Sophien Kamoun
@KamounLab
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Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.
Norwich, UK
Joined June 2009
I just published: On the diversity of resting states of NLR immune receptors New story on the rice Pik NLR immune receptor pair — turns out it sits as a 1 MDa membrane-bound beast before activation 🤯. Another wild twist in the ever-expanding universe of NLR resting states!
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New story on the rice Pik NLR immune receptor pair — turns out it sits as a 1 MDa membrane-bound beast before activation 🤯. Another wild…
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I would think that all those how authored those highly questionable #GWASGoneWild papers are having a moment of reflection, but I really doubt it. #sciencecrisis UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
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British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis
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The Plant Mind? Srsly, @PPLplantarum ?
🧠 Can plants remember past stress to prepare for future challenges? The Plant Mind: Unraveling Abiotic Stress Priming, Memory, and Adaptation https://t.co/aMz8rg8CTe
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The plan was clean. The escape? Not so much. Midway City doesn’t play fair. Wishlist this 4-player coop heist FPS on Steam today.
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Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes: Current Biology https://t.co/ZIUenQEOFU
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Thrilled to join the @KamounLab! Looking forward to contributing and collaborating on exciting projects ahead. Thanks for the warm welcome!
A belated welcome to Matteo Gravino @gravino_matteo to our team. Matteo joins us as a postdoctoral researcher, having previously worked at the John Innes Centre in the group of Saskia Hogenhout. We are excited to having you on board Matteo! https://t.co/WvTdKcHOzO
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Netflix announces that it has acquired Warner Bros., including HBO Max and HBO, in a deal valued at $82.7 billion. Franchises such as The Big Bang Theory, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz and the DC Universe are set to join Netflix as a result.
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Exaptation — a shift in the function of a trait during evolution —is a basic evolutionary biology concept.
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Joe Parker—Convergent evolution on steroids!!! #beetlewatch #ants
For our last @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre Friday seminar we have the one and only Joe Parker @Caltech “Retracing the evolutionary steps towards symbiosis” https://t.co/ZOyqSpG4Ai
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For our last @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre Friday seminar we have the one and only Joe Parker @Caltech “Retracing the evolutionary steps towards symbiosis” https://t.co/ZOyqSpG4Ai
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A belated welcome to Matteo Gravino @gravino_matteo to our team. Matteo joins us as a postdoctoral researcher, having previously worked at the John Innes Centre in the group of Saskia Hogenhout. We are excited to having you on board Matteo! https://t.co/WvTdKcHOzO
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She really said it. https://t.co/kDm1LDmba8
They tried to silence her. They failed. The Liz Truss Show — December 5th. It’s time to fight for the West.
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Imagine a world with AI but without food? A world without vegetables or fruits? When are we going to see that food security is national security?
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Arwa Hanin Elrayess is the first Palestinian, first Algerian and first Arab woman to be elected President of the Oxford Union. However, less than a week since she was elected, Arwa is facing challenges and attacks to her victory. This is her story
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Using a phage-inspired genetic screen and biochemistry, NEB, Harvard Medical School, and @UofIllinois Urbana-Champaign researchers discovered OLD inactivates tRNAs by a completely novel mechanism: severing anticodon arms! Learn more in Nucleic Acids Research:
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Abstract. ATPase-coupled Toprim (Topoisomerase-primase) nucleases, known as Overcoming Lysogenization Defect (OLD) proteins, are crucial for diverse antiph
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Fundamental advancements using Industry🤝Academic collaborations is a wonder to behold.
Using a phage-inspired genetic screen and biochemistry, NEB, Harvard Medical School, and @UofIllinois Urbana-Champaign researchers discovered OLD inactivates tRNAs by a completely novel mechanism: severing anticodon arms! Learn more in Nucleic Acids Research:
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A few years ago we tracked down a cryptic lineage through wastewater, but at the time we didn't know they were coming from people. Today, there is a person in Lincoln, NE that has had COVID for at least 4.5 years (probably in their GI tract) that almost certainly does not know
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"Common principles of immune receptor channels..." #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmm 🤔
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Nature - Evolutionary conservation of plant receptor structure allowed for generation of new variants of wheat and barley nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) that recognize...
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