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From my first IS-MPMI congress in Interlaken in 1990 to the opening keynote in Jeju in 2027... Honored—and will set an extra alarm. Jet lag won in 1990!

Here is some of my conference adventures and inspirations: medium.com/@kamounlab/r...
October 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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The lab meeting, explained medium.com/@kamounlab/t...
October 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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For decades, breeders relied on Tm-2² to protect tomatoes from tobamoviruses. Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) broke this resistance.

HREZ, identified from wild tomato by Enza Zaden, provides resistance to ToBRFV.

What does HREZ recognize?

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October 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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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

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This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute
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October 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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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.
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This Is What 20 Years of Science Looks Like | Kamoun Lab Tribute
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October 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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This is super cool, and glad @kamounlab is in.

But an institutional email is required, and I was told that some institutions don’t approve the use of institutional emails for AI systems like @claudeai.

Is this true? Could this exclude some researchers from participating? claude.com/programs/tea...
Claude Team plan for scientists | Claude by Anthropic
Scientists at academic and nonprofit research institutions around the world can now get Claude at no cost to start. Shared projects, Claude Science, and admin controls at rates built for grant budgets...
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August 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Welcome @kamounlab
September 2, 2023 at 7:18 PM
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Commentaries and Letters to the Editor of The Plant Cell on recognition specificity of the FLS2 receptor via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/5PVHYP" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/5PVHYP
Commentaries and Letters to the Editor of The Plant Cell on recognition specificity of the FLS2 receptor (2012) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Does the Arabidopsis receptor FLS2 respond to CLV3 and Ax21 peptides? "The editors of The Plant Cell feel that they have taken responsibility for opening up the scientific debate on FLS2 and innate immune signaling, and they have gone as far as possible to ensure a fair and balanced discussion of...
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August 30, 2012 at 7:10 AM
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YouTube: Phytophthora plurivora zoospores attracted to Beech root exudates (2012) via @KamounLab | @scoopit <a href="http://sco.lt/4ozTQP" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/4ozTQP
YouTube: Phytophthora plurivora zoospores attracted to Beech root exudates (2012) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
(I just learned this video is by Ronaldo Dalio, and apparently he's got more to share. The "I" refers to Ronaldo). During my PhD I have worked with Phytophthora species, which are very aggressive microorganisms that infect plants, causing huge economic and environmental losses. Commonly Phytoph...
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October 10, 2012 at 7:34 AM
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PLOS Pathogens: Indifferent, Affectionate, or Deceitful: Lifestyles and Secretomes of Fungi via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/8wsULJ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/8wsULJ
PLOS Pathogens: Indifferent, Affectionate, or Deceitful: Lifestyles and Secretomes of Fungi (2012) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Fungi occupy a myriad of niches. They can be free-living (indifferent) as saprophytes recycling nutrients in the natural environment and/or have a range of relationships (affectionate and deceitful) with insect, animal, or plant hosts. Interactions with plants can be a continuum and range from ob...
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March 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM
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"Science in real time" Summary discussion about effector RxLR-domain independence via @KamounLab @markgijzen <a href="http://sco.lt/5WwwTJ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/5WwwTJ
"Science in real time" summary discussion about effector RxLR domain independence (storify) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Twitter exchanges following the publication of the Wawra et al. MPMI paper disputing pathogen-independent root and cell uptake of RXLR proteins described by Dou et al. 2008 and Kale et al. 2010.
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April 4, 2013 at 10:09 AM
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eLife: Rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/4o1yfB" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/4o1yfB
eLife: The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine (2013) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans diversity outside of its Mexican center of origin was low, and one scenario held that a single strain, US-1, had dominated the global p...
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May 21, 2013 at 6:48 AM
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NPR Weekend All Things Considered: Scientists Trace Source Of Famed Irish Potato Famine (2013) via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/6iS957" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/6iS957
NPR Weekend All Things Considered: Scientists Trace Source Of Famed Irish Potato Famine (2013) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
