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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) is a research institute of the @Cambridge_Uni dedicated to plant developmental biology.

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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First ever 3D model of the mitotic spindle in Arabidopsis root gives insights into how a plant cell divvies up genes when dividing in two. Great collaboration between François Nédélec & @LabSchnittger with @helenmsaville & Claire Jacquerie using @cytosim

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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How plant stem cells renew themselves – a cytokinin story. @YangWeibing & @slcuplants colleagues show cytokinin shuttles proteins into the nucleus where they activate genes involved in mitosis in @ScienceMagazine & summary

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Super-resolution microscopy reveals for the 1st time the manufacture of wood deep inside a living plant – Raymond Wightman has captured spectacular footage of wood biosynthesis, demonstrating wood-forming cells to be highly efficient material makers 🪵🏭 ➡️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Cambridge plant scientists @Edwige_M , @Beverley_CUBG & colleagues have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees. Published today in @CurrentBiology & summary

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We can also quantify the fungi colonisation of plant roots. For many years scientists have had to do this by manually counting fungi structures. @slcuplants scientists have developed a deep learning software that can now count them for you called AMFinder

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations @gilesedoldroyd - one of the newly elected #RSfellows announced by the @royalsociety ! His studies on interactions between plants & beneficial micro-organisms aim to achieve a more equitable and sustainable agriculture for the world

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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🎂Happy 10th Birthday Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)! Thank you Lord David Sainsbury, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Roger Freedman for starting a plant science revolution with your vision to fund the best fundamental plant science research in the UK.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We are delighted to announce that Katharina Schiessl @kathschiessl will head a new research group at @slcuplants focused on understanding how organ diversity of plants can be reshaped by their colonisers. Read about her exciting research plans ➡️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations to Professor Dame @OttolineLeyser on her appointment as new CEO of UK Research And Innovation (UKRI). Read announcement at and news on @slcuplants website

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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#Arabidopsis in Art: In a recent visit to the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, SLCU's Nataliia Kuksa spotted a familiar plant in the corner of a famous painting, Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child, by a student of Leonardo da Vinci from the early 16th century 🌱🎨🖌️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We are delighted to share the news that Chris Whitewoods will be joining us in March 2021 to lead a new research group focused on understanding how plants pattern themselves in 3D - and is bringing his carnivorous underwater plants with him! 🌱🥩💧😱

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Pivotal plant vascular research via international collaboration: "Cell-by-cell dissection of phloem development links a maturation gradient to cell specialization" in @ScienceMagazine by @roszakpawel et al & news summary #plantsci

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Is the tedious task of manually counting arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonisation in plant roots a thing of the past? #AMFinder uses artificial intelligence to identify and quantify AMF! Life saver! Summary & @NewPhyt paper

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We are delighted to announce that Dr James Locke has been appointed Professor of Quantitative Plant Development at the University of Cambridge, a new single tenure professorship that will build on the University’s strengths in plant science research.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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🚨Please RT🚨 Seeking PI with imaginative ideas & collaborative ethos to advance understanding of plant development @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni 🌱 Competitive salary + 30% excellence award + £275,000 pa unrestricted research funds Apply 1 July #PlantSciJobs

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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🌽🧬Madelaine Bartlett's Lab @madelainebart is relocating to @slcuplants & seeking research assistants/associates to study developmental & evolutionary processes underpinning plant diversity 📅Apply by 31 August 2024 Job ℹ️ Group ℹ️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Would you like to help @Cambridge_Uni plant scientists research issues of biodiversity & plant-microbe interactions? We are seeking #citizenscientists from across the UK to join The Great British Liverwort Hunt #LiverwortHunt 🔍🌿 #camfest @Cambridge_Fest

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Turn your Friday fatigue into Friday fun! Learn how to prepare plant herbarium specimens just like Charles Darwin did on his Beagle voyage. @CUHerb will share top tips & reveal how herbaria help us understand the past, present & even future of our world🌴🌍

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Integrating maths & plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient by @AnnalisaRizza @leah_band @xanderjones82 @bijun_tang @MarkusOwenMMB @UniofNottingham in @PNASNews & summary

