Mary Ngigi

Congratulations Masanga!

09.08.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🚀 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!

29.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 98    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 2

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 👇🧵

17.05.2025 14:18 — 👍 101    🔁 52    💬 3    📌 6

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

21.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

🎉🎊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

21.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 3

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing

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@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

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

29.04.2025 09:04 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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...

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...

23.03.2025 07:05 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Light-dependent regulation of iron homeostasis

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

11.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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

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08.03.2025 10:36 — 👍 87    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 5

Github with tools and data mentioned in
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Slides tinyurl.com/tools-resources-mbp2025
#MBP2025

11.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

06.02.2025 09:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

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.
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01.02.2025 15:28 — 👍 263    🔁 127    💬 7    📌 23

We are delighted to bring #ICAR2025 to Gent in Belgium! Abstract submission OPEN! icar2025.com
@aabiologists.bsky.social @moritznowack.bsky.social @hildenelissen.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

04.12.2024 09:22 — 👍 37    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 0

The logo of the Conference Molecular Biology of Plants displays a sketch of the DNA rope ladder interwinded with leaves.

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...

15.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 30    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 4

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

28.11.2024 22:13 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0