Very exciting news!
European Parliament votes to ease regulation of gene-edited crops | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Dr. Emmanuelle Graciet and I have a competitive PhD research project available to apply for through the Hume Scholarships titled 'Evolutionary conservation of transcription factor paralogs with pleiotropic activities in plants'. maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-resea… (1/3)

Check out our new preprint with Ailbhe Brazel @PlantChromatin on measuring photosynthesis by infrared gas exchange analysis (IRGA). With over 100 h of IRGA we present a robust method to analyse atmospheric carbon assimilation of 10 d-old seedlings & (1/3) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had such a fantastic time at the SciFest national finals on Friday. Such high calibre work and boundless passion for science-was a treat to see. Congrats to all who participated-you are all winners! 🏆 SciFest4stem

So much fun last night teaching everyone about genetics and epigenetic regulation-the music of life! Huge thanks to Diarmuid O'Maoileidigh and Alanna Foran for the huge help and Grainne Deery from Froebel Department for the instruments. Looking forward to next year! Maynooth Biology

It's all kicking off soon MU Biology -Science night tonight 6-9pm! 🙌🙌

Article in this mornings The Irish Times 'More than a third of teaching staff in higher education institutions consider their employment to be precarious with many saying they are not paid out of term and will have to leave the sector to find permanent jobs.' ow.ly/Zecl50PVpM9

I'm delighted to see our article 'AGAMOUS mediates timing of guard cell formation during gynoecium development' published PLOS Genetics. I started this work as Humboldt fellow in George Coupland's group in 2015. Although it was only a bit part focus (1/3) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

So nice to see our recent work highlighted by ASPB in their recent newsletter as the Plant Direct Journal article of the week! 🎉

#ASPBPlantDirectWednesday #ICYMI

It was great to host a symposium on Plant Molecular Mechanisms in the Noel Murphy seminar room Maynooth Biology Maynooth University. Quite a wide variety of research going on in a relatively small community. We had 8 excellent talks and plenty of discussion.

Transcriptional analysis in multiple barley varieties identifies signatures of waterlogging response (Alexandra Miricescu, Ailbhe Jane Brazel, Joseph Beegan, Frank Wellmer, Emmanuelle Graciet) buff.ly/3OB1AXh Ailbhe Brazel ASPB @Wileyplantsci SEB #PlantSci

Already off to a very interesting morning at Queen's University Belfast for the 2023 Irish Plant Scientists Association meeting. From ash dieback to mycotoxin quantifications, a huge mix of research going on in Irish Plant sciences! #IPSAM2023

Just a few green dots means great success in the lab!! After quite a bit of trouble shooting I managed to set up protoplast transfections here at Maynooth-see the GFP below! Choice of vector backbone/promoter was key. LOTS of plans with this system!

Take a second to enjoy some of the springtime flowers of Maynooth University campus

Really inspiring talk from Ruth Massey today and great talking to her over lunch. Don't take no for an answer!