Nick Talbot

GetGenome is present at the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference #fungal26 Come and visit and spread the word about #ggfungi2026

Starships in fungi are so intriguing & clearly had enormous (& diverse) impacts on genome evolution. @mycomile So many questions- the catalytic mechanism of YR Captains, target-site selection, how they move between fungi? (anastomosis/ role for parasexuality?) Amazing #Fungal26

We’re celebrating the Persian new year, based on the calendar developed in the 11th c by the renowned Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam 🪐 Happy new year and best wishes of peace and prosperity!

🌿 New paper from the lab out in @NaturePlants! We built a single-cell atlas of Arabidopsis leaf development to ask: how does drought reshape leaf gene expression at the cellular level? doi.org/10.1038/s41477… 🧵

Now published @NatureCellBio! Kinase KEY1 controls pyrenoid condensate size throughout the cell cycle by disrupting phase separation interactions nature.com/articles/s4155…

New OA Article: "Stress drives plasticity in leaf ageing transcriptional dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana" rdcu.be/e80cP Single-nuclei atlas. Drought advances leaf maturation in a dose-dependent manner. Mesophyll-specific FRO6 overexpression partially restores growth.

Interesting facts about #Fungal26 1) Most represented genera in the titles: Aspergillus — 74 Cryptococcus — 36 Candida — 34 Fusarium — 33 Magnaporthe — 18 Neurospora — 18

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An exciting and throught-provoking study from Ma Lab @TheSainsburyLab A late congratulation to key authors @wenboEffector, my friends @Min_Wang6 and the whole team!

Phosphoproteomic analysis of TOR signalling during appressorium development of Magnaporthe ⁦@mattwengler⁩ #fungal26

AI-tools to study fungal effector function introduced by ⁦@ahbucknell⁩ #Fungal26 #FungalAI

@JianhuaHuang9 It varies a lot locus-to-locus but efficiency is not less than 20% in our experience and often greater than 50%. It is very precise, but we always verify this for individual transformants.

@talbotlabTSL Short question: How efficient and precise is the in-locus tagging?

Lenny Bonadei from Robbie Loewith's lab with a new high efficiency CRISPR-Cas9 system for editing in Magnaporthe enabling in-locus tagging and highly efficient mutagenesis. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Asilomar sunset #Fungal26

Hiring Alert! My lab(labofpie.org) is looking for BS/MB-level research assistants to study fungal-bacterial competition. Come join us if you are interested! ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/recruitment…

NEW H. H. Flor Distinguished Review: All pathogens must sense that they have arrived at their host. This is a necessary part of infection in order to effect the changes in pathogen biology required to progress through their life cycle. Rachel Hammond et al. review recent literature and provide speculation as to how this might happen, by analogy to the five human senses. Read “The Five Senses: How Do Plant Pathogens Know They Found Their Host?” to learn more: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-1… @Seb_EvdA

Magnagenes- an open science resource for the Magnaporthe research community with many new functions is being developed ⁦@TheSainsburyLab⁩ by ⁦@nehasahu486_⁩ #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

Yvonne Scamarcia from Robbie Loewith's lab describing TOR function in Magnaporthe - a key likely regulator of appressorium morphogenesis via TORC1 and turgor control via TORC2 #Magnafest26 #Fungal26

@delaconcepcionj opening our Magnafest meeting at #Fungal26 dissecting appressorium-mediated plant infection by FIB-SEM Volumetric and Cryo tomography

Fabio Dos Santos Barbosa on dissecting the Sln1 turgor-sensor pathway and its role in appressorium function. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @TheSainsburyLab

Euan Cawston on investigating the role of Mst7 and identifying potential scaffolds of the Pmk1 MAPK pathway #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @TheSainsburyLab