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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New study published in @PNASNews shows that microbial pathogens can invade liverworts - indicates ancient pathogenic plant-microbe relationship. Fascinating @Cambridge_Uni research by @Phil_Carella , @useless_ulysses , @myglimpse , @Marta_Tom20 & @dromius

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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How plants tick: For mammals there is a master clock in the brain that coordinates peripheral clocks elsewhere in the body. New research in @PLOSBiology shows how plants can coordinate their multiple #circadian clocks without need of a brain

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

4 years

Great start to the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium #SLS20 - fantastic talks and looking forward to plenty of engagement between participants using our informal chat channels. We will make some content available next week to those who missed out on attending!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Plant scientists at @Cambridge_Uni , @univbordeaux & @CNRS have discovered a gene they hope can be used to widen a nutrient trafficking bottleneck and potentially increase crop yields. Just out in @NaturePlants at @YHelariutta @EmmanuelleBayer @apaterliny

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Please RT 5 VACANCIES 3 postdoc & 2 research assistant positions available in 3 different research groups in plant biology, computational biology & mathematical modelling. Don't miss out! #plantscijobs #scijobs #postdoc #phdchat

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Painting by numbers: Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint early in petal formation that dictates the size of their bullseyes! Awesome work by Lucie Riglet & @Edwige_M 's Team Hibiscus with modelling by @zardilis Read @ScienceAdvances paper

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Does gene expression noise play a functional role in plants? Sandra Cortijo & James Locke explore gene expression variability in plants and its phenotypic consequences in their review published in Trends in Plant Science

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Patrick Dickinson has discovered that there is a signal sent from the chloroplast in response to light, which activates gene expression in the nucleus to make plants resistant to heat stress. Paper published in @CellReports @Cambridge_Uni @plantsci @CambPlants @PhilWigge

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Overlap in lateral root and nodule development confirmed by @kathschiessl @gilesedoldroyd et al brings N-fixer cereal goal closer: #NODULE INCEPTION Recruits the Lateral Root Developmental Program for #Symbiotic Nodule Organogenesis in #Medicago truncatula

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Symbiotic fungi encode similar family of proteins that pathogenic fungi use to interact with & colonise plants. Great work by @AlbinTeulet Clement Quan, @edouard_evan @alan_wanke @YangWeibing & @dromius ➡️ in @NewPhyt ➡️ #AlphaFold2

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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GM crop ruling shows why the EU's laws are wholly inadequate - article by SLCU Director @OttolineLeyser explores the implications of this week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice on genetically modified crops via @ConversationUK

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GM crop ruling shows why the EU’s laws are wholly inadequate

Genetic modification rules now cover gene edited crops but exclude plants bred traditionally with the same properties.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Mechanical buckling of petals produces iridescent patterns visible to bees in @CellReports at & summary at Congrats @RobinsonSci @Chiara_AiroldiB @Beverley_CUBG @Kupkasmale & Ray Wightman on cool mechanical stress research in 🌺

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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By adding callose that makes wood more porous, scientists have engineered trees that are easier to disassemble into simpler building blocks Published in @NaturePlants Research summary #biofuels

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations to SLCU & @Cambridge_Uni plant scientist Dr Edwige Moyroud @Edwige_M , who was tonight awarded the @LinneanSociety 's 2018 Bicentenary Medal for her discoveries on the evolution and development of nanoscale architecture in flower petals.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We are hiring! TWO open professorships at @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni within the field of plant biology. Apply by 21 December! 1. Professorship of Plant Development 2. Professorship of Quantitative Plant Development

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Please RT🌿💻 Join us at our 7th International #Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop (4-8 Sept) in Cambridge UK. Register before 31 July ℹ️ ✏️ #data #analysis

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Come and make your own mini hydroponics kit - we have test tube seed necklaces for you to make & take home to discover the hidden world of plant roots. Visit us at the #FestivalofPlants19 at @CUBotanicGarden today! Thanks @plantae_org & @SLCUSally for great activity!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Check out @Nature review of our research on plant-thickening mechanisms

