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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV

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Bentham Lab — Durham University

Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

You can now read about my time at the 8th International Food Legume Research Conference and the 5th Australian Pulse Conference in Perth, Western Australia. It's all on the Fernand Lambein Fund "What's new around Lathyrus" newsletter! @itqbnova.bsky.social 👉 lambeinfund.org/wp-content/u...

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Nancy Choudhary @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈 While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Tandy⁷ @tandyhard.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Remember you're most likely arguing with bots and that the propaganda machine is hard at work making you believe there are more of them than there are of us. #Resist

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

We’re a bunch of amateur psychologists… #AcademicChatter #phdchat

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm thrilled to share that, thanks to The Fernand Lambein Fund, managed by @K_B_Foundation, I shall attend the IFLRC-APC Conference in Perth, Western Australia 😁 I could not be more grateful for this opportunity to showcase my new work in Lathyrus sativus 🫛 Stay tuned! 📻 iflrc-apc2025.com

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

ITQB NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal) has a new Master course in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture, and applications are OPEN! 🫛🫒🫘🌽🥬 You can find all the information you need here itqb.unl.pt/education/ma... Please share so it reaches people who might be interested! @itqbnova.bsky.social

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MSc in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture — ITQB

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First post on Bluesky!! ☀️ Very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The full story is summarized here:

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Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase...

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m super excited to share my first first-author paper! 🥳 We found that different accessions of Lathyrus sativus respond differently to Erysiphe pisi powdery mildew infection. All aboard the paper thread! 1/13 🧵👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla... @itqbnova.bsky.social

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Frontiers | A dual transcriptome analysis reveals accession-specific resistance responses in Lathyrus sativus against Erysiphe pisi

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Check out this great general review in Nature on “Fungal impacts on Earth’s Ecosystems - by the CIFAR consortium. @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @funguscrous.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @microbita.bsky.social @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

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Rita Maravilha Marques @ritamaravilha.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I want to dare you not to make an #ODAP question whenever you listen to a #Lathyrus sativus talk, I promise it's a fun exercise! 😅 For those who still do not know, lathyrism only occurs if you eat a grass-pea-only diet, which will NOT happen with how we eat. Stop the stigma!! 🛑 Lathyrus is great 😁

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The International Legume Society @legumesociety.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New free ILS webinar, "Lathryus germplasm characterization and breeding" with Carlota Vaz Patto (ITQB-UNL, Portugal). Wednesday Dec 11, 2024, 4pm CET (UTC+1) www.legumesociety.org/ils-webinars... Webinar hosted by CREA research. #legumes #Lathryus #research #agriculture #proteins

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