Earlham Institute
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
A hub of #lifescience research, training, and innovation focused on understanding the natural world through the lens of #genomics.
📍 Norwich, UK
🔗 earlham.ac.uk
📍 Norwich, UK
🔗 earlham.ac.uk
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Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields
Scientists at the Earlham Institute and the John Innes Centre are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.
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🆕 Out now in @theplantcell.bsky.social scientists from Earlham Institute and
@johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to map the expression of 200 genes across four stages of wheat development, revealing new insights to help boost wheat production.
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#genomics 💻🧬
@johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to map the expression of 200 genes across four stages of wheat development, revealing new insights to help boost wheat production.
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#genomics 💻🧬
Registration open!
Led by our #DNAReplication Group, this online course covers principles and practice of modified base detection, visualisation, and experimental considerations for ultra long #sequencing reads. 🧬💻
🗓️ 13-14 May 2026
📍 Online (via Zoom)
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Image: @nanoporetech.com
Led by our #DNAReplication Group, this online course covers principles and practice of modified base detection, visualisation, and experimental considerations for ultra long #sequencing reads. 🧬💻
🗓️ 13-14 May 2026
📍 Online (via Zoom)
👉 buff.ly/3ac0FPQ
Image: @nanoporetech.com
Detection of DNA base modification using nanopore sequencing 2026
In this comprehensive two-day course, participants will learn how to use nanopore sequencing to detect DNA base modifications.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Registration open!
Led by our #DNAReplication Group, this online course covers principles and practice of modified base detection, visualisation, and experimental considerations for ultra long #sequencing reads. 🧬💻
🗓️ 13-14 May 2026
📍 Online (via Zoom)
👉 buff.ly/3ac0FPQ
Image: @nanoporetech.com
Led by our #DNAReplication Group, this online course covers principles and practice of modified base detection, visualisation, and experimental considerations for ultra long #sequencing reads. 🧬💻
🗓️ 13-14 May 2026
📍 Online (via Zoom)
👉 buff.ly/3ac0FPQ
Image: @nanoporetech.com
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NEWS: Mum Knows Best – how maternal messages prime seeds for success
🧵 Mothers often guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This is true for plants too, according to new research from our researchers and colleagues @earlhaminst.bsky.social: www.jic.ac.uk/news/mum-kno... 🌱
🧵 Mothers often guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This is true for plants too, according to new research from our researchers and colleagues @earlhaminst.bsky.social: www.jic.ac.uk/news/mum-kno... 🌱
February 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
NEWS: Mum Knows Best – how maternal messages prime seeds for success
🧵 Mothers often guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This is true for plants too, according to new research from our researchers and colleagues @earlhaminst.bsky.social: www.jic.ac.uk/news/mum-kno... 🌱
🧵 Mothers often guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This is true for plants too, according to new research from our researchers and colleagues @earlhaminst.bsky.social: www.jic.ac.uk/news/mum-kno... 🌱
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Catch up on the interview with JIC's Professor Steve Penfield, and Dr Iain Macaulay and Dr Andrew Goldson from Earlham Institute, from 03.08.
Farming Today - 05/02/26 EFRA Committee report on EU/UK agri-food trade deal, seed science, starting out in agriculture - BBC Sounds
MPs call for a 'national conversation' on EU/UK agri-food trade agreement.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Catch up on the interview with JIC's Professor Steve Penfield, and Dr Iain Macaulay and Dr Andrew Goldson from Earlham Institute, from 03.08.
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📣 Abstract submissions are open 📣 for the Norwich Single-Cell & Spatial #Symposium 2026, hosted at @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🧬! We’re bringing together researchers across #singlecell and #spatial #biology for two days of science, discussion, and networking. 🔗Link: www.earlham.ac.uk/events/norwi...
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
📣 Abstract submissions are open 📣 for the Norwich Single-Cell & Spatial #Symposium 2026, hosted at @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🧬! We’re bringing together researchers across #singlecell and #spatial #biology for two days of science, discussion, and networking. 🔗Link: www.earlham.ac.uk/events/norwi...
