundamental discoveries in molecular plant-microbe interactions to reduce crop losses
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VACANCY ⬇️ If you haven't yet - apply this week! Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first. Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Spring has sprung @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

TOMORROW: SEMINAR by @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, invited by @hildenelissen.bsky.social and @yvdp.bsky.social

TSL Ventures at Hello Tomorrow Global Summit! Our Ventures Co-ordinator, Damien Caubriere, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Sasha Emerina, connecting with likeminded innovators in Paris. Find out more about Sasha's exciting new role at TSL & BioPotatoes: www.tsl.ac.uk/news/new-ent...

Past and current @jonathandgjones.bsky.social lab members celebrating his impressive Wolf Prize in Agriculture award!

TSL is thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievement of @jonathandgjones.bsky.social, now a 2025 Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture along with Jeffery Dangl and Brian Staskawicz "for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants" www.tsl.ac.uk/news/jonatha...

VACANCY: Predoc Internship Nobori Lab, UK Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science? Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social

TSL NEWS: Plant & life science research is inherently global, requiring diverse expertise & bright minds from across the globe. Despite the UK's ambition to lead in engineering biology, high immigration costs hinder talent attraction and research funding www.tsl.ac.uk/news/visa-fe...

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health with 5-month research project. David Sainsbury Scholarships - 50% fee discounts for UK and other high-income country applicants. Alumni like Jas get jobs in industry and start PhDs. Apply now for 22/09/25 entry. www.tsl.ac.uk/msc

Great talk by @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on spatial multi-omic analysis of plant immunity and the discovery of distinct cellular immune states #CMINorwich25 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Phosphorylated fungal effectors during Magnaporthe infection - a new story from Jave Bautista @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #CMINorwich25

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

TSL Executive Director @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social and TSL Ventures Coordinator, Damien Caubriere, interviewed about the impact of skyrocketing UK visa fees on our global competitiveness for international talent in life science research & innovation Starts at 10:00 min www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

VACANCY: Predoc Internship Nobori Lab, UK Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science? Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social

TSL Ventures Coordinator, Damien Caubriere, kindly shared his experience moving to the UK from France. His 3-year visa cost £5000 upfront, most of which TSL reimburses. TSL's immigration costs increased ± 10-fold in 5 years due to skyrocketing surcharges. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I’m hoping to gain more experience in producing exciting video content. It’s the future of science communication – and social media in general!"📽️ 💬 Clemence Blanchard

We had such a great time chatting food, plants, flowers and pesky pathogens on Saturday in the Forum! Norwich Science Festival is always a blast for TSL :D

Come visit us at the Forum for the Norwich Science Festival! You may find your plant pathogen valentine today 🫶🏼 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social

Come visit us in the Forum tomorrow for the Norwich Science Festival ! 🪩🎉 You'll learn all about the pesky diseases affecting our favourite crops and there'll be loads of scratch cards and games 🥳 🎲🍅🫛

We're delighted to hear JIC's news! Executive Director @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social says: “I am extremely excited to work with Cristóbal Uauy as JIC’s new director. He's a collaborator & friend to TSL group leaders with a shared commitment to plant & microbial sciences for sustainable agriculture.”

@jonathandgjones.bsky.social at the Norfolk Farming Conference sharing plans to bring to market late blight- and virus- resistant potato varieties using technologies permitted under the Precision Breeding Act. Check out biopotatoes.tsl.ac.uk to learn more

delighted to be able to share an updated website for our project to bring Precision Bred disease resistant potatoes to public use in the UK biopotatoes.tsl.ac.uk

Big shoutout to the incredible women in our lab—you inspire us every day 💪 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Check out our 2024 TSL Prize winners - so fantastic to see the wealth of special contributions made every year www.tsl.ac.uk/news/tsl-pri...

New Publication: Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina (2025) | @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social tsl.ac.uk/publications...

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science @shaniakeh.bsky.social organised a Wikipedia Editathon at TSL- dedicated to creating pages for incredible women scientists and spotlighting their contributions to the advancement of plant science 🌱 🌍👩‍🔬

New Publication: Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of ERECTA (2025) | @frankmenke.bsky.social TSL Proteomics www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

New Publication: The wheat NLR pair RXL/Pm5e confers resistance to powdery mildew (2025) | @jonathandgjones.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

New Publication: Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) | @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

New Publication: Mechanisms of regulated cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

TSL Prizes! @thesainsburylab.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Happy Lunar New Year!

Great to welcome @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social to @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social today - fascinating insights into plant symbiosis and immunity

TSL alumni & friends at Gordon Conference Plant Proteolytic Pathways, Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹 Standing (l to r): Steven Spoel, Tolga Bozkurt, Marco Trujillo, Suayib Ustun, Enoch Lok Him Yuen Sitting: Yasin Dagdas, Ari Sadanandom, Saskia Hogenhout, Sophien Kamoun

Amal @AmalBk11 kicking off the @GetGenome seminar on parasitic plants--killers with pretty flowers

🎉 Congratulations to Johannes Kersting of @tumuenchen.bsky.social and @amiralito.bsky.social of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for winning the ASAPbio Poster competition! 🏆 The competition encouraged the transparent and early sharing of data, ideas, and protocols. https://buff.ly/4jso7oa

www.nature.com/articles/s41... See our new review in Cell Death and Differentiation led by Matthew Wengler on regulated cell death in Magnaporthe @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Welcome to @HazelSurtees.bsky.social who joins the @TheSainsburyLab.bsky.social #Proteomics team on her second rotation to investigate PSK-induced changes to Arabidopsis proteome with @draegermarkus.bsky.social

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health with five-month research project. David Sainsbury Scholarships available - 50% fee discounts up to full funding. Apply now for 22 September 2025 entry. tsl.ac.uk/msc

excited to report my first Zenodo posting, on 2 GoldenGate compatible binary vectors that can replicate and deliver very large T-DNA inserts (>45kb) to plant cells. Thanks all contributors and Mark Youles and Agnieszka Witek in particular @thesainsburylab.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1451...

📢NEWS: Plant cells work together to defend against bacterial infections, taking on different cell states to perform key tasks. ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/news/the-hid... Just published from TSL group leader @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social 's research at the Ecker Lab @salkinstitute.bsky.social Image by Hsuan Pai

📢 NEW VACANCY: Laboratory Technician Join the 2Blades group based at The Sainsbury Laboratory on Norwich Research Park, UK. 🫛 Contribute to developing resistance traits in legume & Solanaceous crops 🧬 🌱 Aim to translate research into the field ⏳Apply before 26 Jan '25 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

1/ Leading scientists, incl. @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social & @jonathandgjones.bsky.social, urge global dialogue on "mirror bacteria," warning that the potential risks of creating them - though likely decades away - far outweigh any research benefits. www.tsl.ac.uk/news/tsl-sci...

@jonathandgjones.bsky.social interviewed by CBC about the potential risks of 'mirror bacteria'. Listen from 01:09:00 to 01:18:00 on As it Happens www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health with five-month research project. David Sainsbury Scholarships available. Apply now for 22 September 2025 entry. 🔗 tsl.ac.uk/msc @biouea.bsky.social

Apply now for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2025 with the John Innes Centre and @earlhaminst.bsky.social A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park Deadline 16 January 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...