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Alysha Somer has joined our team as a PhD candidate in the Crop-XR program (cropxr.org). Alysha will study how the shoot, while perceiving environmental cues, instructs the root system to develop in particular manners. Alysha studied at Utrecht University and … Continue reading
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Lisa Oskam and co-authors from the photobiology team published a low-cost imaging platform, based on on Raspberry Pi mini computers and dedicated bioinformatics scripts for downstream image analysis as an open access paper in Plant Physiology: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae097. Using this system … Continue reading
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What a privilege it is to be able to travel for work and meet these amazing people who help us be better scientists and mentors. But also a complicated balance to strike between fostering international networks and inevitable carbon emissions … Continue reading
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We’re slowly moving over to Wageningen University (WUR). Ronald has a beautiful office, the photobiology team has bonded with the Molecular Biology and Cell Biology groups at WUR over drinks and games, and lab tours are helping to plan ahead … Continue reading
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Exciting news! The Pierik lab is moving to Wageningen University, the Netherlands. After 20 years at Utrecht University, starting as a junior postdoc and growing into faculty positions, it is time for a change. As of September 1, 2023 Ronald … Continue reading
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Rice cultivation is transitioning from transplanting seedlings into the fields, to direct seeding onto the fields. This comes with a price: the field cannot be flooded during seeding and germination. As a consequence, this sustainable weed suppression is temporarily unavailable, … Continue reading
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We are proud to share our latest paper in Current Biology, on leaf movements in response to shade cues from nearby vegetation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.045. We show here how leaf tips perceive far-red light from neighbouring vegetation, and how this information is … Continue reading
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We’re sharing some of our recent outreach activities that have found their way in the online and physical realms: Martina and Ronald participated in Operatie breinbreker: a theater production to engage children in science, see embedded video above (in Dutch).Martina … Continue reading
2022 has started and where hoping for it to be wonderful, diverse and filled with great science. We started by hiring a new PhD student, Siddhant Shetty, who has just arrived from India and who will be working in the … Continue reading
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