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In my recent blog @earlhaminst.bsky.social I reflected on delivering the first hands-on single-cell training courses in #LATAM 🧬🌎🇧🇷 Highlighting insights from our recent review in @cellpress.bsky.social on the #singlecell research landscape across #LatinAmerica ! 🔗 ➡️ www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In my recent blog @earlhaminst.bsky.social I reflected on delivering the first hands-on single-cell training courses in #LATAM 🧬🌎🇧🇷 Highlighting insights from our recent review in @cellpress.bsky.social on the #singlecell research landscape across #LatinAmerica ! 🔗 ➡️ www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
🆕 A study from scientists at @johninnescentre.bsky.social and Earlham Institute has applied #singlecell methods to uncover the role of maternal plants in passing on environmental adaptations to their seeds, in the form of plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). 🌱
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#PlantScience
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#PlantScience
Maternal wisdom – how mother plants prime their seeds for success
A new study in the journal PNAS addresses longstanding questions in biology: Can plants sense the environment directly in their developing seeds, or is seasonal information acquired by their parents…
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February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
🆕 A study from scientists at @johninnescentre.bsky.social and Earlham Institute has applied #singlecell methods to uncover the role of maternal plants in passing on environmental adaptations to their seeds, in the form of plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). 🌱
Read more 👇
#PlantScience
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#PlantScience
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We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social!
Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏
Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏
February 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social!
Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏
Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏
Great to see our recent study with @johninnescentre.bsky.social make the cover of January's @theplantcell.bsky.social! 🌟
Well done to Ashleigh Lister, Katie Long, and the whole research team from Earlham Institute, JIC, and @vizgen.bsky.social!
Check out the paper here: buff.ly/QN57HXG
Well done to Ashleigh Lister, Katie Long, and the whole research team from Earlham Institute, JIC, and @vizgen.bsky.social!
Check out the paper here: buff.ly/QN57HXG
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Great to see our recent study with @johninnescentre.bsky.social make the cover of January's @theplantcell.bsky.social! 🌟
Well done to Ashleigh Lister, Katie Long, and the whole research team from Earlham Institute, JIC, and @vizgen.bsky.social!
Check out the paper here: buff.ly/QN57HXG
Well done to Ashleigh Lister, Katie Long, and the whole research team from Earlham Institute, JIC, and @vizgen.bsky.social!
Check out the paper here: buff.ly/QN57HXG
💬 "This is an exciting opportunity to use this technology to help customers with different applications, as well as develop AirSeq's continued use in agriculture, the wider #foodindustry and in #biosecurity.”
Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch tech startup Agnos Biosciences.
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Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch tech startup Agnos Biosciences.
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Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch deep tech startup Agnos Biosciences™
The Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum, London have today announced a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences™ and its cutting-edge rapid DNA air sequencing technology, AirSeq™, to…
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February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
💬 "This is an exciting opportunity to use this technology to help customers with different applications, as well as develop AirSeq's continued use in agriculture, the wider #foodindustry and in #biosecurity.”
Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch tech startup Agnos Biosciences.
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Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch tech startup Agnos Biosciences.
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In 2023, PhD student Anita Scoones was invited to help us shape and deliver the first hands-on single-cell genomics course we delivered in Latin America.
In this fabulous article, she shares her experiences of working on developing such an impactful course in her home country. 🔽
In this fabulous article, she shares her experiences of working on developing such an impactful course in her home country. 🔽
💬 "Being involved in such an impactful project would have been meaningful on its own; returning to my home country to do it made it even more so."
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
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@eventswcs.bsky.social
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
👉 buff.ly/tbeUTFB
@eventswcs.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
In 2023, PhD student Anita Scoones was invited to help us shape and deliver the first hands-on single-cell genomics course we delivered in Latin America.
In this fabulous article, she shares her experiences of working on developing such an impactful course in her home country. 🔽
In this fabulous article, she shares her experiences of working on developing such an impactful course in her home country. 🔽
💬 "Being involved in such an impactful project would have been meaningful on its own; returning to my home country to do it made it even more so."
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
👉 buff.ly/tbeUTFB
@eventswcs.bsky.social
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
👉 buff.ly/tbeUTFB
@eventswcs.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
💬 "Being involved in such an impactful project would have been meaningful on its own; returning to my home country to do it made it even more so."
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
👉 buff.ly/tbeUTFB
@eventswcs.bsky.social
Connecting communities to empower #singlecell #genomics in Latin America
👉 buff.ly/tbeUTFB
@eventswcs.bsky.social
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Calling all teachers!!!
This one's for you guys.
Come and get inspired at this FREE event all about science education.
🤫You can even apply for a grant to help with supply cover, so you can attend.
🧑🔬🧪
This one's for you guys.
Come and get inspired at this FREE event all about science education.
🤫You can even apply for a grant to help with supply cover, so you can attend.
🧑🔬🧪
EVENT - Norfolk Science Teaching Conference
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏰ 9:00am - 12:30pm
Join us for this FREE event featuring hands-on workshops, useful resources and inspirational talks designed to enhance your science teaching
Find out more and apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/norfol...
@sawtrust.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏰ 9:00am - 12:30pm
Join us for this FREE event featuring hands-on workshops, useful resources and inspirational talks designed to enhance your science teaching
Find out more and apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/norfol...
@sawtrust.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Calling all teachers!!!
This one's for you guys.
Come and get inspired at this FREE event all about science education.
🤫You can even apply for a grant to help with supply cover, so you can attend.
🧑🔬🧪
This one's for you guys.
Come and get inspired at this FREE event all about science education.
🤫You can even apply for a grant to help with supply cover, so you can attend.
🧑🔬🧪
📰 Got 5 minutes to read up on some science?
Check out our January newsletter to catch up on our latest research, and sign up to receive future updates! 📥️
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Check out our January newsletter to catch up on our latest research, and sign up to receive future updates! 📥️
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/Yz9Efyx
☑️ Subscribe to updates: buff.ly/JfzX3DO
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📰 Got 5 minutes to read up on some science?
Check out our January newsletter to catch up on our latest research, and sign up to receive future updates! 📥️
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/Yz9Efyx
☑️ Subscribe to updates: buff.ly/JfzX3DO
Check out our January newsletter to catch up on our latest research, and sign up to receive future updates! 📥️
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/Yz9Efyx
☑️ Subscribe to updates: buff.ly/JfzX3DO
Latin America is a richly diverse region of the world that holds extraordinary potential for #singlecell and #spatialgenomics research. Yet LatAm countries remain significantly underrepresented in single-cell publications, with limited access to training and development.
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Latin America is a richly diverse region of the world that holds extraordinary potential for #singlecell and #spatialgenomics research. Yet LatAm countries remain significantly underrepresented in single-cell publications, with limited access to training and development.
We're pleased to be at #FOG2026 today and tomorrow! Catch our scientists on the Main and Single-Cell stages, or come and chat to us at Stand 167 in the Exhibition Zone to find out more about our expertise and platforms in #genomics, #singlecell, and automation.
January 28, 2026 at 2:30 PM
We're pleased to be at #FOG2026 today and tomorrow! Catch our scientists on the Main and Single-Cell stages, or come and chat to us at Stand 167 in the Exhibition Zone to find out more about our expertise and platforms in #genomics, #singlecell, and automation.
📣 Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium with @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social!
Join us in Norwich on 08-09 July as we bring together the community to discuss novel applications of #singlecell and #spatial technologies across the tree of life. 🦠🌾🧠🧫
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Join us in Norwich on 08-09 July as we bring together the community to discuss novel applications of #singlecell and #spatial technologies across the tree of life. 🦠🌾🧠🧫
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January 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📣 Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium with @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social!
Join us in Norwich on 08-09 July as we bring together the community to discuss novel applications of #singlecell and #spatial technologies across the tree of life. 🦠🌾🧠🧫
👉 buff.ly/SOiCiyd
Join us in Norwich on 08-09 July as we bring together the community to discuss novel applications of #singlecell and #spatial technologies across the tree of life. 🦠🌾🧠🧫
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We’re excited to announce Rayan Chikhi (Institut Pasteur, France) as the Keynote Speaker at GCC2026!
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.
Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.
Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
We’re excited to announce Rayan Chikhi (Institut Pasteur, France) as the Keynote Speaker at GCC2026!
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.
Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.
Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
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It’s always exciting to see spatial transcriptomics applied beyond traditional biomedical research.
Great work from one of our Certified Service Providers, @earlhaminst.bsky.social!
Great work from one of our Certified Service Providers, @earlhaminst.bsky.social!
🆕 Out now in @theplantcell.bsky.social scientists from Earlham Institute and
@johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to map the expression of 200 genes across four stages of wheat development, revealing new insights to help boost wheat production.
buff.ly/QM6qAWM
#genomics 💻🧬
@johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to map the expression of 200 genes across four stages of wheat development, revealing new insights to help boost wheat production.
buff.ly/QM6qAWM
#genomics 💻🧬
Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields
Scientists at the Earlham Institute and the John Innes Centre are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
It’s always exciting to see spatial transcriptomics applied beyond traditional biomedical research.
