Nick Talbot
@talbotlabTSL
Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast. Executive Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory- Views my own
New preprint: A conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity (2025) | tsl.ac.uk/publications/1…
New @ISMPMI Board Members #DreamTeam 😍 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇦 🇦🇷 🇩🇪 🇰🇪
Saddest of mornings hearing my great mate, the legend Joey Jones passed away. Shared so many wonderful times and laughs together. He was the most selfless of people, truly heartbroken today. Love and thoughts are with Janice and Frank. RIP
Introducing @PLOS is our speaker today Nonia @npariente — advancing open science. Hosted by no one other than our own #openscience champion @mpcontreras4
Finally published. A big thank you to all contributors: Barley resistance and susceptibility to fungal cell entry involve the interplay of ROP signaling with phosphatidylinositol‐monophosphates - Weiß - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…
Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou @Cerhou, and the phylogenomics genius @amiralito_ @TheSainsburyLab. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!
A conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
We did it! Congratulations to @TheSainsburyLab Scholars!
The BMS tradition is to auction mycology memorabilia and curiosities. The 2025 auction raised >£1600 for the student travel fund and (as well as a few eyebrows!).
Exciting new partnership driving novel mode of action antifungal drug discovery.
We are proud to partner with @GSK and @dundeeuni on this £17.9M @wellcometrust funded programme to discover new treatments for deadly fungal diseases 🌍🧫 @UniofExeter @ExeterMed buff.ly/XRNxPxX
Fantastic talks from 5 speakers showcasing diverse approaches and biological questions to explore MPMI across space and time! Loved seeing the discussions continue well beyond the session. Huge thanks to the speakers and everyone who attended the session! #2025ISMPMI
#2025ISMPMI Huge congrats to Sebastian Eves-Van Den Akker @Seb_EvdA on earning the Early Career Achievement Award for his outstanding research on plant-parasitic nematode infection biology 🎉🏆
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre jic.ac.uk/vacancies/grou…
In memory of John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many #2025ISMPMI apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…
Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
#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 🌾
Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @SaskiaHogenhout @JohnInnesCentre and all coauthors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
We introduce a new tool to study F-actin remodeling, ADPact, a peptide sensor of ADP-actin. Unlike Lifeact and Phalloidin, which bind both ATP- and ADP-actin, ADPact only detects ADP-actin. It neither overlaps with cofilin nor affects treadmilling 🙌🤗. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Great visit to the Fungarium at Kew Gardens with thousands of fungal specimens including original Penicillium from Fleming #Fungi
Poster session coming! Come visit our PHYTOMap methodology + microbiome combo! P-315 by @SiyuSong3 P-441 by @HsuanPai1 #2025ISMPMI Cologne
Don’t miss Pai’s poster on Wednesday at #2025ISMPMI! Also available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/158546… #OpenMPMI #OpenScience