Bettina Berger
Plant scientist, using cameras and other sensors to measure plants 🧪🌱📸. Adelaide, Kaurna country.Views are my own.
- Reposted by Bettina BergerThe @plantcv.bsky.social team is hosting a workshop at the @nappn.bsky.social 2026 conference in Feb. at Michigan State and is able to support the travel of up to 20 participants. Please apply for the workshop and submit an abstract to the conference if you are interested: mailchi.mp/3afecdddf6de...
- Reposted by Bettina BergerOur Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
- 📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
- Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
- Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
- Reposted by Bettina BergerDeadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
- Reposted by Bettina BergerJoin us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK #PlantScience
- Join us for Talking Plant Science with Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka from Tohoku University 🌱🧪 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 🕙 2-3pm (AEST) / 3-4pm (AEDT) 📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/TPS-JK #event #webinar #plantscience
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- Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.
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- Reposted by Bettina BergerWe are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
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- Happy Friday #bloomscrolling 🌱
- Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime
- Reposted by Bettina BergerIn 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- 🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪
- If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia
- Reposted by Bettina BergerHi Bluesky 👋 ! The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) promotes #PlantScience in Australia, and provides professional contact within our community. Tag us using #plants #ozplants
- A pallet cleanser for your doom scrolling from our greenhouses 🌱🧪
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- Watching Senator Cory Booker live speaking up for sciences. May his voice hold out for many more hours. 🧪
- Reposted by Bettina BergerTwo fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
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- 🚨Our team is hiring!!! If you are an image and data researcher, we might have the right job for you. Join a diverse team and apply your skills to address the big questions of climate resilience in agriculture and food security. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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- Reposted by Bettina BergerI'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
- BARLEY RESEARCHERS – apply to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Study phenotypic traits or methods on ~220 elite barley lines. More info here www.plantphenomics.org.au/2025-ozbarle... #NCRISimpact #GRDC
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- Reposted by Bettina BergerA great program to develop International collaborations in grains research! Please share with your early and mid-career network
- One day after the German federal election, I finally received my postal vote papers. Hopefully rules will be changed for future elections to allow citizens abroad to cast their vote #Bundestagswahl
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- Sunday relaxation in the sun at Cleland Wildlife Park
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- Scrolling the news doesn't make for a great outlook on 2025. So here's a palette cleanser from a camping trip to Ikara-Flinders Ranges
- On this day 15 years ago, the Plant Accelerator opened its doors. It's been an exciting journey and I'm very fortunate to work with such a fantastic team!
