Sophien Kamoun
@KamounLab
Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.
I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge. medium.com/p/stop-display…
FOX live streaming speech of China National Council. Srsly? 🇺🇸 🇨🇳
RIP John. What a gent.
Former students and colleagues of Dr. John McDowell published a @MPMIjournal article detailing John's amazing scientific achievements in the field of molecular plant-microbe interactions. John was a dedicated mentor, teacher, and friend to many within and beyond Virginia Tech.
1/8 🎉 It was a huge success at SLCU ! Our Mini-Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Symbiosis & Pathogen Interaction featured cutting-edge talks on symbiosis, immunity, virology & root biology. Thanks to all speakers for inspiring discussions! 🧵 Highlights below 👇
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Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
So little, so late, President @vonderleyen : After you have given Israel 21 months a free pass in Gaza, it will take more than words to prevent Israel from completing its genocidal mission and overt ethnic cleansing campaign. And even more, to repair what's left of the EU…
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
@Brabrara enhances PRR-mediated immunity in potato against late blight via AI-based protein modeling of the PERU #receptor doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
Luigi Fiorentino is getting insight into the #Verticillium dahliae effector repertoire during xylem infection of potato, zenodo.org/records/162610…
Guillermo Merino Martin is dissecting resistance to Phytophthora capsici in #pepper using #effectoromics, zenodo.org/records/162751…
@JWiedmer1 is exploring resistance to Candidatus #Phytoplasma solani and Candidatus #Liberibacter solanacearum in potato, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
After our lab retreat to the #ISMPMI conference in Cologne, we are sharing our posters! At Plant Breeding @WUR, we study disease resistance in #potato and wild Solanum (plantbreeding.wur.nl/SolRgenes/ ) against a range of #plantpathogens @EPSGradSchool
Hey religious folk: Cardinal speaking. Might want to listen. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Hey religious folk: Pope speaking. Might want to listen.
#ChihuahuanDesert today. Ocotillos; looking southwest; raining over there; Willow's World (not a Wyeth painting).
This is still my favourite time-lapse I've made 🌱 A tiny mustard seed (half a millimetre) germinating into a seedling. 7 days in 9 seconds.
Had an awesome time at ISMPMI and the honour to present some of our work! Greatful for the oppurtunity to meet new people, catch up with friends, and see and discuss some great science! If you want to learn more the poster is up online: zenodo.org/records/158817…
Introducing @PLOS is our speaker today Nonia @npariente — advancing open science. Hosted by no one other than our own #openscience champion @mpcontreras4