Andy Plackett
Researcher into the reproduction, developmental genetics and evolution of plants
- Reposted by Andy PlackettPlease share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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- Today's the day! Thanks so much to Phil Carella of JIC for hosting this meeting at Norwich. #Plantscience
- It was a great meeting, thanks to all the speakers, particularly @sramundo.bsky.social and @rensingstefan.bsky.social for their keynotes. Next year is already announced, looking forward to #NonseedUK2026 in Edinburgh,organised by @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social 🙂 #Plantscience
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- Yesterday's #nonseedUK25 meeting fot me thinking 'what about lichen, how do they fit in?' and lo and behold. Fascinating 🙂 #Plantscience
- The 4th annual non-seed plant flash talk showcase extravaganza didn’t disappoint #nonseedUK25 🌱
- Reposted by Andy PlackettInternational Marchantia Workshop 2026 Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026 Kobe, Japan sites.google.com/view/marchan...
- Had a blast at the @embo.org workshop 'Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land' hosted by the Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna. Would 100% recommend. Thank you so much to the organisers incl @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @moodytomato.bsky.social for all their hard work! #Plantscience
- warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^. Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know! #Plantscience
- www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs
- Fame at last^^ #Plantscience
- And when I (finally) grow up I want to be as amazing a scientist as @bkoskella.bsky.social, who gave not one but two entirely separate inspirational talks about her science whilst visiting us at Uob!
- We had a stellar end to #NGS2025 today! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a pleasure to host you at the University of Birmingham. A massive thank you to the local committee and especially the New Phytologist Foundation for making this work. 🙂 All the best for next year's NGS! #PlantScience
- Today was Careers focused at #NGS2025 Thank you so much to all our panellists for their time and for sharing their varied experiences and views with our delegates. 🙂 #PlantScience
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- We've had a great first day of the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium, with fantastic talks from delegates and a lively panel discussion on publishing. Looking forward to tomorrow! #PlantScience #NGS2025
- I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs
- Just a reminder about this opportunity - closing date is tomorrow 🙂
- I was extremely flattered to be asked to contribute to this Voices piece. Hope folks find it interesting and that it tempts you to try working with new models. 😁 #PlantScience
- I'm very pleased to present the @cp-devcell.bsky.social Voices on plant model organism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... While we appreciate the diversity of plant models, one often questions which model is the "best"?
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- Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies
- Final photo- just to show everyone the scale of the evo-repro-devo community out there. Auf wiedersehen, until next time (hopefully)! #ICIPS2025 #Plantscience
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- Day 3! Into the mysteries of double fertilization... #ICIPS2025
- Reposted by Andy PlackettHappy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
- Great work Zoe! 🙂
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- Another preprint! I was privileged to be asked to be involved with this project. Well done to everyone, particularly the first author, Hannah McConnell of Veronica di Stilio's lab at UW, who's tenacity and hard work really shines through 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Fern #LEAFY
- About to start day 2 of the International ICIPS Symposium focussed on the evolution of plant reproduction. I'm going to learn so much! #Plantscience #ICIPS2025
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- A great first day at the International ICIPS Symposium here in Berlin. Thank you @icips.bsky.social for organising!
- Really looking forward to the start of this conference today 🙂.
- It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Plantevolution #Fernbiology
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- Reposting for the #Plantscience feed.
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- This evening we enjoyed the inaugural lecture of Professor Eugenio Sanchez Moran. Congratulations Eugenio, well-deserved! 🙂 #UoBBiosciences #Plantscience
- Reposted by Andy Plackett🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf
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- A reminder to all plant (and plant-adjacent) ECRs, the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientist symposium will be at Birmingham this summer. We'd love to see you there! 🙂 Application deadline is Monday: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #Plantscience #newphytologist
- Don't miss your opportunity to attend New Phytologist next generation scientists, the FREE meeting for early career researchers in plant science. #npnextgen 4–7 July 2025 Birmingham, UK Apply to attend by 27 January! www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
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- The plants are abed. Shutdown time. Merry Christmas, one and all!
- Oh dear. You and me both, sister/brother... #climatechange #bewildered
- So happy to see another Ceratopteris development talk at #nonseedUK24 ! ❤️
- Abdellah Lakehal on the evolution of later root founder cells #ferns #nonseedUK24 👍
- Very exciting first session of #nonseedUK24. #Plantscience
- James Walker describes the role of methylation during the sexual transition in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱
- Looking forward to today's meeting of the UK Genetics Society Non-seed plant Special Interest Group in Cambridge. 🙂 We were already sharing contamination woes over drinks last night. The joys of keeping things in sterile culture... #nonseedUK24 #Plantscience
- We had a fascinating seminar at UoB Biosciences this week by Prof Yiliang Ding of the John Innes Centre. There's still so much left to learn about something as fundamental as RNA structure!
- Very cool opportunity! Reposting for #Plantscience in case it's not found its way there yet.
- Reposted by Andy PlackettMy first post here! We’re looking for an enthusiastic plant developmentalist to join our team as a postdoc working on how this wonderful plant builds sexually deceptive flowers. Link here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49334/
- It was a Saturday before Christmas, and all through the Undercroft, a lone scientist stood as Storm Darragh tried to blow the building aloft... o.O"
