AmirAli Toghani
Biologist @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. Currently doing a PhD with @kamounlab.bsky.social
Curious about plant immune receptors, molecular evolution, and other stuff. 🌿💻 #evoMPMI
Find out more here:
amiralito.github.io
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
- Do microbes get more food by swimming or staying still? Turns out both work, and cilia help them pull in nutrients no matter the strategy. buff.ly/vK3GmK5
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniThe Sainsbury Laboratory is delighted to announce that it has received $2 million in funding as part of Google.org's $20 million AI for Science Fund to support organizations focused on cutting-edge AI for science research. @kamounlab.bsky.social @amiralito.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/news/the-sai...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniWith the new year, is my time to say bye to @gmivienna.bsky.social as I move to @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social in Tuebingen. I will start my solo Group Leader career as a Emmy Norther fellow. Thanks to everyone that helped on the way. I will be advertising PhD and Postdoc positions soon, stay tuned!
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
- 📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniEvolution of protein domains and protein domain combinations provides insights into the origin and diversification of land plants www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniA pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniExcited to share our #plantimmunity preprint on engineering cereal TKPs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short thread below 👇
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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! bsky.app/profile/bior...- Engineering plant tandem kinase immune receptors expands effector recognition profiles biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniCheck out this awesome preprint on the cloning and characterisation of the HMA-containing tandem kinase immune receptors Rmo2 (barley) and Rwt7 (wheat). Great collaborators!
- Evolution of HMA-integrated tandem kinases accompanied by expansion of target pathogens biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniEngineering plant tandem kinase immune receptors expands effector recognition profiles biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniIf you're a #teacher interested in a great #openaccess write up on reading #phylogenetic trees, check out www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/system... created by @jonhendricks.bsky.social and Elizabeth Hermsen.
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniOur paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNew paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniMy new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniWe sequenced the genome of the Phytophthora infestans from that particular historical sample back in 2013 to characterize the genetic makeup of the strain that cause the pandemic outbreak of potato late blight. elifesciences.org/articles/00731 @kamounlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani📣 Now announcing the journal publication 📄 of our work in @newphyt.bsky.social on how Verticillium undermines the plant's 🌱 "cry for help": terrific work by @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniSpooky season has arrived! 👻 We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNew pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniOur paper on the evolution (duplicated) gene expression divergence in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes is now out @theplantcell.bsky.social w/ @yvdp.bsky.social #PlantSci #Evolution academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniFantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🌱 From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate! Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security 🌍
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniWe have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNew PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniWe have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNew opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniHuge congratulations to PhD students @lenaknorr.bsky.social, from the Ma group, and @amiralito.bsky.social, from the @kamounlab.bsky.social, for their 2025 ASM poster awards! 🎉🌱
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniA new preprint from the lab. I won't do a tweetorial until this is peer reviewed, but I think it's a banger, led by @JedNzy. It's about Rubisco and what chaperones are really for. He's on the market, get him while you can. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghaniwww.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniThe sequences of 91,366 NLR immune proteins from 230 superasterid genomes are now printed in 931 bound volumes #OpenScience #OpenPlantNLR
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniWe are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social. “I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.” buff.ly/VvoR27Q
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniOur latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniVery happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniThrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen). Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniFirst a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer! The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥 Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al. #NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology
- An activated wheat CCG10-NLR immune receptor forms an octameric resistosome biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniEmbyophytes what’s up #iamabotanist
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNew preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani"Little Flower" A Cryo-SEM portrait of my micro-rose depicting the flower as a sculpture of cells, fractured and frozen in time. Full image is 10k x 10k pixels.
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniClimate change effects on plant immune activation #plantscience
- Thank you @newphyt.bsky.social for organizing this great meeting. Met some very cool people and had constructive discussions! I presented our most recent work, now published in New Phytologist. You can check out my poster here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniThank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniSome belated personal news: at the end of July it was my time to say bye to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and Norwich. Already missing my dear friends and the lab! Big thanks to @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social and everyone else with whom I crossed paths in these 3 years!
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniTo be clear, New Phytologist and @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social fully support authors that choose to publish their work as preprints, and we welcome submissions submitted in full or part to preprint servers. [3/3]
- Imagine actively vouching for publishing models from the likes of Elsevier and Springer and talking against preprints in an early career meeting. I thought we're promoting open science and inclusive publishing for the new generation 🤷🏻
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani🎉Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! 🧑🔬 @matteogravino.bsky.social, @samtmugford.bsky.social, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al., @johninnescentre.bsky.social #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity 📄 Read the full paper👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8QSRJ9...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNEW Review from @soreklab.bsky.social @dinahoch.bsky.social explains how immune pathways manipulate the availability of nucleotides, chemically modify nucleotides to generate immune signalling molecules, and produce altered nucleotides that poison viral replication #immunosky #microsky #phagesky
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniExcited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniCryo structure of CARD1 from N. benthamiana transiently produced protein.
- Reposted by AmirAli Toghani🦠🧍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniNetwork, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniFirst Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by AmirAli ToghaniA conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
