{"id":87,"date":"2025-07-09T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/plantsatexeter\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:31:57","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/plantsatexeter\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Sept 2025<\/em> &#8211; Ulrike Bauer is invited as speaker and session co-organiser at \u201cBiological Material or Sustainable Metamaterial\u201d at the University of Bath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sept 2025<\/em> A new BBSRC grant together with the Physics Department. Shedding New Light on Plant Biology: Chemical Fingerprint Imaging in Plants with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aug 2025<\/em> &#8211; Success in the BBSRC 24ALERT competition. We will receive a new state-of-the-art high resolution mass spectrometer for structural biology and \u2018omics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aug 2025&nbsp;<\/em>&#8211; 2nd Success in the BBSRC 24ALERT competition. &#8216;BrillFM&#8217;, A correlative micro- and spectro-scope to optically probe cellular dynamics and biomechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aug 2025<\/em> &#8211; Runner-up poster prize for Skylar Johnson at the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists meeting in Birmingham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>July 2025<\/em> &#8211; A new Leverhulme Trust Research Grant \u201cHow do plants make superhydrophilic leaf surfaces?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>July 2025<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; The Mechanical Ecology Lab showcase their work at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>July 2025<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; Alex Johnsen is invited to give a presentation and co-lead the \u2018cell biology\u2019 practical at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slcu.cam.ac.uk%2Fgatsby-plant-science-education-programme%2FGPSSS&amp;data=05%7C02%7CH.Nuetzmann%40exeter.ac.uk%7C0f4ed67cab554b8ca10808ddf210f397%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638932876789534272%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=w5aUnonbebsG82MJpRx4KtkjBjALs%2BgLBNBUvvJqDuc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gatsby Plant Science Summer School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>July 2025<\/em>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.exeter.ac.uk\/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences\/pioneering-facility-allows-researchers-to-replicate-wind-and-rain-to-study-climate-impact-on-plants\/\">Global Meteorological Simulator<\/a> is opened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>July 2025<\/em> &#8211; Charles Li presents a talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>June 2025<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; Alex Johnsen co-organised &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantcellbiologyinternational.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CH.Nuetzmann%40exeter.ac.uk%7C0f4ed67cab554b8ca10808ddf210f397%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638932876789571296%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9MqI0jccDV69pzHL2ESxtJe23QBV44GdLuh%2Brlu%2B65U%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plant Cell Biology International II<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>May 2025 <\/em>&#8211; Ulrike Bauer speaks at the Exeter Pint of Science event on \u201cInsects and Pitcher Plants \u2013 A Sticky Situation or a Slippery Slope?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>May 2025 <\/em>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jxb\/article\/75\/9\/2604\/7595863?searchresult=1\">Darwin Review<\/a> by Nick Smirnoff on ascorbate metabolism and function included in a virtual issue celebrating the 75<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Anniversary of the Journal of Experimental Botany <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Apr 2025<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; New publications. &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/plcell\/koaf006\">Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots<\/a>\u2019, Plant Cell; <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fview_op%3Dview_citation%26hl%3Den%26user%3DUSYcI9gAAAAJ%26sortby%3Dpubdate%26citation_for_view%3DUSYcI9gAAAAJ%3Aj3f4tGmQtD8C&amp;data=05%7C02%7CH.Nuetzmann%40exeter.ac.uk%7C26d72358b02047c5fe2608ddf769178c%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638938752913918863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=TTom0c3DLAiuH9%2BFl%2FMfdYWWgphQC9ttQ%2Ff7q9VYklM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carnivorous <em>Nepenthes<\/em> pitcher plants combine common developmental processes to make a complex epidermal trapping surface<\/a>, Annals of Botany; 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A delegation of plant scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong is visiting our labs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>March 2025<\/em> &#8211; Runner-up poster prize for Igor Ceran at the Annual UK Plant Biomechanics Meeting in Leeds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Feb 2025 <\/em>&#8211; Isobel Cole passes her PhD viva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Feb 2025<\/em> &#8211; Victoria Armer receives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swbio.ac.uk\/2025\/02\/21\/victoria-armer-wins-best-student-publication-for-how-fungal-toxin-underpins-wheat-disease-spread\/\">Best Student Paper of the Year<\/a> award from <a href=\"https:\/\/bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/mpp.13485\">Molecular Plant Pathology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Feb 2025<\/em> &#8211; New publication. \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2416927122\">The ER\u2013PM interaction is essential for cytokinesis and recruits the actin cytoskeleton through the SCAR\/WAVE complex<\/a>\u2019, PNAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jan 2025<\/em> &#8211; Ulrike Bauer is invited to give the Friday Seminar at the JIC in Norwich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 2025 &#8211; 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