Studying Zymoseptoria tritici & its interaction with wheat at many levels: plant pathology, pathogen genomics, metabolomics, microbial ecology & more. UKRI FLF.

Joined October 2020
SWBio PhD projects are now available to apply to! Check out the 'Agriculture and Environment' theme to find some based in, or co-supervised by, the Fones lab and our awesome collaborators at @UoEBiosciences, Bath, Rothamsted and beyond: swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-and-…
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As well as improving our daily lives, university research contributes £54 BILLION to the UK economy and supports 121k jobs across the UK📈 If we want to be a country fit for the future, the government must make research funding more sustainable👇 loom.ly/T-7pw68
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You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at @ETH_en Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼
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Congrats to my co-authors on this one, Dr Graham Thomas @Gray_Thomas1 and Dr William Kay @williamkay
New article from @FonesLab in which we propose #Zymoseptoria as a model for epiphytic plant-microbe-microbes interactions: "Life on a leaf: the #epiphyte to pathogen continuum and interplay in the #phyllosphere" - including cool pics of Zymo being weird😁ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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New article from @FonesLab in which we propose #Zymoseptoria as a model for epiphytic plant-microbe-microbes interactions: "Life on a leaf: the #epiphyte to pathogen continuum and interplay in the #phyllosphere" - including cool pics of Zymo being weird😁ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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Interesting talk #ISCLB2024 by Radek Zenkl: "Towards high throughput in-field detection and quantification of #wheat foliar diseases with deep learning" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-ze…
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Second stimulating talk #ISCLB2024 on quantitative disease (STB) assessment by Jonas Anderegg: "Image-based symptom tracking to decompose quantitative resistance in the field", based on the paradigm "severity = infection events + lesion growth" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-an…
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Great talk #ISCLB2024 by Victor Flores Nuñez 👏 from @EvaStukenbrock lab: "The leaf microbiota of grasses establish interactions with #Zymoseptoria species beyond antagonism" -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-flo…
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Great talk #ISCLB2024 by @AndreaSVallet 👏 "#Zymoseptoria tritici effectors: Understanding their regulation and #wheat targets", highlighting that multi-strain / endophyte coexistence alters the infection processes -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-san…
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Interested in joining my group or another group @ISTAustria? Apply now for a fully funded #postdoc #fellowship! Hurry, the deadline (June 12) is approaching!
ISTA-Fellow #postdoc program: Want to push the frontiers of science and go beyond the scientific norms together with supervisors and colleagues that are among the best in the world? #Apply now for fully funded positions for highly qualified candidates! 🔗 bit.ly/3TTWjNj
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Fashion Entrepreneur Patrick Grant, "I can't help feeling that we have had a Conservative government that has done more harm and less good to both the country and the general population, than any government in my 50 years" "Most governments in the past, whatever way you vote, you could probably point to something they've done something better for somebody" "But I genuinely can't think of anything this government has done that has made anything better for anybody" "I could probably spend the next hour listing things that they've made worse"
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Yup. We continue to reward toxic PIs, promoting them and giving grants and awards. This normalizes their behavior.
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Starvation is on the rise in Gaza. This is not about rhetoric. This is not about politics. This is about survival. That's why it’s a failure of humanity.
“They're seeing life being lost… in front of their eyes in the most dramatic fashion… This is about human survival.” @rescueorg calls the imminent famine in Gaza “a profound failure of humanity.” Here's my conversation with its CEO @DMiliband
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New preprint from @Foneslab & @GurrLabExeter - nice to have the fantastic work of @williamkay finally getting out there! #Zymoseptoria blastospores survive a shockingly long time w/o any external nutrients & can infect seedlings even after 7 weeks in soil doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.5…
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Man throws petrol and lit matches into bin, then complains about the fire.
This is really stupid and is why I strongly opposed it as Brexit Opportunities Minister.
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