📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London
🌱 Start: Oct 2026
📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
🇬🇧 UK/settled status only
💰 Fully funded (48 months)
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#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology
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Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social!
If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026.
Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.
Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Structurally characterized M. oryzae effectors in complex with the HMA or HMA-like domains of host target proteins and ID-NLRs. Crystal structures of (A) AVR-PikF with the HMA-like domain of OsHIPP19 from rice (7B1I) (Maidment et al., 2021); (B) APikL2A with the HMA-like domain of sHMA25 from foxtail millet (7NLJ) (Bentham et al., 2021); (C) Pwl2 with the HMA domain of OsHIPP43 from rice (8R7D) (Zdrzałek et al., 2024); (D) AVR-PikD with the HMA-like ID of Pikp-1 from rice (5A6W) (Maqbool et al., 2015); (E) AVR-Pia with the HMA-like ID of Pikp-1 (6Q76) (Varden et al., 2019); (F) AVR1-CO39 with the HMA-like ID of RGA5 from rice (5ZNG) (Guo et al., 2018). Complexes are displayed such that the HMA/HMA-like domains are in equivalent orientations. Domains from HPP/HIPP host targets are coloured light green. Domains from ID-NLRs are coloured dark green.
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Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies.
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#PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner
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My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
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PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Check out this awesome preprint on the cloning and characterisation of the HMA-containing tandem kinase immune receptors Rmo2 (barley) and Rwt7 (wheat). Great collaborators!
Super-happy sharing my Lab's new work on engineering plant HMA-containing tandem kinase immune receptors. Congrats to all authors (@danielsyu.bsky.social and @njw33.bsky.social on here). Work only possible in collaboration with Soichiro Asuke. See linked paper to follow!
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Engineering plant tandem kinase immune receptors expands effector recognition profiles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694194v1
Excited to share our #plantimmunity preprint on engineering cereal TKPs
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Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme
This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.
🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025
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PRESS RELEASE - Major funding boost to bring world leading researchers to the John Innes Centre
We have been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK:
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Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !
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VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...
Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
👀 Consider establishing a research programme at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and join a thriving community of scientists working on plant-associated microbe interactions.
VACANCY - We’re seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group, focusing on the role of intercellular communication in plant immune and stress responses.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Closing date - 6 April 2025
Salary - £36,720 - £39,750 per annum.
Contract - 3 years, full-time.
PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre
Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre.
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Huge congratulations to Team Terrain Solutions today! Well-deserved winners of Your Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) #YES24 👏
Abstract submission is now open for the IS-MPMI meeting in Cologne, Germany in July. You could consider submitting to the “Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function” session co-chaired by myself and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social 😁. Submission deadline 11 March.
We are recruiting for my lab in Warsaw.
One postdoc position available for a biochemistry project on superoxide dismutases (of course).
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We're also looking for a technician.
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A Witches' Broom Phytoplasma effector induces stunting by stabilizing a bHLH transcription factor in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.24.629987v1
Engineering an Exo70 integrated domain of a barley NLR for improved blast resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.24.630226v1
