‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’: how plant roots can help stop landslides theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Question for microbiology twitter - what bacteria species is found in the widest range of environments and niches around earth? Wondering if anything beats Bacillus.... (so far LLMs have been terrible at answering this Q, by the way).

Big news and life update! I have accepted a position as Director of Research with the American Association on Health & Disability (AAHD Disability)! See the release about my new job below!

Mon étudiante, Audrey Côté, a reçu la bourse de maîtrise du FRQNT pour son projet sur l'ingénierie des voies métaboliques chez des hôtes hétérologues. Nous sommes très fiers de son succès continu et heureux d'avoir son rire contagieux dans le laboratoire! 🦠🍃

Happy to see the lab doing some great #scicomm on the importance of plant flooding tolerance. Check out Aida Maric's interview below, and Freiburgers come to Kevin Daniel 's Pint of Science Germany e.V. next week!
pintofscience.de/event/insights…

A new preprint from the lab 🎉
We generated why1 knockout mutants using CRISPR which are now an ideal tool to study the function of WHIRLY1 in barley
Further reading
The major nucleoid-associated protein WHIRLY1 promotes chloroplast development in barley biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Job opportunity: We are recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor in Plant Ecology and Evolution to join the Department of Plant Sciences with the opportunity to be affiliated with the Cambridge Conservation Research Institute.

Find out more and apply👉tinyurl.com/34nt2ndp

I’m calling it- the 2023-24 academic year has reached its end!!

As my lab reflected on the semester in our last lab meeting this morning, our strong sense of supportive community was a major theme. The #LagoLab has accomplished a lot and celebrated a lot this semester!

Yan Ma is the newest group leader at the GMI. Her group will investigate how insects induce gall formation in plants. Find out more about her research and why she joined the GMI: bit.ly/3JR7xgV

🌟 Exciting news! 🌟

Join us at #SEBConference in Prague 2024 and experience our revolutionary #Childcare services, empowering bioscience professionals to thrive.

Read more:
sebiology.org/resource/empow…

Stay tuned for an in-depth article in the upcoming SEB Spring Magazine!

Just a couple of days left to apply for the Gordon Conference on Plant Molecular Biology
#GRCPMB

We have lots of great talks lined up and space for a few more short talks.
grc.org/plant-molecula…

Well this is exciting! My first Journal cover. My photo made the cover of the Plant Pathology June Issue! My photographer father would have been proud. See our recent paper in this edition on Sclerotinia head rot in Sunflower!
doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13…

FABI UP Plant and Soil Sciences🌾

⁦Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (she/her)👩🏽‍🔬🌍⁩ hitting hard with her first slide: diversity is not happening despite 4-5 decades of investment to improve. This speaks to a systemic problem. #diversity #gyagm2024

'47% of C. nasturtii (Brassica gall midge] SSGPs [secreted salivary gland proteins] could not be fully annotated with most not having orthologues.'

Characterization of the swede midge, Contarinia nasturtii, first instar larval salivary gland transcriptome sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Se larga hoy nuevo ensayo de Arabidopsis en el IABIMO 🌱🫶🏼

Fantastic to see this now online. Congrats again to Angelo, Tiago and our co-authors. A toolbox to engineer the highly productive cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901 academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Work with one of the best advisers out there and be a part of our larger collaborative network! ⛰️🌿🧬

Today is Plant Bio #UnEssay day! I'll be posting to this thread throughout the day to showcase each student's project.

Please RT - we are seeking a new postdoc!

The Williams lab at UC Berkeley (williamsplantlab.com) has a post-doc position available to study the impact of epigenetics on organ regeneration in plants.

Tweeps: Where are people printing cloth research posters these days?

#science #scicomm