How do you quantify cell structures which are deformed between different observations? Our preprint shows how to perform Simultaneous QUAntification of Structure and Structural Heterogeneity (SQUASSH) on 3D fluorescence microscopy data. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In Brief: @ukparliament.parliament.uk publishes draft legislation that will enable a new regulatory system to allow precision-bred plants in England www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/esacS

The natural metabolic activity of Exiguobacterium R2567 can incidentally influence plant development by mimicking strigolactone signaling pathways Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We are looking for an intern to join the Biofoundry team!

Recommend this workshop if you’re at #ICAR2025- I learnt a lot at similar workshops when I was an emerging academic - and who better to run this than Mary?

📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197 ⁩ For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

We are hiring at Phytoform Labs! Seeking two Senior Scientist roles (sponsorship options) and one technician. Check out the job descriptions/application at the link below. If you're interested or know someone who might be a great fit, please apply or share the word! www.phytoformlabs.com/careers

A beautiful day to visit @ipmtom.bsky.social @harperadamsuni.bsky.social with Trevor and Sereen for our CSFB project. It is such a friendly and welcoming campus and looking forward to today's discussions

Do check out our #PeerReview workshop at SEB 2025! Also covering reviewer recognition and the future of peer review. #EarlyCareerResearcher #ECR @sebiology.bsky.social

Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium 🌱 We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network 🌳 There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs 🌾 Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75 #plantscience 🧪

This post is now online, for full details on how to apply please see: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...

A great tribute to David Stevens, a terrific cell biologist and missed by so many of his friends and colleagues. As they say 'one of the good guys'. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social #PlantScience

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social #PlantScience

I just received a gorgeous book in the mail written by the amazing Dr. Amanda Rasmussen @razda5.bsky.social. "What to grow for a climate resilient garden" ("Plant phys for gardeners") 💚 It's beautifully written, coherently organized, & stunningly illustrated by Ana Moguš. @quercusbooks.bsky.social

I am thrilled that our paper, which is packed with our 10 years of data on the venom proteins of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, has just been published! Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Have a look to this extroardinary opportunity

Discover our animal sessions for Antwerp 2025 🐰🙊🐭: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... The abstract submission deadline is Midnight (GMT) on Friday 7 March 2025. Submit now: sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our sessions: sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Discover our plant sessions for Antwerp 2025 🌵🍅🌿 sebiology.org/events/seb-a... The abstract submission deadline is Midnight (GMT) on Friday 7 March 2025. Submit now: sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our sessions: sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Discover our Cell sessions for Antwerp 2025 sebiology.org/events/seb-a... The abstract submission deadline is Midnight (GMT) on Friday 7 March 2025. Submit now: sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our sessions: sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

We have great workshops for Antwerp 2025, do not miss them: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... The abstract submission deadline is Midnight (GMT) on Friday 7 March 2025. Submit now: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our sessions: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Check out our OED sessions for Antwerp 2025: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... The abstract submission deadline is Midnight (GMT) on Friday 7 March 2025. Submit now: sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our sessions: sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Join Johannes at the #SEBconference in Antwerp. Submit your abstract now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... More information about the event 📷http://www.sebiology.org/events/seb-annual-conference-antwerp-2025.html

Join Ros at the #SEBconference in Antwerp. Submit your abstract now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Book your place now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... More information about the event ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

And that’s a wrap! What a fantastic meeting #PlantSciEd in Lancaster turned out to be! So many rich discussions, and lovely to meet new people as well as catch up with old friends. Watch this space for meeting outputs, including potential Manifesto for Plant Biology Education

Just a few more days left to apply for this PhD with me working on Vibrio bacterial dormancy in the River Teign and Conwy. Check out details below 👇 #ExeterMarine @exetermarine.bsky.social #MicroSky

Another fantastic post doc opportunity to study the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock, this time in in the wonderful Kovacs lab in Leiden @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG #chronobiology

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” ― President Carter

New preprint from the team by @karimaelm.bsky.social @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social @baptistebio.bsky.social @fabianvanbeveren.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

Blue light inhibition of hypocotyl elongation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reflecting on recent events and times ahead at our lab lunch today. It was a real pleasure to slow down and enjoy a little time together.

Cool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

There's less than a week to apply for this plant cell biology and plant pathology PhD opportunity with me and Imogen Sparkes. Please RT and pass on to motivated candidates!

There's less than a week to apply for this plant cell biology and plant pathology PhD opportunity with me and Imogen Sparkes. Please RT and pass on to motivated candidates!

Just one month left to apply for this PhD position. Please RT and pass on to motivated candidates!

Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!

Tired and satisfied, travelling back from an exciting @sebiology.bsky.social Council meeting. Antwerp 2025 is looking great and lots of plans and member opportunities coming up thanks to a great team and hard work!

We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 (SOMC25), taking place in Glasgow from 23rd July – 1st August 2025. No previous experience in microscopy necessary! Please find more details at shorturl.at/98lXJ, deadline 17 January 2025.

We are looking for fresh samples of Monstera rust. If you find it, send me a message. #plantpathogens #plantpathology

Marasmius hudsonii- Holly Parachute 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

A reminder to register for the 2nd webinar on #cyanide in #cassava and neurological issues in children in DR Congo. Last time we had people from 51 different countries! 🌾🧪

Repurposing large-format microarrays for scalable spatial transcriptomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fully-funded PhD studentship (UK & International) is available in my group on Multi-Scale Imaging of Host-Pathogen Interactions to Characterise the Effects of Anti-Infective Therapeutics. More information at shorturl.at/TrrMD, apply at shorturl.at/LCaRX. Deadline 6th January, DM for more details.

Absolutely thrilled to have won the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Individual #EinsteinFoundationAward. Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.

📣 PhD opportunity at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Norwich, UK. "Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus" with Dr Frank Menke and Nick Talbot @FrankMenke.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social Apply before 25 Nov 2024! ⬇️ biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...

What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

PhD opportunity with Glen Wheeler, Helen Findlay and me Based at the MBA, with University of Plymouth and @plymouthmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

SWBio DLA (www.swbio.ac.uk) has some very groovy PhD projects advertised, including one with me, Imogen Sparkes, Jim Fouracre & @discontinuedap.bsky.social: Developmental specificity of subcellular responses to plant fungal infection. Get in touch if you are interested! #plantpathology #plantcell