Saying goodbye to my MSci Biological Sciences tutees after 4 years of being their tutor 🥲 they have both done amazing and I’m sure they will have a bright future. Stay in touch!

#EidMubarak  to everyone that celebrates. This year, a few weeks ago, my group and I fasted for a day in support of the Muslims members. It was a fantastic but really tough experience. We learnt a lot about Ramadan and at 6.02 pm we celebrated our efforts with a lovely dinner 🥘

🔉🔉New article alert! We wrote a commentary on the article by Bredow et al "Elevated CO₂: a double-edged sword for plant defence against pathogens" doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Bredow et al: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Check them both out in the new issue of @newphyt.bsky.social

Photo of the Day. Allies.

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT! We demonstrate priming of defence in oak seedlings with different elicitors. BABA is the most effective, could we use this approach in tree nurseries to protect young oaks from powdery mildew? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌳 @uktreescapes.bsky.social

Fully Funded PhD opportunity in my group! 125th Anniversary PhD Scholarship at @unibirmingham @UoBbiosciences studying (epi)genome plasticity in oaks at the @BIFoRUoB FACE facilities. Black & Black mixed heritage students (UK/Home-fee eligible) 30 April 2025 – RT🙏 More info👇

This week it was #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 🔬 It was great to work with @drelunadiez.bsky.social of @unibirmingham.bsky.social to highlight her work to understand the priming of defence in forest trees🌳 Learn more: ow.ly/e4eP50UVNNe

Warmer summers are causing European beeches to produce seed more often, depleting the trees’ stored resources—an indirect effect of climate change that is threatening the sustainability of Europe’s most widespread forest tree. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪

I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

Winter graduation at Uni of Birmingham and two MRes students have celebrated their achievements 🙌 congrats George and Cameron

On my way to Innsbruck (Austria) to visit Ilse Kramer and talk all about trees and climate change 🌳

Congratulations Max for passing your PhD viva yesterday! ☺️ I’m very proud, and wish you the best of luck for your exciting postdoc position in Zurich! Thanks to Steven Spoel and @drelunadiez.bsky.social for examining, and @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social for chairing 🌱🧬 🎉

📢 New paper published in New Phytologist with our work in tomato & priming mobile signals. Katie Stevens’ PhD project so very proud of this work 💪 Thank you to all the co-authors 🍅 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...