Connor Tansley

A week to go... #EngBio ECRs Meetup returns on 20 Oct. Join us to hear great talks from Konstantina Beritza and
Caroline Faessler 🌱 Don't miss it!
@camplantsci.bsky.social

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#plantsciences #marinemicroalga #Nicotianabenthamiana

Rho GTPase overexpression impacts leaf internal architecture and mesophyll conductance in Arabidopsis Leaves are built from multiple cell types and are structured to enable the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars in the process of photosynthesis. Understanding how cell architecture im.....

New paper - led by Isabella Østerlund

Rho-GTPase overexpression can impact the development of cell shape and airspace structure in Arabidopsis.

These genetic changes can also reduce photosynthesis, due to lower mesophyll conductance

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#EngBio ECRs Meetup returns on 20 Oct. Join us to hear great talks from Konstantina Beritza and
Caroline Faessler 🌱
@camplantsci.bsky.social

Sign up here👉 tickettailor.com/events/engin...

#plantsciences #marinemicroalga #Nicotianabenthamiana

Princess Donut spent so much time watching tv but never watched David Attenborough apparently!

In a new series, we are introducing you to some of our #EngBio Early Career Researchers.

Meet Connor Tansley (@contansley.bsky.social), a Research Associate in the Department of Plant Sciences (@camplantsci.bsky.social).

View Connor's profile: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/connor-tansley.

#EngBioECRs

Post-Docs We are currently recruiting for two post-doc positions in the Lichman lab that require similar skills and experience. We aim to do a joint recruitment process with a single interview. If you apply...

Hello! We are currently hiring for two post-doc positions on projects related to plant natural products, enzymes, and developing new systems to make useful small molecules. More details on our website: lichmanlab.weebly.com/post-docs.html

📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025!

Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.

Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.

Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...

MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology.

Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Please email me if you have any questions.

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics.

I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)

Seeing Hiroshima Suzuki at the giants causeway and generally being very wholesome in his interactions as the Japanese ambassador to the UK is so enjoyable

Conservation and divergence of regulatory architecture in nitrate-responsive plant gene circuits Gene circuits that control transcriptional regulation of nitrate-responses have similarities and differences, despite the equivalent effects of nitrogen on

Excited that our paper with @bradylabs.bsky.social on conservation and divergence in nitrogen regulatory networks is finally published. This was a fun & rewarding collaboration that will continue in new projects to engineer 🍅 N responses academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Leading with curiosity: forging a career in engineering biology For International Women in Engineering Day, we spoke to three scientists at the Earlham Institute who reflected on their career paths in engineering biology.

💬 “I’m inspired by the pace of innovation in engineering biology – it’s an exciting time to be part of a field that is rapidly evolving." - @dashagolubova.bsky.social

Forging a career in #EngineeringBiology, with Daria, Melissa, and Carolina.

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#EngBio #SynBio #STEM

📢Speaker Announcement

We are thrilled to announce our plenary speakers for the Black in Plant Science Conference 2025.

Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox, learn about them here: buff.ly/LY7t2AH

Registration is now open, for you to hear from our inspirational speakers!

Register here: buff.ly/FaqOp7n

I spent a wonderful week at the plant metabolic engineering GRC/GRS and I have never been to a more fun and friendly conference! We don’t take photos as we share lots of unpublished data but here’s a photo from Barcelona!

"What does Engineering Biology mean to you?"

In a new series of videos we asked several members of the #EngBio community to share their interpretations.

Here's what Dr Jenny Molloy (@jenny-molloy.bsky.social) had to say...

#EngineeringBiology #SyntheticBiology #FacesOfEngBio

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Exciting news! 🎉

We now have extra spaces available for our "Omics approach to Engineering Biology: from big data to the lab, and back" event on 3 Jun. You can also see the full line up of speakers and talks on the event microsite 👉 bit.ly/omics-engbio

New OA Article: "Quantitative dissection of Agrobacterium T-DNA expression in single plant cells reveals density-dependent synergy and antagonism" rdcu.be/elJ5z

News & Views: "Cooperation and antagonism in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation" rdcu.be/elJ5F

Sentinel bacteria: engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health

🚨 PhD project alert: Engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health. 🦠 🪴 🥼 🧑‍💻 🌍

Fully funded PhD studenship in my group, open for international students. @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Please share widely! Deadline: 14th of May

www.earlham.ac.uk/studentship/...

Royal Mail launches mythical creatures stamp collection Myths and fables from across the UK are illustrated in the set of stamps.

Royal Mail launches mythical creatures stamp collection

The minimal cell-cycle control system in Marchantia as a framework for understanding plant cell proliferation The regulation of cell division is broadly conserved across eukaryotes, governed by cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) to coordinate progression through the cell cycle. Plants have evolved a ...

After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great talks and ongoing discussions at CafeSynthetique 'Plants for Bioproduction'last night with ConnorTansley
@contansley.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social & Aaron Macauyag @cebcambridge.bsky.social #plantsbioproduction #plantproteins #Nicotianabenthamiana 🌱Details of next meetup coming soon

Hi all!!! 👋

New to Bluesky, but...

I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg...
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Really happy to have the chance to contribute to this paper by @dashagolubova.bsky.social, Melissa salmon and @honghaosu.bsky.social. We couldn’t have got it done without @nicolabiologist.bsky.social and Maria O’Connell guiding us. It’s been a super fun collaboration!

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

Join us for our ECR Meet &Talks on Mon 20 Jan, 12pm at Hopkins Building, Dept. Biochemistry featuring 2 talks from Godwin Aleku, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kings College London and Max Josse @maxjosse.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social Sign up and more talk info here 👉 buytickets.at/engineeringb...

There is ONE WEEK left to apply for the #PlantScience #PhD position in my lab! This will use the latest #microscopy, #biosensor and #ecophysiology techniques!

My favourite illustration tool is Inkscape. It’s free and open source and has many of the same tools and functions. That saving can be large and mean you have access to your illustrations and those with less available funding can use it and contribute!

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We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/