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Molly Bergum

@mollybergum.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Imperial College investigating antimicrobial resistance in bacteria | PhD from The Sainsbury Laboratory | admirer of plants and microbes 🌾🦠🍄🧬

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
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How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.
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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv
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Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping
Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...
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Josh Bennett @joshwbennett.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to attend my 1st ISMPMI conference, and present our work on a paired wheat CNL/MLKL receptor mechanism! 🌾 Come chat to me at my poster on Tuesday, P-050! 📜 If you miss my poster session, I will be talking in: Crop resistance genetics and genomics on Wednesday - 16:25-16:35!
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Simon Snoeck @simonsnoeck.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Shedding light on the structure-function mechanisms of LRR-RPs. Our research merges #AlphaFold3, years of literature and functional validation to reveal diverse ligand-binding mechanisms and a conserved co-receptor association mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Congratulations to @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social and his teammates who won the #AI track at @nucleate.bsky.social UK PlantHack with @aria-research.bsky.social. The 2-day hackathon brough together scientists from across the UK to reimagine UK agriculture with AI & synthetic biology.
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Neftaly Cruz Mireles @neftalycm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Hi everyone! I’m new to Bluesky. At the beginning of the year, I moved to Zurich @UZH_en to start a postdoc with #CyrilZipfel and @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, investigating protein phosphorylation in plants 🌱 If you’re nearby or working on something similar, let’s connect 😀
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simonmoore505.bsky.social @simonmoore505.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Next London Cell-free Biological Product Meeting: 🗓️ Monday, 16th June 2025 (1-5 pm) 📍 Imperial College London, South Kensington ✨ Keynote: Prof. Keith Pardee (Toronto) Limited talk slots available 📝 Register: forms.office.com/e/dbW6hJacmS #Cell-free #Biotech #ImperialCollege #UCL
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Yori Dola @gene-boy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Last night, the House of Lords debated Gene Edited plants. Green party members spoke much nonsense, including likening GE to "a child dismantling a clock and throwing the pieces into a microwave to see what happens." You can find a debate transcript here: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...
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Amendment to the Motion
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025 - <i>Motion to Approve</i> &ndash; in the House of Lords at 7:45 pm 6 May 2025
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simonmoore505.bsky.social @simonmoore505.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My group has newly joined Imperial, and I have a great team: Dr Molly Bergum, Charlotte Woolley, and Alexandra Butulan. We focus on the biosynthesis of natural products for the antimicrobials and resistance area, using both engineered microbes and cell-free systems @mollybergum.bsky.social
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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is real! 🤩 I can touch it (after I printed it). Huge Congrats to everyone involved! 😀
 A photo of a print version of a science paper https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.ado8680
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pls repost 🚨I'm looking for someone excited about #proteindesign and #synbio to join my lab @Durham_Uni at the CPBM @cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social to undertake a PhD using #synthetic knottins as novel #bioinsecticides. If you're interested please get in touch and check out the advert below 👇
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Big shoutout to the incredible women in our lab—you inspire us every day 💪 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
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Shania Keh (Nani) @shaniakeh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I had great fun hosting this! Huge thanks to the attendees for the really engaging session, everyone chipped in their effort and time (on a rainy evening). We can’t wait for the page we worked on to be out soon!
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... See our new review in Cell Death and Differentiation led by Matthew Wengler on regulated cell death in Magnaporthe @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
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Mechanisms of regulated cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae - Cell Death & Differentiation
Cell Death & Differentiation - Mechanisms of regulated cell death during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New review from ⁦‪Berlaine Quime ⁦‪and Lauren Ryder‬⁩ highlighting live cell imaging of plant infection. ⁦ ‬⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
Plant diseases claim about 30% of the global harvest of all crops. Controlling plant diseases in a sustainable manner is therefore vital to ensure global food security. Recent advances in live cell i...
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Yori Dola @gene-boy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Some wonderful news for the UK bioeconomy! UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings - on.ft.com/4gOyKQb via @FT #plantgene
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UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings
Environment secretary tells FT that moves to adopt technology are ‘the right thing to do’
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Molly Bergum @mollybergum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thrilled to share our work on an unusual EXO70 clade unique to grasses and grass-like species 🌾! (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
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Putative neofunctionalization of a Poales-specific EXO70 clade
EXO70s are uniquely expanded in land plants compared to all other eukaryotic lineages. The functional implications of this expansion and diversification on the conserved role of EXO70 as a subunit of ...
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
An immune signalling holiday tale: A Poales-specific EXO70 clade doesn't fit in with the extended family. #PlantScience
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