José M. Torres-Ruiz
@torresruizjm.bsky.social
Plant Ecophysiologist: Plant Hydraulics, Water Relations, Drought, Mortality-🔬Research Scientist @IRNAS_CSIC - 👨💼Ex-president @SIEF_SCEF - de Sanlúcar
#Drought doesn’t follow one script: trees vary in how they close #stomata, lose conductivity, and regulate #aquaporins🌿💧
📰New paper out in @pplplantarum.bsky.social 🌳
Link to pub-> doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
📰New paper out in @pplplantarum.bsky.social 🌳
Link to pub-> doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
#Drought doesn’t follow one script: trees vary in how they close #stomata, lose conductivity, and regulate #aquaporins🌿💧
📰New paper out in @pplplantarum.bsky.social 🌳
Link to pub-> doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
📰New paper out in @pplplantarum.bsky.social 🌳
Link to pub-> doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
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We are still looking for a PhD student to join our lab (Brodribb Lab) working on characterizing and modeling water regulation in trees. For more info please see: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Discovering the character of trees
The project seeks to discover elusive species-specific plant behaviour...
www.utas.edu.au
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
We are still looking for a PhD student to join our lab (Brodribb Lab) working on characterizing and modeling water regulation in trees. For more info please see: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
Great to see this paper out!📰
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬
@irnase.bsky.social
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬
@irnase.bsky.social
Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social:
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬
Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬
Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
October 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great to see this paper out!📰
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬
@irnase.bsky.social
Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬
@irnase.bsky.social
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Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026!
Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!
wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!
wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
Wilkes Center Postdoctoral Program - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...
wilkescenter.utah.edu
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026!
Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!
wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!
wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
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Recently published article by @irnase.bsky.social IPE_CSIC and EEZA_CSIC, now available in our institutional repository, Digital CSIC @torresruizjm.bsky.social
Título: Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive ...
Autor: Camarero, Jesús Julio et al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/401352
Título: Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive ...
Autor: Camarero, Jesús Julio et al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/401352
October 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Recently published article by @irnase.bsky.social IPE_CSIC and EEZA_CSIC, now available in our institutional repository, Digital CSIC @torresruizjm.bsky.social
Título: Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive ...
Autor: Camarero, Jesús Julio et al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/401352
Título: Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive ...
Autor: Camarero, Jesús Julio et al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/401352
📰New paper out:
Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive Drought #Mortality in Pinus pinaster🌳
Lunk: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive Drought #Mortality in Pinus pinaster🌳
Lunk: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📰New paper out:
Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive Drought #Mortality in Pinus pinaster🌳
Lunk: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive Drought #Mortality in Pinus pinaster🌳
Lunk: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7
Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
Our article @irnase.bsky.social @creaf.cat and INIA_CSIC has been published and is now available in our institutional repository Digital CSIC @torresruizjm.bsky.social
Título: Limited plastic responses in safety traits...
Autor: Ramírez-Valiente, José Alberto eta al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/398641
Título: Limited plastic responses in safety traits...
Autor: Ramírez-Valiente, José Alberto eta al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/398641
Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions | DIGITAL.CSIC
WARNING: Items in Digital.CSIC are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our article @irnase.bsky.social @creaf.cat and INIA_CSIC has been published and is now available in our institutional repository Digital CSIC @torresruizjm.bsky.social
Título: Limited plastic responses in safety traits...
Autor: Ramírez-Valiente, José Alberto eta al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/398641
Título: Limited plastic responses in safety traits...
Autor: Ramírez-Valiente, José Alberto eta al...
hdl.handle.net/10261/398641
🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough.
📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social
"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy
@irnase.bsky.social
📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social
"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy
@irnase.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough.
📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social
"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy
@irnase.bsky.social
📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social
"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy
@irnase.bsky.social
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out!
Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way.
A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work.
Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...
Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way.
A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work.
Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...
media.sciltp.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out!
Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way.
A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work.
Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...
Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way.
A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work.
Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...
📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿
👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!
👨🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.
🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P
#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality
👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!
👨🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.
🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P
#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality
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May 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿
👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!
👨🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.
🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P
#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality
👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!
👨🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.
🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P
#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality
If reaching 10 MPa when measuring water potential with the #Scholander chamber ever scared you 👉🏼meet this double-manometer version—capable of reaching 15 MPa!!!!! ⚠️.
#Mediterranean vegetation can be very demanding. 🌿☀️
(Housed at Faculty of #Biology, Seville)
@leonorac.bsky.social
#Mediterranean vegetation can be very demanding. 🌿☀️
(Housed at Faculty of #Biology, Seville)
@leonorac.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If reaching 10 MPa when measuring water potential with the #Scholander chamber ever scared you 👉🏼meet this double-manometer version—capable of reaching 15 MPa!!!!! ⚠️.
