Update: Unfortunately, I had to pull out of this event, but Soapbox Science Bristol is still happening on 7th June, 2-5 pm! Have you heard of Soapbox Science? Soapbox Science is an innovative and awesome initiative that brings science right…
Dr Christine Faulkner, project leader at the John Innes Centre, talks about plasmodesmata, her career and the highs and lows of science. 1) What is your research about? My research investigates how plant cells communicate with each other, especially…
‘Faces of Plant Cell Biology’ is back! Today Dr Juliet Coates from the University of Birmingham talks about her research on various ‘green things’, her career path and what advice she would give to students. 1) What is your research…
We are back! This time we put the spotlight on everyone’s favourite mean lean ATP-production machine: The mitochondria. Movies in this video show mitochondria and other organelles in plant cells made visible with fluorescent proteins.
Guest blogger Charlotte Carroll writes about her experience with ‘Biotechnology YES’, an entrepreneurial training programme for biology PhD students. Charlotte tweets at @_CharlotteCC_. In June I received an email regarding a competition known as Biotechnology YES. I deleted it. It wasn’t…
This is a transcript of my three minute presentation at Science Oxford’s closing down event ‘Science Oxford versus the Rest of the World’. I drew the images with the iPad app ‘Paper by Fifty Three‘. Hello. I am a plant…
In other news, there is a new plant Tumblr on the block: The Annals of Botany ‘Understorey tumblr, which features short, entertaining and funny plant bits. For this I have been thinking about plant memes. So far I only managed…
Did you know that an increasing number of plant scientists is using social media websites to chat about their research? Most of them would be delighted to connect and discuss their work with non-experts. So don’t be shy and press that…
This is the fourth part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! Lysosome4The Win http://storify.com/Lysosome4TheWin/lysosomes-organelle-wars-2012 VoteForLysosome http://storify.com/VoteForLysosome/lysosomes-a-little-big-deal Lysosomes2012 http://storify.com/Lysosomes2012/lysosomes-2012
This is the third part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! Reticulum Rocks (@Reticulum_Rocks) http://storify.com/Reticulum_Rocks/the-story-of-a-hard-working-organelle-called-endop EndoRetic (@EndoRetic) http://storify.com/EndoRetic/organellewars EndoReticulum (@EndoReticulum) http://storify.com/EndoReticulum/endoplasmic-reticulium
This is the second part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! NuCleanNucleus2012 (@NuCleanNucleus) http://storify.com/NuCleanNucleus/organellewars-revenge-of-the-nuclei Nucleus Cellsmarts (@cell_smarts) http://storify.com/cell_smarts/the-jorney-of-nucleus-cellsmarts Nucleus 2012 http://storify.com/WilliamWang/nucleus-2012
The dust has settled. All candidates have given their speeches, distributed flyers and bribes baked goods. The votes have been cast and Mr Graba has announced the winners. I am talking about the first organelle presidential campaign on Twitter, or short…