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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🍃2 new #plantscijobs 🍃 There are two positions now available in @neha_bhatia29 's research group - Research Assistant and Research Associate. 🗓️Applications for both positions close 30 September More info at

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development🚨 Join @neha_bhatia29 's new @slcuplants research group. Starting November 2024, this position will investigate the mechanistic roles of cytokinin in development Closes 30 Sept #PlantSciJobs

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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"No prior experience with plants is required" - we'll soon turn you into a plant-loving scientist! 🌱🔬🧬 Fantastic opportunity to start your own independent research group. Generous research support, flexible working, excellent coffee - join us! Plz RT 🙂

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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SLCU's Locke Group has built a ‘noisy genes’ atlas for #Arabidopsis thaliana. They found 9% of genes are highly variable & split into 2 classes (more variable during day or night) Read the article in @MolSystBiol … @Cambridge_Uni

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Cells in tight spaces - @p_durand_smet explores how the cytoskeleton responds to different cell geometries in @PNASNews & feature article 🔺🟩🟢

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Happy faces gathering to talk about #plantsci ! So keen were they to share and discuss plant science research that last night's #SLS24 poster session went on until after 9pm! (without beverages)

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Please RT! Fantastic opportunities at @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni in James Locke Lab - 2 #postdocjobs & 1 #phdpositions helping unravel dynamic gene regulation Job details #scijobs #researchjobs #STEMDiversity #PlantSciJobs 🦠🌱🔬

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Highlighter: An #optogenetic system for high-resolution gene expression control in plants @PLOSBiology ➡️ Research story➡️ Stunning engineering by Bo Larsen! Great team collaboration @xanderjones82 @RobertoHofmann1 & @NPL colleagues

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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📢Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2024 #SLS24 Theme: Development — Reprogrammed Evolution-Domestication-Environment-Engineering 🗓️17-19 September 2024 | Cambridge UK 🎙️ Keynotes by Keiko Sugimoto @K_Sugimoto_Lab & Zachary Lippman REGISTER NOW! Please RT

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Novel gene Phloem Unloading Modulator (PLM) found to affect nutrient trafficking by altering #plasmodesmata ultrastructure - published in @NaturePlants Great collaboration between @EmmanuelleBayer & @YHelariutta including Dawei Yan @apaterliny @WiwiSFC +

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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New research from @kathschiessl identifies 2 genetic factors (LSH1/LSH2) previously linked to above-ground shoot development as being essential to differentiate symbiotic root nodules from lateral root development. Read all about it in @CurrentBiology at

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations to Ottoline Leyser @OttolineLeyser , group leader & former Director at @slcuplants , whose research on plant growth hormones & contributions to gender equality in science have been recognised by the @royalsociety with the 2023 Croonian Medal

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@royalsociety

The Royal Society

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We are very happy to announce the winners of the Royal Society's medals and awards for 2022. The recipients of this year's awards are recognised for their outstanding contributions to science and exceptional research. #RSMedals

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Spend your summer in the lab!🌞⛱️🔬🧪 **Paid summer undergraduate research placements** We welcome students from biological, physical & mathematical sciences! 📢Please share with your undergrad students ❤️ #SummerResearch #REU #plantscience #PlantSciJobs

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Calling all UK-based plant mechanics & mechanobiology researchers 🍃 Please join us for the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics Day on 18 April 2024 in Cambridge! Organised by @RobinsonSci @slcuplants & @nakayama_naomi @imperialcollege ➡️ #UKPlantBioMech

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Fantastic opportunity to join our welcoming & collaborative SLCU community! 🧬☕😁💻 Great family-friendly benefits & development opportunities Seeking creative & curious early career researchers to start their own research group Please RT🙏

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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The ABC model of flower development, formulated 30 years ago, remains a seminal source of inspiration & guidance. John Bowman & @Edwige_M trace the model's history, milestones & draw attention to "unsolved riddles still hidden in the floral alphabet." 🌷

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Edwige Moyroud

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Hope you are enjoying the reading @ATinyGreenCell it was really fun to go back to the ABC after all those years, a big thank you to John Bowman for giving me the chance to work with him on this review 😊🌺

