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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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Gareth Phoenix @garethphoenix.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Job alert 🚨 Technician post in soil carbon at the University of Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social supporting natural capital assessment in South Yorkshire, UK jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
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Technician: Research
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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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.
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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
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Plant scientist at The University of Sheffield 🌱🌾
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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
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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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Holly Croft @drhollycroft.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Gustaf Degen @gustaf23.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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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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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
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Summer Studentships
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Gareth Phoenix @garethphoenix.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Our review paper “Browning events in Arctic ecosystems: diverse causes with common consequences” is out in @plosclimate.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @sheffieldpps.bsky.social, @robertgbjork.bsky.social, @scootjd.bsky.social, @thissideofthearctic.org, @arctic-carolina.bsky.social
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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!
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Lisa Smith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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Stuart A Campbell @evoeco.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Jamie Howe giving a great talk at #BES2024 about his MRes research on pollen, w/Upuli Wickramaarachchi & Heather Walker, @sheffieldpps.bsky.social! #polleneaters.
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Stuart A Campbell @evoeco.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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Stuart A Campbell @evoeco.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Know someone looking for a PhD? Two newly funded Doctoral Training Programmes (DTPs) with projects starting Oct2025! BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DTP (YBDTP) buff.ly/4i7G6PV and NERC ACCE+ DTP: buff.ly/4i8K4I1 Lots of projects based within PPS– see thread for details #plantscience
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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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Matt Johnson @profmattjohnson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🥳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 @wojwie.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
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Mirre Simons @mirresimons.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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 🧵
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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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Gustaf Degen @gustaf23.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great to see our paper on tethering FNR to PSI in Chlamydomonas out as a preprint @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online. 2xPDRAs (postdocs) vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... 1 Research Assistant vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Please email if you have informal inquiries.
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Great to host @thepallavisingh.bsky.social today @sheffielduni.bsky.social talking about “Enhancing water use efficiency in crops”
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
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. tinyurl.com/mt8stvmr @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 23/02/2024
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
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 23/02/2024
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.
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Standing room only for Merlin Sheldrake’s talk today - lots of love for soil fungi here in Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Merlin Sheldrake giving a PPS external seminar today to a packed room on how fungi make our world. #PlantScience #Fungi
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
🥳This paper from Besiana Sinanaj’s PhD on role of diverse symbiotic 🍄 in plant nutrition was published in @funecology.bsky.social today: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... It's her last day with us in Sheffield so this is a lovely farewell & thanks! short 🧵…
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Gustaf Degen @gustaf23.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Thank you to @jxbotany.bsky.social and T. Shikanai for highlighting our recent paper on photosynthetic oscillations in the pgr5 mutant. academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Research on photosynthetic oscillations supports the classical concept of cyclic electron transport ...
This article comments on:Degen GE, Pastorelli F, Johnson MP. 2024. Proton Gradient Regulation 5 is required to avoid photosynthetic oscillations during light tr
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
A Saturday mycorrhizal treat - I'm so pleased to share our latest findings from our research into the interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic nematodes in @NatureComms, open access link to the article here: rdcu.be/dw3NU
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