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🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you curious about plant mitochondria and their role in regulating cell responses to stress?🔬 Join Olivier Keech's group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social as postdoctoral fellow! Find more information here👇 and apply! www.umu.se/en/work-with... #PlantSciJobs

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Attending #ICAR2025 and wondering what to do under the hot weather of Gent? Come and join us at 4pm (Refectory at STAM) for a chill session on how do cells talk to each other? 🧪🧬🔬🤓 @pdchristine.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @matiasgleason.bsky.social @rebeccaburkart.bsky.social

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🧪🌾Are you at #ICAR2025 and interested in cell-to-cell communication? Listen to our group leader @pmarhavy.bsky.social this afternoon! He will talk about how H+ drives ultra-fast root-to-root responses to wounding. Take also a look here for more info about his research: www.upsc.se/researchers/...

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📣 Looking for a PhD position? Join the research group of @stephanevrg.bsky.social at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @umeauniversitet.bsky.social! 🔬 But hurry up: the application deadline is approaching next week on June 26! P.S.: Stéphane is around at the #ICAR2025.🧪🌾

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📣 Join us for a Plant Physiology webinar on July 17 on "Numeracy, Realism and Relevance in Plant Science", featuring Andrew Hanson, Samuel Lovat, Jonathan Napier, & Claudia Vickers discussing how to "run the numbers" to identify realistic solutions to today's problems.👉 blog.aspb.org/july-17-plan...

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🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts! Plant Computational Biology Workshop Open to researchers at all levels Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation 📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

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PAPER - Which factors link energy metabolism to plant development? Markus Schmid's group investigated several alleles in the flower regulator gene HUA2 and their connection to flowering & carbohydrate signalling. Read more in their recent article in @plantphys.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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🧪🌾Sweet science: At our yesterday's UPSC Midsummer Lecture Totte Niittylä and @johanneshanson.bsky.social talked about their recent research on plant sugar & energy metabolism. To keep our energy levels up, we celebrated afterwards with the traditional Swedish Princess Cake. Not much of it survived👇

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Looking for a new PhD student to join the lab! Please share!

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REVIEW - What is the mechanistic link between auxin signaling and cell wall dynamics in shaping plant cells? Vinod Kumar et al from the @srobertgroup.bsky.social explore this link in their recent review published last week in @pplplantarum.bsky.social. Follow the below link 👇 to find the article!

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🧪🌾VACANCY - Do you have a PhD in structural biology, biophysics or biochemistry? Apply for this postdoctoral fellowship in Johannes Messinger's group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social and anlayse cryo-EM structures of photosystem II: www.umu.se/en/work-with... #PlantSciJobs

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🧪🌾Join the FASEB conference on "Mechanisms of Plant Development"! Our two group leaders, @laurabacete.bsky.social & @srobertgroup.bsky.social, will talk there. Follow these links to get an idea about their research: L. Bacete: www.upsc.se/researchers/... S. Robert: www.upsc.se/researchers/...

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🧪🌾INTERVIEW - Intrigued by the idea of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in conifer needles, Tinkara Bizjak-Johansson studied microbial communities in boreal forests.🧫 On Thursday, she will defend her PhD thesis at SLU. Would you like to know more? Read this interview with her👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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✈️ JXB75 Travel Grants are now LIVE on the website ✈️ 📢 Calling all ECRs attending the #JXB75 Symposium – apply now for travel support! 👉 More info here: sebiology.org/events... 🧪 #PlantScience @sebiology.bsky.social

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🧪🌾NEWS - Are you working with long non-coding RNAs and genomics?🧬 Jian-Feng Mao's group @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & colleagues have developed PlantLncBoost, a new computational tool that allows to identify such RNAs in plants with over 96% accuracy. Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

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VACANCY - Would you like to study photosynthetic water oxidation during your PhD?🧪 Join Johannes Messinger's group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social and work on a project bridging biophysics and molecular biology! Read more here👇: www.umu.se/en/work-with... #PlantSciJobs

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Many thanks for the interest and opportunity to introduce on Swedish national TV, our recent research and great potential of using circadian clock work in adapting trees to different latitudes and climates ⏰🌳 #Treegrowth #circadian #daylight #TV4 www.tv4.se/artikel/7Lot...

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Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂 sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...

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👏 Congratulations to @laurabacete.bsky.social!🧪🌾 She is one of eight new members that have been elected to @sverigesungaakademi.se and the first one from @umeaplantsciencecentre.se joining the academy. Interested to know more about her motivation? Read this interview: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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🧪🌾PAPER - What happens on the molecular and cellular level when plants are wounded? 🔬 Xuemin Ma et al from @pmarhavy.bsky.social's group studied early responses of Ca2+ and plant hormones and the interactions between them after wounding. Read more in @emboreports.org: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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Join @stephanevrg.bsky.social research group as a PhD student and study how plant cells adhere to each other! We are looking for a proactive team player with experience in cell and molecular biology and microscopy. Apply and join us at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social!

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🧪🌾VACANCY - Do you have experience in cell and molecular biology and microscopy and are looking for a PhD?🔬 Join the multidisciplinary research group of @stephanevrg.bsky.social and study how plant cells adhere to each other. Learn more here 👇 and apply! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

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👏 🧪 Congratulations to our former PhD students Varvara Dikaya, Nabila El Arbi and @sanchalinanda.bsky.social who officially received their doctoral insignia during the Spring Graduation Ceremony @umeauniversitet.bsky.social on Saturday - joining a 400 year old Swedish tradition 🎉!

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🔬 Calling all wet-lab biologists and technicians interested in NGS multiomic library preparation! Apply by 7 July to join the EMBL course 'NicE-RNA sequencing for multiomics on open chromatin and transcription' 👉 https://s.embl.org/neb25-01-bl 📅 29 Sep – 2 Oct #EMBLNicESeq

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🧪🌾NEWS - A new research project led by Olivier Keech and funded by The Kamprad Family Foundation aims at transforming leftovers of organic materials into high-quality animal feed to improve circularity and reduce the carbon footprint of food production.🧫 Read more here👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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Last week, UPSC Director Ove Nilsson presented our tree phenotyping platform to the Swedish Minister for Climate and the Environment Romina Pourmokhtari and talked about modern tree breeding techniques. Look here for some impressions from her visit (text in Swedish only): www.slu.se/ew-nyheter/2...

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An amazing opportunity in forest related research - the Young Researchers’ Challenge, at the 2025 Marcus Wallenberg Prize www.mwp.org/young-resear...

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🧬🧪 PAPER - Providing a valuable resource for studying the origin of angiosperms 🌾 Jian-Feng Mao's research group newly assembled a near-gapless telomere-to-telomere Amborella genome. Read more in the Journal of Genetics and Genomics @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.jg...

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🧬 🌾VACANCY - Do you have experience in bioinformatics or genomics and are looking for a postdoc?🧪 Join Jian-Feng Mao's research group at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social and develop future AI tools for genomic analyses! Read more here👇 and apply: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

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🗓️ Planning your 2025 conference schedule? 📍 Join us in beautiful Edinburgh this September! 👉 bit.ly/JXB75 We’re thrilled to announce a stellar lineup of invited speakers 🌟 But that’s not all… #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social 🧵(1/5)

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🧪🌾 Today, Totte Niittylä gave his inauguration lecture as Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He studies how carbon is used by plants e.g. for growth, focussing on wood formation. Take a look on this video to learn more about Totte's research: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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🧪🌾 INTERVIEW - Becoming a docent: our group leaders Peter Kindgren & Peter Marhavý @pmarhavy.bsky.social have fulfilled the final requirement this week. What motivated them to continue in academia and what do they enjoy about their work? Read more here👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on May 23 at 10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/aA7HlDF #plantscience

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Coming up in a few short hours! Online info session on ERC research funding possibilities for researchers in USA and Canada. 12:00 PM Eastern / 9:00 AM Pacific / 6:00 PM CEST. Register 👉 europa.eu/!gX3Dgv

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We are looking forward to listening to your talk, Mingyuan Zhu!

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A new opportunity for non-EU researchers to come to Sweden for up to a year as visiting researchers, fully funded. We hope to see some of these researchers coming to Umeå! Check it out: www.vr.se/english/appl...

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🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨 Plant Energy Management Special Issue Closing Tomorrow! 🌱⚡🏭 We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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🧪🌾PAPER - How is water delivered to the Mn4CaO5 cluster in Photosystem II?🔬 The Messinger group used single-site mutations and mass spectrometry to reveal through which ways water reaches the cluster. Read more in Photosynthesis Research @springernature.com: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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🧬 Happy #DNADay! Celebrate the double helix and the future of genomics 🙌🏼 Catch the latest breakthroughs at upcoming genetics conferences: 🔬 'Gene regulation: one molecule at a time' 💡 'The epitranscriptome' 🔍 'The mobile genome' ...and more! ➡️ https://www.embl.org/events/ #DNA #Genomics

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IceLab affiliate Maria E. Eriksson was recently interviewed on swedish radio station #P4Västerbotten about the circadian clock of trees and how they might be adjusted to deal with climate change. The study was part of IceLab-Kempe multidisciplinary postdoc Bertold Mariën's research with Maria.

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