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Tom Heaven

@tcheaven.bsky.social
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Molecular plant microbe interactions, genomics, bioinformatics, powdery mildew, scab, psyllids, Candidatus liberibacter, Podosphaera, Venturia

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Tom Heaven @tcheaven.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Nottingham Uni's plans to dicontinue Plant Biology, Agriculture, Food Science & Microbiology courses come at a time when only 9 UK institutions offer genuinely plant-focused courses (doi:10.1002/jsf2.70001) Please read + sign the Open Letter asking the University to reconsider: tinyurl.com/bdeueuuu
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An Open Letter to the UoN VC RE proposed course closures | Lauren Baker
🌱 CALL TO ACTION - HELP SAVE PLANT BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE EDUCATION🌱 The University of Nottingham has announced plans to close its undergraduate courses in Plant Biology, Agriculture, Food Science,...
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham: Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
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Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN
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Qun Liu @qunliu07.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies
Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.
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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Very exciting to see this out in the world! @tcheaven.bsky.social did some excellent work and I'm happy to have played a (small) supporting role on this project
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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@matteogravino.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social , @johninnescentre.bsky.social ) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.
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Tom Heaven @tcheaven.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🌱 Is UK higher education keeping pace with the critical need for plant scientists? Our new study reveals a concerning gap between national priorities and university curricula. doi.org/10.1002/jsf2... #PlantSciEd #plantscience #plantsci #horticulture #botany #HigherEducation
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Analysis of plant science higher education reveals mixed provision which falls short of delivering national priorities
Background Many reports from the UK government and other organisations highlight a need for a plant aware workforce, and some enumerate specific areas of plant science where there is a skills shorta...
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Chris Lewis Lee - available for work @chrislewislee.com · 19/12/2024
“unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”. Sign this statement and make sure that our voices are heard. www.aitrainingstatement.org
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Tom Heaven @tcheaven.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our preprint is now live! We have sequenced the genomes of three psyllid species. These insects pests transmit devastating plant diseases like 'zebra chip' in potatoes and 'carrot yellows' in carrots. 🥕 #MolecularEntomology #MPMI #PlantPathology #psyllids #liberibacter
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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you'd like a condensed version of this story, and also another recent preprint from the @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab here's a talk I recently gave at the Tulip graduate school in Toulouse youtu.be/9EoC6Zd6f_k?...
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Samuel Mugford-Molecular mechanisms of plant immune suppression by virulence factors in aphid saliva
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Qun Liu @qunliu07.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity.
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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis. #GenomeDynamics #Endosymbiosis #CurrentBiology #Genomics #Genomics #BioSky #SciSky 🧪🧬 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis
Many insects carry heritable bacterial symbionts, but the evolution of vertical (parent-to-offspring) transmission is poorly understood. Using the genus Arsenophonus, Siozios et al. show that microbes...
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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is terrifying.
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