Congratulations to Professor Sir David Baulcombe - installed as Trinity College, Cambridge's 41st Master of the College this week. Read more ➡️ www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Trinity College installs the 41st Master Sir David Baulcombe

The 41st Master of Trinity Sir David Baulcombe arrived for his installation ceremony on a Brompton bike at Great Gate, overlooked by the College’s founder

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🍄 Get ready for Fungi Field Day! Explore the fascinating world of fungi with guided walks, games, crafts, face painting & hands-on activities. There’s plenty to discover for curious minds of all ages! 📅 Saturday 10 October from 10am and make a day of it. 👉 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rNOQ2O

If you haven’t already seen, registration is still open for the BiPS Conference 2026. We are looking forward to welcoming students at the very beginning of their plant science journey + those that have been leading the way in plant science research. Join us by registering here: buff.ly/jeEVTqZ

Understanding how these circuits generate different behaviours provides valuable information for designing gene circuits with predictable and programmable functions & exploring whether synthetic mixed positive and negative feedback loops allow other properties of gene expression to be tuned.

🧬 How can simple gene circuits create complex cell behaviours? James Locke’s team shows how a common genetic circuit, combining positive & negative feedback loops, can be tuned to produce a wide range of gene-expression patterns 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-sim...

We are looking forward to welcoming our network and community to this year's annual BiPS Conference. We are also aware that there are constraints to accessing this event. Therefore, we are offering travel grants to the first 10 eligible applicants. For more details, follow the link: buff.ly/LSNSi6G

None of this work would have been possible without many helpers and funding from @ukri.org NSER @camplantsci.bsky.social @peterhousecam.bsky.social 🙏 11/11

Very proud of our newest paper now @pnas.org led by @danai-kontou.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social with @laurentianu.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social Queens U. It's perhaps one of the most genuine "discoveries" we've ever made 🔬 Read it for free 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧵

🌳How do habitat restoration projects impact the broader landscape? A new @camplantsci.bsky.social & @sheffielduni.bsky.social-led study offers the most comprehensive look to date at how restoration efforts across sub-Saharan Africa affect tree loss beyond project boundaries. 👉 tinyurl.com/5ev2mbdc

Using airborne LiDAR technology across 569 km² of the Cairngorms, a Cambridge-led team mapped over six million trees in 3D, proving the success of landscape-scale deer management. 👉 tinyurl.com/2d3b7tju @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @clr-cambridge.bsky.social 🧪

@joopvermeer.bsky.social discusses integration of mechanical feedback in the formation of lateral roots in his #SLS26 talk "Integration of 3-dimensional differential growth within a tissue by a set of microtubule associated proteins" Read more about the Vermeer lab work: www.unine.ch/lbmc/

@thomasgreb.bsky.social shares investigations into plant vascular tissue development at #SLS26 studying repressor proteins and external cues like water availability Find out more: www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-... #PlantScience

How do plants grow cups? Leonie Kraska shared her research at #SLS26 investigating the development and plasticity of Marchantia polymorpha gemma cups - organs with a distinct concave geometry #PlantScience

Begonia possesses remarkable diversity in leaf size and shape. Lucy Turnbull shared her research at #SLS26 investigating leaf morphogenic variation through transcriptomic analyses. #PlantScience

@keikoutorii.bsky.social shared her work investigating patterning & differentiation in stomata in her #SLS26 talk "The plant-specific ACTL domain determines bHLH transcription factor heterodimeric partner selectivity during stomatal development" More at: plant-stomata.org #PlantScience

Time is running out to apply to join the #EngBio Early Career Research Committee! ⌛ This is your chance to contribute to the University of Cambridge engineering biology community. Find out more and apply: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/join-engbio-...

Are you a Cambridge University student & interested in the work of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social? We are seeking a student member of the Garden Syndicate, our governing body. A fantastic opportunity to bring your perspective to the Garden & play a role in its future. Find out more: bit.ly/4jrZHgL

🧬 Looking for a PhD in the biosciences? Applications are open for the Cambridge Biosciences DTP, offering fully funded PhD opportunities across a range of research areas. 📅 Deadline: 8 December 2026 🔗 bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply #PhD #Biosciences

With provisional data from @metoffice.gov.uk showing this summer to be the UK’s hottest on record & a drought having been declared across much of England, @beverleycubg.bsky.social analyses the impacts of drought on plants & pollinators. 📽️ tinyurl.com/3f32xt6d @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social 🧪

We're delighted to announce Yuval Elani, Professor of Biochemical Technologies, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, as our first keynote speaker for the forthcoming #EngBioForum on 12 November 2026. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

📢 Workshop Announcement! 1. Leading authentically at every career stage: as a Black scientist 2. Building your 'Brand' as a scientist 3. Exploring Careers Beyond Academia (back by popular demand) Learn more on our website: buff.ly/mF4TveH

Very excited to share the new preprint from our lab on transcriptional memory and immune priming! Herculean effort from first authors Linhao and Jenia. Epigenome-engineering experiments provide evidence that H3K4me3 plays a causal role!  doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Engineering chromatin to encode transcriptional immune memory in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750729v1

This was a fun project. We show that dim green light is a useful alternative to infrared for night time imaging of plants. Allows colour imaging at night! doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social 🧪 #plants

Save the date for the next #EngBioForum! Theme and speaker announcements coming soon... 👀

How will our crops adapt to a high-CO₂ future? Research from @paszkowskilab.bsky.social with the University of Copenhagen shows how rising CO₂ affects nutrient uptake in rice & highlights the importance of beneficial soil fungi for sustaining crop yields. tinyurl.com/33c9fbxz 🧪

Listen to Dr Jake Harris on BBC Radio 4's Lab-Grown Life talking about his work to make synthetic chromosomes to rewrite the DNA of crops like potatoes & add new traits like disease-resistance & climate-change resilience. (interview from 7.20s) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🧪

BBC Radio 4 - Lab-Grown Life

Caroline Steel explores how synthetic biology is helping us to engineer life.

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The next Theme lead we're meeting is Andrew Grant in the Organisms, Evolution and Planetary Resilience team. Andrew studies how food-borne bacterial pathogens interact with hosts to cause disease. Learn more about our #ResearchThemes: www.bio.cam.ac.uk #BiologicalSciences @camvetschool.bsky.social

Applications are invited to our programme supporting early career researchers to establish their own independent research groups. Please circulate and further details of how to apply by 25 September are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind... #Biochemistry #EarlyCareer #Postdocs #Science

Also, big should out to my postdoc, Yang, who took that classy photo of GFP moss!

Enjoyed being interviewed as part of BBC radio 4's program 'Lab Grown Life' www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... with big thanks to our ARIA team of course, @jamespblloyd.bsky.social @ryanlister.bsky.social Phytoform labs (including @colleendrapek.bsky.social), and Ian Paulsen & Briardo Llorente!

Lab-Grown Life - BBC Sounds

Caroline Steel explores how synthetic biology is helping us to engineer life.

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