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Joe McKenna
@joemckenna.bsky.social
BBSRC Discovery Fellow / Assistant Professor @warwicklifesci.bsky.social‬
Mad about Plant Cell Biology / Cytoskeleton / Organelle Dynamics
Anybody tried any mScarlet3 antibodies on a western blot and got any recommendations? Cheers!
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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🥬 Supported by a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, researcher Jamie Pike is connecting Earlham Institute's expertise, pipelines, and software tools with Tozer Seeds cutting-edge R&D environment to inform and develop #crop breeding. 🧬

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#agriscience #genomics #plantbreeding
Collaborating to create resilient celery
Earlham Institute and Tozer seeds are working together to harness celery diversity and develop varieties that meet the needs of both producers and consumers.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Great opportunity in a fantastic new growing group! Apply apply apply!
Come work with me!

I am hiring a senior research technician to help me discover novel phage genes with antibiofilm properties. We will create metagenomic libraries, program robots, sequence viral metagenomes and many more fun things.

The application deadline is 02-Dec-25.

shorturl.at/GErUo
Senior Research Technician (111019-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Senior Research Technician (111019-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Come work with me!

I am hiring a senior research technician to help me discover novel phage genes with antibiofilm properties. We will create metagenomic libraries, program robots, sequence viral metagenomes and many more fun things.

The application deadline is 02-Dec-25.

shorturl.at/GErUo
Senior Research Technician (111019-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Senior Research Technician (111019-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Thanks!! Credits to the microscopy imaging and cool 3D reconstructions go to @joemckenna.bsky.social 😉
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed!

Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR
Deadline approaching: Friday 15 August

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová.

www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...
August 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Deadline approaching: Friday 15 August

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová.

www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...
August 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Always a pleasure to engage with the many brilliant 🤩 #earlycareer researchers presenting their work at #ICAR2025

Here’s just two of them:
🤩Ann-Kathrin Rößling @uni-freiburg.de
🤩Álvaro Daniel Fernández-Fernández @ethz.ch

#plantsignaling
#plantimmunity
#plantreceptors
June 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Joe McKenna
Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you!

We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun!

🌱🔬💻🤓
Applications are now open for funded early-career researcher places at out Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'.

Organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová.

biologists.com/workshops/fe...

#Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology
June 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Joe McKenna
Applications are now open for funded early-career researcher places at out Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'.

Organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová.

biologists.com/workshops/fe...

#Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology
May 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
Stepwise increase in plasmodesmata during C4 evolution in Flaveria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649591v1
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Deeply saddened by the news that David Stephens died last night.
David was an outstanding cell biologist based at Bristol whose work spanned #MembraneTraffic #cytoskeleton #ciliogenesis + more. He was “one of the good guys”. Kind, supportive, generous with his time, and rigorous about his science. 🧪
October 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM