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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil cluster in the School of Biosciences @sheffielduni.bsky.social
Focus on #Plants & #Soil & their interactions with the #environment across all scales, from fundamental #mechanisms to #ecology
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · May 8
Applications open for our International Dual PhD Awards in Plant & Soil Sciences! Train in world-class labs across @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social and spend time at both institutes.

bit.ly/4375M8D #PhDopportunity #PlantScience #SoilScience #Sustainability #AcademicSky
World class training - International dual award PhDs in Plant & Soil Science now open
These new studentships offer a unique opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community spanning two world-class institutions in Sheffield, UK and Sydney, Australia.
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Job alert 🚨
Technician post in soil carbon at the University of Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social supporting natural capital assessment in South Yorkshire, UK
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Technician: Research
Technician: Research
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September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
sheffieldpps.bsky.social
Plants remember stress! The PlantMemo project, led by ‪@jurriaanton.bsky.social‬, has secured an ERC Advanced Grant for an exciting project decoding how stress “memories” boost plant resilience—paving the way for hardier crops.
🔗 www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity #ERC
New research aims to unlock stressful plant memories
New research led by Prof Jurriaan Ton aims to uncover how plants adapt and survive in challenging environments with the ultimate goal to create more resilient crops.
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
sheffieldpps.bsky.social
Fantastic news for PPS Sheffield! Huge congratulations to jessdunn.bsky.social and Alex on winning prestigious #BBSRC Fellowships! Excited to see the innovative work they produce over the next few years! bit.ly/3RRbh6f @sheffielduni.bsky.social #Fellowship #Research #Bioscience #Sheffield
jessdunn.bsky.social
Plant scientist at The University of Sheffield 🌱🌾
jessdunn.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
sheffieldpps.bsky.social
Applications open for our International Dual PhD Awards in Plant & Soil Sciences! Train in world-class labs across @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social and spend time at both institutes.

bit.ly/4375M8D #PhDopportunity #PlantScience #SoilScience #Sustainability #AcademicSky
World class training - International dual award PhDs in Plant & Soil Science now open
These new studentships offer a unique opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community spanning two world-class institutions in Sheffield, UK and Sydney, Australia.
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May 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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drhollycroft.bsky.social
Fantastic talk by Catherine Nuttgens at Futurebuild on the importance of urban trees, supported by research carried out within the Urban Tree Observatory @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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gustaf23.bsky.social
Finally! After a lot of hard work our paper on tethering FNR to PSI in Chlamy is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social
@sheffieldpps.bsky.social @profmattjohnson.bsky.social

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Tethering ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase to photosystem I promotes photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer
The location of the key photosynthetic enzyme FNR impacts the partitioning of photosynthetic electrons between the linear and cyclic electron transport pat
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March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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botanicaljim.bsky.social
I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...
Summer Studentships
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February 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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garethphoenix.bsky.social
Our review paper “Browning events in Arctic ecosystems: diverse causes with common consequences” is out in @plosclimate.org

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@sheffieldpps.bsky.social, @robertgbjork.bsky.social, @scootjd.bsky.social, @thissideofthearctic.org, @arctic-carolina.bsky.social
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January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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bc247.bsky.social
SEB 2025 keynote speakers confirmed! SEB president Tracy Lawson, University of Essex Lecturer John Ferguson and BBSRC Discovery Fellow Lorna McAusland will all give talks in #stomata session P5. @casparchater.bsky.social www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a.... Abstract deadline March 7th. Please RT!
January 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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plantylisasmith.bsky.social
A reminder that I currently have a fully funded PhD advertised to work on plant reproduction! Sheffield is a great environment in which to study - friendly, supportive colleagues, LOTS of plant research going on @sheffieldpps.bsky.social, and close to the Peak District for hikes and climbing.
Description of the PhD project. Similar text available at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/signalling-complexes-and-cell-wall-changes-during-plant-reproduction/?p177787
December 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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evoeco.bsky.social
Jamie Howe giving a great talk at #BES2024 about his MRes research on pollen, w/Upuli Wickramaarachchi & Heather Walker, @sheffieldpps.bsky.social! #polleneaters.
December 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Steph Glendinning talks about her PhD work in the lab, on resilience of urban pollinators at #BES2024! f/t colleagues Jill Edmondson and Luke Tilley! @royentsoc.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social #pollinators
December 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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evoeco.bsky.social
Molly Moseley @entomollygy.bsky.social presents work from her MBiolSci @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and the Sheffield Undergrad Research Experience at #BES2024. (w/
Upuli Wickramaarachchi!). More pollinator #chemicalecology to come as Molly is staying on in the lab for a PhD! #SURE
December 16, 2024 at 6:55 PM
sheffieldpps.bsky.social
Know someone looking for a PhD? Two newly funded Doctoral Training Programmes (DTPs) with projects starting Oct2025!
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DTP (YBDTP) https://buff.ly/4i7G6PV and NERC ACCE+ DTP: https://buff.ly/4i8K4I1
Lots of projects based within PPS– see thread for details
#plantscience
Yorkshire Bioscience DTP – White Rose Mechanistic Biology DTP
We are very pleased to announce that the launch of a new Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (YBDTP), which will be recruiting its first students to start in October 2025. YBDTP is the…
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November 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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profmattjohnson.bsky.social
🥳New cryo tomography Preprint ☀️🌱🔬Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts.

doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…
Proud to be part of this great work with
@cellarchlab.com
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November 27, 2024 at 6:59 AM
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PPS are excited to be visited by Alicia Gomez Fernandez for a seminar today to learn about Crop Trait Evolution and Ecological Characterization of Crop Wild Progenitors. Hosted by @colinplants.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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November 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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We've created a pack to make it easy to find all our PPS researchers. Check it out and follow them. Let us know if you are a PPS researcher who wants adding to the pack #plantbiology #plantscience #soil #photosynthesis go.bsky.app/FFHrMQ9
November 21, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Hot off the press today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, our very latest on Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophyte’ #mycorrhizas! led by Nathan Howard, we show N source preference and exogenous C metabolism by #MFRE: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... short 🧵
Preferential nitrogen and carbon exchange dynamics in Mucoromycotina “fine root endophyte”-plant symbiosis
Mucoromycotina “fine root endophyte” (MFRE) fungi are an understudied group of plant symbionts that regularly co-occur with arbuscular mycorrhizal fun…
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November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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gustaf23.bsky.social
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Great to see our paper on tethering FNR to PSI in Chlamydomonas out as a preprint @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
November 4, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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thepallavisingh.bsky.social
Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs
Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online.

2xPDRAs (postdocs)
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1 Research Assistant
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Please email if you have informal inquiries.
October 27, 2024 at 7:32 PM
sheffieldpps.bsky.social
Great to host
@thepallavisingh.bsky.social
today @sheffielduni.bsky.social talking about “Enhancing water use efficiency in crops”
October 14, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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colinplants.bsky.social
Come work with us!

We're hiring two postdoc research fellows working broadly on nature-based climate solutions, including mitigation and natural sinks.

If you'd like to chat about these, please get in touch.

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February 26, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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New Editorial: "Scorched Earth" rdcu.be/dzrla

The destructive consequences of catastrophic wildfires frequently hit the front pages of newspapers worldwide. But scientific attention is increasingly turning towards understanding changes in wildfire regimes. #PlantScience
February 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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The February issue is now complete and fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
Cover for the February issue of Nature Plants, showing grass and trees burning.
February 23, 2024 at 3:40 PM