#Mediterranean vegetation can be very demanding. 🌿☀️
(Housed at Faculty of #Biology, Seville)
@leonorac.bsky.social
#Mediterranean vegetation can be very demanding. 🌿☀️
(Housed at Faculty of #Biology, Seville)
@leonorac.bsky.social
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social
🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social
Leaf Excision and Exposure Duration Alter the Estimates of the Irreversible Photosynthetic Thermal Thresholds
Our study highlights the importance of assessing thermal thresholds using consistent exposure duration and plant material type when comparing studies, as well as their relationship to functional re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social
🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social
📣Matriculado en un grado universitario o máster oficial? Te interesan las plantas🌿 y su respuesta al cambio climático🔆? Solicita una JAE Intro ICU de 5 meses con nosotros
+info:
Refer. PLAN: IRNAS-08 (fila 554) de este Excel sede.csic.gob.es/sites/defaul...
Requisitos: t.ly/j4GqW
Te esperamos!!!😉
+info:
Refer. PLAN: IRNAS-08 (fila 554) de este Excel sede.csic.gob.es/sites/defaul...
Requisitos: t.ly/j4GqW
Te esperamos!!!😉
sede.csic.gob.es
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📣Matriculado en un grado universitario o máster oficial? Te interesan las plantas🌿 y su respuesta al cambio climático🔆? Solicita una JAE Intro ICU de 5 meses con nosotros
+info:
Refer. PLAN: IRNAS-08 (fila 554) de este Excel sede.csic.gob.es/sites/defaul...
Requisitos: t.ly/j4GqW
Te esperamos!!!😉
+info:
Refer. PLAN: IRNAS-08 (fila 554) de este Excel sede.csic.gob.es/sites/defaul...
Requisitos: t.ly/j4GqW
Te esperamos!!!😉
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Come work with us on hydraulics and the mortality of giant trees!
INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...).
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Come work with us on hydraulics and the mortality of giant trees!
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
Our new paper describing a novel method for measuring plant cell turgor is now online at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.
We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.
PNAS
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March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Our new paper describing a novel method for measuring plant cell turgor is now online at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.
We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.
Reposted by José M. Torres-Ruiz
🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....
March 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....
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🚨¡Oferta de 5 plazas para ayudante doctor!🚨
¡¡¡Oferta de #TRABAJO!!! Publicadas 5 plazas de AYUDANTE DOCTOR para en nuestro departamento. Para investigadores que quieran formar parte de nuestro departamento, plazas de ecología, botánica, zoología y bio celular.
Bases de la convocatoria⏬⏬⏬⏬⏬
sede.urjc.es/en_GB/tablon...
¡¡Dadle difusión!!
Bases de la convocatoria⏬⏬⏬⏬⏬
sede.urjc.es/en_GB/tablon...
¡¡Dadle difusión!!
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨¡Oferta de 5 plazas para ayudante doctor!🚨
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And that’s a wrap on the amazing XIM6! 🌲🌳🌴
A lot of great science and fun in Seville, Spain. 💃
Many thanks to Celia and @torresruizjm.bsky.social 👏🏻 @xylem-int-meeting.bsky.social
A lot of great science and fun in Seville, Spain. 💃
Many thanks to Celia and @torresruizjm.bsky.social 👏🏻 @xylem-int-meeting.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And that’s a wrap on the amazing XIM6! 🌲🌳🌴
A lot of great science and fun in Seville, Spain. 💃
Many thanks to Celia and @torresruizjm.bsky.social 👏🏻 @xylem-int-meeting.bsky.social
A lot of great science and fun in Seville, Spain. 💃
Many thanks to Celia and @torresruizjm.bsky.social 👏🏻 @xylem-int-meeting.bsky.social
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We'll be there - and delivering some workshops around Europe afterwards.
If you're based in Europe and want to catch up with our team, let us know in comments or chat.
If you're based in Europe and want to catch up with our team, let us know in comments or chat.
📢Everything is set for #XIM6! !📢
It will surely be a great and intense week, reuniting with many colleagues in #Seville 👥
🤩The program is really exciting:
👇👇👇
xim6.csic.es/programme/
We’re looking forward to seeing you in #Seville!☀️
It will surely be a great and intense week, reuniting with many colleagues in #Seville 👥
🤩The program is really exciting:
👇👇👇
xim6.csic.es/programme/
We’re looking forward to seeing you in #Seville!☀️
March 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We'll be there - and delivering some workshops around Europe afterwards.
If you're based in Europe and want to catch up with our team, let us know in comments or chat.
If you're based in Europe and want to catch up with our team, let us know in comments or chat.
Can’t wait for the rock and roll to start next week at #XIM6 in Seville!!
📢Everything is set for #XIM6! !📢
It will surely be a great and intense week, reuniting with many colleagues in #Seville 👥
🤩The program is really exciting:
👇👇👇
xim6.csic.es/programme/
We’re looking forward to seeing you in #Seville!☀️
It will surely be a great and intense week, reuniting with many colleagues in #Seville 👥
🤩The program is really exciting:
👇👇👇
xim6.csic.es/programme/
We’re looking forward to seeing you in #Seville!☀️
March 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Can’t wait for the rock and roll to start next week at #XIM6 in Seville!!