Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge

✨ New review out in Current Opinion in Plant Biology! “From roots to nodules: regulation of organogenesis in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis” Many thanks to Dr. Katharina Schiessl for inviting me to work on this! 🌟 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

The food we eat comes with a much greater environmental cost than we thought. In the world’s biggest bird survey conducted across Colombia, scientists @camplantsci found rainforest clearance causes around 60% more biodiversity loss than previously estimated. Here's why this…

Meet 'the man behind the mangroves', Dr Tom Worthington, new A/Prof of Ecology at @camplantsci. He talks about his work in environmental monitoring of mangrove forests & salt marshes - key to the restoration of these precious coastal ecosystems. tinyurl.com/mspem36b

Congratulations to @Seb_EvdA who has received this year's @ISMPMI Early Career Achievement Award - a reflection of his leadership & the brilliant work of members of his lab, over several years. tinyurl.com/mr2d3ubv

🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists: Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉 If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract. Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z ⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!

Gardening and genetics. Featuring: @aylwyn_scally @GeneticsCam on #GregorMendel; Angelo Cano @CUBotanicGarden on #seedbanks; @hendersi @camplantsci on genetic engineering; and @Beverley_CUBG on making plants more attractive: thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

What an incredible opportunity it was to organize Botanicon 2025 with this cool bunch of people! #Botanicon2025

It's live Plants@cambridge, Botanicon. The biggest and best bunch of people working in plants 🪴 sciences around the world. We are on with Pannel discussion. @alan_wanke @slcuplants @camplantsci @Cambridge_Uni

Botanicon 2025 - the 3rd annual Plants @ Cambridge conference bringing together plant scientists from across Cambridge to share their work and ideas. And what a location for a scientific poster session! @camplantsci @CropSciCentre @niabgroup @CUBotanicGarden #PlantsAtCambridge

Congratulations to our Part II students who graduated in June. We wish them the very best with the next phase of their careers and are excited to welcome them to our alumni community! @Cambridge_Uni @Cambridge_SBS

We sat down with Dr Nicola Patron from the Department of Plant Sciences (@camplantsci) and asked: "What does Engineering Biology mean to you?" ---- How do you define #EngineeringBiology? Post in the comments or record your own short video 📹 using the #FacesOfEngBio.

Congratulations to Professor Julian Hibberd on his election to the @EMBO announced today! tinyurl.com/4b3mnsru @Cambridge_Uni @Cambridge_SBS @jmhibber 🧪#PlantSci

We highlight how nodules & lateral roots share regulatory pathways but evolved distinct organ identities. 🌿We also showcase emerging tools — single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and advanced imaging — that are providing fresh insights into the regulation of nodulation. 🧬

🚀 Excited to share our new review published in Trends in Plant Science, coauthored with Dr. Victor Hugo Moura de Souza & Dr. Katharina Schiessl! 🌱 From hosts to parasites: Hormones driving symbiosis-induced de novo organogenesis 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

HYP effector paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (3/3)

The first is that editing events which are phylogenetically and functionally unrelated enlist surprisingly similar genetic machinery The second is that most editing systems were discovered from 1970-2005. We speculate why, and we suggest where to look! (2/3)

New paper @NatureGenet nature.com/articles/s4158… Our most recent thinking on HYP effectors involves programmed shuffling of the parasite genome. This prompted us to review how and when organisms edit their own genomes In so doing, Vincent made two important discoveries... (1/3)

Anoop Tripathi on his research work on grafting rice and millet to develop new crops that are sustainable to climate change. #gatescambridge25 #climatechange #sustainability #farming #agriculture @GatesAlumni @gatesfoundation @EmmaCambridge @camplantsci @anoop333pathi

The Climate Synthetic Biology Society welcomes Dr. Evan Ellison from the Department of Plant Sciences ( @camplantsci) for their final plant-themed talk this term. ✍️ Sign-up here: forms.gle/FHxkB4orwt55vV…

New In Brief article from @minyaojhu & Raphael Ledermann (Oxford) highlights how plants support nitrogen-fixing bacteria by producing heme precursors needed by both partners. A clever case of coordinated nodule metabolism! 🌱🤝🧬doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @camplantsci