www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

The post-fertilization archegonium gene network of seedless plants contributed to the origin of seeds - Nature Communications

The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this netwo...

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Always, always make sure your reporter lines are stable. elifesciences.org/articles/112...

Correction: Control of Arabidopsis shoot stem cell homeostasis by two antagonistic CLE peptide signalling pathways

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And in George’s own words…

George R. L. Greiff@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

Meant to say: Happy to celebrate the first of my former PhD student George Greiff’s first author papers from his *BBSRC SWBioDTP* funded PhD work in my lab today. Thanks to the DTP for the funding!

Happy to celebrate the first of my former PhD student George Greiff’s first author papers from his funded PhD work in my lab today. Aiming to analyse CLAVATA/WOX interactions in Physco, a first step was to address PpWOX13LC function, which he found to suppress polysety. Moss photo: Des O’Callaghan

Long term collaborator @reskilab.bsky.social is looking for person to continue the great plant biology lab in Freiburg. If you have the right skills you should apply.

German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology 📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social Start: 1 April 2027 Application deadline: 10 July 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Happy to be teaching some durable plant identification skills to 15 Bristol Biology students taking this year’s plant biodiversity and ecology field course at Croyde. Windy for project work in the field today, but thankfully no longer lashing with rain!

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

A nice article on moss dieback featuring George Greiff’s work ☺️https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g48jy4j1yo

Killer fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plant

A newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.

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I enjoyed thinking about some of the people who have been important to me at different points of my academic journey for this Q & A in Current Biology. I hope some of you enjoy it too! authors.elsevier.com/a/1muUD3QW8S...

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations

American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Join us for the upcoming ASPB Member webinar on Thursday, April 9, at 2 pm Eastern time, organized by ASPB’s Women in Plant Biology Committee. 👉 Learn more and register at buff.ly/J4OKsTV. #PlantScience

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

This looks fab!

If you're studying #Agriculture #PlantBreeding and would be interested in #IndustryPlacement experience, there is an opportunity at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Breeding Station in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: jobs.kws.com/job/Thriplow... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceUK #outdoorclassroom

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

📣 Applications are currently open for a @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Summer Studentship working with @cgrandel.bsky.social and the Earlham #Biofoundry team. 🌱 This is a great opportunity for Black undergraduate students to gain experience in #automation and #syntheticbiology in plants. 🧬

Black in Plant Science Summer Studentship 2026

For the second time we will be offering Black undergraduate students from universities across the UK the opportunity to undertake a research experience placement at a UK university or research…

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JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Brilliant to see these guys graduating today and to attend my first UoB ceremony. Huge congratulations to Dr Liu, Dr Greiff and Dr Jeal, and look forward very much to hearing about the difference you make in the future!

A new 2 year post in our team at the Milner Centre in Bath - single cell transcriptomics, non-coding RNA, stomatal physiology and evolution, all rolled into one. Really exciting project and excellent collaborators in Sheffield too! Please share, details here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Are you a researcher looking to help the next generation of plant scientists gain valuable experience? Then consider applying to host a Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer! 📆Apply by Tues 10 March Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health... #PlantHealth

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?

From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...

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Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Efficient CRISPR-Cas genome editing in brown algae

Brown algae, a key yet understudied lineage of multicellular eukaryotes, have long lacked tools for functional genomics. Martinho et al. introduce a high-efficiency, transgene-free CRISPR platform ena...

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Thursday is the last chance to apply for a NERC GW4 funded PhD to work with me and James Clark at Bath on roles for WOX genes in the evolution of plant life histories. The project builds on prior work showing a divergence in function after duplication in mosses. www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (NERC) | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol

Find out about the Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership, a multidisciplinary training environment for postgraduate students in NERC sciences.

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🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨ We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Phylogeny, chromosomal mapping and expression analyses of wheat CLAVATA pathway components suggest differential selection on receptor‐like kinases, CLEs and T3 WOXes

The Arabidopsis CLAVATA pathway regulates shoot apex and fruit size, and disrupting CLAVATA function has led to yield improvement in crops. Despite its central position in agriculture, the potential ...

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Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution

YouTube video by University of Oxford

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