Were Vincent
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Post-doctoral researcher in Professor Nick Talbot’s Lab, The Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich. Interested in Fungal genomics. Football fan and NorfolkFA referee
Norwich, England
Joined October 2009
Pan-genome analyses of 226 finger millet-infecting Magnaporthe oryzae strains from eastern Africa reveal two lineages that differ in ... https://t.co/3Vg98OvONu
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Blast disease, caused by the filamentous ascomycete Magnaporthe oryzae , is the main biotic constraint to finger millet production in eastern Africa. M. oryzae is a pathogen on many grass species,...
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VACANCY: Senior Lab Support Technician. Support the development of a new plant immunity platform within TSL Ventures that explores RNAi-based disease resistance. Apply online, deadline 29 Oct 2025. https://t.co/OAczVN0hLO
#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
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I'm excited to share the publication from my PhD research project! In our latest study, how Magnaporthe oryzae synchronizes organelle trafficking and autophagy to infect plants. We found out that each conidium cell plays a unique role in the development of the infection
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A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen https://t.co/w61OKBrkQn
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Plants secrete a variety of proteases as a defense response during infection by microbial pathogens. However, the relationship between their catalytic activities and antimicrobial functions remains...
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Congratulations to all involved. beautiful work and imaging 🔬🔬
Synchronous spatio-temporal control of autophagy and organelle trafficking is necessary for appressorium-mediated plant infection by ... https://t.co/UTWALealEP
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Synchronous spatio-temporal control of autophagy and organelle trafficking is necessary for appressorium-mediated plant infection by ... https://t.co/UTWALealEP
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The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae infects plants using a specialised infection structure called an appressorium that generates physical force to break the rice leaf cuticle. Appressorium developm...
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✊ #StopTheGenocide 🇵🇸 San Mames shows its support to Palestine, represented at the stadium today by @HoneyThaljieh, a group of Palestinian refugees living in the Basque Country and representatives of @UNRWA Euskadi. We are with you! لكم كل الدعم، نحن معكم #AthleticMallorca
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Kenya becomes the first country in the world to win all Distance Events at the 2025 World Championships. 800m - Lilian Odira 1500m - Faith Kipyegon 3000m steeplechase - Faith Cherotich 5000m - Beatrice Chebet 10,000m - Beatrice Chebet Marathon - Peres Jepchirchir
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Super-pangenome analyses across 35 accessions of 23 Avena species highlight their complex evolutionary history and extensive genomic diversity. #nanopore #pan-genome https://t.co/7sABj3bwrN
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Sanctuary: a Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens | mBio https://t.co/JHkWVKzxNq
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Zymoseptoria tritici effectors structurally related to killer proteins UmV-KP4 and UmV- KP6 inhibit fungal growth, and define extended protein families in fungi:
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The fungal effectors Zt-KP4-1 and Zt-KP6-1 of Zymoseptoria tritici are structural homologues of killer toxins KP4 and KP6α of Ustilago maydis, are antifungal, and their structural homologues are...
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What possible justification is there for this, @netanyahu ?
Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. https://t.co/yw5sagr6ih
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Fungal extracellular vesicles mediate cross-kingdom trafficking of virulence effectors into plant cells to promote infection: Molecular Plant
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Fungal extracellular vesicles (EVs) deliver virulence effectors, including RsNP8 and RsSerp, into host plant cells during infection. These EV-associated proteins enter through clathrin-mediated...
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Supernumerary chromosomes facilitate genome reconstruction in rice blast fungus Zhenyu Fang, et al. 📖 https://t.co/plDnxflpF3 Summary also provided in 🇨🇳
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Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @SaskiaHogenhout @JohnInnesCentre and all coauthors! https://t.co/U04ADHOHjV
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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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The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia binds a novel group of rice HMA domain-containing proteins
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Phytopathogenic fungi secrete effector proteins to promote virulence. MAX ( Magnaporthe Avrs and ToxB-like) effectors form a sequence-diverse family sharing a conserved protein structure. AVR-Pia, a...
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Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!
New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. https://t.co/oEUXWMK0ZN
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