🌱🔬Save the date for the second webinar in this series: Thursday 16 July at 15:00 BST. Updates will appear on our webpage or you can sign up to our FocalPlane features... mailing list to stay up-to-date with the latest information. focalplane.biologists.com/macro-to-mic...

New paper from former postdoc Yan Bao published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

If you ever wondered about the history and current state of plant Clathrin-mediated endocytosis....here is a review just for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Was really fun to write this with awesome co-authors! ⚽️🌱🔬

I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my team to work on the interplay between endocytosis and autophagy. The 3-year project runs in collaboration with the Dagdas lab @plantophagy.bsky.social and can start asap. Interested candidates can apply via the link below. jobs.vib.be/apply/134365

We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...

🌱🔬If you’re a plant biologist using imaging in your research, check back with us on Monday for an exciting announcement! @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social #teaser #plantbiology #microscopy

Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

😲 A limestone cave in Western Australia where the Karri tree 🌳roots extend the whole height of the massive cavern in search of nutrients and water. Xero branching in action! 📷💪

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’ Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu Please check out the website and apply there Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

A huge thank you to Joe, Alex, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together an absolutely amazing community in plant imaging 🌱🔬 in the stunning Sussex countryside.

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #plantscijobs #plantscience

Anybody tried any mScarlet3 antibodies on a western blot and got any recommendations? Cheers!

🥬 Supported by a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, researcher Jamie Pike is connecting Earlham Institute's expertise, pipelines, and software tools with Tozer Seeds cutting-edge R&D environment to inform and develop #crop breeding. 🧬 buff.ly/sBG62Bi #agriscience #genomics #plantbreeding

Great opportunity in a fantastic new growing group! Apply apply apply!

Come work with me! I am hiring a senior research technician to help me discover novel phage genes with antibiofilm properties. We will create metagenomic libraries, program robots, sequence viral metagenomes and many more fun things. The application deadline is 02-Dec-25. shorturl.at/GErUo

Thanks!! Credits to the microscopy imaging and cool 3D reconstructions go to @joemckenna.bsky.social 😉

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed! Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

Deadline approaching: Friday 15 August Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...

Always a pleasure to engage with the many brilliant 🤩 #earlycareer researchers presenting their work at #ICAR2025 Here’s just two of them: 🤩Ann-Kathrin Rößling @uni-freiburg.de 🤩Álvaro Daniel Fernández-Fernández @ethz.ch #plantsignaling #plantimmunity #plantreceptors

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you! We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun! 🌱🔬💻🤓

Applications are now open for funded early-career researcher places at out Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'. Organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. biologists.com/workshops/fe... #Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology

🌿 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

Deeply saddened by the news that David Stephens died last night. David was an outstanding cell biologist based at Bristol whose work spanned #MembraneTraffic #cytoskeleton #ciliogenesis + more. He was “one of the good guys”. Kind, supportive, generous with his time, and rigorous about his science. 🧪