Sam Amsbury

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.

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

Hi Erik, I'd love to be added to the feed. Link to my staff webpage included. Thanks for your moderation effort! www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Apply to do a PhD supervised by me and Prof Jurriaan Ton at Sheffield. Addressing an interesting question sitting at the interface of plant cell wall biology and plant pathology #cellwalls #plantdefence

Description of PhD studentship which replicates information at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/signalling-complexes-and-cell-wall-changes-during-plant-reproduction/?p177787

PhD position now available on the molecular basis of plant reproduction, supervised by me, Andrew Fleming and Sam Amsbury.
More project info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
About the Doctoral Training Programme and how to apply: www.whiterose-mechanisticbiology-dtp.ac.uk.
Deadline: 6th Jan 2025

A picture showing the details of a PhD project, whch can also be found by following the link in the post. Also has a QR code for the application form which takes you to: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/yorkshire-bioscience-dtp-expression-of-interest-form

Interested in plant cell walls and how they contribute to plant immune responses? Come and do a PhD with us in Sheffield if so in @sheffieldpps.bsky.social. Apply here: tinyurl.com/4mur9ryx #plantscience #cellwalls #glycobiology #pathogens

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

So I’m back from maternity leave and have been quiet on social media for a while. To catch up, here is a year in review of all the #PlantScience papers that came out in Science while I was gone. Buckle up! (1/34)

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A Model Approach to Understanding the Properties of Guard Cell Walls: The Key to Stomatal Function A bottom-up model of wall mechanics in stomatal guard cells reveals how wall composition and structure modulate the biomechanical properties that enable stomatal movements.

A #Model Approach to Understanding the Properties of Guard Cell Walls: The Key to #Stomatal Function
📰 Story: https://buff.ly/3CnBJ2I from @botany.one
🔬 Research: https://buff.ly/3APGEcg by Hojae Yi & Charles Anderson
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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

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

Hi (new to BlueSky and just found this post). I'm just establishing my group at the University of Sheffield and also have a research strand on #Zymoseptoria (cell walls/glucan biochemistry) but am relatively new to it as an area. Keen to link into the wider septoria research community!

Funding alert!

A new Royal Society independent postdoc fellowship scheme launches next week.

Lots of funding and very prestigious.

Only for applicants of black heritage.

Good to see the RS putting substantial money behind a plan to diversify research.

royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

Super excited to have been offered a permanent position at the University of Sheffield starting in January. Looking to build a group looking at all things cell wall related, in plants and fungi.