Our new website is live! 🚀 #RE-IMAGINE-CROPS is bringing together multimodal imaging & AI to help plants thrive in a changing climate. 🌍🌱 Check out how we’re working towards sustainable agriculture and stronger crops: 👉 re-imagine-crops.eurobioimaging.eu

Our partner, @sonycsl-paris.bsky.social, will be hosting Faisal Sani Bala next Wednesday 29 April for their weekly seminars! He will explore sinusoidally modulated fluorescence imaging for non-invasive detection of phosphorus stress in plants. Join at 2 PM CET teams.microsoft.com/meet/2934428...

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New method uncovers inter-cellular variation in photoprotection that could inform precision agriculture 📰 www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Read the research by Aliénor Lahlou, et al.: 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @dream-eic.eu

Single-cell imaging and machine learning reveal hidden coordination in algae’s response to light stress

Researchers from several Parisian institutions worked together to develop a non-destructive approach to study how unicellular organisms respond to stress, focusing on cell-to-cell differences.

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Interplay between high-energy quenching and state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: a single-cell approach Lahlou et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our project coordinator, Ludovic Julien, presented research on photochemical activation by our project partners from @sorbonne-universite.fr, École normale supérieure, @cnrs.fr, and @chimieens.bsky.social. Watch out his seminar at Collège de France. 💡🌿 youtu.be/HDdQApEaiuA

Activation photochimique (2) - Louis Fensterbank (2024-2025)

YouTube video by Physique et chimie - Collège de France

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Our partner Ian Coghill @psl-univ.bsky.social and colleagues published a preprint on enhancing fluorescence imaging using spatiotemporal light modulation. 🔬 The methods and custom microscope are documented and available at @optica.org Open. 🔓 doi.org/10.1364/opti...

New project publication! Our partners developed an open-hardware, affordable, and accessible macroscope. 🔬🔓 Congratulations Ian Coghill, Aliénor Lahlou, Andrea Lodetti, Shizue Matsubara, Thomas Le Saux, and Ludovic Jullien! 🙌 Read the open access @optica.org publication at doi.org/10.1364/OE.5...

The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪 Here you will find: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources

Our project partners from @SorbonneUniversity and @ecolenormalesuperieure @cnrs will introduce our #HorizonEU project @EuroBioImaging “Plant Imaging Expert Group“ meeting! 🌿🔬 Hear from Ludovic Jullien, Aliénor Lahlou, and Ian Coghill on Wednesday 24 September, at 13:00 CEST

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Andrea Lodetti, has his poster at the European Plant Phenomics Symposium #EPPS2025! Check his research on “Sensing the Dynamic Response of Photosynthesis to Abiotic Stressors with Forced Oscillating Light” today from 17:30–19:00 or tomorrow 15:45–17:00!

Our project partners from @SorbonneUniversity and @ecolenormalesuperieure @cnrs will introduce our #HorizonEU project @EuroBioImaging “Plant Imaging Expert Group“ meeting! 🌿🔬 Hear from Ludovic Jullien, Aliénor Lahlou, and Ian Coghill this Wednesday 24 September, at 13:00 CEST

[WEBINAR] The power of luminescent probes✨ FBI member Ludovic Jullien (Department of Chemistry, ENS) is organizing a webinar exploring the use of luminescent probes for sensing applications. 📅 When? Thursday, September 11 – 9:30–11:30 am 🔗 Join here: bit.ly/4geydrj

Last night, participants got to see instruments in action, from systems that control light fluctuations to devices that measure photosynthetic parameters! 🔬💡🪴 Our @horizoneu.bsky.social summer school and workshop brings together physicists and biologists to come closer to understand photosynthesis.

Join our online webinar 18 September on how New Genomic Techniques #NGTs can significantly contribute to sustainable agriculture in Europe! 🇪🇺 🌾 ✅ Free registrations at lnkd.in/dMj8ThfM Secure your place and participate in shaping Europe’s sustainable agricultural future!

Precision agriculture is already helping farmers make more informed decisions! Our EU-funded team is working on lighting sensors for indoor farming to help reduce energy and water needs. @sarahsloat.bsky.social writes for @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/iot-technolo...

Farmers are using IoT to take the guesswork out of growing

Farmers are eager to save time and cut costs. Precision agriculture and IoT technology might be the answer.

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A new research article from our team was selected as a hot topic at @chemistryeurope.bsky.social! 🔎 🔥 Discover this “Modular Low-Cost 3D Uniformly Illuminated Mini-Photoreactor with Versatile In-Situ Analysis.” 📰 Read the open-access article at advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Modular Low‐Cost 3D Uniformly Illuminated Mini‐Photoreactor with Versatile In‐Situ Analysis

A “green” Do-It-Yourself (DIY)-realizable mini-photoreactor made from cheap commercially available parts delivers unprecedented 3D uniform illumination with minimal wastage of photons, and additional....

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Join us this August in the Czech Republic for “Plants and Algae in the Frequency Domain”, a workshop and summer school that brings frequency domain analysis to plant biology! 💡〰️🌱 Pre-register and get more information at dream-eic.eu/2025-summer-...

Plants and Algae in the Frequency Domain – 2025 Summer School and Workshop

Join us for a groundbreaking workshop and summer school that brings frequency domain analysis to plant biology!

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Researchers from our #HorizonEU project have recently released a preprint on how Arabidopsis thaliana responds to oscillating light patterns similar to those in nature!💡 ”The model simulations provided mechanistic insight into molecular processes forming the plant response to oscillating light.“ 📊

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2y ago

Constitutive and regulatory responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to harmonically oscillating light https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637059v1

High energy costs still challenge indoor farming, but our #EUfunded project sees potential for progress. We are developing methods to optimize indoor lighting for plants based on their photosynthesis dynamics. 🌱💡 Another similar news we’re reading: www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Gloucestershire vertical farm is one of UK's 'most advanced'

Salad crops are grown indoors under lights three times faster than in traditional agriculture.

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Phil Metcalfe@philipimetcalfe.bsky.social · 2y ago

In a world where the climate and seasonal weather patterns become less predictable, and where food security along with biodiversity, water quality and flood risk are impacted by extreme weather events, controlled environment agriculture seems to make more sense than ever news.sky.com/story/could-...

In case you missed it, Aliénor Lahlou, an early career researcher on our #HorizonEU project, was awarded the Prix de la Chancellerie for her PhD work! 👏 Her thesis on dynamic photosynthesis monitoring is helping us develop better lighting, instruments, & data processing for indoor agriculture! 💡🌱

ESPCI Alumni@espcialumni.bsky.social · 2y ago

👏 Aliénor Lahlou #ESPCIAlum est lauréate d'un Prix solennel de thèse de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris : www.sorbonne.fr/la-chancelle... pour sa thèse "Imagerie par contraste dynamique de la fluorescence endogène des plantes" theses.fr/2023SORUS384 Voir aussi : doi.org/10.1002/advs...

New DREAM publication! 🔎 Our coordinator @sorbonne-universite.fr (@cnrs.bsky.social) has published about two new protocols (RIOM and HIOM) that could make current costly imaging cheaper and easier in fields like biology and chemistry. 🎦💲📉 Read their paper at doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Periodic Light Modulations for Low‐Cost Wide‐Field Imaging of Luminescence Kinetics Under Ambient Light

Imaging fast luminescence kinetics has required costly camera setups. The RIOM and HIOM protocols relying on modulated illumination are introduced to make this possible with standard low-cost cameras...

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