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Well done @ottolineleyser ! DBE collected this week for services to Plant Science, Science in Society, and Equality and Diversity in Science.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Welcome to #PlantTaskmaster making a herbarium specimen with @Cambridge_Uni Herbarium @CUHerb curator Lauren Gardiner

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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How do plants coordinate their biological clocks? Read how #circadian clocks in plant seedlings can self-organise without a master, collecting external signals such as light & temperature & then communicating this info with their neighbours in @PLOSBiology

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Fast-talking plants increase flower production within 24-hours of soil nutrient application - key research by @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni reveals root-to-shoot signal mechanisms in response to soil environment. Published in @PNASNews

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Excited to welcome @BBCCountryfile crew & @tomheapmedia to @slcuplants to talk with @dromius about visualising for the first time mycorrhizal fungal colonisation of living plants. The Food Security special, which also features @gilesedoldroyd @CropSciCentre , will air in Feb 🌽🌾

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Alan Wanke (@alanwanke.bsky.social)

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@dromius and @tomheapmedia from @BBCCountryfile chatting about mycorrhizal networks, blushing plants and “making the invisible visible”! #SciComm @slcuplants

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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New type of wood that does not fit into either category of hardwood or softwood! 🌷🌳 Cool evolutionary survey of @CUBotanicGarden Living Collections by Ray Wightman @slcuplants & Jan Lyczakowski @JagiellonskiUni ▶️ @newphyt ▶️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

2 years

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science #WomenInScienceDay #IDWGIS2023 Meet some of our women in science and find out about their amazing research & science journeys Follow @mahwish_ejaz @Dodka_ @ColleenDrapek @BrummSabine #WomenInSTEM

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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And the winner of the SLCU Christmas Decoration competition is Chris Micklem with his Cyanobacteria Christmas tree plates - amazingly intricate plating skills with a steady hand - complete with glitter agar - photo does not do it justice 🎄

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

1 year

7th International Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2023 delegates. Thank you to everyone who has participated this week. Please reply with your highlights from the week and post some photos. #computationalbiology @RDPlab

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

3 years

See some of the amazing images created by our plant scientists, as they use advanced microscopes to investigate the potential of plants. @slcuplants via @cambridge_uni

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See some of the amazing images created by our plant scientists, as they use advanced microscopes to investigate the potential of plants. @slcuplants

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Common ancestral deterrence strategy protects distantly related land plants from microbial infection. See @CurrentBiology by @Phil_Carella @dromius @useless_ulysses @DavidJHoey @A_bridgedition & @mpipz_cologne colleagues & summary

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Save the date! The Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium will be held in Cambridge on 23-25 September 2020. Check-out our confirmed speakers . Registrations will open soon.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations @gilesedoldroyd & everyone involved in today's launch of the @CropSciCentre - a global hub for crop science research & base for collaborations with research partners around the world via an alliance between @Cambridge_Uni and @niabgroup #CSCLaunch2020

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

2 years

Science in the sunshine🌞 Plant Biology Summer Students from @slcuplants , @plantsci , @niabgroup & @CropSciCentre presented their research project results to fellow scientists this afternoon! Fantastic wrap to a summer of science!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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We are proud to announce the appointment of @RenskeVroomans to the @slcuplants leadership team. Bringing expertise in #EvoDevo , she will simulate millions of years of plant evolution to study how the development programme of modern plants came about.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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A rare mineral with potential industrial & medical applications has been discovered on alpine plants at @CUBotanicGarden . The @Cambridge_Uni science & horticulture research team found vaterite in plants for the first time using new microscopy tools

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

The sunshine has brought out a beautiful visitor to our courtyard - Natrix natrix - a non-venomous grass snake. After getting a little lost and heading up towards our balcony she was gently guided back towards the protection of some shrubs. @Cambridge_Uni @CUBotanicGarden

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Like humans, plants talk to themselves. Researchers at @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni have been listening in & have discovered how plants are able to pass on news about the external environment around roots to growing shoots. @PNASNews

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Excited to have new group leader Edwige Moyroud presenting at the SLCU retreat! @slcuplants @Edwige_M

