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Lesley Milnes
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2Blades and TSL Lab Tech 🌱🧬
Protoplast specialist
She/Her 🩷💜💙
But first, coffee ☕️
May 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Lesley Milnes
TSL NEWS: Plant & life science research is inherently global, requiring diverse expertise & bright minds from across the globe.

Despite the UK's ambition to lead in engineering biology, high immigration costs hinder talent attraction and research funding

www.tsl.ac.uk/news/visa-fe...
Visa Fees Draining UK Science
www.tsl.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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📢 NEW VACANCY: Laboratory Technician
Join the 2Blades group based at The Sainsbury Laboratory on Norwich Research Park, UK.
🫛 Contribute to developing resistance traits in legume & Solanaceous crops 🧬
🌱 Aim to translate research into the field

⏳Apply before 26 Jan '25

www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
December 20, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Reposted by Lesley Milnes
Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.627876v1
December 12, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms

My first publication showing my protoplast work. So pleased to be included in this work 🥰

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms
Plant nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors recognize pathogen effectors and activate defense. NLR genes can be non-functional in distantly related plants (restricted taxonomi...
www.biorxiv.org
December 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM