Funding & talks
Recent funding and invited talks from the Bentham Lab.
Grants and prizes
The Rank Prize New Lecturer Grant
"AI-Driven Engineering of Plant Immune Sensors for Durable Crop Protection"
Adam BenthamGatsby Plant Science Grants to Exceptional Researchers
"Synthetic TIR Domains as Programmable Immune Modules in Plants"
Adam BenthamBSPP Small Project Fund
"Structural elucidation of pathogen virulence proteins via microfluidic crystallisation"
Adam BenthamPresentations
Harnessing AI-driven protein design for crop improvement
Invited Speaker, Genetics Society Seed Plant Research Meeting
Adam BenthamFrom Susceptibility to Immunity: how understanding pathogen targets can inform resistance engineering
Invited Speaker, Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hainan, CN
Adam BenthamEngineering novel effector recognition specificities using the Pik paired NLRs
Invited Speaker, International Helper- and Paired NLR Mini-Symposium, Tübingen, DE
Invited Seminar, The Waite Research Institute, Adelaide University, AUS
Engineering novel effector recognition specificities using the Pik paired NLRs
Invited Speaker, University of Kiel, Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series, Kiel, DE
Adam BenthamExploiting allelic compatibility in paired immune receptors to facilitate engineering of new recognition specificities
Invited Speaker, EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Innate immunity in host-pathogen interactions, Heidelberg, DE
Invited Speaker, British Society for Plant Pathology, Newcastle, UK
Adaptive evolution at a pathogen effector-host target binding interface is associated with host specificity
Invited Seminar (virtual), Australian National University Plant Sciences Seminar Series, Canberra, AUS
Invited Speaker, Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms IV, Vienna, AT
Events
Engineering plant-microbe traits
Concurrent session organiser and chair, 20th International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Congress, Confex Centre, Cologne, Germany (13–17 July 2025)
Adam BenthamRecombinant expression and purification of pathogen virulence proteins
Invited workshop organiser, University of Kiel
Adam Bentham