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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How do plants hedge their bets? The Locke & @LeyserLab teams show an ABA-GA bistable switch accounts for germination variability in genetically identical plants. Read @eLife paper & summary @PauFormosa @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congratulations Xander! Recognised for his outstanding contributions to plant science in the Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2024 Award @MPlantPCom . He's leading development of biosensors that are revealing hormone dynamics in plants at high resolution 🥂

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Alexander Jones 🌈

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Happy and honored to be selected as one of this year’s “Rising Stars in Plant Sciences” 🍀 I am very grateful to @MPlantPCom for highlighting Plant Bio researchers, my advisors and mentors, and especially all Jones group @slcuplants members. Good science is a team sport!!!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Next-gen biosensor #GPS2 reveals GA's critical role in legume nitrogen-fixation @ColleenDrapek & colleagues in @xanderjones82 & @gilesedoldroyd teams identified when & where GA governs nodule initiation & growth ℹ️ @ThePlantCell ℹ️

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Dry days trigger leaves to send a surprising growth signal to tell roots to keep growing! #ABACUS2 biosensor reveals shoot-to-root #phloem #ABA message to forage deeper for water ➡️ @NaturePlants paper: ➡️Research summary:

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

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Congrats Elliot! Among many achievements, he solved century-old mystery of how plants create leaf & flower patterns, found 1st-ever receptor for a plant hormone & 1st to clone & sequence an Arabidopsis gene. Inspiring, fun & supportive colleague & inaugural @slcuplants Director🥂

@WolfPrize_

Wolf Prize

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Congratulations to Professor Elliot Meyerowitz, The 2024 Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture! For more information- @Caltech

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

4 years

Thanks to all our engaged, adaptable and generally fabulous #SLS20 delegates. We all learned new skills, made new connections and can celebrate being able to interact and exchange ideas in new ways. See you for #SLS22 !

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

9 months

🌙🌼We had a special visitor today at @slcuplants ! The famous #Moonflower from the @CUBotanicGarden had its tepals, petals & pollen examined under our cryo-SEM. Two more blooms are expected any day so follow the Moonflower Livestream 2024 at @Cambridge_Uni

@CUBotanicGarden

Cam Botanic Garden

@CUBotanicGarden

9 months

2/4 🔬 As we have more buds to flower, the Glasshouse team removed the faded flower while still fresh, so the pollen & cell surfaces of the petals could be analysed by @slcuplants scientists using their powerful cryo-SEM (scanning electron microscope).

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

We are having a great time inviting people to experience an hour in the life of a scientist and find the mutant by running their own DNA gel electrophoresis 🤞🌱🌼🌾🌺 #outreach #opencambridge #scienceforall

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

8 months

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @Cambridge_Uni interviewed @slcuplants ' Dr Nadia Radzman @nadradz : “Follow your curiosity...take up your space, and stand your ground.” ➡️ @UNESCO & @UN_Women #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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@Cambridge_Uni

Cambridge University

8 months

👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬 To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to @nadradz & @SvetlanaMenkin about their careers in STEM and their advice for the next generation. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #STEM @CambridgeZero

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Fantastic talk by @CUHerb to kick off the first day of the @camscience - Dr Lauren Gardiner shared some of the many hidden treasures that she is guardian of in the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿🌺

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

A plant’s diet, surviving in a variable nutrient environment - review by @gilesedoldroyd & @OttolineLeyser on nutrient sensing in the root & systemic signalling in the shoot to respond to changeable nutrient availability. Out today in @ScienceMagazine

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

6 years

Fantastic opportunity to establish own group - 5-year fellowship includes salary + 30% Gatsby distinction award + £50,000 p.a. of unrestricted research support. SLCU provides a wide range of family-friendly benefits. Applications close 12 August #PlantSci

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

2 years

Thank you to everyone who joined us these past 3 days remotely and in-person. We hope you enjoyed the symposium & have forged new connections & received new inspiration and ideas for furthering your own research in regulatory dynamics during development & evolution 👋🦋🌱❤️

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Researchers in James Locke's team developed a new time-lapse microscopy technique to track how genetically identical single cells behave as a living biofilm develops. Read summary & full paper in

