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I just published: 2025 the year in review

It’s that time of year when we recap our team’s publications and other highlights.

Check the article here.

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Amal @AmalBk11 is absolutely rocking it in Cotonou, Benin 🇧🇯 💪

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News coverage over the years... #memorylane

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We're pleased and honoured to host Striga wizard Steven Runo @Striga_Steve on sabbatical from Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. Steven is supported by a @royalsociety Wolfson Visiting Fellowship. He was awarded the 2020 Royal Society Africa Prize.

Welcome Steven!

[link to Steven's wikipedia]

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We welcome to the team JP--Juan Pablo Guzman Alvarez 🇨🇴-- our Innovation Design Engineer holding an MA/MSc @RoyalCollegeof @imperialcollege

JP is working with Nick Desnoyer to do crazy, creative stuff. Check his website https://2025.rca.ac.uk/school-of-design/innovation-design-engineering-ma-msc/profile/juan-pablo-guzman-alvarez/

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It's time for the new @TheSainsburyLab brochure

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We’re celebrating the Persian new year, based on the calendar developed in the 11th c by the renowned Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam 🪐

Happy new year and best wishes of peace and prosperity!

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A new chapter for IS-MPMI

For many of us, this society has been more than a professional organization—it’s been our scientific home and identity. Over the years, the MPMI community has shepherded discoveries that reached far beyond plant-microbe interactions: Agrobacterium DNA transfer, immune receptors, RNAi, TAL effectors, and much more.

Many of you know that the last few years haven’t been entirely smooth. That’s why the decision by Jean and the Board to transition the society to self-management is both bold and necessary. Kudos to them for not sitting idle and taking action.

Now it’s our turn.

Our field is thriving—both through fundamental discoveries and through impactful applications. To carry IS-MPMI into its next chapter, the society will need the energy and participation of its members.

So please consider getting involved. Volunteer. Share ideas. Help shape what comes next—whether you’re an early-career scientist or a long-time member of the community.

As a past President of IS-MPMI, I want to thank Jean and the Board for their leadership and courage.

The next chapter starts now. See you in Jeju!

Sophien Kamoun

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Past-President, IS-MPMI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-greenberg-4469a118/