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Very excited to see this paper out! Huge congrats to @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social, and all other authors. The Marchantia pangenome has already shown itself to be a great resource for the Marchantia community!

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Sequencing the genomes of >100 liverworts has uncovered ancient plant adaptation mechanisms, with researchers pinpointing genes linked to temperature and rainfall changes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Research summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb... @dromius.bsky.social @davidjhoey.bsky.social

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1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social I want to emphasize 5 additional points:

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Congrats to Alex Guyon for passing his viva today @slcuplants.bsky.social Really proud of him! He was doing the last experiments in the morning and now is celebrating with the examiners @lluginbuehl.bsky.social and Mahmut Tör.

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I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Seeking 4 Postdocs & 1 PhD to join €10 million multi-institution ERC Research #RESYDE project. Help unravel the complex processes of symmetry breaking in plant development using flowers as a model system. ℹ️ www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/ Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience

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Join us for our ECR Meet &Talks on Mon 20 Jan, 12pm at Hopkins Building, Dept. Biochemistry featuring 2 talks from Godwin Aleku, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kings College London and Max Josse @maxjosse.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social Sign up and more talk info here 👉 buytickets.at/engineeringb...

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Don’t miss this amazing panel discussion on the future of next-generation sequencing (NGS). I’m looking forward to it! 🌱🧬👏

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Congratulations @dromius.bsky.social who will work with partners from across the country to determine how pathogens cause crop diseases such as potato blight, supported by a £5.91m UKRI BBSRC sLoLa grant. Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/exchang... BBSRC announcement www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

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Sneak preview of the 'Senescent Generator'. A year ago Shezad Dawood visited @slcuplants.bsky.social and we talked about plants and their interactions with microbes. Some of these contributed to Shezad's new piece at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. cambridge-biomedical.com/art/senescen...

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Researchers have streamlined methods to study chloroplast & mitochondrial impacts on photosynthesis. Plants currently capture only ~1% of solar energy; optimized genetics could increase this sixfold. globalplantcouncil.org/hidden-dna-i... #PlantScience

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www.biologists.com/workshops/gl... 20 funded places for early-career researchers from the Global South

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If you are an early career lecturer/fellow, we'd love to hear what you are up to (and how we can support you)! 📚Join us (ECLBio - RSB) for a quick & friendly chat on Wednesday 11th Dec (10-10.30am) on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... Last meeting before the winter break! ❄️

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Happy #fluorescencefriday! imaging of one of our FRET #biosensors in Arabidopsis roots 🌱 From @slcuplants.bsky.social dream microscopy facility 🔬

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Feeding the world without costing the Earth Public talk by Andrew Balmford, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Date: Friday 6 December 2024 Time: 1 pm GMT Venue: Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium (47 Bateman St, Cambridge) or Zoom Zoom link cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8146558136...

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Cyanobacteria, an ancient lineage of bacteria that perform photosynthesis, have been found to regulate their genes using the same physics principle used in AM radio transmission 🦠📻♒ Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/cyanoba... #PlantScience

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📢 Tomorrow! Join us for New Phytologist Now: Stomata – with Sally Assmann and Keiko Torii. Live Q&A hosted by Hanna Hõrak. 15:30 GMT | 26 November It's free to attend! Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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We were delighted to host @zardilis.bsky.social from Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory during the past two weeks! It was a fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas on the spatial biology of plants and beyond. Interesting new methods combining expression patterns, morphometric and physical features!!

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How does cytokinin (CK) regulate and coordinate cell proliferation, differentiation and expansion? Help us find out! Join Neha Bhatia's new research group to work on unravelling how CK is shaping plant aerial organs Apply by 11 December www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49272/ #PlantScience #PlantsatCambridge

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Building our SLCU Community on @bsky.app Use this Starter Pack to help bring us together! I have not found everyone yet, so if you are a current or past SLCUer and would like to be added, please message me [Kathy] go.bsky.app/9tez1cZ #PlantScience

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I really enjoyed reading this 🤩🤩. Congrats Joseph, Leonie, and all the authors. A beautiful one. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Join in with the hashtag next Thursday! #plantscience #botany

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Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria live inside plant cells in an organ that the plant root forms for them. Do you know which plant this is? Image by Jawahar Singh pbs.twimg.com/media/Gc17CY...

