Plant Science Research Weekly --  Closing the gates: Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses (EMBO Reports) @pdchristine.bsky.social (Summary by Priyanka Babuta) buff.ly/mPXYRPW #PlantaePSRW

PSRW June 26 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (3/3) Cryo-EM of moss plasmodesmata; What happens after plasmodesmata close?; MAPK signaling in potato stress tolerance; Wall softening is key to snapping the Venus trap closed @madic.bsky.social @pdchristine.bsky.social @alepanda.bsky.social

VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes Closing date: 1 September 2026 Salary: competitive Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Check out our latest pre-print on the evolution of TIR activity/signalling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Emma Turley started her PhD expecting the effector ChEC108 would aid Colletotrichum establish infection, but she instead discovered that when it makes it's way to plasmodesmata it's bound by host HIPP6, triggering PD closure and impeding infection. #PlantScience

An exciting opportunity to join Dr Schreier's new group as a postdoctoral researcher is open for applications until 15 June 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

NEWS - New group leader to shed light on supercharged photosynthesis We are pleased to announce that Dr Tina Schreier will join the John Innes Centre as a tenure-track Group Leader in July 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/news/new-gro...

Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses! Turns out cells are generally better off with connections to their neighbours. This manuscript represents a decade-long team collaboration, with heroic effort from Estee Tee to lead it over the line! #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

Two calcium doughnuts... 🍩🍩

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international and local speakers. ⏰ APPLY by 30 March '26 New keynote speakers ⬇️

📣Special Issue - call for papers📣 ‘Plant Vascular Biology: Functional Design for Transport and Signaling’🌱 Organising Editors: Koh Aoki, Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social, Yrjö Helariutta, Yuki Kondo & Misato Ohtani 📝More info & contact: academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/Sp... #PlantScience

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

Our Plant Proteins meeting has begun! Starting the day with his 2025 Early Career Research Award Lecture, Dr Tatsuya Nobori discussed the development of PHYTOMap, a novel method for multiplexed single-cell 3D spatial gene expression analysis in whole-mount plant tissues.

You can ask my students about how annoying the fist pumping and/or welling up after their conference talks gets. 😬

Today for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity? #wheat #spikelet #development biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social. 🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

This is a fantastic talk by Chris Hawes @nhm-london.bsky.social. He speaks about #PlantMicroscopy in particular, but also the History of #Microscopy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFZ... Have a look at this Obituary of Chris, too: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us! Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday. (*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)

**GROUP LEADER VACANCY** Discovery Plant Sciences Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us! #johninnescentre #plantscijobs

So exciting to see greater resoluton of features long hinted at - another leap in our understanding of these enigmatic structures! #Plasmodesmata

JIC GROUP LEADER VACANCY We're looking for interests in areas including, but not limited to, growth and development, environmental and organism interactions, physiology, signalling and molecular processes, taking quantitative cell biological, genetic, biochemical and modelling approaches.

VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now with a Research Briefing: "Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data" rdcu.be/eiWOU

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience

An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience

That is a huuuge deal! That might change the view on what a mobile RNA is. Congrats to the authors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uni-hamburg.de @johninnescentre.bsky.social

NEWS - Deep dive into plant signalling data reveals a noisy “elephant in the room.” A far-reaching study has cast doubt on statistical methods used to identify long distance signalling networks in plants. okt.to/UFqTgO

We need to talk about mobile RNAs... SNP-based analysis of transcriptomic datasets are subject to technical noise, incomplete genome assemblies and pseudoheterozygosity so it seems like we don't know as much as we thought we knew. #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

I'm searching for nice Arabidopsis Col-0 chromatin datasets (modification agnostic), eg MNase-seq, DNase-seq, ATAC-seq. Does anyone have any favourite datasets you could point to?

The Faulkner lab thesis rainbow is coming along nicely!

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...