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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Mary Ngigi @mngigi.bsky.social ! Yesterday Mary successfully defended her PhD thesis in the group of Petra Bauer @botanyhhu.bsky.social @hhu.de! We wish you all the best for the next step in your career!

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Mary Ngigi @mngigi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Am very glad for this milestone!! 🌟. It has truly been a journey of growth in all ways. Super grateful to my PI Prof. Petra Bauer @botanyhhu.bsky.social for the guidance throughout. And to @ceplas.bsky.social for the funding support. Am looking forward to the next career steps.

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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🕰️🌸 RESEARCH 🌸🕰️ Ngigi et al. explore reproductive stage-dependent responses of rosette leaves to iron availability, revealing distinct growth, elemental contents, and gene expression patterns between old and young leaves and stages 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Leaf-by-leaf analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana at the rosette stage (RS). (A) At the RS, plants were transferred to respective Fe-sufficient (+Fe) or -deficient (−Fe) Hoagland media solutions and growth was recorded from day 0 till day 7. (B) Leaf images of leaf 1 (L1) to 10 (L10) under the two Fe conditions, as indicated. (C) Cumulative rosette convex hull area as recorded from (A). Data represent means of biological replicates (n = 3). Error bars represent ± SD. Statistical analysis was done using one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD test. Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P < 0.05). (D) Radial charts showing the leaf areas of leaf 3 and 8 after exposure to either +Fe (control) or −Fe conditions from day 1 to day 7. Radial charts were plotted in R Studio using the ‘fmsb’ package. Plants were grown for 3 weeks before culturing in either +Fe or −Fe conditions.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research. Have a look here 👇🧵

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Mary Ngigi @mngigi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Really enjoyed being among the speakers of this year! It was a great experience presenting on plant iron nutrition in a cafe 🌱🧬. Thanks to the organisers of the event 🙌. #pint25DE #pintofsciencede

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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎉🎊We had 2 fantastic Pint of Science Days #pint25DE in Düsseldorf! Thanks a lot to all our speakers, volunteers and participants! Already looking forward to next year! @nomascus.bsky.social @mngigi.bsky.social @kevintang.org

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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

19. Mai: Unter dem Motto „Von tanzenden Affen, schwitzenden Pflanzen und sprechenden Drinks“ geben 4 Wissenschaftler*innen Einblicke in die Verhaltensforschung, Pflanzenforschung und Linguistik (2/4).🦧🌱🍹 @nomascus.bsky.social @mngigi.bsky.social @kevintang.org

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Petra Bauer @botanyhhu.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

At various reproductive stages, young rosette leaves are supersensitive to iron deficiency - growth is inhibited very rapidly and gene expression and metal contents change, see Mary's revised preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Age-dependent differential iron deficiency responses of rosette leaves during reproductive stages in Arabidopsis thaliana

Iron (Fe) is essential for plant development throughout the life cycle. Rosette leaves are responsive to Fe supply in Arabidopsis thaliana. Little is known about the dynamics of Fe deficiency (-Fe) re...

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

REVIEW: 'Shedding light on iron nutrition: exploring intersections of transcription factor cascades in light and iron deficiency signaling' - Ksenia Trofimov et al., doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🧪 #plantscience

Light-dependent regulation of iron homeostasis

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass. Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination 1/n

A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.

A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.

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Mary Ngigi @mngigi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A great opportunity for ECRs interested in public outreach and science communication. I can only recommend after participating.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇

A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today, the program of the famous conference ▶️Molecular Biology of Plants #MBP2025 is online. It will take place 📍 in Hennef, Germany 📅 10-13 February 2025 Including information on talks, posters, sporting resources, and venue www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

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Linus Börnke @linusboernke.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024

Hey guys, I made a starter pack containing all the @ceplas.bsky.social researchers I could find on Bluesky. Let me know who's missing! go.bsky.app/Uzg3Jg3

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