Josie Maidment
@jmaidment.bsky.social
Postdoctoral scientist @ Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (@phimresearch.bsky.social) & Centre de Biologie Structurale.
Biochemical/structural studies of proteins to understand plant disease/immunity & improve crop health 🌾🌱
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Biochemical/structural studies of proteins to understand plant disease/immunity & improve crop health 🌾🌱
She/her. Views my own.
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Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science".
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”
Seeing Red: A UC San Diego Invention is Transforming the Way Scientists Track Genes
UC San Diego biologists have created a transformative new way to monitor genes. The game-changing tool known as RUBY is an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology that allows researchers to visualize gene...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science".
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”
Deeply saddened by this news. A truly incredible woman who has done so much for so many.
"Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
"Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91
The primatologist was a
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October 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Deeply saddened by this news. A truly incredible woman who has done so much for so many.
"Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
"Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward." Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope 🌱
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
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Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An activated wheat CCG10-NLR immune receptor forms an octameric resistosome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672026v1
August 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
An activated wheat CCG10-NLR immune receptor forms an octameric resistosome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672026v1
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A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025
#PlantBio2025
July 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025
#PlantBio2025
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#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference!
👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u...
Apply by September 15 #PlantBio
👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u...
Apply by September 15 #PlantBio
The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today
Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference!
👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u...
Apply by September 15 #PlantBio
👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u...
Apply by September 15 #PlantBio
Excited to be in Milwaukee for the @plantphys.bsky.social editorial board meeting and Plant Biology conference #PlantBio25 🌿
Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!
Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!
July 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Excited to be in Milwaukee for the @plantphys.bsky.social editorial board meeting and Plant Biology conference #PlantBio25 🌿
Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!
Very grateful to the Plant Phys AFE program for this opportunity and looking forward to great discussions over the coming days!
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Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies
Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.
www.science.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!
📣We offer a #PhDposition @dfg.de-funded #RTG2670 BEAM: "Beyond Amphiphilicity - Self-Organization of Soft Matter via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions" with @marischuster.bsky.social.
🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...
📅Apply now!
#MolecularModelling #Proteases #SciJobs #PhDjobs
🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo...
📅Apply now!
#MolecularModelling #Proteases #SciJobs #PhDjobs
July 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!
Text me if interested and please spread the word!
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🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI
Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏
📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏
📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bsky.app/profile/yusu...
July 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI
Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏
📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bsky.app/profile/yusu...
Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏
📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bsky.app/profile/yusu...
After great talks at #2025ISMPMI on de novo design of pathogen protein binders for receptor engineering - perfect timing for this preprint from colleagues at the Centre de Biologie Structurale!
You designed binders for your favourite protein and wish there was a way to experimentally screen them within 24h w/ only a set of pipettes and a plate reader?
Check out our Cell-Free 2-Hybrid approach (CF2H)
Full post: tinyurl.com/48cz5nb6
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Check out our Cell-Free 2-Hybrid approach (CF2H)
Full post: tinyurl.com/48cz5nb6
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
After great talks at #2025ISMPMI on de novo design of pathogen protein binders for receptor engineering - perfect timing for this preprint from colleagues at the Centre de Biologie Structurale!
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#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!
Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
mamp-ml: A deep learning approach to epitope immunogenicity in plants
Eukaryotes detect biomolecules through surface-localized receptors, key signaling components. A subset of receptors survey for pathogens, induce immunity, and restrict pathogen growth. Comparative gen...
www.biorxiv.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!
Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very happy to share our preprint on heavy metal associated (HMA) domain-containing rice proteins bound by the rice blast MAX effector AVR-Pia! 🌾
The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia binds a novel group of rice HMA domain-containing proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664054v1
July 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Very happy to share our preprint on heavy metal associated (HMA) domain-containing rice proteins bound by the rice blast MAX effector AVR-Pia! 🌾
Such a great evening with past and present members of the CIME team! #2025ISMPMI @phimresearch.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Such a great evening with past and present members of the CIME team! #2025ISMPMI @phimresearch.bsky.social
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Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
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Big thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster today at #2025ISMPMI!
For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo!
zenodo.org/records/1588...
For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo!
zenodo.org/records/1588...
Engineering new-to-nature immune sensors for novel recognition of Magnaporthe oryzae
Phytopathogenic fungi significantly impact global food security, causing up to 40% of annual crop yield losses worldwide. Alone, the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae has a global economic impact of $66...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Big thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster today at #2025ISMPMI!
For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo!
zenodo.org/records/1588...
For those that missed it, you can check it out on Zenodo!
zenodo.org/records/1588...
Looking forward to the start of #2025ISMPMI today!
If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me!
🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function"
📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15
🌱🦠
If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me!
🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function"
📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15
🌱🦠
July 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Looking forward to the start of #2025ISMPMI today!
If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me!
🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function"
📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15
🌱🦠
If you're interested in structural studies of effector/host target complexes, come talk to me!
🗣️ Talk: Thurs 17th 16:25 Concurrent session "Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design To Function"
📄 Poster: P-212, Thurs 17th 13:30-15:15
🌱🦠