News, research and updates from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.🌱🔬 🌾
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/
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Booking is now open for our next One-day meeting in September as part of the Alumni Festival 2026. @clr-cambridge.bsky.social
Regenerating the British Countryside: From Evidence to Action
Friday 18 September 2026, 09:00– 17:00
Info & Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...
New research from @tulaneu.bsky.social with Dr Tom Worthington from @camplantsci.bsky.social, shows global mangrove forests - vital for carbon storage & coastal resilience - are making a recovery.
Read more: tinyurl.com/497p6hft
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk🧪
Wonderful team, mentor and place to work. Apply!
Back to where it started... Productive trip up north last week to visit @marcknightcalcium.bsky.social, though I don't want to run another western blot for a very long time... 🌱🪼
Prof Nik Cunniffe to lead Cambridge contribution to #PhytoPRISM – a new a €6 million EU Horizon project to build the first platform capable of coordinating Europe's response to devastating agricultural and forest pest invasions.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mvd3yt4j
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
New research from involving @camplantsci.bsky.social published in @nature.com today, reveals a hidden cost of the 'green mineral rush' in widespread deforestation across Africa.
Read more about the paper: tinyurl.com/35ea4mdf
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
Shape Makers: How plants take shape.
First time using LEGO to communicate how plants shape their leaves - huge hit!
Leaf Bingo and dissecting a flower also popular!
Despite rain lots of fun at The Festival of Plants.
Thank you to our amazing scientist volunteers!
🌿Plant Picks of the Week
This week’s standout plants are looking their best across the Garden.
🌱Galactites tomentosa
🌱Aloe polyphylla
🌱Oenothera macrocarpa
🌱Celtica gigantea
🌱Aesculus californica
Seen any highlights on your visit?
More here: https://bit.ly/4wiDohA
This episode is now available on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Research Assistant (Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge)
Join @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team studying plant development & mechanics. Work with Arabidopsis, Marchantia & maize. Applications close 15 June 2026.
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/rob...
🔗 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#plantscijobs
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge
Bryony Jacobs
Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge
Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Dr Susannah Lydon
Jim Rowe
How trees first arose from small plants and changed the world, and why new trees emerge.
#PlantSciJobs 🌱
Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2)
Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning
Applications close:
5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK
17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
Palaeobotany on the radio at 9am!
@christophermberry.bsky.social and Jenny McElwain talking about the Evolution of Forests on In Our Time on Radio 4.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
#Paleobotany
Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
Listen to the latest episodes of In Our Time on BBC Sounds.
