Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on 27th-28th January at ExCeL London Registration is free for over 90% of attendees — sign up now to join me in January! hubs.la/Q04z76nC0 142
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Medal! Designed by the one and only @hsuanpai.bsky.social 062
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Most markets now treat gene editing ( GE) as equivalent to conventional plant breeding /viq Tom Adams @pairwise 053
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All pumped up to speak at PurPest @purpest-eu.bsky.social event: From Science to Innovation What science can (and cannot) deliver--Excellence, people, and the long game 054
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More @NaturePlants #NatureRipoffs #ScienceCrisis Blame it on Excel? @msexcel @microsoft pubpeer.com/publications... 152
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This comment makes blogging about how to do science worth it. Science works when we learn from being wrong. We don’t teach this nearly enough. 072
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in Science predicts. Pseudoscience doesn’t. Twenty-nine years How to science, and how not to What’s a failed experiment? Death by statistics Ditch the bar graphs Get credit for all of it kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re... 075
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yet another paper with made-up data. What happens now? #sciencecrisis #NatureRipoffs @Nature pubpeer.com/publications... 2122
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Talks for early career researchers kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/KamounLab_EC... 064
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Two seemingly unrelated sides of our lab collided today in the AWESOME new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system poster: flowers 🌸 and phylogenomics 🧬 Need a new genome? Just pick up the phone and “dial-a-genome” 📞🧬 @getgenome.bsky.social www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 1278
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Our second keynote speaker is Alain Tissier @atissier.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social on enhancing HDR and its use in engineering cis-genic disease resistance and other traits 0126
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Our first keynote speaker is Silvia Restrepo @srestrepo.bsky.social @btiscience.bsky.social on Phytophthora infestans sensu lato 153
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today we are hosting the FIGHTBLIGHT Project Meeting & Symposium This is a trinational project 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸 with Silvia Restrepo @srestrepo.bsky.social @btiscience.bsky.social and Alain Tissier on bioengineering immune receptors for potato blight resistance kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/FIGHTBLIGHT_... 130
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses. Stitzer @mcstitzer et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 070
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026More brik danouni… Tunisia: an Argentinian dream? 2121
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Brik danouni--ancestral state of empanadas...? 🇹🇳🇪🇸🇦🇷 elsursf.com/blogs/news/a... 140
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 14/09/20266 years later, he has an ERC... @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... 1204
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Launching Ventures: Strategy, Story and Scale 🚀 An exciting #BSPP26 session with Wild Bio, PfBIO, @GetGenome and @ResurrectBio—exploring funding, IP, team-building, governance and turning research into real-world impact #PPATH2026 #PlantHealth 010
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Peer-review ladies and gents. What’s your favorite? #BSPP26 #PPTATH2026 34711
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And now it's the #BSPP26 RKS Wood Prize Lecture by Professor Nick Talbot! 🎓🌾🍄 #PPATH2026 www.bspp.org.uk/bspp-2026-rk... 040
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You saw the poster—now hear the talk! Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras.bsky.social with Maian @maigarro.bsky.social and AmirAli @amiralito.bsky.social reveal the hidden handshake between sensors and helpers in the NRC network 🤝🌱 #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 062
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s raining cryo-EM structures! 🌧️🧬 Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras4 et al. at #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 1122
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Boyoung Kim from the lab of Chang-Sik Oh on the effectors of the cucurbit pathogen Paracidovorax citrulli—both AVRs and immune suppressors 🦠🥒🍉 Wonderful to see our Korean colleagues joining us at #BSPP26 @bspp.bsky.social See you in Jeju! #PPATH2026 #RoadToJeju #MPMI2026 141
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Taxonomists now call it Tobamovirus fructirugosum but the virus itself—tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)—remains a plague on the tomato industry. More resistance traits needed 🍅🦠 Great talks by Adrian Fox and Sergio de la Fuente #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 #PlantHealth 130
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Urooj Fatima @KAUST_News on how conserved rust fungal ligands trigger non-host resistance in cereal crops 🌾🍄 Exciting routes towards broader and more durable crop protection. #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 #PlantHealth 151
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A fantastic @johninnescentre.bsky.social session at #BSPP26, showcasing an impressive range of pathosystems across wheat, legumes and brassicas 🌾🫘🥬 #PPATH2026 #PlantHealth 0103
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Lewis, C. M., Leverington-Waite, M., Collier, S., Orford, S., Chayut, N., Griffiths, S., & Saunders, D. G. O. (2026). Watkins landraces contain novel sources of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) resistance effective against Yr15-breaking Pst isolates. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 011
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#BSPP26 #PPATH2026 @bspp.bsky.social Cian Duggan @ResurrectBio on resurrecting defeated resistance genes 010
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#BSPP26 #PPATH2026 @BS_PP Tolga Bozkurt @Tolga_Bzkrt highlighting the subcellular dynamics of helper NLRs before and after activation 062
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Quite a session this morning at #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 @bspp.bsky.social showing how far our field has gone from turning basic knowledge into creative immune receptor bioengineering solutions. We kick off with Gitta @GittaCoaker on structure-guided engineering of cell surface receptors. 000
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Where to Eat in Norwich — a delegate's guide #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 @BS_PP kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/eat-in-norwi... 000
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026JC De la Concepción @delaconcepcionj giving us a glimpse into the future with structural cell biology--understanding the molecular sociology of the cell #BSPP26 0162
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Your acknowledgment slide says a lot about you 🙏 🫡 040
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Inspiring talk by Reem Aboukhaddour @reemwheat.bsky.social on how giant starships and other transposons have shaped the evolution of the fungal toxin ToxB #BSPP26 #planthealth 1162
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Impressive plant pathology R&D at @RijkZwaan 🥬🍅🥒 🐞 Great insights from Adriaan Verhage @e31verh at #BSPP26 030
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#BSPP26 Ryohei Terauchi @ryoheiterauchi referring the most famous @johninnescentre.bsky.social alumni JBS Haldane and William Bateson #CelebratingAlumni 0103
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Vivianne Vleeshouwers @VivianneTwit on how NLR and PRR immune receptors work together to resist the potato late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans. 🥔🦠🌱 #BSPP26 #PPATH2026 #PlantHealth 1115
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#BSPP26 Presidential Address: Saskia Hogenhout @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social - Building resilience to insect-vectored plant pathogens #PPATH2026 😎#plantsci #microbiology 171
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“It's unhelpful to draw a sharp line between applied and basic research” Cristobal Uauy @cristobaluauy.bsky.social Director of the John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PPATH2026 #BSPP26 3218
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Lots of fun at #ECPP26 and #BSPP26 — posters, BBQ and Zombie Beers! 🍻🧟🌱 080
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I just published: Eva Sansome: papers that stand the test of time A tribute to a plant pathologist who settled the biggest argument in oomycete genetics from her kitchen in Diss, Norfolk. Given at the BSPP Early Career Plant Pathology meeting, September 2026. kamounlab.medium.com/eva-sansome-... 0124
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026More inspiring talks kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/Alumni_2026 140
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Kamoun Lab Alumni & Friends 2026, Assembly House, Norwich kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/Alumni_2026/ 0335