Weeding the Gems

This holiday-time edition of the GARNet research roundup begins with two papers that include the late Ian Moore from the University of Oxford as a co-author. The first looks at the role of RAB-A5c in the control of cellular growth anisotropy whilst the second characterises the Transport Protein Particle II (TRAPPII) complex. The third paper[…]

by Adeline Sourdille, James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee. I first attended Monogram in Bristol in 2017 and did not have the opportunity to be there in 2018 in Norwich. After the success that Monogram 2017 had been, the expectations were high for the 2019 edition in Nottingham. Monogram is one of these meetings where[…]

by Sam Amsbury, University of Leeds In July I attended the XV Cell wall meeting hosted at the University of Cambridge. This was my first time at this meeting, held once every three years, and I was excited to meet so many members of the cell wall research community. The meeting kicked off on the[…]

by Chiara Perico, University of Bristol The Botanical Microscopy Meeting is an international event organised by the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS). This year’s edition ran from the 14-18th April and was held in the Kenneth Wheare Hall, conference venue at Oxford Brookes University. The format of the meeting consisted of eight sessions: each of which[…]

October 24th-25th 2019. University of Leeds. Researchers at the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee-Plant Sciences have developed the 3D RNA-Seq Analysis Tool for the comprehensive differential expression, alternative splicing analysis and visualisation of RNASeq Data. https://3drnaseq.hutton.ac.uk/app_direct/3DRNAseq/ This program runs the analysis through a user-friendly graphical interface, can handle complex experimental designs, allows[…]

by Cara Wheeldon, University of Leeds working in the Bennett Lab. This April I attended Monogram 2019, my first conference, and I have to say that I had a great time. I didn’t know what to expect, but I was very pleased to discover how friendly and welcoming the UK cereal research community is. In[…]

This summer-time-reading bumper edition of the GARNet Research Roundup begins with two papers from the University of Sheffield that each use advanced imaging techniques. Firstly Andrew Fleming’s group leads a study on the link between stomatal function and mesophyll space morphology. Second is a study from Matthew Johnson’s group that looks at the dynamic arrangement[…]

By Laura Taylor, University of Cambridge In April this year I attended the Monogram meeting hosted by the University of Nottingham. This was my second time attending the meeting and I was looking forward to hearing about the new research conducted by the UK small grain community.  Keith Edwards, from the University of Bristol, kicked[…]

By Christian Donohoe (@donohoho), University of Edinburgh For my first conference since starting this PhD I attended the triennial XV Cell Wall Meeting, which in its latest iteration was at the University of Cambridge, with Professor Paul Dupree as the chair of the local organising committee. Along with my lab the Edinburgh Cell Wall Group[…]

Professor Wendy Harwood leads a team of researchers and technicians at the John Innes Centre who have expertise in tissue-culture based plant transformation techniques (BRACT- Biotechnology Resources for Arable Crop Transformation).             Transformation is often considered a dark-art of plant science, as history informs that it requires an established set of protocols that have been[…]

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