NicolaJPatron
@nicolabiologist.bsky.social
Engineering plants and plant metabolism 🌼🌿🪴Cambridge, U.K.
Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓
Excited to welcome speakers and delegates to Black In Plant Science 2025, today in Leeds! Thanks @newphyt.bsky.social & other sponsors! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Excited to welcome speakers and delegates to Black In Plant Science 2025, today in Leeds! Thanks @newphyt.bsky.social & other sponsors! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social
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I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.
📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025!
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.
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📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature 14: University of Cambridge
Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them!
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#PlantScience
Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them!
🔗 c-spirit.org/research
#PlantScience
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature 14: University of Cambridge
Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them!
🔗 c-spirit.org/research
#PlantScience
Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them!
🔗 c-spirit.org/research
#PlantScience
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Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...
#plantscience
#plantscience
March 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...
#plantscience
#plantscience
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#JustIn on Plantae — Embracing Curiosity: Advancing in Plant Science by Asking Questions
In this recent piece, ASPB Plantae Editors Dennis Baffour-Awuah and Rajarshi Sanyal discuss how curiosity and the practice of asking meaningful questions drive progress in #plantscience.
In this recent piece, ASPB Plantae Editors Dennis Baffour-Awuah and Rajarshi Sanyal discuss how curiosity and the practice of asking meaningful questions drive progress in #plantscience.
Embracing Curiosity: Advancing in Plant Science by Asking Questions | Plantae
In the rapidly changing field of plant science, where new technologies and interdisciplinary methods are transforming our understanding of plant biology, one timeless driver of progress remains…
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August 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#JustIn on Plantae — Embracing Curiosity: Advancing in Plant Science by Asking Questions
In this recent piece, ASPB Plantae Editors Dennis Baffour-Awuah and Rajarshi Sanyal discuss how curiosity and the practice of asking meaningful questions drive progress in #plantscience.
In this recent piece, ASPB Plantae Editors Dennis Baffour-Awuah and Rajarshi Sanyal discuss how curiosity and the practice of asking meaningful questions drive progress in #plantscience.
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How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
How amino acids are transported in plants
Plants produce all amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialised cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (H...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
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#PaperAlert Why do scientific societies matter now more than ever?
Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍
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#plantscience #science
Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍
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#plantscience #science
August 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#PaperAlert Why do scientific societies matter now more than ever?
Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍
🔗 buff.ly/YW2XUN3
#plantscience #science
Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍
🔗 buff.ly/YW2XUN3
#plantscience #science
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Just a few days left to apply! (closes Aug 25)
We're hiring! Need a microscopy wizard to help build the world’s first synthetic plant chromosome! Bring your lights, lasers, & lens-craft to characterise new artificial chromosomes. Join our ARIA-funded project at UWA in Perth & @plants4space.bsky.social. Apply: bit.ly/3GKSRSA
August 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Just a few days left to apply! (closes Aug 25)
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Hey, calling all Natural Products and Secondary Metabolism people! @jgi.doe.gov is looking for feedback prior to reorganizing data structures and portals. #secmet is underrepresented right now. Hit the link if you want to share your ideas or complaints! Even (especially) if you don't use our stuff!
Tell Us Your BER Data Integration Stories
JGI, EMSL, ESS-DIVE, NMDC and KBase would love to sit with you (over Zoom) for 45 minutes to hear your stories relating to data integration or provide feedback on some of our proposed solutions.
How ...
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August 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hey, calling all Natural Products and Secondary Metabolism people! @jgi.doe.gov is looking for feedback prior to reorganizing data structures and portals. #secmet is underrepresented right now. Hit the link if you want to share your ideas or complaints! Even (especially) if you don't use our stuff!
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Meet our director Sarah O'Connor, @oconnorlab.bsky.social, a presence to be reckoned with in the plant science community! Read the latest interview with @newphyt.bsky.social to learn about her passion for plant science and the scientists who inspired her:
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August 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Meet our director Sarah O'Connor, @oconnorlab.bsky.social, a presence to be reckoned with in the plant science community! Read the latest interview with @newphyt.bsky.social to learn about her passion for plant science and the scientists who inspired her:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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:
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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
Super proud of @honghaosu.bsky.social for this award at #terpnet25 👏 @nrpdtp.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Super proud of @honghaosu.bsky.social for this award at #terpnet25 👏 @nrpdtp.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biosynthesis and bioactivity of anti-inflammatory triterpenoids in Calendula officinalis - Nature Communications
Calendula, a plant used in traditional medicine for centuries, helps reduce inflammation. Here the authors identify natural compounds that are key to its anti-inflammatory activity, revealing how they...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 A postdoc position is open in the Wilkins Lab (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) at @umanitoba.bsky.social!
Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org)
📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
#PlantScience
Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org)
📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
#PlantScience
July 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨 A postdoc position is open in the Wilkins Lab (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) at @umanitoba.bsky.social!
Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org)
📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
#PlantScience
Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org)
📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
#PlantScience
Excited that our paper with @bradylabs.bsky.social on conservation and divergence in nitrogen regulatory networks is finally published. This was a fun & rewarding collaboration that will continue in new projects to engineer 🍅 N responses academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Conservation and divergence of regulatory architecture in nitrate-responsive plant gene circuits
Gene circuits that control transcriptional regulation of nitrate-responses have similarities and differences, despite the equivalent effects of nitrogen on
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July 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Excited that our paper with @bradylabs.bsky.social on conservation and divergence in nitrogen regulatory networks is finally published. This was a fun & rewarding collaboration that will continue in new projects to engineer 🍅 N responses academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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NAASC is thrilled to announce Jade Bleau - University of Dundee - is the early career recipient of the 225 Arabidopsis Community Impact award! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social #ICAR2025
June 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
NAASC is thrilled to announce Jade Bleau - University of Dundee - is the early career recipient of the 225 Arabidopsis Community Impact award! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social #ICAR2025
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If you haven't already - make sure to save the date to the Black in Plant Science Conference taking place on Friday 24 October at the University of Leeds. Registration will soon be opening so make sure to save the date to avoid disappointment.
April 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you haven't already - make sure to save the date to the Black in Plant Science Conference taking place on Friday 24 October at the University of Leeds. Registration will soon be opening so make sure to save the date to avoid disappointment.
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Summer Studentship 2025 - Meet Our Students!
We are pleased to introduce you to Hamda Hassan and Noir Tucker who tell you more about themselves on our website - buff.ly/jBvClog. We can't wait to hear all about what they get up to at our conference on Friday 24 October 2025. Registration now open!
We are pleased to introduce you to Hamda Hassan and Noir Tucker who tell you more about themselves on our website - buff.ly/jBvClog. We can't wait to hear all about what they get up to at our conference on Friday 24 October 2025. Registration now open!
June 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Summer Studentship 2025 - Meet Our Students!
We are pleased to introduce you to Hamda Hassan and Noir Tucker who tell you more about themselves on our website - buff.ly/jBvClog. We can't wait to hear all about what they get up to at our conference on Friday 24 October 2025. Registration now open!
We are pleased to introduce you to Hamda Hassan and Noir Tucker who tell you more about themselves on our website - buff.ly/jBvClog. We can't wait to hear all about what they get up to at our conference on Friday 24 October 2025. Registration now open!
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How does immunisation establish durable disease resistance in plants?
Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.
Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.
Mobile immune signals potentiate salicylic acid-mediated plant immunity via WRKY38/62 transcription factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649115v1
April 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
How does immunisation establish durable disease resistance in plants?
Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.
Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.
One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
May 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
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🌱 It’s Biodiversity Day!
At C-SPIRIT, we work with the diversity of plants and microbes to find bioactive compounds that help crops thrive and soils stay healthy.
Science across five countries, powered by the natural chemistry of plants and microbes. 🌾
#BiodiversityDay #PlantScience
At C-SPIRIT, we work with the diversity of plants and microbes to find bioactive compounds that help crops thrive and soils stay healthy.
Science across five countries, powered by the natural chemistry of plants and microbes. 🌾
#BiodiversityDay #PlantScience
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🌱 It’s Biodiversity Day!
At C-SPIRIT, we work with the diversity of plants and microbes to find bioactive compounds that help crops thrive and soils stay healthy.
Science across five countries, powered by the natural chemistry of plants and microbes. 🌾
#BiodiversityDay #PlantScience
At C-SPIRIT, we work with the diversity of plants and microbes to find bioactive compounds that help crops thrive and soils stay healthy.
Science across five countries, powered by the natural chemistry of plants and microbes. 🌾
#BiodiversityDay #PlantScience
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Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)
2025 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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March 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)
Submissions to present a short talk at the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference are open now. Hope to see you in Portland, Maine, August 10-15, 2025!
To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC
To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC
March 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Submissions to present a short talk at the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference are open now. Hope to see you in Portland, Maine, August 10-15, 2025!
To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC
To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC
Deadline for BiPS summer studentships coming up - 31st March
Undergraduate students can now apply to our Summer Studentship scheme, supported by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and the Gatsby Foundation.
For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...
For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...
March 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Deadline for BiPS summer studentships coming up - 31st March