Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lovely study, congrats to your team! Curiously, our similar spatial transcriptome study of developing wheat spikes appears in the same issue, and GH3 genes showed interesting expression patterns too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...

On the modelling side, Steven Oud and Maciek Zurowski did an amazing job developing this model and analysing the data to identify the boundary cells. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do now that we're including petal growth...

🌺 How does a hibiscus flower pattern its petals? A new computational model reveals hidden "boundary" cells can spontaneously emerge during flower development, helping to create stable petal patterns. Prediction confirmed experimentally! 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-hib... #PlantsInTheSpotlight

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health with five-month research project. David Sainsbury 50% Fee Scholarships available for home students. Apply now for 21 September entry. Deadline 28/8/26 for home students. www.tsl.ac.uk/msc

Research Assistant (Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge) Join @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team studying plant development & mechanics. Work with Arabidopsis, Marchantia & maize. Applications close 15 June 2026. 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/rob... 🔗 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #plantscijobs

Shape Makers: How plants take shape. First time using LEGO to communicate how plants shape their leaves - huge hit! Leaf Bingo and dissecting a flower also popular! Despite rain lots of fun at The Festival of Plants. Thank you to our amazing scientist volunteers!

Shaping the future of Biological Sciences at Cambridge How do you design research environments for the next 30–50 years? Our Future Estate Programme is rethinking how science, sustainability and people come together. Find out more: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/future-estat...

The excitement is building for the return of the Festival of Plants 🌱 Join us on Saturday 6 June for Garden tours, expert talks, live music, crafts, hands-on activities, Ask the Gardener and more 🌼 A perfect chance to see the Garden in full bloom this summer. https://bit.ly/4uJRFms

We are pleased to announce this year's cohort of our Summer Studentship! Phoebe Allen, Nalo Magar and Tinotenda Matemera who are all going to be based at The Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University. Get to know them more by heading to our website: buff.ly/I3XZ59a

Registration for our long-awaited NoCaSS symposium is now open! Register here: nocass.org/registration... 🌱🦠✨ Join us for two days of fascinating science including ECR talks, poster sessions, workshops, industry presentations, and a career panel. Only for Cambridge and Norwich-based researchers

We're delighted to announce Uta Paszkowski as the new Russell R. Geiger Chair in Crop Science - a prestigious academic chair at @cam.ac.uk that serves as a cornerstone for cutting-edge agricultural research, sustainability and global food security. 🌍🌱🧪 tinyurl.com/39k489sd

Only a few days to go until the symposium this Friday! 🎉 Check the detailed programme here: ucammorphogenesisseries.com/cambridge-mo... For those who missed in person registration, online registration is still open :) Looking forward to see you all there!!!| Tag us #Morpho5

🌍 Are we alone in the universe? Join Prof Nikku Madhusudhan from @cambridgeastro.bsky.social for a Branching Out public talk on the search for life beyond the Solar System 🗓 Thu 4 June, 1pm BST 📍 Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge UK 💻 Also via Zoom More details: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/searc...

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC

Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄 @leoserra.bsky.social & Euan Smithers from @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...

New lab, similar setup - still working… kind of 😅 First barley–mycorrhiza experiment for me in Freising. Colonization isn’t quite where I want it yet, but found some really nice arbuscules 🔬 Here, a barley root cell with F. mosseae arbuscule, stained with WGA-Fluorescein #Microscopyfriday

We've put one of the UK's most beloved plants under the microscope for International Plant Appreciation Day! 💚🌱 🔬 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/bluebells-th... Thank you Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge University Herbarium & @camplantsci.bsky.social for collaboration #bluebells #plantsci

💚We Appreciate Plants💚 Plant science research is vital to solving some of the biggest problems facing us & our planet. With our 'Want to change the world?' poster & resources, you can inspire your students to find solutions & make a difference with a career in #plantscience. #PlantAppreciationDay

This Plant Appreciation Day, we’re celebrating the British bluebell 💙🌿 Together with colleagues from Cambridge University Herbarium, @camplantsci.bsky.social and @slcuplants.bsky.social, we explore the science behind this much-loved native plant. Read more: https://shorturl.at/Iauxq @cam.ac.uk

🧵1/X 🚨New Preprint🚨 Root pathogens are hard to manage, and we know little about plant genes enabling infection (susceptibility genes). Here, we show that SCARs are susceptibility factors in barley roots - and their loss affects pathogens/symbionts in distinct ways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’ve received some great abstracts so far for #SLS26. However, we’ve heard from a few of you that you need a bit more time over the Easter break to finalise submissions, so we're extending the deadline to 20 April! Reviews are underway & we will let you know results on 4 May www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

Calling all colleagues with teenagers. Join us on Saturday 28 March, 2pm-3.30pm in the Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building for our #CamFest event on how AI can be applied to big questions in Biochemistry for ages 12+. All welcome, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biochemist...

