Nick Talbot
@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast and work at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Views my own.
Hemsby Beach Norfolk today.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hemsby Beach Norfolk today.
The Norwich Guildhall Plane tree (Platanus orientalis) - probably planted in the 1860’s near the 15th Century Guildhall by Norwich Market one of my favourite trees in the city - highlighted in Paul Wood’s Treehunting book.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Norwich Guildhall Plane tree (Platanus orientalis) - probably planted in the 1860’s near the 15th Century Guildhall by Norwich Market one of my favourite trees in the city - highlighted in Paul Wood’s Treehunting book.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
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The opening paragraph to Crick’s thesis - about protein structure - from July 1953. Ok, he was 37, but even so the writing is so clear. Those last two sentences effectively set out a global research programme that would last decades.
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The opening paragraph to Crick’s thesis - about protein structure - from July 1953. Ok, he was 37, but even so the writing is so clear. Those last two sentences effectively set out a global research programme that would last decades.
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Call for PPATH 2026 Session/Workshop Proposals!
Norwich | 8–11 Sept 2026
We’re looking for exciting themed sessions, including techniques, pathogens, crops, AI, surveillance, and resistance - anything related to plant pathology!
www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...
Norwich | 8–11 Sept 2026
We’re looking for exciting themed sessions, including techniques, pathogens, crops, AI, surveillance, and resistance - anything related to plant pathology!
www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Call for PPATH 2026 Session/Workshop Proposals!
Norwich | 8–11 Sept 2026
We’re looking for exciting themed sessions, including techniques, pathogens, crops, AI, surveillance, and resistance - anything related to plant pathology!
www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...
Norwich | 8–11 Sept 2026
We’re looking for exciting themed sessions, including techniques, pathogens, crops, AI, surveillance, and resistance - anything related to plant pathology!
www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...
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‘Epigenetic serum’ makes you wonder !
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
‘Epigenetic serum’ makes you wonder !
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps.
Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
![(A) An adult female in the field on Sicyos angulatus. (B) Back view of an adult female reared on cucumber, whose hindleg organs are covered with fungal hyphae (arrowheads). (C) Magnified image of the hindleg organ. (D to L) Morphology of hind tibia of adult male [(D) to (F)], immature adult female [(G) to (I)], and mature adult female [(J) to (L)]. [(D), (G), and (I)] Brightfield images. [(E), (H), and (K)] Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. [(F), (I), and (L)] Magnified SEM images. (M to O) Peculiar behavior of egg-laying adult female. After laying each egg (M), the female rhythmically scratches the hyphae-covered hindleg organ with tarsal claws of the opposite hindleg (N) and then rubs the egg surface with the claws in a skillful manner (O). Also see movie S1. (P to R) Egg mass covered with fungal hyphae at 0-day (P), 3-day (Q), and 10-day (R) intervals after oviposition. Reddish color of 10-day eggs reflects the body color of developing nymphs inside.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqgovau5gkirnk3ss5qwjdmz/bafkreiatozcclrv3q5pr2susooiojtvkwr6kwnd22hwxh3ijzh7lpi276q@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps.
Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
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Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dual recognition of structurally unrelated mildew effectors underlies the broad-spectrum resistance of Pm3e in wheat
Broad-spectrum resistance genes are highly valuable for sustainable crop protection, yet the molecular basis of their activity is often unknown. The Pm3 allelic series in wheat encodes NLR receptors t...
www.biorxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
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#ProtistsOnSky
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
Norfolk Broads this morning
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Norfolk Broads this morning
Lichen hunting this afternoon at @IPMBSinica in Taipei
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Lichen hunting this afternoon at @IPMBSinica in Taipei
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I just published: Google DeepMind visits TSL
As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. kamounlab.medium.com/google-deepm...
As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. kamounlab.medium.com/google-deepm...
Google DeepMind visits TSL
As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness…
kamounlab.medium.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I just published: Google DeepMind visits TSL
As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. kamounlab.medium.com/google-deepm...
As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. kamounlab.medium.com/google-deepm...
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When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
Lichens enjoying the fresh air and humidity in Taiwan!
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lichens enjoying the fresh air and humidity in Taiwan!
Taipei today for a visit to @IPMBSinica to hear about all the great science here.
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Taipei today for a visit to @IPMBSinica to hear about all the great science here.
Crisp autumn morning in Norfolk. I am interested to see how this Winter oil seed rape develops, as it’s been sown with a companion crop of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) to suppress cabbage stem flea beetle.
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Crisp autumn morning in Norfolk. I am interested to see how this Winter oil seed rape develops, as it’s been sown with a companion crop of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) to suppress cabbage stem flea beetle.
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Baker lab builds a calcium channel entirely from scratch. This should enable cellular behaviors to be altered in entirely new ways.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry - Nature
De novo design of Ca2+ channels with ion selectivity that can assemble appropriately and mediate Ca2+ conductance when expressed in cells is described.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Baker lab builds a calcium channel entirely from scratch. This should enable cellular behaviors to be altered in entirely new ways.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪
The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane
Genomic analyses of 390 accessions reveal the domestication history of highly polyploid
sugarcane and the wild contributors to its diversification and to modern cultivars.
www.cell.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪
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We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA
The hunter returns. Orion appearing as well as Jupiter and the Gemini twins.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The hunter returns. Orion appearing as well as Jupiter and the Gemini twins.
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Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends
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‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
Demonstrators call on regional leader to resign over handling of one of Europe’s deadliest natural disasters in decades
More than 50,000 people took to the streets of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of last year’s deadly floods and denounce the authorities’ handling of the disaster.
Demonstrators, many carrying photos of the victims, called on the regional leader, Carlos Mazón, to resign over what they say was the slow response to one of Europe’s deadliest natural disasters in decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
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Some fungi from Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland): Coprinellus micaceus (EN mica cap, PL czernidłaczek błyszczący) and Clitocybe nebularis (EN cloudy funnel, PL lejkówka szarawa).
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Some fungi from Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland): Coprinellus micaceus (EN mica cap, PL czernidłaczek błyszczący) and Clitocybe nebularis (EN cloudy funnel, PL lejkówka szarawa).
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
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Autumn in the woods – Macrolepiota procera. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Autumn in the woods – Macrolepiota procera. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology
#grzyby #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #mycology