Martina De Angelis
@martinadeangelis.bsky.social
Research Associate at University of Bristol 🌿🔬Working on flower development | Interested in plant development, diversity and evolution
https://plantdevo.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/plantdevo/people/
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Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary genes in flora...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary ...
www.findaphd.com
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Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
A manifesto for plant science education
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Please share!
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary genes in flora...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary ...
www.findaphd.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
I feel really privileged to have been part of such amazing session! Thank to the organisers for giving me this opportunity to talk about my work 🌸.
🌼 Last talk before the morning coffee break was Martina De Angelis (University of Bristol, UK) presenting “Growth patterns controlling carpel emergence in Arabidopsis” 🌿
#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @martinadeangelis.bsky.social
#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @martinadeangelis.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I feel really privileged to have been part of such amazing session! Thank to the organisers for giving me this opportunity to talk about my work 🌸.
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Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1
August 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!
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🌿 Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 🌿
Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research!
🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025
📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network.
🎟️ Register now:
🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4
Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research!
🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025
📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network.
🎟️ Register now:
🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4
August 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🌿 Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 🌿
Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research!
🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025
📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network.
🎟️ Register now:
🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4
Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research!
🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025
📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network.
🎟️ Register now:
🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4
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I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now:
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now:
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.
#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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maize shoot apical meristems are the cutest! 😍
plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP
plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP
July 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
maize shoot apical meristems are the cutest! 😍
plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP
plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP
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Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
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Very enjoyable day talking roots, shoots and stomata @festofnature.bsky.social with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Very enjoyable day talking roots, shoots and stomata @festofnature.bsky.social with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Our #ICAR2025 workshop "Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring" will take place in Ghent next week. We have just secured a Diversity in Science Grant from @biochemsoc.bsky.social (thank you so much!) so attendees should expect something extra special! Some clues: 👩🎨🎴📄
"Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring"
An amazing workshop for #ICAR2025
Th June 19th (Juneteenth) 2 PM, please join us!
With me, @apaterlini.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com, & Sophie Goormachtig & Agnes Uhereczky from @viblifesciences.bsky.social
An amazing workshop for #ICAR2025
Th June 19th (Juneteenth) 2 PM, please join us!
With me, @apaterlini.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com, & Sophie Goormachtig & Agnes Uhereczky from @viblifesciences.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our #ICAR2025 workshop "Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring" will take place in Ghent next week. We have just secured a Diversity in Science Grant from @biochemsoc.bsky.social (thank you so much!) so attendees should expect something extra special! Some clues: 👩🎨🎴📄
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I am super excited to announce the first (brief) pre-print purely from my group:
Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!
Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!
June 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I am super excited to announce the first (brief) pre-print purely from my group:
Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!
Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!
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🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs!
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.
Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.
Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏
May 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs!
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.
Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.
Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏
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It is out! CLAVATA in moss: not only meristems! Big thanks to @jillharrison.bsky.social , @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social
Diversification of CLE expression patterns and nonmeristematic roles for CLAVATA receptor‐like kinases in a moss
The CLAVATA pathway controls meristematic cell proliferation and multiple nonmeristematic processes in Arabidopsis development. While CLAVATA ancestrally regulates meristematic proliferation in nons.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It is out! CLAVATA in moss: not only meristems! Big thanks to @jillharrison.bsky.social , @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social
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The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
March 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Would you like to speak at an upcoming Development presents… webinar? We're looking for self-nominations from postdocs – based outside of the US and Europe – looking to transition to an independent position within the next year or so.
#DevBio #StemCell #FuturePI @dev-journal.bsky.social
#DevBio #StemCell #FuturePI @dev-journal.bsky.social
Development presents... call for self nominations - the Node
Launched in 2020, Development presents... is a monthly Zoom webinar series covering the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration. Each
thenode.biologists.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Would you like to speak at an upcoming Development presents… webinar? We're looking for self-nominations from postdocs – based outside of the US and Europe – looking to transition to an independent position within the next year or so.
#DevBio #StemCell #FuturePI @dev-journal.bsky.social
#DevBio #StemCell #FuturePI @dev-journal.bsky.social
It's a cute coincidence that today I was imaging Marchantia gemmae looking a little like a heart. Happy Valentine's Day and #FluorescenceFriday !
February 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's a cute coincidence that today I was imaging Marchantia gemmae looking a little like a heart. Happy Valentine's Day and #FluorescenceFriday !
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Award for Excellence here
December 6, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Award for Excellence here
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🚨 PhD Opportunity!
🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!
👨🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social
📅 Apply by January 6th
🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📢 Please share!
#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology
🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!
👨🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social
📅 Apply by January 6th
🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📢 Please share!
#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology
Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - Wound Entry and Vascular Immunity: How Bacterial Plant Pathogens Enter and Colonise Plants Through Wounds at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity!
🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!
👨🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social
📅 Apply by January 6th
🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📢 Please share!
#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology
🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions!
👨🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social
📅 Apply by January 6th
🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📢 Please share!
#PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology
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It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on pptx/ai/inkspace and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!
August 28, 2024 at 3:45 PM
It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on pptx/ai/inkspace and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!
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Last few days to apply for a ROOT & SHOOT travel award to attend a 2025 plant confernce. Conditions apply, see the blog post for full details.
Travel awards for student/ mentor pairs to attend a 2025 #plantscience conference due Dec2. One of the awardees must be a member of SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES.
rootandshoot.org/2025-root-sh...
rootandshoot.org/2025-root-sh...
2025 ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awards — now open! – ROOT & SHOOT
rootandshoot.org
November 23, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Last few days to apply for a ROOT & SHOOT travel award to attend a 2025 plant confernce. Conditions apply, see the blog post for full details.
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Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
ALT: a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
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Recruiting With a 22nd November deadline, this is a project open to candidate inputs in the design. See the advert here and Apply www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Engineering plasmodesmata biomechanics for climate resilience at Gatsby Charitable Foundation on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plasmodesmata biomechanics for climate resilience at Gatsby Charitable Foundation, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Recruiting With a 22nd November deadline, this is a project open to candidate inputs in the design. See the advert here and Apply www.findaphd.com/phds/project...