Just 4 days left to submit your abstract for the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 🌱 Join us in Cambridge (22–24 Sept) to share your work on plant morphogenesis — talks & posters all welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 March 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Don’t miss out! #SLS26 #PlantScience #plantsci

How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️ New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift doi.org/10.1098/rsif... @royalsociety.org

📣 Call for abstracts from global #plantsci community working on plant development! ⏰ Abstracts close in 7 days (due Monday 30 March) Registration fees due later (15 June) Register at: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...

Grateful for the opportunity to work with two of my mentors on this Opinion in Trends in Plant Science. A meaningful milestone—now I can say I have an Opinion. @dromius.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social

Sometimes you come across a study which you quickly realise it is going to have a big impact. The last week published study "A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution" in science I think is one of those. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃 Its that time again... introducing our next set of Invited Speakers for Photosynthesis 2026 🌱 🌿 Join us in Liverpool this July 🌿 ⏰️ Abstract submission for oral presentations closes 31st March Find out more 👉 photosynthesis2026.com #plantscience #ICPR26 🧵1/7

Reminder: 2 weeks left to submit your #SLS26 abstract Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis 22-24 September 2026 | Cambridge UK | In-person and online live-stream of talks Full details at: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls #plantsci

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026! 🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series! 🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u Please repost!🙏

Register Now! #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 22-24 Sept 2026 | Cambridge, UK Theme - Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! If you are into Plant Development - join us! In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

Powerful new protocol from @kathschiessl.bsky.social's lab to trigger & visualise earliest stages of symbiotic root nodule formation in Medicago truncatula — no genetic reporters needed means broad species application! Protocol: doi.org/10.1016/j.xp... Summary: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-pro...

🤩🤩🤩Soooo Happy to be selected for the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting in Halle, Germany (April 2026). Looking forward to great science, honest career conversations, and the Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium. 🌱💃🤩 #ECR #EarlyPostdoc #DBG #IBPSymposium2026

Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

Position: Business & Operations Manager Where: @slcuplants.bsky.social Cambridge UK Wide-ranging leadership role with an internationally recognised institute for plant developmental biology research. Based in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social & 5-min from Cambridge Station www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/busines...

Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form 📅 22–24 Sept 2026 In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls #plantsi

Excellent editor's summary from @maddyseale.bsky.social on research showing how ribosome methylation affects vascular cell fate in xylem tissue - whether cells become water conducting vessels or parenchyma cells for storage. Research summary: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-pla...

How plants control fleshy & woody tissue growth🥕🪵 Ykä Helariutta’s labs at @slcuplants.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi reveal how plants fine-tune xylem development to balance growth — with big implications for crops and forestry 📜@science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ℹ️ shorturl.at/YLnUw

Our model of wheat circadian clock based on our finding that orthlogues of ELF3 (Arabidopsis evening complex gene) peak at dawn in the cereals. TOC1 repression of ELF3 explains the different behaviours of Arabidopsis & wheat circadian clocks doi.org/10.1098/rsif... #plantresearch 🧪

Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

It's been a great experience, feel free to message me if you have questions :).

Launch your own independent research group! 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social 📆 Apply by 30 Jan 2026 More info: 👉 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/careers/grou... Job details: 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s... Please share this post #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

In preprints: understanding leaf form for better crop designs Neha Bhatia from @slcuplants.bsky.social discusses two preprints on soybean leaf development by Chancelor Clark & colleagues and Bishal Tamang & colleagues doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Explore gene expression evolution across organs in seven flowering plant species via our interactive atlas: 🖥️ DevSeq Plant WebApp 👉 www.devseqplant.org/index.php 📂 All datasets are openly available for reuse and reanalysis: 👉 github.com/schustischus...

Now speaking is Ho-Wei Wu of @slcuplants.bsky.social about imaging of circadian gene expression in live growing root tips

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s... #plantscijobs 1/4🧵

🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨 Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬 Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD Pls share #plantscijobs 1/3🧵