Aisha Gerhardt

migrating to @aishagerhardt.bsky.social
PhD candidate @theMehtaLab 👩‍🔬 @KULeuven 🇧🇪 Plant circadian clock 🕒🌱 from 🇩🇪🇧🇷 (she/her)

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

#TansleyInsight: Engineering the plant circadian clock for latitudinal adaptation as a strategy to secure agricultural productivity on a changing planet

Aisha Gerhardt and Devang Mehta

📖 https://t.co/Xv1d4rvXBA

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

Had such a great time + learned a lot during this Data Viz course. Incredibly well taught at an amazing venue, the Wellcome Genome Campus, where 1/3 of the human genome was sequenced for the first time!

[EMBL-EBI Training @EBItraining]

Thank you to all the organisers and participants for joining us at @emblebi for this week's data visualisation for biology course.

Sign up for updates on 'Introduction to multi-omics data integration and visualisation' 2026 course: https://t.co/7rYbONw9Il

@JanAerts

[mary williams @PlantTeaching]

#ICAR2024 Dawn Nagel from UC Riverside is introducing the concurrent session on plant circadian rhythms with an overview of the biological clock and an announcement about the "first ever" plant chronobiology conference, June 2025 (adjacent to ICAR2025 in Belgium).

[KU Leuven Plant Institute @LeuvenPlantInst]

🚨 The Summer issue of our quarterly LPI Magazine is out now!
🌿 Read articles featuring our amazing PIs, alumni, and stories from spring events like the @nerdlandbe Festival. Plus, get insights into our latest research, policy engagements, and more!
🔗https://t.co/mdwFrCU5Zi

[UhrigLab @LabUhrig]

Great talk by former @LabUhrig PDF @drdevangm at #ICAR2024 in San Diego about our recent work published in @ScienceAdvances examining the effects of twilight on the growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana.
https://t.co/xzQIM3fGP2

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

In conventional #plantsci research, plants are often grown in controlled conditions where the lights are just switched on-off at the start and end of day. This is not how day-night transitions work in nature! Do plants care? Turns out, they really do!

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1!
A 🧵on what this really means:
https://t.co/Mevo5CZ8hs

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

My new lab at @biosystkuleuven is working on exactly this. Right now, @FWOVlaanderen PhD fellow @AishaGerhardt, is simulating twilight & seasonal photoperiod and engineering new ⏰ genes to create plants adapted to new latitudes! (Find us at #ICAR2024SanDiego to hear more!)

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

Come join our young lab in Leuven🇧🇪 for some cool research on the plant circadian clock🌱⏰ + exciting proteomics work!! #plantscijobs #fundedphd #KULeuven

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

💡We're hiring!
A 4-year funded PhD position on developing & using interaction proteomics tools to study transcriptional regulation in the plant circadian clock!
#plantscijobs

Please apply here: https://t.co/fZHrQgNsSv

(no citizenship requirements, Master's degree required)

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

🥰

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

🥳Massive massive congratulations to @AishaGerhardt for winning a coveted @FWOVlaanderen PhD Fellowship for her project on discovering the role of the circadian clock in latitudinal adaptation in plants! Hugely deserved, proficiat!

[Mehta Lab @theMehtaLab]

Our research and advocacy for enabling the use of #NGTs #CRISPR in EU agriculture was profiled on @ORF yesterday. (🇩🇪 audio)
Many thanks for the opportunity (and for giving us the last word🙂)

https://t.co/CL5KkgxTsg

[Rohit Sangwan @RohitSa57688885]

What an amazing day 5th PhD Symposium on Molecular Plant Physiology at @PSB_VIB @ugent with my @pgciLab mates and @AishaGerhardt

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

Had a blast at the 5th PhD Symposium on Molecular Plant Physiology & presenting the first poster about my project at
@theMehtaLab ! Thanks to everyone who voted for me and found my project as exciting as I do!! 🌱🕑

🤗@PgciLab
📸@RohitSa57688885

[Eva-Sophie Wallner @ES_Wallner]

Happy to present the first part of my postdoc with @stanfordstomata: the stomatal lineage uses oppositely oriented polarity domains to regulate cell division and fate. In collaboration with @DolanLab (including some exciting Marchantia data). https://t.co/VO0NYsZnDG

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

Heute erstes Mal D-Ticket gekauft. Nur als Abo-Modell, dass ich sofort kündigen muss weil ich es nur 4 Tage lang brauchen werde, trz auf den Preis komme weil DB drastisch überteuert ist? Warum keine 31 Tage ab Zahldatum, und nicht-Abo Option für sporadische User?@Wissing @bmdv?

[Bundesministerium für Verkehr @BMV]

Seit 100 Tagen ist das #DeutschlandTicket ein großer Erfolg für den #ÖPNV! Und das Beste: 1 Mio. der neuen Nutzer sind bislang kaum oder gar nicht ÖPNV gefahren! Das Ticket ermöglicht klimafreundliche Mobilität & wurde seit dem Start am 1. Mai beeindruckende 11 Mio. Mal verkauft.

[Devang Mehta 🌱👨🏽‍🔬🧬 @drdevangm]

In this week’s @nature WorldView column, I write:
“The EU can and should play a greater part in ensuring global food security. I urge both ministers and legislators to…resist calls to further limit this technology.” #NGT #CRISPR

https://t.co/MbTm1CfH4J

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

Can highly recomend the Raissig lab, I had a blast working with them back in Heidelberg, and now the Swiss scenery is a plus!! 🏔🍃

[Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social @MichaelRaissig]

We are hiring! **Please RT**
Interested in cell polarity, plant development, and microscopy?
We offer a 4-year, @snsf_ch-funded PhD position in an enthusiastic, inclusive research group in a beautiful city @unibern @CentreOeschger
https://t.co/eUaGWdFrrS
https://t.co/RAEPGtRs1T

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

@bramvandepoel @theMehtaLab @COSHeidelberg @BASFAgro @CropBioLeuven Thank you!

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

@HeikeLindner @theMehtaLab @COSHeidelberg @BASFAgro 💓

[Aisha Gerhardt @AishaGerhardt]

@thomas_greb @theMehtaLab @COSHeidelberg @BASFAgro Dankeschön😁