Peer-reviewed version of our study led by @aliceeseola.bsky.social first seen on @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social showing the exquisite level of control of organelle trafficking & autophagy exerted during plant infection by the blast fungus. Thanks to all co-authors.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a tenure-track Group Leader!
I’m incredibly grateful to all the mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who have supported me along the way.
The blast fungus forms a force-generating appressorium for plant infection. Eseola
et al. show how individual spore cells adopt distinct fates, trafficking organelles
to the appressorium or undergoing...www.cell.com
Emma Turley started her PhD expecting the effector ChEC108 would aid Colletotrichum establish infection, but she instead discovered that when it makes it's way to plasmodesmata it's bound by host HIPP6, triggering PD closure and impeding infection. #PlantScience
NEWS - New group leader to shed light on supercharged photosynthesis
We are pleased to announce that Dr Tina Schreier will join the John Innes Centre as a tenure-track Group Leader in July 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/news/new-gro...
A conserved structural logic underlies sensor-helper NLR communication in the NRC immune receptor network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725810v1
