Sept 2025 – Ulrike Bauer is invited as speaker and session co-organiser at “Biological Material or Sustainable Metamaterial” at the University of Bath
Sept 2025 A new BBSRC grant together with the Physics Department. Shedding New Light on Plant Biology: Chemical Fingerprint Imaging in Plants with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy.
Aug 2025 – Success in the BBSRC 24ALERT competition. We will receive a new state-of-the-art high resolution mass spectrometer for structural biology and ‘omics
Aug 2025 – 2nd Success in the BBSRC 24ALERT competition. ‘BrillFM’, A correlative micro- and spectro-scope to optically probe cellular dynamics and biomechanics.
Aug 2025 – Runner-up poster prize for Skylar Johnson at the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists meeting in Birmingham
July 2025 – A new Leverhulme Trust Research Grant “How do plants make superhydrophilic leaf surfaces?”
July 2025 – The Mechanical Ecology Lab showcase their work at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London
July 2025 – Alex Johnsen is invited to give a presentation and co-lead the ‘cell biology’ practical at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School
July 2025. The Global Meteorological Simulator is opened.
July 2025 – Charles Li presents a talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
June 2025 – Alex Johnsen co-organised ‘Plant Cell Biology International II‘
May 2025 – Ulrike Bauer speaks at the Exeter Pint of Science event on “Insects and Pitcher Plants – A Sticky Situation or a Slippery Slope?”
May 2025 – Darwin Review by Nick Smirnoff on ascorbate metabolism and function included in a virtual issue celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Journal of Experimental Botany
Apr 2025 – New publications. ‘Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots’, Plant Cell; Carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants combine common developmental processes to make a complex epidermal trapping surface, Annals of Botany; Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum, Annals of Botany
Apr 2025 – George Jervis and Skylar Johnson win poster prizes at the Genetics Society Seed Plant Research Meeting at Durham University
Apr 2025 – Hannah Kilford presents a talk at the International Advances in Plant Virology 2025 conference in Murcia, Spain
March 2025 – A delegation of plant scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong is visiting our labs
March 2025 – Runner-up poster prize for Igor Ceran at the Annual UK Plant Biomechanics Meeting in Leeds
Feb 2025 – Isobel Cole passes her PhD viva
Feb 2025 – Victoria Armer receives Best Student Paper of the Year award from Molecular Plant Pathology
Feb 2025 – New publication. ‘The ER–PM interaction is essential for cytokinesis and recruits the actin cytoskeleton through the SCAR/WAVE complex’, PNAS
Jan 2025 – Ulrike Bauer is invited to give the Friday Seminar at the JIC in Norwich