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What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.

2027 IS-MPMI Congress · 18–22 July 2027 · Jeju, South Korea Submission deadline: 25 September 2026 Call for concurrent session proposals We are thrilled to announce that concurrent session submissions...

Andy Posbe turned our ten lessons on AI structure prediction into a thread. Here it is, one lesson at a time.

To cause rice blast disease, the filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae develops a specialised infection cell called an appressorium, which generates enormous turgor to breach the rice leaf cuticle. Al...

We welcome Yi-Feng Chen, who joins us as a PhD student from the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Yi-Feng is interested in the subcellular programs plants use to...

Another recent addition to the team is postdoctoral researcher Erica Hawkins, who joins us from the Earlham Institute to advance our venture projects in NLR bioengineering. Stay tuned for more news...

A new study by the Cyril Zipfel group at The Sainsbury Laboratory in collaboration with the Plant Reproduction and Development Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon (France), sheds new…

Calcium is an abundant intracellular ion that is intricately involved in various cellular processes. The precise regulation of calcium homeostasis is critical for fungal physiology. In fungi, calcium…

Natural products are central to the ecology and evolution of many insect-microbe symbioses, where they underpin parasitism, host manipulation, and cooperative interactions. In this review, we examine…

The grass family (Poaceae) has immense economic and ecological importance and exhibits distinctive metabolic traits, including dual starch and lignin biosynthetic pathways. We sequenced the genomes…

Has a personalised cancer vaccine become reality?

Plant-microbe interactions are spatially organized processes. Increasing evidence suggests that nutrients play a critical role in this organization by not only acting as resources but also as spatial…

Lichens are symbiotic associations between filamentous fungi and photosynthetic micro-organisms, such as green algae and/or cyanobacteria, that result in a single anatomically complex structure that…

Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is central in plant defense, but whether all cell types execute ETI similarly remains unknown. We combined chemically imposed immune activation with single-cell…

Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Researcher position available to work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions