🎃✨ Pumpkin perfection! We were seriously impressed by the beautifully carved and brilliantly lit pumpkins from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social🕯️ We also got spiritedly competitive with our annual team pumpkin carving competition 😄🎃 Who knew plant scientists were such talented artists? 🪚🎃🌿

Ever seen a pumpkin under a microscope? 🎃🔬 This Halloween, Raymond Wightman & Daniel Sparrow used @slcuplants.bsky.social’s powerful imaging tools to reveal: 🔬 Skin detail with the #Keyence microscope 💡 Beta-carotene via #Raman spectroscopy ❄️ Flash-frozen oval cells via cryo-SEM #HappyHalloween

It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab! First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025... And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Job opportunity! We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician: - Crop Science Centre - Fixed term - Closes on Friday 31 October www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu... #plantscijobs #plantsciences

Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825. Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9 @cam.ac.uk

A week to go... #EngBio ECRs Meetup returns on 20 Oct. Join us to hear great talks from Konstantina Beritza and Caroline Faessler 🌱 Don't miss it! @camplantsci.bsky.social Sign up here👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin... #plantsciences #marinemicroalga #Nicotianabenthamiana

🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds 2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF

It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬 Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!

Thrilled to see this out! SalicS is a beautiful new tool to monitor salicylic acid activation live in plants. Kudos to @xanderjones.bsky.social and @bijuntang.bsky.social for spearheading this work and to @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social for using SalicS in viral infections🌱

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

Check out the link below for a summary of our recent paper on how plants coordinate their branching architecture, via @slcuplants.bsky.social 🌱

Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

Job Advert - Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

Unlock your potential with a Master's at the University of Cambridge! 🔬 Our MPhil in Biological Sciences offers a unique opportunity for cutting-edge, lab-based research at a world-leading institution. Explore and apply: www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk #Cambridge #BiologicalSciences #Postgraduate

The next Research Café: Science Communication will take place on 30th September 2025 @ 11:30am-2:30pm at @West Hub, Cambridge. We have limited places, sign up here! For details and to sign-up: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe...

@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

From space science to dinner plates: the future of farming indoors - on the new paper from an international team reimaging the way we grow food into the future. Read more at: tinyurl.com/3edf6b93 @aligill.bsky.social @alexwebblab.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

Happy to share slightly late that the main work of my PhD is now published! How do plants regulate the number + location of growing branches 🌳🌲? We used experiments and mathematical modelling to study how local and systemic signals are integrated during shoot branching regulation. A thread:

Friday Flower 004: Hibiscus trionum 🌺✨ Hibiscus trionum displays a dark bullseye in the center that acts as a landing pad for pollinators 🎯 The bullseye is made by a developmental boundary delineating distinct cell shapes and pigments.

🌱From Bud to Branch🌱 New model reveals how local & systemic signals combine to regulate shoot branching. "...by modulating #auxin transport, local #BRC1 expression in each bud could contribute to the systemic control of branching." @zoenahas.bsky.social 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plosbiology.org

🌿💻 Plant Models and Morphology 💻🌿 The 9th International Plant Computational Biology Workshop @slcuplants.bsky.social brought together mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and biologists exploring plant development through models and simulations. Huge thanks to organisers and speakers!👏

Thanks to Madelaine Bartlett from Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge Uni, @slcuplants.bsky.social for a fascinating and thought provoking presentation today. Find out more about Madeline's work using grass diversity to dissect mechanisms of angiosperm evolution here: bartlettlab.org

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#iMMM2025 is about to kick of in Munich, Bavaria (clearly), Germany - looking forward to 2.5 days filled with amazing molecular mycorrhiza research!

How do #plants dynamically modulate their shoot branching for optimal returns? ‪@zoenahas.bsky.social‬ &co show that BRC1 modulates bud competitiveness by reducing #auxin efflux, integrating hormonal cues to fine-tune branching patterns @plosbiology.org @slcuplants.bsky.social 🧪 plos.io/4pnrwY2

Advancing Neuroinclusion – Best Practices Round Table 📅 24 September 2024 | 2pm BST 📍 Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University & 💻 Zoom Join us for a round table exploring how we can better support neurodiverse staff & students in research and academic settings 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/advancing-ne...

