🌱 I'm guest editing a new Genome collection with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social & we want your plant biology side projects! Got pilot data, a null result, or an experiment that never made it into a paper? Send it as a Note (2–3 figures). ✨ Open Access, no fees! 🗓️ Nov 30 🔗 cdnsciencepub.com/gen
Olivia Wilkins Lab
@oli-wilkins.bsky.social
I am a plant systems biologist at U Manitoba. Interested in gene regulation, abiotic stress and learning about metabolites.
🌱 Je codirige une nouvelle collection de Genome avec @oli-wilkins.bsky.social & nous voulons vos projets en biologie végétale! Données pilotes, résultat nul ou expérience jamais publiée? Envoyez-la en format compact (2–3 figures). ✨ Libre accès, sans frais! 🗓️ 30 nov. 🔗 cdnsciencepub.com/gen
🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch
Sue Rhee from MSU, who leads the Centre for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Reslience through International Teamwork (c-spirit.org), kicks off our yearly in-person meeting in Yokohama!
🌱 Our 2026 C-SPIRIT All-Hands Meeting! 🌏 Last week, our team gathered in person at RIKEN Yokohama in Japan for pipeline working time, a poster session, networking, and dinner aboard the Yakatabune Suzuyoshi Riverboat 🚢✨ Thank you to our hosts, organizers, and attendees 💚 #PlantScience
Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type specific regulatory programs Robertson et al. @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @c-spirit.org @bar-plantbio.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!
Distinct processes contributing to post- #submergence recovery determine #leaf age-specific #flood resilience in #Arabidopsis academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #PlantScience @plantphys.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social @rsasidharan.bsky.social @isplore.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social
Distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery determine leaf age-specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis
Leaf age-related developmental traits interact with stress signalling pathways to trigger distinct flood recovery mechanisms in Arabidopsis.
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We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social
Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
reactormag.com/white-cat-at... Judith Tarr meets Mogget, in her “cats in genre” series for @reactorsff.bsky.social
White Cat at the Gates of Death: Garth Nix’s Sabriel - Reactor
There is a great deal more to this cat than appears on the surface...
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🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher at MSU in the Rhee Lab! Research on plant–nematode interactions and desiccation tolerance in C. elegans, with collaborations across C-SPIRIT + WALII (@waliianhydro.bsky.social ) 🔗 careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #plantscience
I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)
I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Check out the January 2026 Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) Newsletter to learn more about how C-SPIRIT is helping with the Single-Cell Paper Curation Initiative! #plantscience
Our January 2026 Newsletter is now available! Check it out here: bit.ly/4biqZSP
🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs
Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics Hill et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Renters in Alberta are facing a housing crisis. Expanding supply alone hasn’t solved the problem. Yutaka Dirks, our Senior Policy & Outreach Advisor, explains to Ricochet Media that much of the National Housing Strategy’s funding hasn’t helped people who can’t afford market rents: buff.ly/s527x8y
Want to establish your research program in Canada? The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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The 2025 #CSPB_ERM has officially kicked off, organized by Wilfrid @Laurier University! @cspbscbv.bsky.social
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳 jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources has a wide variety of strengths in forestry and natural resources management, policy and economics, environmental science and technology, wildlif...
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Together with @c-spirit.org, the PCA has curated 186 single cell plant papers to help with ingestion into the EBI's Single Cell Expression Atlas! You can view this list of papers here: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
Translational insights into abiotic interactions: From Arabidopsis to crop plants We highlight milestones in plant hypoxia research contributing to advances in field (and will continue to do so) @roederlab.bsky.social @cargueso.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production! Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan. The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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This week we held our 2025 C-SPIRIT Stakeholder Board Annual Summit: research updates, trust mapping, and big conversations on stakeholder engagement. Our in-person crew also enjoyed dinner & two building tours! See more pics: c-spirit.org/events/photos/ Learn more: c-spirit.org #plantscience
We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀
Launching a new @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. ☘️ Short studies with big impact! 👍ECRs encouraged to submit 🧬 Open Access, No publication fees ➡️Deadline: July 31, 2026 Reach out to me or @oli-wilkins.bsky.social