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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is a chance to build something new, make science accessible, and put an institute with global impact on the map. 📍28–38 h/week, scale 11 (€4,537–€6,209) + holiday & year-end bonus 📅Apply by 14 Sept 2025 🔗https://www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/science-communication-lead

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

As Science Communication Lead you’ll: ✨ Shape and execute JII’s communication strategy ✨ Turn complex science into clear stories for diverse audiences ✨ Lead media outreach, events, web & social content ✨ Work with partners to expand our communication capacity #ScienceCommunication #CommsJobs

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🌟We’re hiring: Science Communication Lead🌟 At Jan IngenHousz Institute (JII) in Wageningen, NL, we’re building a young research institute focused on improving #photosynthesis to secure future food production. Now we need your comms expertise to help us grow. Keep reading👇 #Hiring #OpenScience

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📍 38 h/week, scale 10 salary (€3,378–€5,331) + holiday/year-end bonuses. 📅 Apply by 7 Sept 2025. 🔗 www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/re... #Postdoc #PlantScience #Photosynthesis #Hiring

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What you will do: co-develop methods & sensors to measure photorespiration traits, uncover genetic mechanisms, and collaborate across biochemistry, physiology, engineering & data science.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌿 Seeking a Postdoc – Photorespiratory Potential at Jan IngenHousz Institute, Wageningen, NL. Join an international team enhancing #photosynthesis to improve crop resilience and productivity. Keep reading...👇

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

💡 Both roles: competitive pay + holiday/year-end bonus. Join our international team improving the most important process on Earth. 📅 Apply by 7 Sept 2025 👉 jii.org/vacancies #Photosynthesis #PlantScience #PhDOpportunity

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🔬 Genomic Selection for Photosynthesis (GSP) Use quantitative genetics, physiology & high-throughput phenotyping to boost crop photosynthesis. Lit review + small experiments → your PhD proposal. More info: www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/re...

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Research Trainee | Programme 2025 – Genomic selection for photosynthesis (GSP)

As a research trainee you will explore different ways in which genomic selection can be used for photosynthetic improvements. You will collect, read and understand current scientific literature on the...

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌱 Kickstart your plant science career! We’re offering 2 paid Research Trainee roles (Oct ‘25–Mar ‘26) at Jan IngenHousz Institute — 6 months to explore photosynthesis, gain hands-on skills, and prepare your own PhD proposal. Read on for more info👇

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"We are involved in photosynthesis measurements on the three protein crops involved - #lupin, #aardaker and #quinoa - so we will get the chance to apply our newly developed methods and equipment for the high-throughput screening of limitations of #photosynthesis," she concludes.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thekla: "It is pretty cool that it is such an interdisciplinary project, from plant science, agriculture all the way to consumer acceptance and societal impact. And so much more!"

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🥳 We're part of the newly funded project REAP2SOW! 🥳 Thekla von Bismarck is the lead scientist for this project at Jan IngenHousz Institute, and she is excited to start working on it:

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Who is at the Gordon Conference on #Photosynthesis? If you are, make sure to visit JII's Moges Retta at his poster on electron transport.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Luckily, those of us still in Wageningen are not left out; two of our amazing interns are wrapping up their projects this week and are presenting them today as well. Congrats to Sophie Tolboom and Nikita Monteban!

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Also a special shoutout to Mauricio Tejera-Nueves, who is even celebrating his birthday while presenting at the #SEB2025. If you see him, congratulate him! 😜🍻

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It's unusually quiet at the institute this week: everybody seems to be in #Antwerp for the SEB conference! #Photosynthesis is well-represented with sessions by Dezra Strand (photo), Juanita Solin and Tom Theeuwen. #SEB2025 @sebiology.bsky.social

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thanks to the technical expertise of Ludovico and others at JII – Atsuko Kanazawa – and Jingcheng Huang, Robert Zegarac and team at partner organization @michiganstateu.bsky.social, we can quickly iterate and improve on the sensors and test them out. We’re looking forward to seeing the results!

