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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme

This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.

🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025

www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Rotation biology PhDs | John Innes Centre

Prestigious studentships, for entry in October 2022, this multi-disciplinary PhD programme includes; plant science, microbiology, biological chemistry, applied mathematics…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 12d

Tough call. Both clearly expressions of great respect and a strong @johninnescentre.bsky.social legacy!

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 24d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 29d

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025

🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025

💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Sep 4

For sure great news for plant science, but it's actually *even better* news because you missed at least one! @tinaschreier.bsky.social

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is a fantastic talk by Chris Hawes @nhm-london.bsky.social.

He speaks about #PlantMicroscopy in particular, but also the History of #Microscopy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFZ...

Have a look at this Obituary of Chris, too:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience

'Leaves & Lasers' With Professor Chris Hawes | Nature Live Talk - Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Oxford Brookes Health & Life Sciences

www.youtube.com

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Sep 1

Awesome news Tonni! All the very best for your new adventure.

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us!

Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday.

(*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)

Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Aug 14

@cristobaluauy.bsky.social or @brandewulff.bsky.social ?

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Aug 4

**GROUP LEADER VACANCY**

Discovery Plant Sciences

Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us!

#johninnescentre
#plantscijobs

Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excellent!

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 28

So exciting to see greater resoluton of features long hinted at - another leap in our understanding of these enigmatic structures!
#Plasmodesmata

Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · Jul 26

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata.

Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores.

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪🧵1/n
#teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 24

JIC GROUP LEADER VACANCY

We're looking for interests in areas including, but not limited to, growth and development, environmental and organism interactions, physiology, signalling and molecular processes, taking quantitative cell biological, genetic, biochemical and modelling approaches.

Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 19

VACANCY

Optical Microscopy Specialist

Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 15

VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...

Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite

Optical Microscopy Support Specialist | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join the Bioimaging Platform at the John Innes Centre.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !

www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Major funding boost to bring world leading researchers to the John Innes Centre | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre has been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK. The new Global Talent...

www.jic.ac.uk

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're looking for interests in areas including, but not limited to, growth and development, environmental and organism interactions, physiology, signalling and molecular processes, taking quantitative cell biological, genetic, biochemical and modelling approaches.

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 16

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

www.jic.ac.uk

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Jun 17

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana
transient expression”
#plantscience

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Apr 23

Yes - if the whole category is based on what we now know to be flawed analyses, then it probably needs to be removed.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Apr 23

Now with a Research Briefing: "Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data" rdcu.be/eiWOU

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Tina Schreier @tinaschreier.bsky.social · Apr 22

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Apr 22

Stepwise increase in plasmodesmata during C4 evolution in Flaveria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649591v1

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Apr 23

An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful!

#PlantScience

Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Apr 16

We need to talk about mobile RNAs...

SNP-based analysis of transcriptomic datasets are subject to technical noise, incomplete genome assemblies and pseudoheterozygosity so it seems like we don't know as much as we thought we knew.

#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social

Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication - Nature Plants

This study reveals that a substantial number of transcripts that are currently annotated as graft-mobile lack statistical support from available RNA-seq data.

doi.org

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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · Apr 16

That is a huuuge deal! That might change the view on what a mobile RNA is. Congrats to the authors!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@uni-hamburg.de @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication - Nature Plants

This study reveals that a substantial number of transcripts that are currently annotated as graft-mobile lack statistical support from available RNA-seq data.

www.nature.com

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Apr 16

NEWS - Deep dive into plant signalling data reveals a noisy “elephant in the room.”

A far-reaching study has cast doubt on statistical methods used to identify long distance signalling networks in plants.

okt.to/UFqTgO

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