New preprint! "Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱 with @merozlab.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📣 Calling all biologists! Each year during Biology Week in October, we aim to inspire future biologists by highlighting the diverse roles available in the biosciences through our #IAmABiologist campaign - but to do that, we need your help! (1/2)

Cafe Synthetique returns on 8 Sept! Join us for talks on: 🛰 Remote Sensing with Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social and Matt Wayland @waylandm.bsky.social 🧪 Smart Sensors into SBS Plates for data-driven biology with Salavat Magazov (CCA.BIO) 🎟 Register 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

Join our Learning Team! We have two roles: Family Learning Coordinator: Create nature experiences for families Interpretation & Learning Coordinator: Share stories of our plant collections & lead adult learning programmes Apply at: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/job-opportunities/

🌿 Calling All Undergrads! Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 - Friday 24 September - 🤝 Meet fellow students & researchers - 🎤 Hear from inspiring speakers - 🍃 Build your academic and social community - 🎓 Student Fee: £15 🔗 Register Here: buff.ly/cdIr29N

📢Workshop Announcement: Culturally Sensitive Mentoring Chaired by Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso alongside Dr Katharine Hubbard and Chloe Lewis this interactive workshop equips mentors with the tools to engage meaningfully across cultures. To find out more, head to our website: buff.ly/huckAbw

Checkout our new starter pack: Academics to follow on BlueSky to keep up to date with cutting edge discoveries in the world of plant science! go.bsky.app/5CYhV8v

👀 Take a sneak peek at our Custodian’s Hut pop-up display (near the café)! Visit 20–25 Aug to meet Dr Kate Hooper & learn about John Stevens Henslow, founder of the modern CUBG & Darwin’s tutor. 📖Read more about Henslow: https://bit.ly/4mqIByn @camplantsci.bsky.social #CUBG #UniversityofCambridge

Researchers from ‪@w-u-r.bsky.social‬ & ‪@slcuplants.bsky.social‬ discovered that ENOD40 sequesters a miRNA that usually downregulates a positive regulator of nodulation. Dr Nadia Mohd-Radzman explains the findings at www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/scienti... Full paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We're proud to be the venue for the 2025 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 and Student Botany Festival. 🎉 Organisers have done amazing work👏 🎥 The semifinal & final kick off at 13:30 today, live on YouTube – don’t miss it! www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... Good luck to all the teams 🌱✨

Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn

🌱 Flipping the script on plant engineering! New ‪‪@aria-research.bsky.social‬ grant for James Locke & Chris Micklem to pioneer stochastic synthetic biology using gene expression noise as a tool to design more resilient, climate-adaptive plants. 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/aria-gr... #synbio #plantsci

📢 Final hours to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025! 📢 Don’t miss your chance to take part in talks and hands-on sessions with other plant modelling enthusiasts🪴 Deadline tomorrow (31 July) - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Come and work with us! We are hiring a research assistant/associate @slcuplants.bsky.social to work on the RESYDE project (www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/) using ML for multi-scale data and modelling to understand and engineer flower development! Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52116/

🚨Don’t miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org 🌱 📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Congrats to @chetanpandey.bsky.social for winning the Best Poster Prize at Botanicon Cambridge. Very proud of you! @slcuplants.bsky.social

Thankyou! Great event and experience @slcuplants.bsky.social

What an incredible experience it was to organize Botanicon 2025 with these cool people! #Botanicon2025 @camplantsci.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social

A great day hearing from other plant-related research groups around Cambridge.

What a cool day at Botanicon today! I’m excited to part of such a buzzing research community in #plantscience! (Spot me in the video presenting my poster!)

Botanicon 2025 - the 3rd annual Plants @ Cambridge conference bringing together plant scientists from across Cambridge to share their work and ideas. @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PlantsAtCambridge

The van is packed and we are ready to go... 🚚 We are looking forward to welcoming 8 post-16 biology teachers to the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School 2025 on Sunday. 🌿 It will be a week of #plantscience immersion with practical workshops and lectures from contemporary plant science researchers. 💚

After a truly fascinating lecture looking at how plants pattern their petal with Dr Edwige Moyroud, the teachers were able to sit down for a Q&A & explore how this unique are of plant development can be brought into the classroom🌺 Is Hibiscus trionum the *new* model plant? 🤔 #plantsci #summerschool

Our #plantscience #summerschool teachers have been immersed in all things plant science. From lectures on contemporary research, practical workshops to resource development - the teachers will be leaving with an armour of new material and a network of plant-proud teachers. 💚🌱🎒🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