Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...

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

Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!

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

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

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...

With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video. Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!

Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell? The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade. #2025ISMPMI

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants. #2025ISMPMI

Full circle moment for me at #2025ISMPMI: the Congress started out in #Bielefeld where I did my undergrad in biochemistry!

#2025ISMPMI turnout is massive!!!!

Really lovely talk with great insights into scientific mentoring. Obvs also love the puns 😂

Really cool start of a week of conference yesterday at #OMGN2025. I learned so much about oomycetes and got to present our some of our work studying its interaction with Marchantia. Looking forward a free morning in Cologne and to #2025ISMPMI starting later today!

First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI! @ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social

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!)

Beautiful microscopy from Alex leading to exciting insights on the interface membranes between plants & pathogens/symbionts! #plantscience #plantmicrobeinteractions

Excitingly, we also made it on the cover of the current issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social with some of my #microscopy images checking for #immunofluorescence signal of FLAG-tagged cytochrome c6A in #chlamydomonas!

Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae? Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.

Had a lovely time at the #FestivalofPlants @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on Saturday showcasing our research @slcuplants.bsky.social. Spot me at the stereoscope looking at flowers and of course #Marchantia! Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics Science is political. For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.

Preprint! w/ C. Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell, G.Evans,F.Fercoq,P.Kenrick & A.Ferrari An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging @slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr

Some cool footage from @slcuplants.bsky.social (and some of my Marchantia plates too :p) and great explanations from May and Isaac about our exhibit at #ChelseaFlowerShow (Unfortunately only on Twitter…) x.com/cambridge_un...

Hehe, more footage from #ChelseaFlowerShow!

A real joy to represent @slcuplants.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social’s research group at the #ChelseaFlowerShow today! Got to tell many plant enthusiasts about our research into plant-microbe interactions and why #Marchantia is a cool model. Also, our pollinator patch was liked by bees and people!

We are thrilled to have been awarded a silver-gilt medal at our first Chelsea Flower Show! 🪻 An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre! #RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Very excited to go and present what we’re doing at SLCU on Wednesday morning! I’m really impressed with the exhibit, chapeau to all the organisers and building crew!

Our exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is open! Come and see what Sainsbury Laboratory scientists get up to and have a go at: 🐝 seeing like a bee using a mini-UV camera 🌺 photographing a flower under a scanning electron microscope 💪 discovering how plants move without muscles

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social speaking to the New Scientist podcast about the @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social event last Tuesday, tune in from 8:52.

Really great to see that Pippa came to see @christophebourges.bsky.social at parliament on Tuesday! #BringScirnceToPolitics

We’re very excited to announce that the #nonseedUK25 meeting will be held in Norwich on 12th December 2025. For now, please save the date and more details will follow. Enormous thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for organising this year’s meeting 😃

Here we are about to BRING SCIENCE TO POLITICS Thank you to the ~200 scientists who have joined us today, many of whom are in Parliament RIGHT NOW, speaking with politicians. More updates to follow 📸 by Denise Laura Baker

Great speeches by expert scientists, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and Sir David King, the former UK chief scientific advisor. Politics must act on facts. This is especially important when it comes to the #climatecrisis. #bringsciencetopolitics

On my way to London! Are you a scientist? You can still join, for any or all of the day 🤓

🥼 LET'S BRING SCIENCE TO POLITICS 🥼 Join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, @davegoulson.bsky.social, @robinince.bsky.social, Sir David King & 140+ scientists to rally at Parliament, urging that policy be informed by science ⁉️ Info: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025 🥼 Pledge to join: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

This @inaturalist.bsky.social project was on last week and the results are so impressive (and exciting to scroll through). Have a look at what wonders of nature people have observed in just one weekend: www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

Read & RP. New preprint by Alex Gavrin from his time in our team - Inactivation of Medicago Glucan binding protein 1 (GBP1) offers: An approach to enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This analysis from @nature.com should worry all Americans and is worth a scroll through for everyone that likes timeline graphs. #standupforscience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌡️ As the Climate & Nature Emergency escalates, we desperately need our government to be informed by, and to act on, science! So scientists we invite YOU to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and over 100 others on May 13! ⁉️ Info: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025 🥼 Join: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

🎥 Behind the Build: #GreenSTEM at #RHSChelsea 🌿🔧 Step inside the workshop of @eng.cam.ac.uk as they bring our GreenSTEM exhibit to life for #RHSChelsea Stay tuned as we combine plant biology research, engineering & design to show how nature and numbers go hand-in-hand. 💡🌱 @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

The heat is on — literally! With just 5 weeks to go until the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, our model plants are soaking up the sun 🌿🌞 with a little help from our very hardworking red watering can 💚💧 Let the countdown begin! 🌸🧪🌱 #RHSChelseaFlowerShow #GreenSTEM #Science #PlantScience

I will join this event and urge every scientist to join us! In times of misinformation, it’s important for us scientists to develop relationships with our political representatives to make sure that science is the basis for political decision making! Do reach out if you have any questions!

I brought back the dire lotus from extinction by using CRISPR in Arabidopsis! Same Arabidopsis thaliana species, just four mutations..

I was looking at some antheridiophores this morning. They are the male sexual reproductive structures of Marchantia. A little flower-esque, right? Might be close enough to fit some Marchantia on the stand of @slcuplants.bsky.social at the Chelsea Flower Show in May 🤓

We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built #Science #Biology #CellBiology #PlantScience #CellWall #ResearchInnovation

Congrats to @scaralbi.bsky.social again for publishing this exciting study! I’m glad I could contribute 🤓

I'm pretty new to working with #Marchantia, but have had the pleasure to look at it on different scales over the last few weeks. A, outside my home. B, Gemma. C, Gemmaling looking like Triceratops. D & E, Line expressing mCitrine under a stereoscope and confocal microscope, respectively.