๐ฟ Celebrating Success! ๐ Huge congratulations to BSPP Ambassador Prof. Tonjock Rosemary Kinge for hosting a successful "Talks and Networking Seminar in Plant Pathology" at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon! ๐จ๐ฒ Bringing together students, researchers & lecturers! ๐ฑ๐
๐ Congratulations to Alice McCallister from Canterbury Christ Church University for winning this year's BSPP award for 'Best Examination Performance in Plant Pathology in the UK'! ๐ฑ An outstanding achievement! ๐
๐ฑ Exciting news! This Friday, two talented students will present their summer internship projects, funded by the BSPP, at the Royal Society of Biology's Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship Symposium! ๐ฟ
The session 'plant colonisers manipulating plant organ development' has come to an end. We had lots of great presenters and discussions. As well as creative drawings of what we would like to see in a plant organ if we would be the colonisers ourselves. Thanks you all!
Graham Stone is finishing our session, explaining what we know and what we donโt know about gall patterns and induction.
Next up is Filippo Costa giving us details how the transcriptomic landscape gets hijacked by fall inducers.
The afternoon session is kicked off by @jcschultz.bsky.social, telling us how pluripotent cells are exploited to form leaf galls.
The second session is getting kicked off by Phil Poole, showing us the fascinating world of life-cycle transitions of rhizobia
Next Carolina Escobar is dazzling us with her thoughts on root-knot nematodes and the ways they drive new organogenesis.