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Ludovico placed two sensors: one in the full sun with a solar panel, and one in a shady area on batteries. Over the coming months, he will check how they are doing and add more sensors as they become available.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“This is a great location for a test run with these sensors,” Ludovico says, “because it’s actually quite desert-like. It can get over 50 °C here on some days! A perfect place to see if plants react to high temperatures similar to those in Australia, where we want to set up bigger experiments.”

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

JII Research fellow Ludovico Caracciolo has been one of the people working on the ‘Ambit’ sensor, and here we see him placing one of the sensors in an area within the Hoge Veluwe that is known to be very dry and hot. #hogeveluwe

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

To really understand #photosynthesis, we need to capture those changes by measuring plants continuously. That’s why we’re working on a #sensor that can remain in the field. And this week we’ve started the first tests during hot weather, at National Park De Hoge Veluwe in the Netherlands.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Such a hot day here in the Netherlands! ☀️ We all adapt quickly when the weather turns. When it starts to drizzle, we put on our rain gear; when the sun comes out, we put on our 😎. This is not surprising. But plants do this too! They adapt their photosynthesis, and they do this within seconds. >>

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Jan IngenHousz Institute is an independent research institute aimed at understanding the limitations of #photosynthesis, in order to drive the improvement of #crops and sustainable #agriculture. To achieve this, we develop and use innovative and #openscience instruments.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Or read the full paper here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

“Leonardo’s work is a great example of the principles on which the Jan IngenHousz Institute is founded: the power of making the tools of science, and the data and knowledge they produce, open and shared,” Kramer adds.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

In the future, these insights could also be applied to understand the solar-induced fluorescence signals that can be seen by satellites, thus indicating the “photosynthetic health” of the planet.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

As the Amazon experiences increasing stress due to both greenhouse gases and deforestation leading to hotter and drier conditions in the canopy, understanding how trees manage light energy is essential to predicting their future survival.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The findings offer a first-of-its-kind, high-resolution look at how the Amazon canopy navigates seasonal extremes.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

“Leonardo’s use of novel open science sensors to probe photosynthesis is a scientific tour de force,” Dave Kramer says. “They showed that the canopy adjusts photosynthesis to balance growth and damage, and it does this even while both light and the environment are rapidly changing.”

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

With him was the MultispeQ device, an open science instrument by JII’s scientific director David Kramer, that he used to measure how leaves in natural settings balance incoming light with their ability to photosynthesize or dissipate excess energy.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

“It’s been a long journey,” said Ziccardi. “Since 2019, we’ve run multiple field campaigns across seasons, climbing giant trees in the heart of the Amazon to understand how these forests respond to environmental changes. We’ve spent hundreds of hours up in the canopy doing measurements.”

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tropical trees act as giant antennas for solar energy, so how do they manage this vast quantity of light without getting damaged? PhD student Leonardo Ziccardi from JII’s partner organization Michigan State University went down to South America, and then up the 65 meter-giants, to find out.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Jan IngenHousz Institute collaborators map photosynthesis deep – and high – in the Amazon! New paper on some spectacular research by @leoziccardi.bsky.social @starkfloresta.bsky.social , JII's scientific director Dave Kramer and others. Photos show Leonardo Ziccardi with the MultiSpeQ device.

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

What drives JII? In Prophyta magazine research fellow Tom Theeuwen talks about our approach, integrating sensors, big data and genetics: "We really want to see what's happening with photosynthesis in crops while they are in the field." Read the story (page 20/38): www.prophyta.org/prophyta/Pro...

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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We have exciting new positions open and are looking for talented photosynthesis researchers and engineers to join our team! - Postdoc/Researcher - Research Engineer - Research Assistant If you're passionate, driven and ready to grow with us, look at the full descriptions: lnkd.in/d-rVtSZm #jobs 🌾🧪

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