Matteo Gravino
@gravino_matteo
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Scientist at @TheSainsburyLab on plant-microbe interactions with @KamounLab. I love #AnnaMagnani, #PierPaoloPasolini and @mare_poo. 🎾🇮🇹🏴
Norwich, England
Joined July 2019
🎉 Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @NewPhyt! 🌱 Aphid effector Mp10 fine-tunes plant immunity via EDS1, balancing suppression and activation of defence. 🧑🔬@gravino_matteo, @samtmugford, @SaskiaHogenhout et al., @JohnInnesCentre, @SapienzaFisVe #️⃣
Aphid effector Mp10 balances immune suppression and defence activation through EDS1-dependent modulation of plant DAMP responses Gravino et all. @samtmugford @gravino_matteo @SaskiaHogenhout 📖 https://t.co/jxMQAkn1Vs
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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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Farewell Diana! From joining us @TheSainsburyLab as a predoc to smashing it as a PhD and postdoc at TSL, it’s been a joy to watch you grow into an amazing scientist. Nothing beats seeing our predocs take off like this — proud of you and excited for what’s next 🙌 💪🏼 🇨🇴
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Join Carella Capybaras in Norwich 🙂
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group @JohnInnesCentre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
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In August 2024, we received this reviewer comment: “....the authors mention their analysis of oligomeric states represents a “new potential application of AlphaFold”, I cannot see how this is new at all, structure prediction has been used for similar application for decades.”
The PDB file 9FP6 of the NRC2 hexamer will be released on July 3rd. Apologies for the delay as we strive to always release the data with the preprint. Meanwhile, here is an animation of the AlphaFold3 model:
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With the 50-year rise of Arabidopsis as the most studied plant, is it time for its downfall? Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
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After 10 Fridays, 10 flowers, and 100+ drawings, the Florédex is complete! ✨ Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵
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Who throws out T-shirts at a conference!?? Take your work seriously and make sure to have fun 🤘
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We are excited to welcome Maryam Sargolzaei to our team. Maryam is a plant pathologist who completed her Ph.D. at the University of Milan and previously obtained her Master of Science from University Putra Malaysia (UPM). We look forward to having her on board.
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Spooky season has arrived! 👻 We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @TheSainsburyLab—vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
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It's that time of the year again. Here's a sneak preview. Watch out for the post showing every expertly carved pumpkin and vote for your favourite
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Amazing to meet Lila Ibrahim and the @GoogleDeepMind Team and find out how we share much of the same ethos and goals in tackling global challenges 😍👇🏼
Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @KamounLab 🌱 From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate! Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security 🌍
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Huge congratulations to PhD students @lena_knorr, from @wenboEffector's group, and @amiralito_, from the @KamounLab, for their 2025 ASM poster awards! 🎉🌱
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Citrus greening (aka Huanglongbing or HLB) is a major threat to the citrus industry worldwide. There is much work to be done to curb the effects of this disease, especially in the face of increased climate threats.
A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen https://t.co/w61OKBrkQn
#biorxiv_plants
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📢 Today we are pleased to host @gravino_matteo for a seminar with our PhD students, where he will present his work at @SaskiaHogenhout It’s a pleasure to see the success of students who grew up in our laboratory and have taken off to face new challenges! 🪳💪✨
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Can't believe my @TheSainsburyLab chapter is coming to an end! Feels like only yesterday I was starting my predoc with @KamounLab 🥲 Learned so much from several generations of TSL scientists, made some discoveries and a lot of friends! Time flies when you're having fun...
It’s essentialy a week of festivities to bid San Mau @mpcontreras4 farewell after 7+ incredible amazing years! Work hard, play hard…
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First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer! The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥 Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al. #NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
New preprint! We report the largest plant resistosome ever described. We revealed the wheat NLR WAI3, a member from the mysterious CCG10-NLR clade, forms an unprecedented octameric assembly with a unique channel architecture. And the well-known RPS2 might work the same way!
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We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint. With @KamounLab and Abbas Maqbool. https://t.co/qAEgS6hOes
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Protein evolution is influenced by historical contingencies and functional constraints, but their combined impact on rapidly diversifying pathogen virulence effectors remains poorly understood. Here,...
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Congrats Matteo et al!
🎉 Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @NewPhyt! 🌱 Aphid effector Mp10 fine-tunes plant immunity via EDS1, balancing suppression and activation of defence. 🧑🔬@gravino_matteo, @samtmugford, @SaskiaHogenhout et al., @JohnInnesCentre, @SapienzaFisVe #️⃣
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"Truly a great satisfaction! 📚 Happy to have contributed to this scientific research. See aphids in a new light! 👏 @RicercaSapienza #oligogalacturonides #Damps
Aphid effector Mp10 balances immune suppression and defence activation through EDS1-dependent modulation of plant DAMP responses Gravino et all. @samtmugford @gravino_matteo @SaskiaHogenhout 📖 https://t.co/jxMQAkn1Vs
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