C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation
23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK
Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social , @newphyt.bsky.social, @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, @westsyduhie.bsky.social and others! 🧪🌱
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🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com
Plant and ecosystem photosynthesis in a warming world
🌿Martijn Slot, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst.
🌿Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster University
@martijnslot.bsky.social @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis
Potential drivers of fast growth in #Paulownia
#Review by Yang Zhao and @marjorielundgren.bsky.social
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@lancasteruni.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Great to have our monthly 'Plant Science chat' gathering this week, short updates from across topics and experience levels in Plant Biology @lancasteruni.bsky.social
We had exciting updates from 3 PhD researchers ranging from seed priming, Rubisco inhibition, to seagrass photosynthesis.
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@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
Monoaxial growth and pseudo-dichotomous branching in Paulownia saplings and mature trees. Photographs showing (a) monoaxial growth in saplings and (b) the terminal bud dies in winter, and the lateral bud near the top forms a pair of lateral branches, and the growth of the stem exhibits pseudo-dichotomous branching. One of the two pseudo-dichotomous branches is often stronger (red arrow) than the other (black arrow). In Paulownia fortunei, the former grows upwards in the direction of the main stem and thus contributes to the extension of the stem, while the latter gradually dies back due to light/nitrogen/water competition. Panel (c) shows two balanced branches in Paulownia tomentosa, which limits the extension of the main stem.
Potential drivers of fast growth in #Paulownia
Yang Zhao, @marjorielundgren.bsky.social
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@lancasteruni.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Just over a month left for applications to NorthWestBio Doctoral Programme, with several exciting plant projects available @lancasteruni.bsky.social including a #photosynthesis project with @marjorielundgren.bsky.social
Details below for you or your networks!
About 2 weeks left to apply for this great #PhD #photosynthesis #Rubisco opportunity with @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social !
Difficult choice as a great lover of puns, but as an avid user of sarcasm it's hard to go passed the Sarcasm one please. 😀
🎉 I'll shoot an email to the uk info address since it's a faff to get DMs working...
Another #PhD project available for applications in #photosynthesis with @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social looking at ways to improve Rubisco. Details below including how the successful nominee will play a direct role in shaping the project proposal tinyurl.com/2a8szv3y
New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd
Fantastic to have @tinaschreier.bsky.social here this week for a visit and super seminar this afternoon. Amazing science and images of plasmodesmata, unravelling new things about C4 to help our fundamental understanding and identify ways to improve photosynthesis in key crops. Thanks Tina!
Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!
Want to take part next year as a new PhD researcher at Lancaster? @lancasteruni.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social
Check some of our recent posts for several opportunities to join in Oct 2026!
Congrats also to Quentin & Connor, winners of this years Best Talks, receiving the Peter Lucas Plant Biology PGR Awards, in honour of former LEC staff member Peter Lucas, and generously donated by his wife Susan who joins us each year. @lancasteruni.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social
Great to have our annual Plant Biology PGR Symposium yesterday! Fantastic talks and discussions by our current PGR students, and a great intro for the new MRes and PhD researchers joining us for thier Plant Adventure!
Great event including 🍕 and discussions after.
Fantastic oppurtunity for a PhD project centred around the activity and regulation of my personal favourite enzyme Rubisco, with an awesome supervisor @ecarmosilva.bsky.social, and supported by the Gatsby Foundation. @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Another #PhD project available for applications in #photosynthesis with @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social looking at ways to improve Rubisco. Details below including how the successful nominee will play a direct role in shaping the project proposal tinyurl.com/2a8szv3y
Plant Biology Lancaster Postgraduate Research Symposium under way as we welcome students -new and current- into a new academic year @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social
Interested in a 4 year fully funded PhD, based at Lancaster @lancasteruni.bsky.social and working with other Universities via NorthWestBio? Does that interest include photosynthesis and/or plant engineering?
Well, step right up! Open to UK & non-UK people, 2026 projects include 3 I am a part of:
New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd
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👀 Watch this space for upcoming PhD project(s)!
We hope to be able to share details of some #photosynthesis and #plantengineering PhD projects very soon, for starting in Oct 2026 here @lancasteruni.bsky.social
These will be open to UK and International students, more details to come!
NEW!
Tailoring a dynamic model of photosynthetic metabolism towards greater carbon assimilation in rice
by @svijayakumar32.bsky.social Yu Wang, Hsiang Chun Lin @ecarmosilva.bsky.social
Stephen Long and Samuel Taylor
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantSci #photosynthesis @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
Looking forward to another great CO2 assimilation meeting in June, lots of the Lancaster team going to talk #photosynthesis!
Just over a week left to apply for a 3yr postdoc with me at Lancaster @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social looking at Rubisco engineering in vitro and in vivo to improve plant #photosynthesis #plantscijobs wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...
#PlantSciJobs new opportunity to join us in Lancaster working on #Rubisco and #photosynthesis
Check out an exciting diversity of research, reviews, and opinion articles in our @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social special collection on *Agricultural Biotechnology*. 🧪 🌱
With @cavycavs.bsky.social & Phil Macnaghten
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New opportunity to join us at @lancasteruni.bsky.social coming very soon with @doug-orr.bsky.social !
