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Elizabete Carmo-Silva
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Rubisco enthusiastic! 🌱🌻💛 | Professor of Crop Physiology @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social & Lancaster Environment Centre | Photosynthesis | Crop Productivity | Climate Resilience 🌟🌱🌾
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Elizabete Carmo-Silva @ecarmosilva.bsky.social · 9d
Plant Biology Lancaster Postgraduate Research Symposium under way as we welcome students -new and current- into a new academic year @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · May 19
New Faraday Fellowships for international applicants moving to the UK

Up to £4 million per researcher over 5-10 years

Fast-track option for mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · May 19
Today we've announced the new Faraday Fellowship accelerated international route, which will grant up to £30 million in funding over the next two years to attract global talent and support the development of world-leading research groups in the UK: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...
Royal Society announces £30m fund to attract global talent over next two years | Royal Society
International recruitment scheme comes amid announcement of Government principles for 10-year research funding
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Elizabete Carmo-Silva @ecarmosilva.bsky.social · May 7
Congratulations TiVonne for the brilliant work! 🎉
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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project @ripeproject.bsky.social · Mar 11
RIPE researchers from @lancasteruni.bsky.social wrote a chapter in the latest volume of Methods in Enzymology, providing a protocol for using radiometric assays to measure Rubisco in plant leaves.

Read more about their work here: bit.ly/3XzXW5h
A woman in a lab space works with a pipette. Her arms are under a protective bar and she is surrounded by standard lab equipment.
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Elizabete Carmo-Silva @ecarmosilva.bsky.social · Mar 8
International Women's Day 2025
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Elizabete Carmo-Silva @ecarmosilva.bsky.social · Mar 8
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STEM-ing the Leaky Pipeline: In conversation with the women of the Faculty of Science and Technology for International Women’s Day - Lancaster University
In a special for International Women’s Day, the Research and Engagement team interviewed a group of women from across the Faculty, to celebrate women’s achievements and contributions to the sciences a...
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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project @ripeproject.bsky.social · Feb 17
We are thrilled to announce RIPE’s new leadership duo!

Lisa Ainsworth is our Director & Elizabete Carmo-Silva is our Deputy Director!

Both Lisa & Elizabete have been with the project for years & we look forward to what we can accomplish under their guidance.

Full announcement here: bit.ly/42UuCtW
Two pictures side-by-side. The left picture is of a woman wearing sunglasses holding a leafy green plant surrounded by green plants tall enough to reach her waist. The photo on the right is a woman in a lab coat sitting slightly behind a plant and an instrument measuring the plant.
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