CambPlants

Providing funding, knowledge exchange and translational support to plant science researchers at the University of Cambridge 🌱
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[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

We're now on #LinkedIn 🎉 Check out and follow our Department of Plant Sciences page 🌱 to keep up to date with all our latest job opportunities as well as exciting developments happening at the Department 💫 #plantscience #plantsciencejobs
Click here 👉https://t.co/nB0yQU3mwM

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Our @ecochangegroup are hiring again 🌎 This time for a postdoc to work on a new Canada-Inuit Nunangat-UK project funded by @NERCscience @POLARCanada and @FRQ_NT 🇨🇦 tracking wildlife pathogens in Arctic waterways using eDNA 🧬
Job details 👉https://t.co/AnzfEgk45a

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

We're recruiting for a postdoctoral researcher 🥼 to be based at our OpenPlant Laboratory directed by Professor Jim Haseloff 🔬 to help develop new synthetic biology tools for engineering metabolism in the model plant Marchantia polymorpha 🌱
Job details 👉https://t.co/4BQeaia6Ez

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

New Research Associate job going working with @alexwebblab Head of our Circadian Signal Transduction Research Group ⏰ and @slcuplants' James Locke 🌱 doing computational biology related to the wheat circadian clock 🌾 Deadline 15 May 📅
See job details 👉https://t.co/kIMfZx26Wm

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Our @ecochangegroup is delighted to offer a fully funded 💰 6-8 week undergraduate research placement through the @AI4ER_CDT programme 🌱 The placement is open to all @Cambridge_Uni undergraduates returning for another year of study 📚
Details here 👉https://t.co/oqjq2bjtD6

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

For the first time you can see all @Cambridge_Uni's plant-related activity in one place 🌱 The new website showcases the work of the Department of #PlantSciences, Botanic Garden, Sainsbury Lab, Herbarium, Crop Science Centre and Conservation Institute 👉https://t.co/2AXjpN3KXV

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

You've likely heard of the dirty dozen 📽️ but have you heard of the wild dozen? @CUBotanicGarden's new exhibition explores how these 12 wild plant species 🌼 are in everything from our tea to our cosmetics 💄putting them at risk from over-harvesting 👉https://t.co/5jFCvLaazF

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Feeling grateful we can take our students on field trips again 🌱 Our IB Plant and Microbial Sciences students have just returned from a fantastic sunshine-filled trip to Portugal 🇵🇹 where they conducted practical techniques including fungal symbiont staining and nectar assays 🌸

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

The streets of #Cambridge sure do look beautiful this time of year with the trees heavy with #blossom 🌸 This delightful scene was captured by Head of our Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants Group @hendersi 📸 #BlossomWatch

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Come on down to the new Museum site on Bene't Street on Saturday 2 April 10.00-16.00 📅 for our @Cambridge_Fest event the Microscopic Mycorrhizal Maze 🍄 Enter these fungi's microscopic world, find out how they help plants grow and play games🌱 See more 👉https://t.co/9YvxZvsbXO

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

🚨 @CamUniFestivals 2022⁠
'A world of tastes: nature, culture and the making of the palate'⁠
🗓️ 8 April at 17:30
📍 Online & Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge
➞ https://t.co/i7l8HiKOLH
Organised by @gloknos, @GlobalFood_Camb and @CambPlants
#CamFest

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

'Archaeobotany and plant archaeogenetics: problems, prospects and potential for global #food security.'

🥑🍅🍎

Join us on 25 March at 2 pm GMT, to hear Dr Daniel Fuks (Archealogy) discuss this pertinent topic: https://t.co/uNr8gPpGH2

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

Join us on 18 March at 2 pm GMT for our discussion with Broderick House (Zoology):
🦪
'Urban #bivalves: exploring new seafood #aquaculture opportunities for #food security.' : https://t.co/5cDhwgNJzr

[gloknos @gloknoscentre]

Join us at the @Cambridge_Fest on 8 April for a hybrid event on Alternative Proteins w/ Blake Byrne, @daniel_ibsen, Will Saunter, @berytia, Joe Halstead & @payammehrshahi | @CRASSHlive @GlobalFood_Camb @plantsci @agrigrub @CUAltProteins Bookings: https://t.co/YcyZzNTXt4

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

Would you like to meet other people interested in global #food security? 🥬🥗🥑

Join our #Fika Group before 6 May to share your professional interests/knowledge, and maybe find a new collaborator.

Find out more here: https://t.co/FSrXBARM1X

@CropSciCentre

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

Join us on 11 March at 2 pm, GMT, to listen to Dr James Borrell (Kew Gardens) discussing the following topic:

#Ethiopia and 'the tree against hunger': Strategies for unifying wild and #agrobiodiversity #conservation?

More information here: https://t.co/y12MSFRCb7

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

Join us at the @Cambridge_Fest!

We have partnered with the @gloknoscentre to bring you our event: 'A WORLD OF TASTES: NATURE, CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF THE PALATE'
on 8 April at 5.30 pm GMT.

#CamFest

Please find booking information here: https://t.co/PW3SLWCipV

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

'How will Russia's invasion of #Ukraine affect global #food security?' 🤔

Join us on 4 March at 2 pm GMT, to discuss this with Dr Joseph Glauber and David Laborde (IFPRI): https://t.co/kSS0qRRS6P

[CambPlants @CambPlants]

The 2022 @Cambridge_Fest programme has been published! Take a look at some of our events: https://t.co/CjwWi3Un8v
@CropSciCentre

#CamFest

[GlobalFoodSecurity @GlobalFood_Camb]

'Archaeobotany and plant archaeogenetics: problems, prospects and potential for global food security.'

🥑🍅🍎

Join us on 4 March at 2 pm GMT, to hear Dr Daniel Fuks (Archealogy) discuss this pertinent topic: https://t.co/uNr8gPpGH2