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…
I am incredibly lucky in that our research group is not only tolerant of my crazy science outreach ideas, but whole-heartedly embraces and develops them. When we started thinking about activities for the “International Fascination of Plants Day“, our PhD…
This post is part of the series “Faces of Plant Cell Biology”. In this series I am posting answers of plant cell biologists at all stages of their career to a set of five questions. If you are a plant…
First of all, I would like to wish you a happy, healthy and successful new year 2012! When I was pondering about blog topics for 2012 I thought that it would be nice to publish short profiles of plant cell…
It’s the 24th December and the advent calendar has come to an end. I hope that you enjoyed it. I will be back in January to blog about plants, cells and science. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and an…
Dear players of guitars, ukuleles, banjos, tin drums and any other musicians: We would love to see your own rendition of “The Vacuole Song” on YouTube! You can download the lyrics with the guitar chords here: The Vacuole Song –…
Our new science music video is online! This video is a collaboration between plant cell biologists at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Warwick and the musician Cyrus Mower. We love plant organelles and we want to share our passion…