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Giovanni Sena

@gsena.bsky.social

Plant Biophysics & Agritech | Associate Professor @ Imperial College London, UK

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World University Rankings 2026 | Times Higher Education (THE) Explore the top ranked universities in the world Discover the top universities worldwide with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025.

πŸŽ‰ Imperial global leader! πŸŒπŸ“ˆ

We've climbed to 8th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, joining Oxford and Cambridge in the global top 10.

Read more ‡️ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking

09.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱
It will be an exciting meeting!
FOMO? Still time to register! β†’ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

17.07.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to Β£4m ov...

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to Β£4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

17.07.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
European Research & Innovation Days 2025
YouTube video by EU Science & Innovation European Research & Innovation Days 2025

πŸ“’ Registration is OPEN for the 2025 edition of the European Research and Innovation Days #RiDaysEU!

πŸ“… Join the ERC on 17 Sept for the session "Securing Europe’s place at the forefront of scientific discovery"

πŸ”— Register now πŸ‘‰ t.co/nPQmG6ix1G for access & more info.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50Y...

15.07.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Natural Sciences Showcase 2025 Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in FoNS

Join us for our Natural Sciences Research Showcase! Explore the latest research and PhD innovations from across our community.

πŸ“…Thursday 11 September 2025
πŸ“ŒSouth Kensington
🎟️πŸ₯‚Free entry and drinks
🚨Register now!

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...

11.07.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are the most cutting-edge methods to image complex root systems in mature trees in field conditions? Ground-penetrating radar? X-ray CT?
What resolution can we get?

Anyone working on wilder techniques?

#science #imaging #plantroots #plantscience #plantmethods #root #phenotyping #soil

11.07.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great work, Alex!

11.07.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“£We're very excited to be sponsoring the first ever #PlantScience #chronobiology meeting of its kind πŸ•“πŸŒ±

The clock is ticking, so register here πŸ‘‡
(NB. early bird registration ends March 1st):
plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

20.01.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Two interesting conferences, both in UK, planned for exactly the same days…
A pity!

iop.eventsair.com/pol2025/

100yearsconference.biologists.com

09.01.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th β†’ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st
β†’ tinyurl.com/2872w6vm
The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb.
Spread the word!

08.01.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Join us We invite enthusiastic PhD students, postdocs, and research fellows to join our team and explore exciting research in Soft Matter, Cell Mimicry and Synthetic Biology. Several funding opportunities …

🚨PhD opportunities available! 🚨
I have two open #PhDpositions in my group:

1️⃣ For international EU students (deadline in 1 week!)
2️⃣ For home-UK students

If you’re excited about synthetic cells, don’t miss out!

πŸ“„ Apply here: continilab.com/join-us/

09.01.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an important concept to understand the dynamic interaction between plant roots and soil and among plant roots.

08.12.2024 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent review on positional information in plant #RootDevelopment #RootBiology

Good for thinking, teaching, or both!

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

05.12.2024 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calling all myconauts. Excited to have joined BlueSky to share our work on the structure, trade & nutrient flows of mycorrhizal networks.

Video time lapse of root (red) & mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs

02.12.2024 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Image collection of bryophyte-rich plant communities provided by Richard Droker - highly browsable library of micro-environments
www.flickr.com/photos/wande...

02.12.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Summary. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025

Submit your abstract to #ICAR2025 by the deadlines below!
Abstract Submission deadline for 🌱Oral presentations is March 17th.
Abstract submission deadline for 🌱Poster presentations is May 1st.
Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published!
πŸ“… June 16-20 Ghent πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ
πŸ•ΈοΈ icar2025.com

26.11.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Concurrent Sessions. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025

With Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year #ICAR2025 (Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025).

- How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication

web.cvent.com/event/448810...

28.11.2024 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking - Nature Biotechnology Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024. Developed by EdiVite, a spinoff from the University of Verona, these Chardonnay vines have undergone gene ...

A true milestone achieved by Sara Zenoni, her team at the University of Verona and EdiVite!

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

28.11.2024 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Concurrent Sessions. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025

The concurrent sections and workshops for ICAR2025 are out! 🌟 bit.ly/4eUZOvf Excited to co-organize a section on Cell Wall Diversity in Development & Stress with @kaisakajala.bsky.social. We’ll select EC speakers from abstractsβ€”submit yours! 🌱 #ICAR2025 #PlantScience

27.11.2024 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The 7th Connecting Plants & People Webinar Welcome to the 7th Plants & Peoples webinar -a joint venture between Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) The focus is β€œMechano – and cell-biology”. …

physiologiaplantarum.org/2024/11/20/t...
#PlantScience organized by Physiologia Plantarum

20.11.2024 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An interview with Liam Dolan Liam Dolan is a Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) in Vienna, Austria, interested in intersection of plant development, evolution and ecology using the emergi...

Interview with Liam Dolan. Learn more about Liam's career so far, and his views on plant development, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

24.11.2024 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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22.11.2024 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids Brassinosteroid (BR) phytohormones operate at both the cellular and organ levels, and impart distinct transcriptional responses in different cell types and developmental zones, with distinct effects o...

πŸ“œ The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.

πŸ“” Trends in Plant Science

πŸ”— www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones

20.11.2024 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And #PlantScience related ones can be found here:
bsky.app/profile/soms...

22.11.2024 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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22.11.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4
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18.11.2024 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11360    πŸ” 4592    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 247

Is this for US-based only? It is a great initiative, but eligibility criteria are not very clear on the website. Maybe I missed.

19.11.2024 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

go.bsky.app/H3986W6

#PlantImmunity #MPMI

19.11.2024 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Hello, since the requests to be added to the #PlantScience Research #StarterPack keep coming, I have created a 2nd Pack. So, here are

Part 1:
go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7
Part 2:
go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE

16.11.2024 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1

Looking forward to attending the European Low Gravity Research Association #ELGRA28 symposium!

On Thursday I will be giving a short talk on root electrotropism and its possible applications in microgravity conditions.

Contact me if you go and want to chat about roots in space!

03.09.2024 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0