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Gaia Galiberti

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PhD student within the Webster and Talbot groups at the Norwich Research Park 🌱🧫

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TSL Executive Director, Prof Nick Talbot, gave the #BSPP26 RKS Wood Prize Lecture at the #PPATH2026 conference Nick was awarded the RKS Wood Prize earlier this year by the British Society of Plant Pathology for his exceptional contributions to the field Read about the award: buff.ly/lxKok0u

Lecture slide introducing Professor Nicholas J. Talbot FRS, Executive Director at the Sainsbury Laboratory, with bullet points on mycology, plant‑pathogen interactions, the blast fungus and global food security

Speaker at a podium presenting a memorial slide with a black-and-white portrait of a scientist (life dates 1919–2017) alongside a blue plant pathology textbook cover.

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Camilla Molinari @camilla-moli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excited to share this pre-print from my PhD work! We explore a Pmk1-Mst12-Bip1 network required for appressorium-mediated infection by the blast fungus 🌾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 👇

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A Pmk1-Regulated Mst12-Bip1 Network Coordinates Appressorium Function, Effector Deployment, and Invasive Growth by Magnaporthe oryzae

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...

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What an exciting day at the Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium! Julia Boogh, @gaiagaliberti.bsky.social and @soobinshin.bsky.social gave talks, and Beatriz Isabel won a Poster Prize 🏆 Thank you @GetGenome, @micronorwich and @Novogene_Europe for organising this amazing symposium 🌱 📷 Novogene Europe

Beatriz Isabel receiving her poster prize at the Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The team from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social (and Zurich) at #FungalGRC2026 at Squam Lake in New Hampshire

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Two great talks from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social among the hot topics at #fungalGRC2026 - @gaiagaliberti.bsky.social and our alumnus @neftalycm.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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