PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

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

New paper - led by Isabella Østerlund Rho-GTPase overexpression can impact the development of cell shape and airspace structure in Arabidopsis. These genetic changes can also reduce photosynthesis, due to lower mesophyll conductance nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

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...

Pleased to see our perspective on the C3 model of photosynthesis published. It was fun revisiting the science behind it. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Honouring the life of Sir John Gurdon, who died earlier this week: awarded the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for seminal work carried out in Oxford Zoology (now @biology.ox.ac.uk) showing that mature cells could be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

📢Closing on Monday: Associate Professor of Molecular Cell Biology But if you thought you had missed out... 🎉Extended till 22nd October: Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour Join us in the new state-of-the-art Life and Mind Building 👇 bit.ly/488CNW3

Interested in a 4 year fully funded PhD, based at Lancaster @lancasteruni.bsky.social and working with other Universities via NorthWestBio? Does that interest include photosynthesis and/or plant engineering? Well, step right up! Open to UK & non-UK people, 2026 projects include 3 I am a part of:

@marjorielundgren.bsky.social has a project in partnership with Nick Birse at Queen's University Belfast, looking into climate change impacts on nutritional quality in different crops, and how this could be linked to photosynthetic type. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Fantastic oppurtunity for a PhD project centred around the activity and regulation of my personal favourite enzyme Rubisco, with an awesome supervisor @ecarmosilva.bsky.social, and supported by the Gatsby Foundation. @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Introducing a new metabolic cycle - the McG cycle - into Arabidopsis to convert 3PG to acetyl coA. This then feeds into endogenous lipid synthesis increasing plant lipids, seed yield and biomass. Out this week in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Super proud of @zoeweeks.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this work. We were honoured to be selected as a research highlight - see our interview here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

@tinaschreier.bsky.social has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for research into the cell biology of C4 photosynthesis 🌱 Tina’s project will explore the cell biology that leads to the formation of specialised bundle sheath cells in C4 plants 👇 bit.ly/4mWFGhh

I'm beyond thrilled to receive an ERC Starting grant for our CELL4 project, to dive into the fascinating cell biology of bundle sheath cells in the C4 grass Sorghum!! 🌱 @erc.europa.eu @biology.ox.ac.uk Image credit to my talented PhD student Kornelija Aleksejeva

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

Paper 🚨!! Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations, Julian - so very well deserved!! 🥳

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

Hi everyone! I’m a #NewPI just starting my lab and would love to hear your advice on lab management and building the lab culture. Any tips, lessons learned, or resources you’ve found helpful are very welcome! Feel free to reply, message me, or email me at rcastellsg(at)cnio.es thanks a lot!! 🤗

Please share. 🙏 I'm searching for an RA to join my group this fall. 1-year fixed term, with the possibility for extension depending on funding. Suitable to a post-bacc or masters interested in plant genomes, epigenetics, or reproductive biology. DM, email, or comment with questions.

At #EISingleCell25, we're bringing together researchers who are curious about applying #singlecell and #spatial technologies, with leading experts working across a range of systems. 📆 Register to join by 18 May: buff.ly/7e7XXsG @biouea.bsky.social

Exciting postdoc opportunity in #plantscience! 🌾 Join the fantastic @lluginbuehl.bsky.social group to work at the cutting edge of plant-fungal symbioses research in a brilliant department @camplantsci.bsky.social

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

📜 Glucosinolates can act as signals to modulate intercellular trafficking via plasmodesmata 🧑‍🔬 Jessica C. Fernandez, Mohammad F. Azim, Tessa M. Burch-Smith, et al. 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata #Glucosinolates #PlantMetabolites

🌿 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

Cool paper by He Zhang et.al. Polarized pectin accumulation regulates differential hypocotyl elongation at the dark-to-light transition: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Time to expand your vision! 👀🌱 Our latest work on ExM in plants is out Back-to-back with the Danzl 's lab (@ISTAustria) led by Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social with @monica-bic.bsky.social and @gmaucort.bsky.social from the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social . academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

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

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

WE’RE HIRING! Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽 The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition. Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/

Super excited to be launching NimbusImage.com! Cloud-based image analysis to democratize machine learning! Documentation here! docs.nimbusimage.com

Nicola Patron, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Her group use synthetic biology approaches to investigate plant gene expression & metabolism. Of Trinidadian descent, Nicola was born and educated in the U.K. Full profile: buff.ly/3EWYWKs

In this interview, Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social talks about her research in stomatal development, her role as an Editor at Development, and how her passion for comparative biology has influenced her career: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204667

Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉 Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT. Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...

free access to the article authors.elsevier.com/a/1keMA_278y...

We are thrilled to announce RIPE’s new leadership duo! Lisa Ainsworth is our Director & Elizabete Carmo-Silva is our Deputy Director! Both Lisa & Elizabete have been with the project for years & we look forward to what we can accomplish under their guidance. Full announcement here: bit.ly/42UuCtW

Shocking and appalling Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A curious, modest man with an encyclopaedic knowledge. No ego but a quiet self-confidence that inspired many. No doubt many publications in the coming years will report innovative ideas that he thought of decades ago….