Alex Webb Lab
@alexwebblab.bsky.social
Plant circadian biology at Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge.
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Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week.
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week.
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
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Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".
🌱 From International Journal of Remote Sensing: Remote sensing models can capture daily evapotranspiration, but their accuracy falters across the diurnal cycle, revealing key model and data limitations. (Andrew J. McElrone)
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#RemoteSensing #PlantScience
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#RemoteSensing #PlantScience
Modelling the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration using remote sensing models – are we there yet?
The diurnal cycle of Evapotranspiration (ET) can provide important clues about the functioning of vegetation. However, the Remote Sensing (RS) based ET models, especially the ones that use Land Sur...
www.tandfonline.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".
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#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System as a Assistant...
jobs.plantae.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
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A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰
A non-coding SNP in ELF3 alters expression of ELF3β and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684042v1
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰
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If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
A new tool for engineering Phaeodactylum tricornutum: the METE promoter drives both high expression and B12‐tuneable regulation of transgenes
The promoter of the METE gene in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is repressed by nanomolar concentrations of vitamin B12. It can be used to tune the expression of genes for reporter proteins or ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
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Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust.
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
BLOG - Battling crop diseases without borders: how a research community maintains global defences against wheat rusts
For 15 years, DEWAS, an international research collaboration @cimmyt.bsky.social, has been studying, detecting and defusing outbreaks of the devastating crop disease wheat rust.
For 15 years, DEWAS, an international research collaboration @cimmyt.bsky.social, has been studying, detecting and defusing outbreaks of the devastating crop disease wheat rust.
Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
www.jic.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust.
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch
Plants at Cambridge : growing the future
YouTube video by Cambridge University
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch
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Job opportunity!
We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...
#plantscijobs #plantsciences
We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...
#plantscijobs #plantsciences
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Job opportunity!
We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...
#plantscijobs #plantsciences
We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...
#plantscijobs #plantsciences
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"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"
Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"
Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414
#PlantSciJobs
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"
Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"
Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414
#PlantSciJobs
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"Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology
#PlantSciJobs
October 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology
#PlantSciJobs
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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Super excited to share that our most recent work in the Davies Lab (@camplantsci.bsky.social) has been published in @newphyt.bsky.social... check it out 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNKWEJ... #plantscience #plantresearch #calcium
Arabidopsis thaliana Cyclic Nucleotide‐Gated Channel 19 is involved in root extracellular ATP and Pep1 signalling
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Super excited to share that our most recent work in the Davies Lab (@camplantsci.bsky.social) has been published in @newphyt.bsky.social... check it out 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNKWEJ... #plantscience #plantresearch #calcium
Some good news, tempered with a need for USA and EU to keep up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Some good news, tempered with a need for USA and EU to keep up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪
Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.
www.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals
@UniWuerzburg
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals
@UniWuerzburg
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals
@UniWuerzburg
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals
@UniWuerzburg
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
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Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science
Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science
Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
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Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience
Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricultural impact. By precisely controlling growth conditions, CEA enables the reliable and tightly regulated deployment of beneficial optimized traits by integrating emerging breeding, genomic, and synthetic biology tools. In this review we highlight both the progress and the remaining challenges enabled by CEA to reimagine crop design, including enhanced photosynthesis that operates independently of seasonal and circadian limitations, improvements in resource and metabolic efficiency, customized plant architecture, and the reliable, controllable production of high-value compounds. These capabilities position CEA as both a versatile research platform and an efficient, high-yielding production system, bridging fundamental discoveries with real-world crop outcomes to support sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture into the future.
dlvr.it
October 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience
@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science
The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to
www.cam.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...
A new opinion article produced with my colleagues at @plants4space.bsky.social We argue controlled environment agriculture is a good launch pad to translate fundamental research in to agricultural practice.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants
Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricu…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A new opinion article produced with my colleagues at @plants4space.bsky.social We argue controlled environment agriculture is a good launch pad to translate fundamental research in to agricultural practice.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants
@camplantsci.bsky.social newest Associate Professor Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert has published her interesting paper about changes to Amazon forest structure
A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in a study in Nature Plants that tree size increased by 3% each decade. #plantscience 🧪
Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants
A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.
go.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
@camplantsci.bsky.social newest Associate Professor Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert has published her interesting paper about changes to Amazon forest structure
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Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish!
Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.
Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.
Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Bridging the gap: unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era
Matthew Naish - 2024 Tansley Medal Winner
www.newphytologist.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish!
Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.
Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.
Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs
Phytohormones revisited: what makes a compound a hormone in plants #plantscience
Phytohormones revisited: what makes a compound a hormone in plants
Since the discovery of auxins as cell division factors a century ago, impressive scientific advances related to phytohormones have revolutionized plant sciences and human progress. This review examines the key features of the ten hormonal groups that operate in plants, here referred to as the ‘classical ten’: auxins, gibberellins (GAs), cytokinins (CKs), abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene (ETH), salicylates (SAs), jasmonates (JAs), brassinosteroids (BRs), peptide hormones (PEPs), and strigolactones (SLs). By leveraging historical data and sharpening the essentials of each hormonal group, their major functions are presented, with a discussion on what makes a compound a phytohormone and how it can be differentiated from hormone-like compounds and other signaling molecules. Hormonal receptors, long-distance transport, and differences between hormonal crosstalk, interactions, and complementation are discussed to illustrate the basics of hormonal action in plants.
dlvr.it
September 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