Professor in Interdisciplinary Plant Science at University of Leeds, UK
UKRI Future Leader Fellow
Founder of Black in Plant Science network.
EDI and plasmodesmata activist
Cuban, mother and salsa dancer
Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
The Centre for Plant Science has started. A room for collaboration and celebration of Plant Research and Teaching. University of Leeds.
Our Plenary is Katie Field from University of Sheffield
More beautiful talks and people engaged at the Center for Plant Science Symposium 2026 University of Leeds
New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata.
Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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#teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM
And what better opponent than the brilliant Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social who joined us all the way from Leeds for both Klaudia’s seminar and yesterday’s invited talk! A truly intense and inspiring week for the lab 🌱 (2/2)
In October 2026 we held our second Black in Plant Science (BiPS) Conference at the University of Leeds.
We asked the members of our community why BiPS is important to them, and here is what they had to say: buff.ly/OClLBP3
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this video.
Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄
@leoserra.bsky.social & Euan Smithers from @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...
Looking forward to a great Plant mechanobiology session in Glasgow in July organized as part of www.isocmb.org
Register asap. early bird prices until Friday 22nd.
and plenty of opportunities to be selected for an oral presentation!
Come and join me and Andrew Fleming in Glasgow!!
ALERT. Deadline for abstract submission is Sunday 31/5. Come and join us in Glasgow to discuss plant mechanobiology.
www.linkedin.com/posts/yoseli...
The 6th International Symposium for Mechanobiology, www.isocmb.org is coming to Glasgow from 12th-16th of July 2026, as part of the exciting Synergy for Science federate event. Join me and Luciana Renna at a satellite event on Plant Mechanobiology on the 15th, iop.eventsair.com/synsci26/pla...
In October 2026 we held our second Black in Plant Science (BiPS) Conference at the University of Leeds. We asked the members of our community why BiPS is im...
