Thanks to Pete Smith, Professor of Soils and Global Change at University of Aberdeen, for his thought-provoking talk today on emerging from our silos and trying to find solutions to the world's multiple challenges - part of the Plant Sciences weekly seminar series. 🌍

Job opportunity: Centre for Landscape Regeneration Fenland Farm are looking for a Data Cleaning Specialist for a 2-month period to collate and consolidate data for use and analysis by their research team.

Find full details at 👇

clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/fenland-farm-s…

Agriculture is facing the dual challenge of meeting food demands whilst also achieving environmental targets. Our upcoming #TransformingOurFuture conference looks at the science and innovation aiming to transform the sector. Register now to join online: royalsociety.org/science-events…

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University , we are publishing a story a month by one of our researchers.

This month read about The Global Wood Security Centre by David Edwards, Professor of Plant Ecology.

👉 tinyurl.com/yewy5v8c

Celebrating International Day for Biodiversity today!

Another successful #Engbio IRC Forum this week. Thanks to great speakers Nicola Patron Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ Department of Plant Sciences Pau Creixell CRUK Cambridge Institute and exhibitors Earlham Institute Opentrons and CCA.Bio. Save the date for the next Forum on 26 Nov.

📣 Workshop: only one week left to sign-up!

Is your work interested in the future of food systems?

💡 Agri-food supply chain resilience workshop
📅 29/05/2024 9am-5pm
🌍 Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)
🥑 Lunch provided
🚜👩 Open to all, esp. farmers and retailers!

bit.ly/3VzmTOf

Can increased farming yields be achieved for low-resource farmers without high environmental costs? Join me at the The Royal Society meeting on 3 June to hear how beneficial #MicrobialAssociations can advance sustainable productivity in agriculture! bit.ly/44jDEiI

📢Calling all researchers in the School of Biological Sciences: apply for support from the Roving Researcher scheme by 10 June!

Read more about what we offer and how to apply: bit.ly/44wXffn

Job opportunity: We are recruiting a Research Laboratory Technician. The role will be responsible for growing, maintaining and phenotyping rice and Arabidopsis transgenic lines.

Find out more👉jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46542/

Good to read about the recent CSaP - The Centre for Science and Policy workshop on synthetic and engineering biology.

Jake Harris shared his work on engineering plant resilience – a potential application being to produce more resilient crops in the light of climate change.

👉 shorturl.at/v0WtW

The Royal Society announced the election of new Fellows last week. It was wonderful to see that in acknowledgment of their major contributions to plant sciences, Maria Harrison, Saskia Hogenhout and Graham Moore have all been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Many thanks to Xinnian Dong for her excellent seminar series talk today on Enhancing Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Plants Through Basic Research.

Read her latest paper on next-generation mapping of the salicylic acid signaling hub👉tinyurl.com/k4xy6mre

Crop Science Centre

Can we use plants as mini factories?

Join EngBio IRC next Monday 20 May for a talk by Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ on engineering synthetic circuits, bio-manufacturing and how high throughput techniques have benefited her research.

Sign up here 👉tinyurl.com/yc4cb68x

Join us this Friday in person (S1, Alison Richard Building) CRASSH, Cambridge + online at 2pm to discuss with Isabel Teixera-Pearce (Dev Studies)
the Agro-political economy in Brazil and how soybeans contribute to food insecurity.

More info: bit.ly/3UR2B1Z

Last Sunday was perfect weather for a trip to Cam Botanic Garden.

Here is Hamish Symington giving members of @cambridgescisoc a tour - and trying to convince a few more to study Part IB Plant and Microbial Sciences!

Thanks to Jeremy Lee @cambridgescisoc for the photo.

Great to see this article on BBC News about the @CUBotanicGarden phenology project. The project monitors trees and their seasonal changes to better understand the effects of #climatechange . 🌳

Read more 👉bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Photo: Edward Chang, ecology student Department of Plant Sciences

On International Day of #planthealth , Sebastian Schornack highlights why prioritising plant health should be a top priority for governments & explores some promising new strategies to bolster plant health
slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/internati…

Today is International Day of #PlantHealth 🌾🌽
Here is an example of our research into healthier crops Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) -
Sabine Brumm, Matthew Macleod, Isaac Coven & others study barley genes that are essential for pathogens to enter and cause disease.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/…