Sarah Robinson
@robinsonsci.bsky.social
Group Leader Sainsbury Lab Cambridge University. Interested in plant development and biomechanics.
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Final, edited version of the paper now available
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October 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Final, edited version of the paper now available
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New pre-print from the team!
The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.
Have a read!
#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.
Have a read!
#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New pre-print from the team!
The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.
Have a read!
#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.
Have a read!
#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
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I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid
Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid
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While the first image showed the outside edge of surface mature Arabidopsis root cell, this second image from the same experiment shows the border between two root cells. The large plastid (blue due to chlorophyll autofluorescence) is squashed between the two membranes.
#arabidopsis #cellbiology
#arabidopsis #cellbiology
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
While the first image showed the outside edge of surface mature Arabidopsis root cell, this second image from the same experiment shows the border between two root cells. The large plastid (blue due to chlorophyll autofluorescence) is squashed between the two membranes.
#arabidopsis #cellbiology
#arabidopsis #cellbiology
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🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
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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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We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.
July 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility
Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr. Deadline 15 sept.
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The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cell-to-cell translocation of florigen is inhibited by low ambient temperature through abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
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#plantscience
July 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Cell-to-cell translocation of florigen is inhibited by low ambient temperature through abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
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How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!
Reposted by Sarah Robinson
🚨 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
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🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉
May 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉
Explaining our science at the Chelsea flower show.
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Explaining our science at the Chelsea flower show.
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Cool SEM images being captured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week. We are looking for more samples - so if you know a nursery or specialist grower exhibiting at #RHSChelsea, please share this post with them.
May 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Cool SEM images being captured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week. We are looking for more samples - so if you know a nursery or specialist grower exhibiting at #RHSChelsea, please share this post with them.
Reposted by Sarah Robinson
Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development
Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...
May 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development
Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Having an amazing time exhibiting at the Chelsea flower show
May 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Having an amazing time exhibiting at the Chelsea flower show
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We are thrilled to have been awarded a silver-gilt medal at our first Chelsea Flower Show! 🪻
An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre!
#RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre!
#RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We are thrilled to have been awarded a silver-gilt medal at our first Chelsea Flower Show! 🪻
An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre!
#RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre!
#RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
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🍀🔬
Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab!
The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab!
The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🍀🔬
Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab!
The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab!
The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
May 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
Reposted by Sarah Robinson
🚨Check out this amazing finding: Inactivation of a symbiosis-specific Glucan binding protein leads to increased nitrogen fixation in Medicago. Amazing work, congratulations to everyone!
Read & RP. New preprint by Alex Gavrin from his time in our team - Inactivation of Medicago Glucan binding protein 1 (GBP1) offers: An approach to enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🚨Check out this amazing finding: Inactivation of a symbiosis-specific Glucan binding protein leads to increased nitrogen fixation in Medicago. Amazing work, congratulations to everyone!
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We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Reposted by Sarah Robinson
🕰️ 🦠How do circadian clocks maintain robustness in changing environments?
#GreenMotherMachine helped uncover how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities to maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
in @natcomms.nature.com
#GreenMotherMachine helped uncover how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities to maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
in @natcomms.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🕰️ 🦠How do circadian clocks maintain robustness in changing environments?
#GreenMotherMachine helped uncover how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities to maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
in @natcomms.nature.com
#GreenMotherMachine helped uncover how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities to maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
in @natcomms.nature.com
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The heat is on — literally! With just 5 weeks to go until the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, our model plants are soaking up the sun 🌿🌞 with a little help from our very hardworking red watering can 💚💧
Let the countdown begin! 🌸🧪🌱 #RHSChelseaFlowerShow #GreenSTEM #Science #PlantScience
Let the countdown begin! 🌸🧪🌱 #RHSChelseaFlowerShow #GreenSTEM #Science #PlantScience
April 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The heat is on — literally! With just 5 weeks to go until the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, our model plants are soaking up the sun 🌿🌞 with a little help from our very hardworking red watering can 💚💧
Let the countdown begin! 🌸🧪🌱 #RHSChelseaFlowerShow #GreenSTEM #Science #PlantScience
Let the countdown begin! 🌸🧪🌱 #RHSChelseaFlowerShow #GreenSTEM #Science #PlantScience