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Preprint: Liverworts reproduce in two ways: gemmae are clones, spores are from sex. Marchantia strikes a reproductive decision depending on a conducive environment. We found a switch from vegetative to sexual reproduction that can respond to environmental cues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Next Thursday 28th, 6-8 pm, I will be giving a public lecture for @linneansociety.bsky.social here at Edinburgh University and live over Zoom. I will be talking about the evolution of botanical spirals! Free to attend and all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-origin...

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Hello new Plant Scientists, 2 Things: 👉 To connect to 150 Plant Science Accounts and 3 relevent feeds, here's a #StarterPack for you: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 👉 To get your #PlantScience posts into the Plant Science Research Feed (here: bsky.app/profile/did:...), always use the Hashtag #PlantScience

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New on Bluesky! Hoping it could become a nice place to follow discuss science, have people explain their publications, and see exciting job opportunities! I’m a researcher in photosynthesis and will move on to plant microbe interactions in January for a postdoc @slcuplants.bsky.social. Exciting!

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Fully funded PhD studentship with @slcuplants.bsky.social & @rbgkew.bsky.social 😍 Would you like to investigate the rewiring root regulators for rhizobia-legume symbiosis? Deadline 3 Dec ⏰ Find out more here 🔽 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/fully-f... #PlantScience

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This is an amazing resource. Love the browser that comes along with it and is really accessible. Fantastic work!

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Domesticated #Apples & their wild relatives showing variation in fruit size, shape & color! 6 Malus species: Gala (Malus domestica), M. Coronaria, M. ioensis, M. angustifolia, M. fusca from North America & Malus baccata from Asia (L to R) #GeneticDiversity #PlantGenetics #PlantBreeding

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Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

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Last few days to apply for a PhD studentship in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

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Hot off the press today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, our very latest on Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophyte’ #mycorrhizas! led by Nathan Howard, we show N source preference and exogenous C metabolism by #MFRE: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... short 🧵

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Following the highly successful 46th New Phytologist Symposium: Stomata, we present two further talks from leading scientists Sally Assmann and Keiko Torii. Register to attend New Phytologist Now online at 15:30 GMT, 26 November! Live Q&A hosted by Hanna Hõrak. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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On March 26 and 27, 2025, we will arrange the next UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium. For young researchers to present their research at UPSC and explore potential collaborative projects with UPSC group leaders. www.upsc.se/early-career...

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💬 “Our integrase-based recorder was able to clearly show the order of gene expression at a #singlecell level, with images showing when and where lateral root development was occuring,” - Dr Sarah Guiziou. 🌱 www.earlham.ac.uk/news/molecul... #PlantScience

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Aloe there 👋🏽 Here is a starter pack with Black researchers, practitioners & orgs working with plants in the broadest sense (botany, forestry, plant ecology, crop science, herbaria, botanic gardens) Hoping this will help set seed for a nurturing community! Reply 🔽 to be added go.bsky.app/7Gn2NCb

submitted 102 days ago • 14 comments

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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First steps on Bluesky. Let's see how much enthusiasm I can raise to send contributions to our upcoming focus issue on Metabolism in Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social

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🌺🎨🐝 Flowers use adjustable ‘paint by numbers’ petal designs to attract pollinators! Lucie Riglet in Edwige Moyroud's team found hibiscus establish a pre-pattern early in petal development that dictates their pattern dimensions www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/flowers... doi.org/10.1126/scia... #PlantScience

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Today is International Day of Plant Health. In this feature article, @dromius.bsky.social highlights why prioritising plant health should be at the top of every government’s policy agenda & discusses innovative strategies to bolster plant resilience www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/interna...

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What can developmental change teach us about plants? Explore the mechanisms behind plant developmental variation under evolution, domestication, environment & engineering at #SLS24 #PlantScience #DevelopmentalBiology ⏰ Abstracts close 29 APRIL 2024 ℹ️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls24

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