Great work from one of our Certified Service Providers, @earlhaminst.bsky.social!
Great work from one of our Certified Service Providers, @earlhaminst.bsky.social!
The @biofair.bsky.social Hub at Earlham Institute are recruiting a Lead Architect with experience in systems/solutions architecture, cloud/HPC, workflows, #metadata, and #FAIRdata. 💻
📅 Applications close: 30 January
📅 Applications close: 30 January
BioFAIR Lead Architect
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January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The @biofair.bsky.social Hub at Earlham Institute are recruiting a Lead Architect with experience in systems/solutions architecture, cloud/HPC, workflows, #metadata, and #FAIRdata. 💻
📅 Applications close: 30 January
📅 Applications close: 30 January
📣 Today Earlham Institute and @nhm-london.bsky.social announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences and its cutting-edge rapid #air #sequencing technology, AirSeq, to transform biological threat detection.
@ukri.org @richardmleggett.bsky.social
@ukri.org @richardmleggett.bsky.social
Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch deep tech startup Agnos Biosciences™
This new technology is a method for characterising biological particles in the air using a combination of novel molecular biology, DNA sequencing and bespoke computational analysis.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
📣 Today Earlham Institute and @nhm-london.bsky.social announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences and its cutting-edge rapid #air #sequencing technology, AirSeq, to transform biological threat detection.
@ukri.org @richardmleggett.bsky.social
@ukri.org @richardmleggett.bsky.social
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution (Katie A Long , Ashleigh Lister , Maximillian R W Jones , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution
High-resolution spatial transcriptomics reveals coordinated gene expression patterns that define spikelet and floral development in wheat.
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution (Katie A Long , Ashleigh Lister , Maximillian R W Jones , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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This may be an interesting read for some of you:
"Spatial Imaging Breakthroughs Boost Wheat Yields"
www.miragenews.com/spatial-imag...
"Spatial Imaging Breakthroughs Boost Wheat Yields"
www.miragenews.com/spatial-imag...
Spatial Imaging Breakthroughs Boost Wheat Yields
Researchers at the John Innes Centre and the Earlham Institute are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher
www.miragenews.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This may be an interesting read for some of you:
"Spatial Imaging Breakthroughs Boost Wheat Yields"
www.miragenews.com/spatial-imag...
"Spatial Imaging Breakthroughs Boost Wheat Yields"
www.miragenews.com/spatial-imag...
Published in @theplantcell.bsky.social scientists at Earlham Institute and @johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to reveal gene expression patterns in developing #wheat inflorescences.
Read more 👉 buff.ly/a5nWTXx
#PlantSciences #Genomics
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#PlantSciences #Genomics
Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields
Scientists at the Earlham Institute and the John Innes Centre are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Published in @theplantcell.bsky.social scientists at Earlham Institute and @johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to reveal gene expression patterns in developing #wheat inflorescences.
Read more 👉 buff.ly/a5nWTXx
#PlantSciences #Genomics
Read more 👉 buff.ly/a5nWTXx
#PlantSciences #Genomics
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Thinking of joining us in Cambridge for #MONOGRAM26 ??
💸 There's only one week left to save on registration! 💸
Register now
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🐦 Early-bird registration rates end 2nd Feb 🐦
@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
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@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
January 26, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Thinking of joining us in Cambridge for #MONOGRAM26 ??
💸 There's only one week left to save on registration! 💸
Register now
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🐦 Early-bird registration rates end 2nd Feb 🐦
@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
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@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
From an undergraduate in marine biology to a fellow studying #soil #microbes, Dr Lauren Messer is characterising microbial function and diversity in UK's irreplaceable habitats to address pressing environmental challenges. 🦠💻🧬
#ecology #STEMcareers
#ecology #STEMcareers
Decoding microbial diversity and function in irreplaceable habitats
Understanding the soil microbiome in ecologically important environments is crucial for informing conservation strategies and finding new climate change solutions.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM
From an undergraduate in marine biology to a fellow studying #soil #microbes, Dr Lauren Messer is characterising microbial function and diversity in UK's irreplaceable habitats to address pressing environmental challenges. 🦠💻🧬
#ecology #STEMcareers
#ecology #STEMcareers