@KamounLab

Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.

 Norwich, UK
kamounlab.net
Joined June 2009
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I just published: What scientists miss when they don’t read patents Why my lab reads patents to understand plant immunity, and the wiki we built so you can too. kamounlab.medium.com/what-sc…
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Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig13h
Very pleased to see this paper out in print, written with @CStrulluDerrien The deep-time history of soils and plants sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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So sad 😢 🇺🇸
Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire7912h
How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed? At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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iCountPests--an innovative app that transforms the way you monitor pests on your farm icountpests.iplantprotectser…
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State of the nation 🇺🇸
The_Real_Fly
@The_Real_Fly22h
Trump: I called Google Maps to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to Trump Ocean. Sundar said, “No, no, no. This time I'm not doing it.” He said, “Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that.”
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Nick Volpe
@nvolpewildOct 22
BUG with FIREWORKS in the back! How cool is nature! 🎆
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Applies to older Professors too 😝 Profarell (noun; plural profarells): a senior professor who watches others doing lab work, hands clasped behind their back, offering occasional unsolicited advice.
Massimo
@Rainmaker1973Oct 21
In Italy, one of the hobbies for older men is “Umarell”. Retired men who enjoy watching construction sites while giving unsolicited advice
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I thought this was company policy 👇🏼 #CellOnions #sciencecrisis
Retraction Watch@RetractionWatchOct 21
Cell Press investigating editor-in-chief accused of soliciting bribes from authors. scmp.com/news/china/science/…

Cell publisher investigates editor accused of soliciting bribes from China

Probe triggered by social media post in which prominent biologist singled out Chinese-born editor-in-chief of medical journal Cancer Cell.

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Oh man, love this! I’m gonna use it, dude 👇🏼
Odd ☆☆
@nemui_nekooooOct 20
AI is a mirror. lazy people get lazy results. curious people get superpowers.
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#sciencecrisis
Sholto David@addictedtoigno1Oct 21
Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.
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I wish they would, but they won’t unless they change the incentives and move beyond the toxic obsession with CNS papers towards discoveries with real, transformative impact. China has been investing massively in biology for over 20 years. Yet breakthroughs that make you stop, rethink everything, and fundamentally change how you work in the lab—like CRISPR and AlphaFold—have been remarkably few.
Emilio Palomares@PalomaresEjOct 20
China is seeding their Nobel prize winners in 20-25 years...do numbers right and check how long and how much investiment had the actual Nobel awardees in experimental sciences such as chemistry, physics or medicine. Long term funding, superb resources and patience.
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And when it happened, my colleagues and I were hugely delighted youtu.be/WCv7ekhtsQ0?si=ug1N…

KamounLab ZAR1 Video 2019

Commentary by KamounLab on the structure and activation mechanism o...

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#plantsci #plantbiologyrocks 🌾 🌱 💥
🤖 Made with AI
Nick Desnoyer
@NickDesnoyerOct 20
How To: Genetically Modify a Flower 🧬🌹
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Plant immunity is far more diverse than previously appreciated. Grasses, in particular, have evolved a remarkable array of novel immune mechanisms 🌾 🌱
Mauricio Contreras
@mpcontreras4Oct 21
Jijie Chai reporting the Cryo-EM structure of the atypical rice resistance Protein Ptr! Forms a Pentameric ER localized Ca2+ Channel. Farnesylated Ptr C-term negatively regulates the channel, and fungal effector AvrPita directly activates the channel by cleaving it off 🤯
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Anshul Kundaje@anshulkundajeOct 20
Don't pay ridiculous "gold open access fees" to journals. Release a preprint + publish the paper as "closed access" + upload the final PDF to PMC without bothering about embargo.
Dr. Anthony Letai@NCIDirectorOct 20
If your Author Accepted Manuscript was supported by @NIH funding, it must be posted publicly to PMC without an embargo. There's no cost and it does not require buying expensive open access plans. Take steps to upload your Author Accepted Manuscript here: nihms.nih.gov/login/?next=/s…
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Mauricio Contreras
@mpcontreras4Oct 21
Replying to @ClemMarchal
@ClemMarchal presenting the gamechanging Pikobody tech at #ICBPI2026 in Nanjing! It's so cool to see how much this technology has developed in the last few years 🤯 science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Paul Daly@paulSH02Oct 21
Interesting pikobodies talk from @ClemMarchal at #ICBPI2026
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Paul Daly@paulSH02Oct 20
Interesting talk on single cell analysis in plant-microbe interations from @nobolly at #ICBPI2026
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