Laura Turchi (she/her)
Plant Scientist working in Comms at The Sainsbury Lab, Norwich
I like all things plants 🧬🌱
Former Plantae fellow 🌟📣
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- We recently ran our second intro event for colleagues from across the JIC and Norwich Research Park to come and explore our Historic Collections 📖🔬 If you‘re interested in arranging a visit, you can learn more on our website now: www.jic.ac.uk/research-imp...
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
- New Teaching Tool! blog.aspb.org/new-teaching... Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)I was in a meeting where we talked about summer projects for undergraduates interested in plant science, & someone shared this link 💚 @apaterlini.bsky.social Some deadlines are as early as January, so pass this on to those who might be interested! www.plantsciencefutures.org.uk/work-experie...
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Still a lot to discover! I wrote a short piece on flowering for @the-node.bsky.social 🌺⏳ Thanks @turchil.bsky.social for the editing and @hsuanpai.bsky.social for the artwork 🤩🎨
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)🧬La investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC Silvia Manrique (@tank-silvia.bsky.social) ha sido elegida coordinadora de la nueva sección de Genómica de la @segenetica.bsky.social junto con Aureliano Bombarely (@aubombarely.bsky.social), del @ibmcp.bsky.social. 👏👏👏 🔗 www.irnasa.csic.es/silvia-manri...
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.
- First post on the Node and first attempt at summarising a paper that is not about plants! 😱 Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
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- Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥 Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚
- EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Thrilled 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...
- Honest question: is there a point in learning to write in 2025, when everyone uses AI? Asking for a friend
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread." From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Come and work for me! Permanent Senior Advisor in Pedagogy and Practice post. Want someone w experience in design & delivery of PGCAP - we have bold plans! @bnuni.bsky.social really exciting place to work right now. Pls share #AcademicDevelopment #HigherEducation jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
- Very cool work, congrats Alba! 🔥🔥
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
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- "Südhof sincerely educated all these young scientists at the Lindau Nobel Meeting that, as long as nobody is able to find data forgeries at the time of publication and using contemporary tools and methods, then these forgeries do not exist"
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Graduation day for two of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #Proteomics team members. Congratulations @draegermarkus.bsky.social PhD and @Micheal Agbodo MSc. Double #ProudSupervisor
- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏 📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... bsky.app/profile/yusu...
- Please check our latest paper on using @deep-mind.bsky.social AlphaFold 3 to study NLR immune receptors. Here we use AI-guided structural modelling to distinguish between sensor and helper NLRs! 👇🧵 (1/10) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)#2025ISMPMI Want to know about transcriptional regulation driving pathogenicity in the blast fungus? Come to my poster (P-156) session today! From 13:30 to 15:15 🌾
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)Hot off the printer! Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI P-315 by @siyusong.bsky.social P-441 by @hsuanpai.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)I'll be there, talking about plants, of course 💚.
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- I’m happy to share that I’ve started a new position as part of the Communications team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social! 🪴🦠🎙️📸
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- Loving today's Strands 🏳️🌈⚧
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- Reposted by Laura Turchi (she/her)I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
- Made it to Norwich just in time to enjoy the longest day of the year with @vgeshkovski.bsky.social 😍😎
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