Frank Menke
@frankmenke.bsky.social
Team leader Proteomics at Sainsbury Laboratory and honorary associate Professor at University of East Anglia . Tweeting and retweeting my own views.
Very greatfull to work with this brilliant and diverse bunch that make up the #proteomics team @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. #Awayday. 🇨🇦🇫🇴🏴🇬🇧🇵🇭🇬🇭🇨🇳🇨🇿🇩🇪🇳🇱
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Very greatfull to work with this brilliant and diverse bunch that make up the #proteomics team @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. #Awayday. 🇨🇦🇫🇴🏴🇬🇧🇵🇭🇬🇭🇨🇳🇨🇿🇩🇪🇳🇱
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Spooky season has arrived! 👻
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Spooky season has arrived! 👻
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
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My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
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Engineering auxin degradation into root-associated bacteria promotes plant growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684584v1
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Engineering auxin degradation into root-associated bacteria promotes plant growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684584v1
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By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Voting by post in the #Dutch Parliamentary #elections. In these difficult times exercising democratic duty is more important than ever. Voting for a inclusive and fair government that tackles the #climatecrisis and emphasizes #education.
October 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#Voting by post in the #Dutch Parliamentary #elections. In these difficult times exercising democratic duty is more important than ever. Voting for a inclusive and fair government that tackles the #climatecrisis and emphasizes #education.
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Excited to visit @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social this Friday. Looking forward to connecting with everyone there!
📋 Join us on Friday 17th for a fascinating seminar with the researcher Neftaly de Jesús Cruz Mireles (Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich)
Don't miss it!
🕓 9:30 AM
📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium
More information here! ⬇️
Don't miss it!
🕓 9:30 AM
📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium
More information here! ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Excited to visit @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social this Friday. Looking forward to connecting with everyone there!
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Out in @science.org this week:
A new FRET sensor for salicylic acid gives insight into spatial dynamics of pathogen infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1/2)
#PlantScience
A new FRET sensor for salicylic acid gives insight into spatial dynamics of pathogen infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1/2)
#PlantScience
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Out in @science.org this week:
A new FRET sensor for salicylic acid gives insight into spatial dynamics of pathogen infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1/2)
#PlantScience
A new FRET sensor for salicylic acid gives insight into spatial dynamics of pathogen infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1/2)
#PlantScience
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FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
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Looking back at some of the inspiring lectures from #PPRM2025 in Edinburgh—such a privilege to learn from so many outstanding researchers. Grateful for this community and the ideas it sparks.
@keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social
@marischuster.bsky.social
@keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social
@marischuster.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Looking back at some of the inspiring lectures from #PPRM2025 in Edinburgh—such a privilege to learn from so many outstanding researchers. Grateful for this community and the ideas it sparks.
@keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social
@marischuster.bsky.social
@keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social
@marischuster.bsky.social
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Our @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday seminar today is hosted by Hyeonmin @Hynmn_Jeong / Susana Coelho on the curious world of brown algae 👀
September 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Our @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday seminar today is hosted by Hyeonmin @Hynmn_Jeong / Susana Coelho on the curious world of brown algae 👀
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We are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social.
“I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.”
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“I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.”
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September 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social.
“I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.”
buff.ly/VvoR27Q
“I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.”
buff.ly/VvoR27Q
That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.
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🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
www.embl.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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Congratulations to @izzysaurlab.bsky.social, @pfeilmeier.bsky.social, @clemmar.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social on their prestigious ERC Starting Grants! 🤩
#CelebratingAlumni #TSLalumni
#CelebratingAlumni #TSLalumni
September 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congratulations to @izzysaurlab.bsky.social, @pfeilmeier.bsky.social, @clemmar.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social on their prestigious ERC Starting Grants! 🤩
#CelebratingAlumni #TSLalumni
#CelebratingAlumni #TSLalumni
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Only a few more days left until the start of #PPRM2025. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and the final program is now online. Check it out here: api.kdmeventsportal.co.uk/static/downl...
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Only a few more days left until the start of #PPRM2025. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and the final program is now online. Check it out here: api.kdmeventsportal.co.uk/static/downl...
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TSL's great fun day out
September 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
TSL's great fun day out
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Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza are “Unconscionable and unthinkable”
Jewish actor Many Patinkin blasts Israel's "unconscionable" war on Gaza youtu.be/87300T8MFTg?si… via @YouTube
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza are “Unconscionable and unthinkable”
Jewish actor Many Patinkin blasts Israel's "unconscionable" war on Gaza youtu.be/87300T8MFTg?si… via @YouTube
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Jewish actor Many Patinkin blasts Israel's "unconscionable" war on Gaza youtu.be/87300T8MFTg?si… via @YouTube
Reading @harukimurakami.bsky.social by the pool, temporarily swapping running with swimming. Initially bought the novel for a running friend, but glad I bought a second copy. Reading this, I’m looking forward to running again soon. #HolidayVibes
August 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reading @harukimurakami.bsky.social by the pool, temporarily swapping running with swimming. Initially bought the novel for a running friend, but glad I bought a second copy. Reading this, I’m looking forward to running again soon. #HolidayVibes
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This is the lowest form of humanity! Nothing justifies this and the response (!) of all the western and Islamic (!) countries: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is the lowest form of humanity! Nothing justifies this and the response (!) of all the western and Islamic (!) countries: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Feeling right at home in Oludeniz #LittleBritan
July 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Feeling right at home in Oludeniz #LittleBritan
Graduation day for two of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics team members. Congratulations @draegermarkus.bsky.social PhD and @Micheal Agbodo MSc. Double #ProudSupervisor
July 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Graduation day for two of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics team members. Congratulations @draegermarkus.bsky.social PhD and @Micheal Agbodo MSc. Double #ProudSupervisor