We now know what caused the Irish potato famine. Scientists have pinpointed the pathogen by using plant samples collected in the mid-19th century. Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden talks about it with the study's co-author, Sophien Kamoun of the Sainsbury Lab in the United Kingdom.
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May 27, 2013 at 8:22 AM
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Nature Genetics: The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/5qDOC1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/5qDOC1
Nature Genetics: The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph (2013) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Wheat powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici, is a devastating fungal pathogen with a poorly understood evolutionary history. Here we report the draft genome sequence of wheat powdery mildew, the resequencing of three additional isolates from different geographic regions and co...
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July 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM
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Nature Biotech: Targeted mutagenesis in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana using Cas9 RNA-... via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/4sUQTZ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/4sUQTZ
Nature Biotech: Targeted mutagenesis in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana using Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease (2013) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n8/full/nbt.2655.html Sustainable intensification of crop production is essential to ensure food demand is matched by supply as the human population continues to increase. This will require high-yielding crop varieties that can be grown sustainably with few...
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August 8, 2013 at 9:03 PM
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Nature: Microbiome: Soil science comes to life (2013) via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/64Hyq1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/64Hyq1
Nature: Microbiome: Soil science comes to life (2013) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
Farmers have long tried to improve the chemical and physical condition of their soils, seeking to make more nutrients available to their plants, to retain more moisture in the soil, and to ease the growth of plant roots. But they have typically ignored the role of the teeming diversity of fungi a...
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September 26, 2013 at 12:01 PM
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Your input requested for Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/76eFX7" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/76eFX7
Your input requested for Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
We are writing to seek your input to generate a list of the Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology to use as the basis for an article in the Top 10 reviews series to be published in Molecular Plant Pathology. Several of you must be familiar with the Top 10 reviews, which have co...
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September 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM
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@SeymourDaily @KamounLab Great photo!
July 31, 2014 at 8:29 AM
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"Keeping up with the plant destroyers" by @KamounLab https://medium.com/@plantvillage/keeping-up-with-the-plant-destroyers-9c0047899683
Keeping Up With The Plant Destroyers
A guest post by Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory 
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September 11, 2014 at 11:18 AM
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Plant Physiology: Efficient gene editing in tomato in the first generation using the CRISPR/Cas9... via @KamounLab <a href="http://sco.lt/8gI5RZ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/8gI5RZ
Plant Physiology: Efficient gene editing in tomato in the first generation using the CRISPR/Cas9 system (2014) | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
To test the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 in tomato, we chose to target a gene that, when function was disrupted, would result in a distinctive, immediately recognizable phenotype early in the plant tissue culture phase of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. A CRISPR/Cas9 construct was designed to t...
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September 15, 2014 at 2:42 PM
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@may_gun @weedinggems Yes, and I like the fact that it makes PIs seem human and accessible - think @KamounLab, @c_s_hardtke, @PlantDevo etc
December 10, 2014 at 9:09 AM
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Teachable moment - will you be able to find original data after ten years? Learn important lesson from @KamounLab
https://pubpeer.com/publications/D3DF6B4B19C383804BB3748B60604D#fb21919
PubPeer - The Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans tran...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: The Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans translocates the CRN8 kinase into host plant cells (2012)
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January 18, 2015 at 10:18 PM
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This is really interesting HT @KamounLab <a href="http://www.cell.com/crosstalk/how-cell-investigates-publication-concerns" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.cell.com/crosstalk/how-cell-investigates-publication-concerns - Be Editor for a day and decide how to handle various allegations of fraud
July 6, 2015 at 9:13 PM
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@rrellanalvarez @KamounLab @biorxivpreprint The word's getting out though, thanks you y'all x
August 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM
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Tweets from #EffecTours2015 Insects, pathogens& plant reprogramming:from effector molecules to ecology. Tours France https://storify.com/KamounLab/effectours2015-insects-pathogens-and-plant-reprogr
October 7, 2015 at 8:36 AM