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We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱
It will be an exciting meeting!
FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
📢 Registration is OPEN for the 2025 edition of the European Research and Innovation Days #RiDaysEU!
📅 Join the ERC on 17 Sept for the session "Securing Europe’s place at the forefront of scientific discovery"
🔗 Register now 👉 t.co/nPQmG6ix1G for access & more info.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50Y...
Join us for our Natural Sciences Research Showcase! Explore the latest research and PhD innovations from across our community.
📅Thursday 11 September 2025
📌South Kensington
🎟️🥂Free entry and drinks
🚨Register now!
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...
What are the most cutting-edge methods to image complex root systems in mature trees in field conditions? Ground-penetrating radar? X-ray CT?
What resolution can we get?
Anyone working on wilder techniques?
#science #imaging #plantroots #plantscience #plantmethods #root #phenotyping #soil
Great work, Alex!
📣We're very excited to be sponsoring the first ever #PlantScience #chronobiology meeting of its kind 🕓🌱
The clock is ticking, so register here 👇
(NB. early bird registration ends March 1st):
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
Two interesting conferences, both in UK, planned for exactly the same days…
A pity!
iop.eventsair.com/pol2025/
100yearsconference.biologists.com
Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st
→ tinyurl.com/2872w6vm
The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb.
Spread the word!
🚨PhD opportunities available! 🚨
I have two open #PhDpositions in my group:
1️⃣ For international EU students (deadline in 1 week!)
2️⃣ For home-UK students
If you’re excited about synthetic cells, don’t miss out!
📄 Apply here: continilab.com/join-us/
This is an important concept to understand the dynamic interaction between plant roots and soil and among plant roots.
Excellent review on positional information in plant #RootDevelopment #RootBiology
Good for thinking, teaching, or both!
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Calling all myconauts. Excited to have joined BlueSky to share our work on the structure, trade & nutrient flows of mycorrhizal networks.
Video time lapse of root (red) & mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs
Image collection of bryophyte-rich plant communities provided by Richard Droker - highly browsable library of micro-environments
www.flickr.com/photos/wande...
Submit your abstract to #ICAR2025 by the deadlines below!
Abstract Submission deadline for 🌱Oral presentations is March 17th.
Abstract submission deadline for 🌱Poster presentations is May 1st.
Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published!
📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪
🕸️ icar2025.com
With Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year #ICAR2025 (Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025).
- How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication
web.cvent.com/event/448810...
A true milestone achieved by Sara Zenoni, her team at the University of Verona and EdiVite!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The concurrent sections and workshops for ICAR2025 are out! 🌟 bit.ly/4eUZOvf Excited to co-organize a section on Cell Wall Diversity in Development & Stress with @kaisakajala.bsky.social. We’ll select EC speakers from abstracts—submit yours! 🌱 #ICAR2025 #PlantScience
physiologiaplantarum.org/2024/11/20/t...
#PlantScience organized by Physiologia Plantarum
Interview with Liam Dolan. Learn more about Liam's career so far, and his views on plant development, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
ORCiD profile screenshot
Reminder to update the "social links" in your ORCiD profile with your Bluesky handle:
📜 The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
🧑🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones
And #PlantScience related ones can be found here:
bsky.app/profile/soms...
Shot of the UK at night from space. Credit: ESA/NASA.
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Is this for US-based only? It is a great initiative, but eligibility criteria are not very clear on the website. Maybe I missed.
Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
go.bsky.app/H3986W6
#PlantImmunity #MPMI
Hello, since the requests to be added to the #PlantScience Research #StarterPack keep coming, I have created a 2nd Pack. So, here are
Part 1:
go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7
Part 2:
go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE
Looking forward to attending the European Low Gravity Research Association #ELGRA28 symposium!
On Thursday I will be giving a short talk on root electrotropism and its possible applications in microgravity conditions.
Contact me if you go and want to chat about roots in space!
