I have created a world map for PhD students and postdocs, so that they can easily find #Plant and #GreenLineage #Photobiology labs around the world. You are welcome to add your lab! padlet.com/georomano/3hve… #ISPP #YRSPP #PlantPhotobiology #PlantSci #Plantae

Every now and then, its important to speak out, and UPSIGN core team is trying to circulate our response to certain media reports suggesting Pakistanis have greatly spread COVID. Article is called...BRITISH PAKISTANI ACADEMICS ASK TO STOP THE “COVID-19 BAME BLAME GAME”

From the start of the 2021/22 academic year, international students will be able to apply for all UKRI-funded postgraduate studentships. Find out more: bit.ly/3l0YgoN

Virtual plant microscopy! The website is finally online: onlinemicroscopy.ugent.be. Take a look and let me know what you think. Please retweet :-). #microscopy #botany UGent UGent Wetenschappen 1/4

The End of Botany dlvr.it/RjJG0h

Excited to share this new work from our lab showing the impact of shade on plant carbon status, growth & development. Happy to have been part of it. Congrats to all the team from Edinburgh and Max Planck!

Together with Karen Halliday, Elena Monte, John Christie, Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Esteban Hernando and Moreno-Romero, Jordi we are co-editing a special topic on: "Light-Mediated Regulation of Plant Physiology" More info here: frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Just a quick reminder that today at 4 PM we (jointly with Annis Richardson) are hosting Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) for the Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series – 2020/21 "Locally-adaptive mutations and their relevance for climate change ecology" Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh

1. Read and write more. 2. Don't hesitate to admit when you're wrong. 3. Be comfortable changing your opinion. 4. Find a mentor. 5. Stay teachable. 6. Make mistakes and learn. 7. Don't get offended easily. 8. Ask questions. 9. Spend time with nature. 10. Stay humble.

We are less skeptical of genetic engineering than assumed medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-s… via Medical Xpress

Brilliant Nature Reviews Genetics review on overlapping genes in all domains of life (plus viruses) and its modern day applications in #SynBio #Genomics

I want to share a thread about an approach that I’ve been using to mentor people in my lab with the goal of developing “expert learners” in the research environment.