Matt Wengler

Excited to share our review in @CDDPress! We explore how cell death 💀 is regulated in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and summarize its role in appressorium development. 🌾🍄🔬 @talbotlabTSL @TheSainsburyLab See the full review here: nature.com/articles/s4141…

Hot off the printer! Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI P-315 by @SiyuSong3 P-441 by @HsuanPai1

Congratulations Dr Berlaine Quime who successfully defended her PhD today! Halpin Scholar #9 PhD#44 ⁦@TheSainsburyLab⁩ ⁦@bear_laine⁩

We did it! Congratulations to @TheSainsburyLab Scholars!

🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI Our AlphaFold 3 sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @NewPhyt! Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏 📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… x.com/YuSugiharaY/st…

Thrilled to share an aspect of my PhD project on the discovery and characterisation of a novel group of 'phosphorylated' effectors deployed by the rice blast fungus during infection. With @talbotlabTSL @Frank_Menke @NeftalyCM @TheSainsburyLab #2025ISMPMI

#2025ISMPMI Want to know about transcriptional regulation driving pathogenicity in the blast fungus? Come to my poster (P-156) session today! From 13:30 to 15:15 🌾

Excited to present our research on Extending the function of Solanaceae NLR's to Rosids and beyond! If you’re at #2025ISMPMI visit my poster 115 during poster session 1 today. Breaking RTF @jonathandgjones lab

Looking forward to #2025ISMPMI soon! I'll be presenting during the Engineering Plant-Microbe Traits session on Thursday, 17th. I'll be sharing exciting collaborative work which will also be showcased by me at P-427 (Session 1, 14th) and Yuxuan Xi at P-193 (Session 2, 16th)!

Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues at #2025ISMPMI next week! Find me at P-267 >>> Session 1, Monday, 14th. In the meantime, you can check out my poster on Zenodo :) #openscience zenodo.org/records/158379…

Pikobodies vs. Potato Blight 🥊🥔 NLR–Nanobody Fusions Take on P. infestans 💥 🎤 Talk: Thurs July 17th, 16:35 🧾 Poster P-64: Tues 15th, Session 2 Poster’s up on Zenodo if you’re into spoilers 👀📎 zenodo.org/records/158479… #2025ISMPMI #OpenMPMI🌿

Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor @NTUsg @ntusbs, after ten rewarding years working with my wonderful mentors @talbotlabTSL @wenboEffector and colleagues @TheSainsburyLab

🌿We have an exciting speaker lineup for this year’s Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting! 🔗 Check out our website for more information and how to register: lnkd.in/enJ8f9HK #PPRM2025

Please check out the improved, and peer-reviewed version of our work now published on Plant cell 😀🥳🥳🥳 @talbotlabTSL @TheSainsburyLab academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Our review on mechanobiology of fungal invasive growth with Lauren Ryder and Joris Sprakel in the @CurrentBiology Special issue #Fungi cell.com/current-biolog…

Over the past 20 years, genomics and genomics-enabled technologies have revealed remarkable diversity in genome size, architecture, and gene regulatory mechanisms. In this review, Wagner C. Fagundes et al. discuss how genomics has advanced our understanding of genome organization…

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @NewPhyt on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Big congratulations to @CamilleMadie for successfully defending her PhD thesis. 🎉 @jonathandgjones

⚡️ Attn anyone interested in algal genomics and lichen symbiosis! ⚡️ New preprint: a near chromosome-level assembly of Trebouxia sp. A48 (member of T. decolorans species complex), the photobiont of Xanthoria parietina. 1/5 #lichen #alga #genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are delighted to announce that TSL group leader, Professor Wenbo Ma @wenboEffector, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This honour celebrates her groundbreaking research in molecular plant pathology.

Huge congratulations to @camilla_moli on successfully defending her PhD thesis. Thanks go out to the examiners @Seb_EvdA and @Phil_Carella. @talbotlabTSL