Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿
Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers.
Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB

Don't miss our next EngBio Forum 'High Throughput Research' on Mon 20 May, 5-8.30pm, St Catharine’s College with great talks from Dr. Nicola Patron Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ Department of Plant Sciences & Dr. Pau Creixell CRUK Cambridge Institute
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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
🗓️slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls24

Congratulations to Beverley Glover and Ian Henderson on the award of their ERC Advanced Grants 🌱🌸

Find out more about their projects 👇
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Listen to Jen Bromley CSO Vertical Future
And lead of our joint grant to grow crops in space describing the project bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

📢New vacancy alert!📢

Applications are invited for a laboratory technician to support Jeongmin-Choi's laboratory in the Crop Science Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for somebody passionate about scientific research to join a new team🌱

Find out more👇
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45955/

Grateful to Research England for our share of the HEMG award to the Cambridge University University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities. Including £1.73 million to the Cam Botanic Garden, and £190k to the Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE). This will bring our amazing botanical collections to ever broader audiences Department of Plant Sciences

📢New vacancy alert!📢

The Crop Science Centre is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Technician, an exciting opportunity for somebody passionate about supporting scientific research to join a vibrant team of friendly researchers and technicians🌱

Find out more👇
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45745/

📢New vacancy alert!📢

The Department of Plant Sciences is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to work on betalain-pigment related technologies with Samuel Brockington🌵

Find out more 👇
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46004/

Postdoc job alert. Mapping smoldering fires and their associated emissions. Fieldwork in N & S hemispheres. Experience collaborating with a company launching a new satellite. 24 months. Email me w/CV for discussion: [email protected]

Find out more about the work happening in the Department of Plant Sciences on a new approach to identifying sources of river pollution, and how this can act as a measure of ecosystem health 🌱💧

We are very excited to announce the establishment of the 𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗡-𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 RIKEN CSRS / 理研 環境資源科学研究センター RIKEN! Read on for info and job openings...👇 (1/5)

📢New vacancy alert!📢

We are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to the development of disease-resistant crops in the Patron Lab with Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ 🌱⚙️

Find out more👇
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45176/

Fully funded 4year PhD in our group Cambridge University Crop Science Centre studying dynamics of plant-parasitic nematodes

Interested in biology, AI, and/or making things? Please apply!

Truly regrettably, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research mandate means UK applicants only.

14th April

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Our newest Zooniverse project is ready for citizen scientist volunteers! By transcribing herbarium specimen labels, volunteers add to biodiversity big data for research. Visit our Zooniverse page to get involved! tinyurl.com/4ary9fbp Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities

Enjoy Channel 5 ‘Susan Calman’s Great British Cities’ tonight at 9pm. Susan visits the Garden with Sally Petitt to learn about the Garden’s founder, John Stevens Henslow & Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) to view rarely seen specimens sent to him by Darwin bit.ly/3vso1II

This year we're celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first Professor of Botany at #Cambridge

The third of our monthly stories is Know your enemy: discovery-driven sustainable solutions to plant-nematode interactions, by Sebastian Eves-van den Akker 🌱🪱

Find out more👉bit.ly/3PvX6Tf

Enjoy Donna Ferguson's article about Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) Darwin specimens & how our founder Henslow's botanical teaching inspired his most famous student - Charles Darwin.

See more this Friday in Channel 5 'Susan Calman's Great British Cities' 9pm
Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences Edwin Rose

Delighted to have been quoted in The Guardian on John Stevens Henslow's tuition of Charles Darwin, the Beagle voyage and the specimens Darwin collected. Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge HPS Darwin College

📢Gap year job opportunity: Temporary Technician Post📢

We are looking for some to assist with the preparation of Undergraduate practical classes, 24 hours per week during the 10 week term (30th September to 6th December, 6th January to 15th March)🌿

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