This article is part of a series of blog posts written by students from Didcot Girls’ School. All posts can be found under the category STEM Club. Currently at science club at school, we have been processing our data into Excel…
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This article is part of a series of blog posts written by students from Didcot Girls’ School. All posts can be found under the category STEM Club. We really enjoyed our time at Brookes University. It was a fascinating experience and…
Happy Fascination of Plants Day!
Today is the first ever Fascination of Plants Day and I am very excited, as my Twitter friends will be able to testify (tweet ALL the plants!). All over the world there will be plant-related activities today, in Botanic Gardens,…
Amazing succulent cupcakes
Aren’t these the most amazing cupcakes ever? Seton Hurson Rossini from Pixel Whisk has posted a complete tutorial on how to make this incredibly realistic succulent plant cupcakes. I am in complete awe of her baking skills. Looks like the…
Spring is here!
I love photography, and especially makro photography of flowers and other plants. Today was my first makro session of the year and I managed to get totally lost in the small world of flowers for over an hour. It’s fascinating…
How much is that pet plant in the window?
I hadn’t realised that there was research on creating interactive pet plants that are able to display emotions! From the description of “My Green Pet” (Hwang et al. 2010): “The difficulty that children have in perceiving plants as living entities…
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Geraint Parry
I met Geraint Parry on Twitter, where he tweets under @LiverpoolPlants about his research. Fortunately, my colleagues were able to confirm that he indeed is real and a plant cell biologist studying the nuclear pore complex. He also scored 6 out…
I bet plants look good on the dancefloor
Plants don’t do much all day except sitting around and photosynthesising.Right? Wrong!! Plants move constantly, but much slower than animals. Therefore they manage to trick us by pretending to be really boring. But if you put up a hidden camera,…
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr John Runions
John Runions is a little bit like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – only that his two identities both have a Dr title. Most of his time he spends working, teaching and playing with the microscopes at Oxford Brookes University.…
Roses are red – but they don’t need to be, if you know how to use food dyes and Fibonacci
Happy Valentine’s Day! Looking for something more special than “just” a bunch of flowers? Read my post at the “Annals of Botany” blog to find out how to make rainbow roses. http://aobblog.com/2012/02/roses-are-red-but-they-dont-need-to-be-if-you-know-how-to-use-food-dyes-and-fibonacci/ A rainbow rose. Photo by Ryan Amos
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Petra Boevink
If someone asked me about the three most important papers which my research is based on, I might have to think for a minute or so about two of them. But my choice for the third one (or first one,…
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr David C Logan
I will never forget the first time I met David Logan at the Botanical Microscopy Meeting in Salzburg in 2007. It was the first international conference that I attended as PhD student, and I had to give a talk about…