First day of new PhD student, working under the MSCA-DTN Future Forest 🌳 welcome Abiodun! I look forward to working with you

Learn something new for @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's #NationalTreeWeek and catch up on talks from last month's webinar all 'aabout' Trees & Forest Biology!

@vilasjohn.bsky.social 🌳 👉 youtu.be/qfU_2hporAo?si=qyFiNL8EpUlOSLGJ
@drelunadiez.bsky.social 🧬👉 youtu.be/ef31SaHOIcc?si=DB9NxwxJNRPM_xzz

Saying goodbye to my MSci Biological Sciences tutees after 4 years of being their tutor 🥲 they have both done amazing and I’m sure they will have a bright future. Stay in touch!

#EidMubarak  to everyone that celebrates. This year, a few weeks ago, my group and I fasted for a day in support of the Muslims members. It was a fantastic but really tough experience. We learnt a lot about Ramadan and at 6.02 pm we celebrated our efforts with a lovely dinner 🥘

Elevated CO₂: a double‐edged sword for plant defence against pathogens Click on the article title to read more.

🔉🔉New article alert! We wrote a commentary on the article by Bredow et al "Elevated CO₂: a double-edged sword for plant defence against pathogens" doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Bredow et al: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Check them both out in the new issue of @newphyt.bsky.social

World leaders at the London summit are seen smiling at each other and putting their arms around each other after the official group photo. Zelenskyy is smiling at Mark Rutte of NATO and Trudeau is seen putting his arm on the back of Donald Tusk. The photo carries a feeling of warmth and friendship. The photo is credited to Javad Parsa of NTB and was published by Reuters

Photo of the Day.

Allies.

Elicitor Specific Mechanisms of Defence Priming in Oak Seedlings Against Powdery Mildew We performed transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses of chemical-induced priming in oak seedlings against powdery mildew. Different priming elicitors have specific impacts on defence, with β-amino ...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT! We demonstrate priming of defence in oak seedlings with different elicitors. BABA is the most effective, could we use this approach in tree nurseries to protect young oaks from powdery mildew? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌳 @uktreescapes.bsky.social

125th Anniversary Scholarships for Black British Researchers - University of Birmingham This new scholarship scheme will fund up to 10 talented Black students who want to pursue a postgraduate research degree in Autumn 2025.

Project information: preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/study/postgr...

Fully Funded PhD opportunity in my group! 125th Anniversary PhD Scholarship at @unibirmingham @UoBbiosciences studying (epi)genome plasticity in oaks at the @BIFoRUoB FACE facilities. Black & Black mixed heritage students (UK/Home-fee eligible)
30 April 2025 – RT🙏 More info👇

Text reading 'Researcher Spotlight. Dr Estrella Luna-Diez, University of Birmingham.' Below the text is a photo of Dr Estrella Luna-Diez working in the field.

The sun shines through the canopy in a woodland.

Text reading 'Read the Report.' Below the text is a photo of Dr Estrella Luna-Diez working in the field.

This week it was #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 🔬
It was great to work with @drelunadiez.bsky.social of @unibirmingham.bsky.social to highlight her work to understand the priming of defence in forest trees🌳

Learn more: ow.ly/e4eP50UVNNe

Branch of beech tree, Fagus sylvatica, with nuts and green leaves.

Warmer summers are causing European beeches to produce seed more often, depleting the trees’ stored resources—an indirect effect of climate change that is threatening the sustainability of Europe’s most widespread forest tree. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This image is a promotional and motivational message for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which is celebrated on February 11th. The phrase in Spanish, "Las mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres calculan, investigan y descubren" (translated as "Women no longer cry; women calculate, investigate, and discover"), is a strong statement emphasizing the role of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) based on a liric from a Shakira's song.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪

Summer Studentships

I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

Winter graduation at Uni of Birmingham and two MRes students have celebrated their achievements 🙌 congrats George and Cameron

On my way to Innsbruck (Austria) to visit Ilse Kramer and talk all about trees and climate change 🌳

Congratulations Max for passing your PhD viva yesterday! ☺️ I’m very proud, and wish you the best of luck for your exciting postdoc position in Zurich! Thanks to Steven Spoel and @drelunadiez.bsky.social for examining, and @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social for chairing 🌱🧬 🎉

@katiestevens.bsky.social

Developmentally regulated generation of a systemic signal for long‐lasting defence priming in tomato Tomato is a major global crop. However, its production is limited by Botrytis cinerea. Due to the toxicity of postharvest pesticide application, alternative control methods such as priming are being...

📢 New paper published in New Phytologist with our work in tomato & priming mobile signals. Katie Stevens’ PhD project so very proud of this work 💪 Thank you to all the co-authors 🍅 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...