Peter Etchells
@peteretchells.bsky.social
In plants, how does stuff happen in the correct place at the right time?
Senior colleague lamenting not getting funded, "there's something wrong with that panel" (my teams grant was funded - yes he did know)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Senior colleague lamenting not getting funded, "there's something wrong with that panel" (my teams grant was funded - yes he did know)
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Don't forget to register for the Non-seed. The deadline is on Friday.
Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃
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November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Don't forget to register for the Non-seed. The deadline is on Friday.
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
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Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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October 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Group Leader Position
Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches
@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Group Leader Position
Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches
@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Stellenangebote
Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Group Leader Position
Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches
@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Group Leader Position
Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches
@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
Nice idea @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, except universities were encouraged to cross-subsidise UK students with international student fees in a contracting market. Visa rules then tightened leading to universities in debt, recruitment freezes and redundancy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ed Davey urges US cancer scientists to come to UK
The Lib Dem leader will use his party conference speech to attack Donald Trump's
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September 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Nice idea @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, except universities were encouraged to cross-subsidise UK students with international student fees in a contracting market. Visa rules then tightened leading to universities in debt, recruitment freezes and redundancy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
@theguardian.com, please stop reporting the charlatans at collosal as "news". Three edits is no more dire wolf, than pigeon tissue culture is a dodo. This is risible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years
Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
@theguardian.com, please stop reporting the charlatans at collosal as "news". Three edits is no more dire wolf, than pigeon tissue culture is a dodo. This is risible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Q: Are the university's travel insurance approval, travel risk assessment template, security information to populate the risk assessment in the same place?
A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing.
SharePoint.
A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing.
SharePoint.
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Q: Are the university's travel insurance approval, travel risk assessment template, security information to populate the risk assessment in the same place?
A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing.
SharePoint.
A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing.
SharePoint.
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An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
#TansleyReview by He, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social
#TansleyReview by He, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
#TansleyReview by He, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social
#TansleyReview by He, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social
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*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
I tend to think the peer review process works as well as possible alternatives might. But seeing other reviewers shift to add another six months work for a marginal gain to an already really good manuscript is maddening.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I tend to think the peer review process works as well as possible alternatives might. But seeing other reviewers shift to add another six months work for a marginal gain to an already really good manuscript is maddening.
Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
Non-cell autonomous signalling is a mechanism by which stem cells are maintained across the tree of life. In plants, many stem cell populations are regulated by peptide ligands related to CLAVATA3, w...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens
Summary: The transition to 3D growth is negatively regulated by a FLOE-related protein that alters cytokinin perception and cell division processes in the moss Physcomitrium patens.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
August 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
July 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
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X Rays and Barley Mutants!
A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social
castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...
A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social
castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...
X-rays and Barley Mutants!
Blog readers may be familiar with the botanical terms monocots and dicots. Dicots include many woody species, and monocots include important...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
X Rays and Barley Mutants!
A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social
castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...
A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social
castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...
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That arch is apparently *the first pointed arch ever*(!)
Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.
Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.
June 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
That arch is apparently *the first pointed arch ever*(!)
Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.
Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Stochastic gene expression, an ordinary part of multicellular life (Nature Comms.) @roederlab.bsky.social (Summary by Kes Maio)
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#PlantaePSRW
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#PlantaePSRW
Stochastic gene expression, an ordinary part of multicellular life | Plantae
Stochasticity is an important feature of genes, allowing for variability in their abundance and activity prior to ‘fine-tuning’ at later periods of development. Kong et al. describe this feature in…
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June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Stochastic gene expression, an ordinary part of multicellular life (Nature Comms.) @roederlab.bsky.social (Summary by Kes Maio)
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#PlantaePSRW
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#PlantaePSRW
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🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
June 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci