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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 2h

From my first IS-MPMI congress in Interlaken in 1990 to the opening keynote in Jeju in 2027... Honored—and will set an extra alarm. Jet lag won in 1990! Here is some of my conference adventures and inspirations: medium.com/@kamounlab/r...

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Rhizobial Treasure Hunts

From the Swiss Alps to the Sahara, new twists in an old symbiosis — and new opportunities to discover them.

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A helper NLR monitors catalytic perturbation of a vesicle trafficking regulator targeted by pathogen effectors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Gal Ofir @galofir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social! Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅 Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our preprint with the view from the top of the Olympus in the background

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 3h

I just published: Rhizobial Treasure Hunts From the Swiss Alps to the Sahara, new twists in an old symbiosis - and new opportunities to discover them. kamounlab.medium.com/rhizobial-tr...

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Rhizobial Treasure Hunts

From the Swiss Alps to the Sahara, new twists in an old symbiosis — and new opportunities to discover them.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 6h

Hey mycology community, Can you please email / DM me nominations of speakers that I can pass along to the organisers. They been made aware of the issue and let's turn this into a teaching moment. And thanks @mcmomany.bsky.social for sharing this list: fungalgenomes.org/wrifo/direct...

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WRIFO directory

Tools, data, and notes for researchers working on fungal and oomycete genomes.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22h

In America, millennials, now aged between early 30s and mid-40s, last year spent $1.5bn on avocados apple.news/AzgOGN95KT42...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New nature papers flagged #natureripoff #sciencecrisis PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis pubpeer.com/publications... Asymmetric selection of a rice immune module and rebuild of disease resistance pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable a...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis (2022)

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Farewell Maian @mai_garro for an incredibly successful postdoc before the PhD (aka predoc). Mai is moving next door to start a PhD in the renowned rotation program @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Thank you for your many contributions to our lab and research! 🔬 🧐 🧫 🌱 🇦🇷

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today’s @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday Seminar is Thorsten Schnurbusch @LeibnizIPK “Unleashing Wheat Flower Biology: Insights for improved Floral Fertility”

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

PSA: Clustering proteins into orthogroups (OGs) based on overall sequence similarity can be highly misleading for proteins with variable domain architectures, such as NLR immune receptors Figure from #RefPlantNLR doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The lab meeting, explained medium.com/@kamounlab/t...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kudos to the whole team. A very important study on an important pandemic virus 🍅

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Jogi Madhuprakash @jmadhuprakash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🍅 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus spread worldwide. For >60 years, one resistance gene protected tomatoes. This virus broke through. A second gene confers resistance. The same viral target? Convergent evolution? Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology (1/9) 🧵

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How to kill peer review: ask already swamped academics to review a Sanger Tree of Life genome “data note”. What am I meant to review? What am I meant to comment? “Cool taxon”? Automate routine technical checks. Use AI. Srsly, people. Get real. wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...

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Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

fungalgenomes.org/wrifo/direct... Women Researchers in Fungi and Oomycetes is a resource for identifying speakers.

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WRIFO directory

Tools, data, and notes for researchers working on fungal and oomycete genomes.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The night shift in the greenhouse: One night only Hylocereus, or whatever we are calling it now Why an immunity lab keeps a cactus Scientists who draw Two worlds, or one Back to curiosity

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just published: The night shift in the greenhouse A night-blooming cactus, a time-lapse, and the case for hosting artists in the lab. kamounlab.medium.com/the-night-sh...

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The night shift in the greenhouse

A night-blooming cactus, a time-lapse, and the case for hosting artists in the lab.

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Neftaly Cruz Mireles @neftalycm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very happy to have been part of the @kamounlab.bsky.social My time there as a predoc was a life changing experience 🙏🏽

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Clémence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for continuous your support, Sophien! It's been a blast (^^) to be part of the @kamounlab.bsky.social

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for tagging me. Hopefully, they will rectify.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for raising the issue Jo. Very good point. I haven't seen this list and I will raise it with the organisers.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Happening today! UPES Seminar Organizers CGSB | New York University Abu Dhabi Speaker: Professor Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory Title: Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup of NLR Immune Receptors Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m. UAE time docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UAE Plant and Environment Society Sign-up

The UAE Plant and Environment Society (UPES) unites leading scientists, researchers, environmental advocates, and community members from across the Gulf to explore critical issues in plant biology, ec...

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

SOP: How to make a proper Cornish cream tea—by Lauren Ryder

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 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

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m looking forward to be speaking at The 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! #FOG2027 #genomics #biodata hubs.la/Q04z76nC0

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The Festival of Genomics and Biodata London

The UK’s largest Life Sciences event returns to London

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Being part of Kamounity has been absolutely transformative. Thank you, Sophien, for the incredible time and energy you put in, day in and day out, to train and mentor us; not just to become better scientists, but to understand what it really means to be a scientist: “Je cherche à comprendre.”

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a tribute to everyone who has been part of the Kamoun Lab at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich: students, postdocs, technicians, visitors, collaborators, and friends from all over the world. They did the experiments, argued over the data, and made the lab what it is. youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y

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This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...

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This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A cheeky #fungi foray after work yielded ten waxcap species, one of them Garlic, new to me. My son’s first time of seeing red & pink waxcaps, he absolutely loved it!!! 🥰 🔁 from top left Scarlet, Ballerina, Honey, Blackening, Glutinous, Slimy, Parrot, Golden, Garlic & Snowy. #FungiFriends 🍄 📸

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keep track of global policy developments in plant breeding technologies with this useful resource from @SeedFed (International Seed Federation). Thanks to @Belhaj_Khaoula for sharing! worldseed.org/wp-content/u...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most markets now treat gene editing ( GE) as equivalent to conventional plant breeding /viq Tom Adams @pairwise

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Starting now: The inaugural TSL Roger Freedman Award Lecture – Tom Adams CEO and Co-Founder of Pairwise

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Pedro @hjorvik.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

El problemón que se nos viene.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s “Star Wars” and predictions of computer-triggered nuclear Armageddon. 43 years later: the shield was never built. The apocalypse never came. The technology was oversold. So was the doom. www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v02n...

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Peace Magazine v02n5p24: Untrustworthy PALS: an interview with Mike Wallace about accidental nuclear war

Al Banner: Untrustworthy PALS: an interview with Mike Wallace about accidental nuclear war in Peace Magazine Oct-Nov 1986

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All 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

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Adriana Garibay @adrianagaribayh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The amount of energy required to refute BS is an order of magnitude larger than required to create it.”... "We have a moral duty to distinguish sense from nonsense"...and I would add: We have the moral duty of not using public money to publish BS just for the mere sake of careererism

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👉"as a heuristic, “Where was the preprint?” is becoming surprisingly useful. Preprinting exposes experiments, controls and conclusions to the community before the journal’s prestige can become a shield."

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