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

#Autumn has arrived at SLCU and our lone female #ginkgo is the first tree in our mini ginkgo forest to start celebrating by turning her leaves an amazing vivid-yellow! #fall @CUBotanicGarden @plantsci @Cambridge_Uni

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

9 months

🌟SAVE THE DATE🌟 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 17-19 September 2024 | Cambridge, UK. Theme: Development - Reprogrammed 🗓️Registrations open 1 March ℹ️ Organisers @dromius & @xanderjones82

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

7 years

Come to Cambridge this September to share your work with experts in plant growth & development at an international #plantdevelopment symposium – #SLS_2018 – with a fantastic line-up of 15 plenary speakers from across the globe. Find out more at

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

6 years

Research Career Development Fellowships (5 years) - salary, 30% Gatsby distinction award, benefits & £50,000 p.a. of unrestricted research support. SLCU @Cambridge_Uni is a welcoming & collaborative lab with great family-friendly benefits. Please RT

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Out now — the @royalsociety 's new series of #PeopleOfScience highlighting people who have shaped science. Features @OttolineLeyser talking with @ProfBrianCox about one of her personal heroes Nobel prize winning #geneticist Barbara McClintock on @BBCiPlayer

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BBC - People of Science with Professor Brian Cox, Series 2, Dame Ottoline Leyser discusses Barbara...

Dame Ottoline Leyser talks to Professor Brian Cox about Barbara McClintock

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

7 years

Arabidopsis thaliana's genome was published in 2000 - three years ahead of the completion of the Human Genome Project. Great editorial on how this achievement steered plant genome research into the fast lane. From genes to networks

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Nature Plants - Sixty years ago, Francis Crick articulated the central dogma of molecular biology to explain the sequential information flow between genes and proteins. Nowadays our understanding...

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

4 years

We are incredibly grateful to the amazing speakers who have given so much of their time to prepare talks and generous sharing of their time to discuss their research with #SLS20 attendees this week. Today's invited speakers are Lin XU, @plant_symmetry , @dolfweijers & @Sandy_Heth

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

2 years

📢REGISTRATIONS EXTENDED TO 19 AUG Join us in-person or online to discuss studying regulatory dynamics during development & evolution in animals & plants at #SLS22 in Cambridge UK 21-23 September 2022 🪰🌱🦋🐟🌻 Posters being accepted too! 👉 Please RT❤️

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

2 years

Check out the cool🌱&🦋 talks we have for #SLS22 Regulatory Dynamics During Development and Evolution on 21-23 September. Full list of speakers at ➡️Please register to attend remotely at

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

3 years

Join Alessandra Bonfanti @alebonfanti_ab in a behind-the-scenes tour of how she is using #liverworts to study how plants create shape ( #morphogenesis ) - with cool animations by @Ste_Gatti #LiverwortHunt #CitizenScience

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The Great British Liverwort Hunt - Studying how plants form their...

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Awesome way to end the week - enjoying the #InSainsberries band practice before we all head off for the #weekend #lovethisband

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

4 years

📢Please RT! 2 amazing #PlantSciJobs with @RobinsonSci 's using novel biophysical tools, genetic manipulation & modelling to investigate how plant development (cell division & cell expansion) is controlled Job details #PostdocJobs 🍃

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

1 month

The grand finale - @K_Sugimoto_Lab 's Keynote! Keiko's enthusiam for new discoveries in #plantsci is inspiring! Revealing multiple ways plants reprogramme cell fate in regeneration. Intriguing new findings to be published soon! Visit the Sugimoto Lab at

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

4 years

SLCU Microscopy Facilities Manager Ray Wightman is getting the cryo-SEM warmed up ready for our live virtual tour of our microscopy facilities as part of ONLINE #OpenCambridge #Cambridge #Festival #HODs @CamUniEngage @OpenCambridgeUK @CUBotanicGarden @camscience

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@slcuplants

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

5 years

Pectin nanofilaments, which are 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, had only ever been synthesised in a lab, but never observed in nature until now. Read more about their discovery in plant cell walls & how they influence cell shape

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