This will be an absolutely fantastic webinar!!!!

FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg) Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale. #FocalPlaneFeatures focalplane.biologists.com Image of a segmented root

We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy.

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🌱🔬If you’re a plant biologist using imaging in your research, check back with us on Monday for an exciting announcement! @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social

#teaser #plantbiology #microscopy

Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods.

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A limestone cave in Western Australia where the Karri tree roots extend the whole height of the massive cavern in search of nutrients and water.

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A limestone cave in Western Australia where the Karri tree 🌳roots extend the whole height of the massive cavern in search of nutrients and water.

Xero branching in action! 📷💪

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

Jeez! @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social is the man!

15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’
Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu
Please check out the website and apply there
Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

Workshop venue seating with speakers with introduction by Helen Zenner from Company of Biologists

Picture of entrance to Buxted Park

English countryside with sheep

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

A huge thank you to Joe, Alex, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together an absolutely amazing community in plant imaging 🌱🔬 in the stunning Sussex countryside.

📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London
🌱 Start: Oct 2026
📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
🇬🇧 UK/settled status only
💰 Fully funded (48 months)
ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/po61I
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #SyntheticBiology
🙏 Share with interested candidates!

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

Anybody tried any mScarlet3 antibodies on a western blot and got any recommendations? Cheers!

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.

🥬 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

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

Thanks!! Credits to the microscopy imaging and cool 3D reconstructions go to @joemckenna.bsky.social 😉

Super elegant demonstration!

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

Promotional flyer for the workshop titled "Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales", scheduled for 22–25 February 2026 at Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. The flyer invites applicants from diverse scientific backgrounds and highlights a deadline of 15 August 2025. It lists organisers: Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna, and Markéta Šamajová, and features a lineup of speakers including Malcolm Bennett, Federica Brandizzi, Inge De Clercq, Murray Grant, Robert Hasse, Byung Ho Kang, Charlotte Kirchhelle, James Manton, Alex Martineire, Valerian Meline, Marisa S Otegui, Priya Ramakrishna, Florian Schur, Markus Schwarzländer, Richard Smith, and Daniel von Wangenheim. The right side of the flyer shows an image of Buxted Park. At the bottom are logos and social media icons for The Company of Biologists, along with the website workshops.biologists.com and hashtag #BiologistsWorkshops.

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.

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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

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!

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Really excited for this workshop and we have a fantastic lineup of speakers! All ECRs interested in Plant imaging please apply! DM me if any questions!

Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales Organisers: Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová Early-career researchers click to apply for funded places 22-25 February 2026 Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

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.

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#Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology

Well deserved!

Looks like fantastic work!

🌿 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

Amazing, congrats @mafesenko.bsky.social! Super well deserved!

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. 🧪