Clémence Marchal

Plant-microbe enthusiasts! If you are doing research in the USA, don't miss the chance to apply for root and shoot funding to attend the IS-MPMI Congress in Jeju Korea 18-22, 2027. They are looking for mentor-mentee pairs to fund.

Professorship Experimental Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Plöttr 2.0.0. has landed. evompmi.github.io/plottr/ A fresh interface, two new tools and some quality of life tweaks. SVG exports work great with @inkscape.org

Interesting pikobodies talk from @clemmar.bsky.social at #ICBPI2026

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Berasategui Lab at TSL, Norwich, UK This is an exciting opportunity to work at the interface of evolutionary genomics, plant pathology and insect symbiosis, within a world-class research environment. Application review starts 16 Nov 2026 buff.ly/WZtMcGs

Less than 5% chance!!! Come on @erc.europa.eu We need to find a solution. Otherwise, we will lose a generation of young researchers.

Two PhD opportunities in our lab: 1. What do bacterial NLR proteins do beyond phage defence? Join us to explore how these proteins regulate viability, multicellular development and antibiotic production in Streptomyces. Apply 👉 shorturl.at/N8Abx #PhD #Microsky #Bioinformatics #Streptomyces

Beetles secrete jelly to embed & sustain symbionts with impossibly tiny genomes🪲 But what is this jelly made of? And how does it help maintain a partnership that has lasted over 62 million years? Thrilled to share our latest, out now in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone brave enough for an adventure in the uncharted waters of plant immunity and cell biology? We have a PhD studentship available as part of the NRP DTP - join us! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

VACANCY: Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician TSL is searching for a dynamic, motivated individual to work in an exciting bioinformatics/computational biology/data science focussed team. Apply before 2 Nov 2026 buff.ly/MXkLT6X

Happy to share the results of our first attempt at single-cell proteomics using Arabidopsis protoplasts, led by @sara-stolze.bsky.social, with support from @brukercorporation.bsky.social and Cellenion. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Very excited to share the first preprint from my PhD with the community! This is also the first paper from the Plant Immunogenomics group with @galofir.bsky.social, so stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n 🧵

🍅 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus spread worldwide. For >60 years, one resistance gene protected tomatoes. This virus broke through. A second gene confers resistance. The same viral target? Convergent evolution? Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology (1/9) 🧵

Almost at 25% target - thank you for all donations so far 💚

Thank you for continuous your support, Sophien! It's been a blast (^^) to be part of the @kamounlab.bsky.social

This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute Twenty years. More than a hundred people. One long-running obsession: how plants and their pathogens fight it out. #KamounLab #PlantPathology #PlantScience #OpenScience #TSL #Norwich #LabLife youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y?...

Happy to share that I’ve joined @inrae-france.bsky.social as a permanent researcher, studying fungal diseases of crops 🌿 I’m part of the Leptosphaeria team at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social, based on the new @agroparistech.fr campus in @parissaclay.bsky.social Open to collaborations and applications!

This is a tribute to everyone who has been part of the Kamoun Lab at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich: students, postdocs, technicians, visitors, collaborators, and friends from all over the world. They did the experiments, argued over the data, and made the lab what it is. youtu.be/ZJtN6OBqA6Y

Great to present a major update to our manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In collaboration with @grandpahiro.bsky.social, @sara-stolze.bsky.social, Matthieu Platre & the teams of Götz Hensel & Gunther Döhlemann we demonstrate that….. (1/x)

Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV

Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This has originally developed out of a thought along the lines of: "What can you do if you only manage to get weak fluorescence signals?" A short explaining thread 🧵

Check out our new preprint: a very cool fluorescence tool developed by @samwalds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)

Excited to share this pre-print from my PhD work! We explore a Pmk1-Mst12-Bip1 network required for appressorium-mediated infection by the blast fungus 🌾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 👇

Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/

Goodbye Norwich! I had such a great time at the @kamounlab.bsky.social Alumni and friends meeting, followed by #ECPP2026 and #BSPP2026, reuniting with old friends, and making new ones. It's always so special to come back to the fine city. Until next time!

AlphaFold can now predict protein complexes at unprecedented scale. But once we have a predicted complex, the core question of how much we should trust the interface remains. Existing confidence scores are useful, but their meaning is not always obvious. #alphafold

New Preprint! We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM! PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share Fold on Tight! 🎉 We distil recent advances in plant immunity into 10 lessons for using AI structure prediction critically and effectively, in plants and beyond. 📝 zenodo.org/records/2210...

New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A plant pathologist at Hutton in Dundee, Scotland #scijobs hutton.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Live from our Alumni & Friends event—NLR bioengineers always wear striped shirts 🦓 💥 🤯

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will focus on Plant Membrane Biochemistry and Chemoproteomics (m/f/d) (10/2026) ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/34-postdocto...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher working on N-terminomics and Protease Degradomics (m/f/d) (11/2026) ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/33-postdocto...

Kamoun Lab Alumni & Friends—warm-up event! kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/Alumni_2026

Really excited to share our new manuscript on how the #NLR protein #AfsR regulates #Streptomyces antibiotic production - and how we can use its similarity to plant NLR immune receptors to enhance this production! 📄🧵 (1/17) @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

Thrilled to have the opportunity to investigate the role of membrane protein proteolysis in plant immunity through the ERC Starting Grant FRONTERA! A heartfelt thank you to my mentors, friends, and family whose support, encouragement, and guidance made this possible. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

Our junior research group leader, Mariana Schuster, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant, which comes with a grant of 1.5 million euros. Congratulations @marischuster.bsky.social! #ERCStg @erc.europa.eu More Information: www.ipb-halle.de/en/article/e...

This is an issue particularly close to my heart - women's basic physiology is far from understood, chronically underfunded and understudied. This needs to change to improve health outcomes. Here @plosbiology.org calls for more funding for basic research in this area & more exposure of the results 🧪

🌱 Job alert! A PhD position starting in 2027 is available with me and Andrea Gust @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de 👉 Interested? Apply now &/or share! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition

Now accepted: Haplotype-phased assemblies of the two poplar rust fungi species: Melampsora larici-populina and Melampsora allii-populina academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Today we had the first (of many) Langner/Marchal joint lab day. We had great project presentations and discussions, followed by enjoying some tasty food together 🌾🌱🌿. Thank you to all of our lab members for this great day! 😁 @thorstenlangner.bsky.social