Peter Moffett
Professor, Molecular biologist, plant-microbe interactions. Views are my own.
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- Reposted by Peter Moffett📢 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) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!
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- Reposted by Peter MoffettNew Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀 This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱 To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com
- Reposted by Peter MoffettJoin us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
- Reposted by Peter MoffettOPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.
- Ten days left to apply for the Faculty position in #plantscience in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the department of biology #usherbrooke. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
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- Reposted by Peter MoffettAre you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu
- Want to establish your research program in Canada? The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
- Reposted by Peter MoffettComment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
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- Kicking off the annual meeting of the #CentreSÈVE with @j-karst.bsky.social. Great insights on how plants and fungi interact, as well as important analysis of how value-soaked analogies affect our interpretation of scientific studies
- The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
- Début du symposium BiSP/McrHub @usherbrooke.bsky.social.
- Beautiful work by Ingrid Berenice Sanchez Carrillo on the in situ structure of the Arabidopsis nuclear pore complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Happy thanksgiving! Me: did you know that canned pumpkin pie filling is actually squash, of the species Curcubita moschata? Jack'OLantern pumpkins are Curcubita pepo. But the definition of pumpkin is flexible. My Daughter: we were just discussing how long it would take for you to mention that today.
- Reposted by Peter MoffettWant to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
- Reposted by Peter MoffettIl est encore temps de s'inscrire aux Journées Centre SÈVE! ‼️Date limite : 6 octobre 2025 🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025 📍 Hôtel Chéribourg, Orford ✨ Nos conférencier-ères invité-es: Pre Justine Karst @j-karst.bsky.social (@ualberta.bsky.social) et Pr Frank Sainsbury (@griffith.edu.au)
- Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social from @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social. We investigated the link between induction of chloroplastic ROS and the production of SA in defense and its suppression by effectors, as well as the importance of ABA in this phenomenon nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Report from our collaborators now published: an improved method using the dsRNA-binding protein B2 from flock house virus to enrich viral RNA for sequencing. Quicker and much cheaper that previous methods and commercial kits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Congratulations @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social! After winning the best thesis @usherbrooke.bsky.social, Charles won Prix d'Excellence from the Québec Association of University Deans, which recognizes a PhD thesis that stands out for original and significant contributions. adesaq.ca/wp-content/u...
- Félicitations @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social ! Après avoir gagné le prix du meilleur thèse @usherbrooke.bsky.social, Charles a gagné le Prix d’excellence de l’ADÉSAQ et le FRQ, qui reconnait une thèse de doctorat qui s’est distinguée par son apport original et déterminant adesaq.ca/wp-content/u...
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- I am going to do so much reading for pleasure on vacation…
- Where to find a set of giant googly eyes when you need them?
- Final talk of #CSPB2025 is from Daphne Goring, winner of the CSPB Gold Medal award for outstanding career research and leadership contributions, primarily in Canada. Indeed, Daphne has had a very productive career, contributing important insights into the mechanisms of self incompatibility.
- Congratulations to Márcia Gonçalves Dias, from the Monaghan lab at Queen’s, winner of the Carl Douglas Award for outstanding contributions to plant biology by a postdoctoral fellow #CSPB2025
- Next up in the #CAPB2025 plenary II, zoë Migicovsky @zoemig.bsky.social on Quantifying apple diversity for a future of sustainable agriculture.
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- #CSPB2025 David Joly starts his talk with the question “who is David Joly?” He is the speaker telling us about the importance of cannabis as a crop.
- Xin Li starts off #CSPB2025 presenting an exciting new research direction from her group. Fungal pathogens that break the one nucleus one genome rule
- Marcus Samuel kicks off #CSPB2025
- En route to Halifax for #CSPB2025 #CSPB #SCBV. Looking forward to hearing lots of great science at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists-Société canadienne de biologie végétale
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- Took advantage of a conference in Montréal to pick up some local authors to read at the beach afterwards. A new find and an old favourite.
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- David Baulcombe @dcb40.bsky.social delivers the Michael Goodin lecture #ASV2025
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- A second great talk #ASV2025 by @gesahoffmann.bsky.social, presenting an exciting method to track vertical transmission of viruses
- A bit of plant-bacteria interaction #ASV2025. Anne Simon on how certain viruses induce susceptibility to other pathogens
- Smoked meat with a side of virology. Great to catch up with the Kook-Hyung Kim lab #ASV2025 at one of Montréal’s most famous delis
- Joe Teodoro kicks off #ASV2025
- Thanks Anna Whitfield @aewtospo.bsky.social for organizing a fantastic plant virology symposium #ASV2025
- Arrived at the Montréal convention centre #asv2025. Looking forward to starting off tomorrow with the plant virology satellite meeting
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- Reposted by Peter MoffettMust read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- I suspect most people don't know that there is a mass grave site a stone's throw from downtown Montréal. Or that the mayor of Montréal died of typhus after attending to victims. Or that the neighborhood next to the black rock memorial was later razed to make way for a giant parking lot.
- Looking forward to getting my own copy of "Everything Evolves", written by my friend and #Usherbrooke colleague Mark Vellend.
- I tried translating some of my teaching slides from French to English using the "translate" feature in Powerpoint. Protéines de décoiffage (Decapping proteins) has been translated to "hair-raising proteins" and I will be referring to them as such from now on.
- Reposted by Peter MoffettJoin us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴 Edinburgh 🏴 8th-10th September #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social A thread 🧵 (1/n)
- New report from our collaborators. The Flock House virus B2 protein is a dsRNA-binding protein that can be used to concentrate viral RNA for sequencing. The Fall lab has optimized a protocol that makes this easier, faster and much cheaper. doi.org/10.1111/1755...
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- Lab meeting today, including RNA nanoparticules (not shown), birthday pie and taste testing new late blight resistant potato varieties from Guillaume’s master’s project
- Congratulations Faye Gaudreault-Lafleur and @antoinepelletier.bsky.social, for top prize departmental seminar presentations!
- A bit of encouragement for the last week of classes
- Keep posting those “signs of spring” photos
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- Beautiful work from the @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social labs. #centreseve. @centre-seve.bsky.social
- #BIOPHYSICS For the first time, scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ – in this case, a flower's anther. @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social @routierlab.bsky.social @natureplants.bsky.social nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
- Faculty position open in molecular and cellular biology @usherbrooke.bsky.social The Department of Biology wishes to strengthen its expertise in: omics sciences, molecular genetics; integrative biology, synthetic biology, structural biology and bioinformatics. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
