Alex Webb Lab

I am sure our neighbours are not continent deniers.

YouTube video by Cambridge University Plants at Cambridge : growing the future

Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch

Job opportunity!

We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...

#plantscijobs #plantsciences

"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf

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"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"

Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414

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"Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"

Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology

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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited to share that our most recent work in the Davies Lab (@camplantsci.bsky.social) has been published in @newphyt.bsky.social... check it out 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNKWEJ... #plantscience #plantresearch #calcium

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Some good news, tempered with a need for USA and EU to keep up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals

@UniWuerzburg

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricultural impact. By precisely controlling growth conditions, CEA enables the reliable and tightly regulated deployment of beneficial optimized traits by integrating emerging breeding, genomic, and synthetic biology tools. In this review we highlight both the progress and the remaining challenges enabled by CEA to reimagine crop design, including enhanced photosynthesis that operates independently of seasonal and circadian limitations, improvements in resource and metabolic efficiency, customized plant architecture, and the reliable, controllable production of high-value compounds. These capabilities position CEA as both a versatile research platform and an efficient, high-yielding production system, bridging fundamental discoveries with real-world crop outcomes to support sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture into the future.

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience

forgot to tag #plantscience #plants #plantresearch 🧪 #plant

@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricu…

A new opinion article produced with my colleagues at @plants4space.bsky.social We argue controlled environment agriculture is a good launch pad to translate fundamental research in to agricultural practice.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants

@camplantsci.bsky.social newest Associate Professor Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert has published her interesting paper about changes to Amazon forest structure

As I said much to discuss. Ion channels are bone fide receptors and this article rejects GABA as a hormone because it regulates ion channels. Other reasons to discuss whether GABA is a plant hormone but this is not a recent to reject it.

Bridging the gap: unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era Matthew Naish - 2024 Tansley Medal Winner

Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish!

Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.

Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...

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A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language".

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Hey @microsoft.com I am a big boy now. I can work out if I want autosave on or not. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. You don't need to nag me every time I open a file.

IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

European Biological Society Meeting 2025 was amazing. The chronobiology community are diverse and supportive. Discussions about what the circadian pacemaker is, chronomedicine for cancer and asthma, the benefit of clocks for insects, modelling and lovely plant clocks.

Me too. Sugar changes clock period

A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications Plants encounter high temperatures concomitantly with intense sunlight during the daytime. Here, the authors reveal a concerted chloroplast and nucleus high-temperature signaling framework that gates ...

Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch

Medieval buildings in Lubeck Germany

In beautiful Lubeck, Germany. Today I am presenting at the training day for the European Biological Rhythms Society 2025 meeting. I hope at least one of the ECR are interested in plant clocks, or I will have a lonely afternoon. Thursday I will present Basi Teng's nice models of entrainment.