Enjoying hearing from Margarita Naming of the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre how new technologies such as #PrecisionBreeding can be deployed whilst still protecting Malaysia’s biodiversity
A little late for #InternationalWomensDay but nevertheless delighted to meet lots of fantastic researchers and policymakers at the UK-Malaysia #PrecisionBreeding Forum
Delighted to be in Kuala Lumpur for the UK-Malaysia #PrecisionBreeding forum.
Measles is one of the most highly infectious diseases, and it can make children seriously unwell.
But it is preventable.
Protect yourself and others by ensuring you’re up to date with your and your children’s MMRV vaccines.
My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6
Surprisingly: "Conditional stability of HY5 through the ATE N-degron pathway regulates environmental responses in Arabidopsis thaliana".
The shining bounds of N-degron pathway influence expands! @charlene-kunaka.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Beautiful #preprint on a novel regulator of plant #autophagy from the @cnaumann123.bsky.social lab. How do plants regulate #autophagosome size??? ER-PM contact sites and Can1 seem to be key! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Protein event of the year - sign up today! See you at beautiful Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the FEBS 2026 Protein Termini Workshop.
#ProteinTermini #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #StructuralBiology #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026
proteintermini.org/meeting/
📣 UK Proteostasis Meeting 2026 – Registration Now Open!
I’m delighted to share that registration is now open for the UK Proteostasis Meeting 2026, hosted by The Francis Crick Institute on 20–21 July 2026
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Please register here(lnkd.in/ervXMzWN) and through Eventbrite for payment (lnkd.in/eTxqjnQy)
A map of the UK, with pins at various spots across the islands.
Help us map science history for #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience. We've launched a new interactive map of landmarks across the UK connected to women from science history, and we want your suggestions.
Explore the map and submit your landmark now: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
A ubiquitin binding protein mediates the crosstalk between PTI and ETI! Check out our new preprint below 👇
📢New paper: Our collaborators at @rothamsted.bsky.social have identified transcription factors in wheat and barley that act downstream of the Green Revolution genes to regulate plant height.
Read the full paper @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
ASPB Recognizes Black History Month. February 2026. Featuring leaf wreath and Black History Month Theme
This #BlackHistoryMonth, ASPB is celebrating the many contributions and achievements of Black plant scientists!🌱
#PlantScience
A door handle with a sign that says “FIRE EXIT ONLY. BEWARE NO RETURN”
In Birmingham for a BBSRC workshop. Slightly menacing door signage in the hotel but wonderful conversation at dinner.
Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!
Love this! #CowTools Iconic Gary Larson cartoon prefigures a @currentbiology.bsky.social study from @biotay.bsky.social (and thanks to @kmerchante.bsky.social for reposting)
How lovely! 🌿
Back to work in a nutshell 😄
Good job with the icing! ☃️
Interested in a #PhD at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and identify as coming from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background? Why not apply for the 2026 AMPlify applicant mentoring programme? (NB. applicants must have Home fees status) www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/equali...
A square Christmas cake topped with marzipan, dried fruit and nuts, on a silver board
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎄
Functional divergence of the Arg/N-degron pathway between the crop Brassica rapa and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692320v1
Great to see @nro-group.bsky.social launched. This alliance represents 35 of UK's research institutes and research bodies who deliver curiosity-driven and focussed full-time research in areas critical for the nation, supporting innovation, health and economic growth.
Huge congratulations to my @rothamsted.bsky.social colleague, Martin Broadley- a very worthy recipient of the Rank Prize for Nutrition, together with David Salt 🥂
Conference flier with a list of speakers overlaid on a photograph of a historical building
If you're interested in cross-kingdom #proteostasis and like the idea of a conference in a beautiful Sicilian palace with some excellent science, registration is now open for proteintermini.org/meeting/
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Beautiful new paper from @annebertolotti.bsky.social lab at LMB
Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via
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How sad to hear this. I lost touch with Russell after I stopped working on calcium transport but vividly remember treading on his foot at a conference dinner dance on the Danube ca. 1995. He was very gracious about it.
Exciting work!
